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My house was built in 2002 but for the past year whenever I pulled up the satellite images on Google Maps it only showed a vacant lot. A few weeks ago I checked and voila! my house is now in the latest satellite image. I don't know how often google updates their map database, but it sure is nice to be able to show my friends and relatives exactly where my house is in Raleigh! Can you find your house on google maps?
NRG, I just found something very odd! Our neighborhood was built in late 2004-2005. In July Googlemaps satellite showed clay looking roads cut through a forest for our neighborhood. I assume it was taken before roads were laid and lots clear. Well, today it just shows a forest.... no clay roads. They must have gone back to an old photo. And now I understand why the lots on the edge of the neighborhood do not have old established trees. Looks like there was a field or meadow there. So those folks never had trees to work with in the first.
Thanks for the post! I probably would not have rechecked it otherwise!
If you pay the subscription, you can pull up "live" maps.
However, if your really cheap, your like the rest of us. Google did a pretty decent job collaborating all the different counties. They still have a lot of work.
Alot of there maps are scaled pretty high. You can't zoom into them. Your almost better off going through your county's gis mapping system. Wake County has IMAPS which has always been great! However, it goes down atleast once a week. They keep up with the zoning pretty often and tax information.
I've found that the satellite images in Mapquest are much more current than in Google Maps. I'm sure that doesn't hold true for all geographies, but I've seen it in both Raleigh and Durham.
My part of our street isn't on the map. I just checked the satellite photos tho and before where it was all trees you can see the beginnings of roads and some houses. Pretty neat!!
I'll have to check zillow.com now. It never recognizes my address.
I've found that the satellite images in Mapquest are much more current than in Google Maps. I'm sure that doesn't hold true for all geographies, but I've seen it in both Raleigh and Durham.
I actually found the opposite about Mapquest and Google. Well, at least for my development in Clayton. Google had more current maps, plus you could zoom down a lot lower.
Although, if you want to see some of the most current satellite maps, check out www.globexplorer.com. Just put in your address at the top-left. Usually, you have to zoom way down to get the latest map. When you're zoomed out it may show an older map. It lists the date of the maps at the top. The times I used it, it was years ahead of Google (it showed newly built golf courses that Google didn't show). The only problem is that the interface is not anywhere close to as nice as Google's.
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