What's lurking in your area?

[sasguru]

Can you see Threaded on it?

Is that the large blob taking up most of the screen?

[BoredBloke]

Can you see Threaded on it?

[Clog II The Avenger]

Anyone had a play with Microsoft's answer to Google Earth?

http://local.live.com/

Some great hires aerial shots of my locatality. Can even see the garden furniture in my back garden. Great for seeing who's got a swimming pool or what lurks near a house you might be thinking of buying.

Yes I can see my house quite clearly and the driveway gates and gamekeeper’s lodge , Parker polishing the Merc and the and the naked playboy girls around the pool.

[BoredBloke]

"Is there anything worth looking at outside Swindon?"

There must be as there is nothing worth looking at in Swindon.

I don't think it is as good as the Google offering.

[The Lone Gunman]

I guess they only have pictures for Laaaaaaaaandan,

nothing of the sticks

Milan.

I don't live in the sticks!!!! ................................. Heysham is much further out than that, more like the outback!!!

The picture of my house is at least 5 years old.

[DimPrawn]

Is there anything worth looking at outside Swindon?

[milanbenes]

that's a little bit of poetic license DimP, Wiltshire... don't you mean Swindon ?

Milan.

[DimPrawn]

They have plenty of photos of Wiltshire and the best views are the birds eye views.

[milanbenes]

I guess they only have pictures for Laaaaaaaaandan,

nothing of the sticks

Milan.

[MrsGoof]

Does it work? All I got was a map. Have I missed something?

look top left of map there is a little box with clicky words in it.

phew I hate technical whilst waiting for my first pimms

[The Lone Gunman]

Does it work? All I got was a map. Have I missed something?
<edit>Cancel that, found it.

[MrsGoof]

The age of the pictures vary quite a lot. Mine is between 1 and 2 years old, my mothers 5 miles down the road is about 4 or 5.

[monkeyboy]

Quite old photos as it has a swimming pool I ripped out over 4 years ago.

[PRC1964]

I know that they did it to p*ss off Google users, but making the mouse wheel behave the other way to Google earth makes me never want to use it.


The "drive-throughs" they have of some US cities are pretty nifty (and pointless) though.

[DimPrawn]

Anyone had a play with Microsoft's answer to Google Earth?

http://local.live.com/

Some great hires aerial shots of my locatality. Can even see the garden furniture in my back garden. Great for seeing who's got a swimming pool or what lurks near a house you might be thinking of buying.