I’ve always found it fascinating zooming around Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth looking at the amazing detail on famous land-marks. It was also interesting to look at the slightly blurry, but relatively old images of my own house. The privacy issues never really occurred to me, until today.
Today Microsoft Virtual Earth has had a whole load of new images and the pictures of my house are no longer blurry or that old. In the old images my garden was still a patch of grass making it at least 5 years old. The new picture shows my garden with all of the landscaping and the trampoline which was present to the kids (honest) 18 months ago.
It all feels a bit too close to home now. It’s especially disconcerting to think that someone can look at the front, the back and the sides.
The picture below shows the construction of a set of houses near us into which some friends have just moved. That makes the images a few months old, max.
I didn’t dare show the images of my house, far too embarrassing.
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I just took a look at my town, the resolution’s incredible now, much improved and the aerial photo’s are now available from all angles – very impressive – but as you say you can see a lot of detail in these photos!!
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