I found this cool site called Flash Earth which provides satellite images of the entire world. You can’t find your home by address like you can with Google Earth, but if you know which continent you live on and where your state resides on said continent, you should be able to find your home like I did. But I live in Michigan and might have an unfair advantage over those who live in boxier landlocked states (really, how hard is it to find a mitten on a map anyway?)
The great thing about Flash Earth is the multiple layers of maps available from different sources. NASA updates theirs daily while other maps come from such archived sources as Microsoft Visual Earth and Yahoo Maps. The image below came from Ask.com maps and provided the closest and clearest image of my house over the other databases. It looks like the same image TerraServer offers for a fee on their website. I believe it’s circa 2001, a few years before we moved in and ruined the lawn.
I'm Heather. I live in Michigan with my husband and daughter and maintain this little enterprise while working full time and attending grad school part time. Don't ask me how I do it because I really couldn't tell you.
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I meant to thank you yesterday for wasting hours of my time as I played on that stupid thing. And then Shane came home from work and informed me that I can type in the name of our town and make it much easier. Grrr.
Woops! I didn’t know you could search by city. I didn’t spend nearly as much time with Flash Earth as I did with doctoring up the picture of my house. I did see there was a map that provided labels for cities and states. It is a great time-waster, isn’t it?
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