Google Satellite Imagery Updates

[flipper]

http://maps.live.com is awesome

Zoom around and post cool stuff!

Here's one: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...2&encType=1

flipper

Someone find a bigger swimming pool:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...1&encType=1

Edited February 12, 2008 by flipper

[gwilson]

http://maps.live.com is awesome

Zoom around and post cool stuff!

Here's one: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...2&encType=1

flipper

Someone find a bigger swimming pool:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...1&encType=1

I used to drive by that first house all the time when it was under construction a few years back. It was being built for one of the Enron guys I believe (the one that railroaded his bosses when he and his wife turned states).

That pool is part of a club house/community center I believe.

[ricco67]

If I remember correctly, Lanier lives on that street just a few houses down.

now THAT is a lovely house.

[HoustonRealtor]

I believe that the first one is actually Tilman Fertitta's house.

[Scott08]

The first one is definitely the Fertitta house (I guess you can use the term loosely). The second one is also someone's house, there are no community centers in that part of River Oaks. There are still some pretty big chunks of land back in there. For instance the Menil house is on 3 1/2 acres, somewhere in River Oaks is still an estate with about 7 acres. I remember reading that in the days before the River Oaks Country Club Tennis Center was big enough, some of the matches were played at this residence.

[KimberlySayWhat]

Does that pool have a trench extending from it or is that a separate pool? I can't tell because of the trees.

[cla]

That 2nd property with the large pool is owned by Gene Van Dyke - and it is residential property. HCAD labels the large pool a "pond" and there is a smaller pool behind the house, you can see it better if you look at the property from the north.

Edited February 12, 2008 by cla

[flipper]

5.1 acres:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...5&encType=1

flipper

[flipper]

Dern near 6 acres:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...9&encType=1

flipper

[marmer]

Dern near 6 acres:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...9&encType=1

flipper

Where you guys been? I've been doing birds-eye caps from maps.live.com (formerly Windows Live Local) for about the last 18 months! In recent months they have added lots more birds-eye areas (Pearland, Lake Jackson, etc.) Still not Sugar Land. :-\

The house and grounds shown in this picture is the famous John Staub house for Hugh Roy Cullen. It was extensively remodeled and re-landscaped (including the sunken pool terrace) by the James Flores family in the early 2000s after they bought it from Lynn and Oscar Wyatt. It is spectacular -- I went to a Christmas party there once and there were thousands of tiny light bulbs dangling in the trees.

Edited February 12, 2008 by marmer

[mkultra25]

That 2nd property with the large pool is owned by Gene Van Dyke - and it is residential property. HCAD labels the large pool a "pond" and there is a smaller pool behind the house, you can see it better if you look at the property from the north.

My wife attended a wedding reception there last year. I was kicking myself later for not going with her, as she said the house was incredible.

[wernicke]

Does this site not support Apple Computers? Cause I can't get any images...

[gwilson]

Does this site not support Apple Computers? Cause I can't get any images...

Use FireFox (www.mozilla.org) and you should be fine. Being as it is a Microsoft Live site, Safari probably doesn't work with it.

[marmer]

I can confirm this. I keep Firefox on my Mac just for maps.live.com. Firefox works fine, Safari doesn't work at all for maps.live.com

If you can get to a PC there's a cute 3D rendering engine for Windows that works with live.com and shows pretty impressive downtown views.

[flipper]

Stumbled across this place in Meyerland with a tennis court! Notice the house slightly NW too

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...6&encType=1

flipper

Edited March 28, 2008 by flipper

[Jax]

I went to look at the Google Street View of downtown Houston today and to my surprise, many of the streets were missing. Now it just seems to include some street corners but not much else. Google Street View used to cover all of Downtown very well. Any idea what's going on? Why did they remove so much of it?

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/9346/streetview.jpg

[LTAWACS]

Maybe some of the people captured in their views were supposed to be elsewhere and they complained.

[Jax]

Usually when that happens they just block out faces, not remove entire blocks.

There are more people walking around in NYC and San Francisco and the image quality is better in those cities too, and yet they cover the entire cities. Weird that much of Houston was removed.

[AtticaFlinch]

Usually when that happens they just block out faces, not remove entire blocks.

There are more people walking around in NYC and San Francisco and the image quality is better in those cities too, and yet they cover the entire cities. Weird that much of Houston was removed.

It seems to be just downtown too. The rest of Houston is fine.

[LTAWACS]

Maybe they realize it is pointless to include downtown because it's changing so much?

[kylejack]

Yeah, I noticed this several weeks ago. I've searched for an answer and checked the Google blog and I can't find anything on it. I hope they're not changing streetview to intersections only.

[sevfiv]

Medical Center, too:

[Jax]

They seem to have fixed downtown, but the TMC street view no longer exists nor does the Rice campus street view.

[SmellyHoustonian]

http://i.imgur.com/NQABfnz.gif?1

 

We spread like a virus to the north and to the west.

[august948]

Like a rose unfolding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wj3Uxbyuh4

Edited May 10, 2013 by august948

[mfastx]

Actually, Houston's sprawl is impressive, but not quite as extreme as some other cities in the last few decades, most notably Las Vegas.

[IronTiger]

I would say it's more like bacteria, as viruses don't replicate by themselves, and bacteria can easily multiply on a medium (sorry, just took a class in bacteriology)

[Slick Vik]

Lol

[livincinco]

That reminds me. I should go take some pictures of the Grand Parkway construction and post them.

[Purdueenginerd]

thats impressive. If you look closely you can see the some segments of beltway 8 complete themselves, and an eruption of sprawl afterwards.

 

Pretty impressive.