{"id":322,"date":"2005-04-06T02:01:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/322"},"modified":"2005-04-06T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T02:01:11","slug":"i-can-see-my-house-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/322","title":{"rendered":"I can see my house from here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=from+701+First+Avenue,Sunnyvale+CA+94089+to+1600+Amphitheatre+Pky,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043&#038;ll=37.417631,-122.058964&#038;spn=0.059309,0.080080&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/google-satellite.jpg\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Google just upped the ante again with <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=from+701+First+Avenue,Sunnyvale+CA+94089+to+1600+Amphitheatre+Pky,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043&#038;ll=37.417631,-122.058964&#038;spn=0.059309,0.080080&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\">Google Satellite<\/a>. Satellite images curtsey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalglobe.com\/\">Digital Globe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/earthsat.com\/\">EarthSat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a side-note, the Google Maps URL includes GPS coordinates, so given a street address you can get both GPS coords and satellite map quickly and easily. You can also just erase the part from <code>q=Blah+blah&<\/code> part of the URL to get a nice clean satelite image, or just add <code>&t=k<\/code> to an existing Google Maps URL to turn it into a satellite image. (I <i>really<\/i> hope that doesn&#8217;t become an issue for some well-meaning panic-stricken patriot who thinks terrorists couldn&#8217;t get that info quickly and easily in dozens of other ways \u2014 I always missed that GPS feature when it was taken out of earlier mapping software.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"update\"><b>Update 7:40pm:<\/b> Note that you need to click on &#8220;Link to this page&#8221; in the upper right-hand corner to get the full URL to show up in the address bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=from+701+First+Avenue,Sunnyvale+CA+94089+to+1600+Amphitheatre+Pky,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043&#038;ll=37.417631,-122.058964&#038;spn=0.059309,0.080080&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/google-satellite.jpg\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Google just upped the ante again with <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=from+701+First+Avenue,Sunnyvale+CA+94089+to+1600+Amphitheatre+Pky,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043&#038;ll=37.417631,-122.058964&#038;spn=0.059309,0.080080&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\">Google Satellite<\/a>. Satellite images curtsey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalglobe.com\/\">Digital Globe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/earthsat.com\/\">EarthSat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a side-note, the Google Maps URL includes GPS coordinates, so given a street address you can get both GPS coords and satellite map quickly and easily. You can also just erase the part from <code>q=Blah+blah&#038;<\/code> part of the URL to get a nice clean satelite image, or just add <code>&#038;t=k<\/code> to an existing Google Maps URL to turn it into a satellite image. (I <i>really<\/i> hope that doesn&#8217;t become an issue for some well-meaning panic-stricken patriot who thinks terrorists couldn&#8217;t get that info quickly and easily in dozens of other ways \u2014 I always missed that GPS feature when it was taken out of earlier mapping software.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"update\"><b>Update 7:40pm:<\/b> Note that you need to click on &#8220;Link to this page&#8221; in the upper right-hand corner to get the full URL to show up in the address bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}