Volt wrote:Things look COMPLETELY different from an up-top perspective, Unless you are driving around and can see the roofs and floor plans of every single building, a satalite photo is nothing but "aw cool, I can see my house", it might help but rarely, you get the idea.
Not if they are over a year old, LOTS of stuff happens in a year, the Orlando Map is already quite innacurate, so is my Saint Louis map. I found my apartment (finally), It took a while because everything from satalite map is from top view looking down. You'd think, well isn't that how all maps are? Yes and No. Maps at least have all irrelevant information cleaned off, (trees, doggy plops, Hummers) and also Show street names. The world is a different place with all these things roaming around.
Ya just gotta know how to use satellite photos. And most of the time, if you need to pass three lights and turn left, it's about the same a year later. (I drove to the same church for a year and a half straight and not one street in my path moved. Then we found a better building.)
The thing is, you find where the place is on a regular map view and then go to satellite - it'll tell you if it's an office park or a strip mall, or something else. It'll give you a general view of the area. Yes, it'll look a little different from eye-level, but large buildings are easier landmarks than small side-street signs. It just takes a little getting used to, is all. (you go back and forth between views for the street names)
And I've yet to see a doggy plop on one of google's satellite maps. Mapquest's old satellite maps had better resolution. (but they don't have them any more, for whatever reason.)
