Bird’s eye view party at my house; No one’s invited
By William M. Hartnett on Dec 30, 2007 in featured, geekery
Here’s a new year’s treat for the South Florida map geeks: Microsoft has added oblique aerial imagery for all of Palm Beach County to Virtual Earth/Live Maps. That’s over 2,000 square miles, people; Bigger than Rhode Island, and almost as large as Delaware. I’ve been waiting for this since I heard earlier this year that Palm Beach County’s property appraiser signed a contract with Pictometry. The picture above is of our townhouse in Jupiter during construction, shot sometime between Feb. 18 and Feb. 27, 2007. Hit the jump for a few more sweet shots.
That’s Bryant Gumbel’s house highlighted above. He’s practically a neighbor of mine down here in beautiful Jupiter. A neighbor behind a tall fence and an imposing guardhouse, anyway.
Roger Dean Stadium, spring training home of the St. Louis Cardinals and Florida Marlins, and barely five minutes down the road from our house in Abacoa.
A bit hard to see, but those are giraffes at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, a throwback tourist attraction where you can drive among the beasties.
Rush Limbaugh’s 32,000 square-foot oceanfront compound in Palm Beach. His property tax bill was $402,941 this year, notably down from 2005′s $436,088 tab.
Grainy shot because it’s heavily zoomed and cropped, but that’s my stupid Volkswagen and my wife’s silver Acura parked side-by-side in the center of the picture, outside our previous residence in West Palm Beach. Nothing like a creepy little invasion of privacy to get the new year started off right.
ryan mcneill | Jan 4, 2008 | Reply
This is wayyyy cool. I see another time waster in my future.
William M. Hartnett | Jan 5, 2008 | Reply
Pretty cool, eh? Broward County has decent bird’s eye view coverage, though not, curiously, of Fort Lauderdale. The downtown has been rendered very awesomely in Virtual Earth 3D, however.
ryan mcneill | Jan 5, 2008 | Reply
The hardest part for me is learning where everything is…And who lives in what community, etc. So I spend a lot of time fiddling with these things, weirdly enough.