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Allotment Stuff => Locations and Sites => Topic started by: antipodes on March 07, 2008, 16:32:37
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For any of you who use Google Earth, I have located my allotment!! I can identify it clearly, smack bang in the middle of the site, with white paths and my compost bin and all!!
For those of you unfamiliar with this, Google Earth is an application (free) that shows you satellite pictures of a large surface of the globe! I bet most of you can see your houses with it ;)
My lottie is located at these coordinates:
47º12'28.97" N and 1º37'18.63" W
Or try Rue du Printemps, St Herblain France.
So funny...
Anyone else found their garden like this????
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Mine's on my profile. I found it with Google Map, using my postcode. :)
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Yes and my great-grandfathers in north London.
Then where I went to school ,on holiday this country and others locating daughters 'halls ' etc etc etc
great fun!
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Yes, but the photo was taken before we took over the allotment.
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Got ours too... DE23 if you are feeling nosey... and it has just been updated ...
;D
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e190/Plot52/AllotmentAerial.jpg)
this was it before we took it over..
:)
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Mine's definitely a "before" photo. But you can see the greenhouse I inherited - all 12' of it! You just can't see the state of it. ::)
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Ours has been updated in the past couple of weeks (looks like the new data is from 2006). The resolution is such that I can see my fruitcage, greenhouses, shed, the trampoline, climbing frame and most shrubs & trees. Only the shadow stops the individual vegetable beds being identifiable. You can even count the panes of glass in the roof of one of the greenhouses.
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here in sunny Handbridge, Chester. Mine's the one with the 3 lines of watered earth. I've also "borrowed" the 1/4 plot above it, and I share the one in the top left, above the open gate. Picture taken April 2006
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p94/rhubarbthrasher/allot2.jpg)
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Incredible, isn't it? I can count the grapes & loganberries on my plot!
And slightly worrying?? If we can access this sort of information for free, with an ordinary PC, what can governments & armies see?
The guy who has the plot next to mine had his car parked when the photo was taken. I can get in close enough to see that the windows are shut, but there's something (a parcel, or box?) on the back seat!
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If your Google Map one is fuzzy try microsoft virtual earth which is more recent. If you're into fell walking in the Lake District try looking at it in 3D!
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If your Google Map one is fuzzy try microsoft virtual earth which is more recent. If you're into fell walking in the Lake District try looking at it in 3D!
Here's the URL for that one by the way:
http://maps.live.com/
Cos its a booger to Google - I have it in favourite. Lincoln Cathedral is good on it too - as is Sin Siro - the theatre of dreams ;D
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Ours is a few years old. We inherited the allotments from my father-in-law when he died suddenly. Rather poignantly his car is in the allotment car park on Google Earth.