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[shebit]

The head of IT where I'm working is very evil. He just showed me Virtual Earth and I've spent the last half hour playing with it, when I should have gone ten minutes ago. In fact, my train was five minutes ago, so I might as well head to the comic shop before I go home

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[littlexander]

Here is my house:

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=53.46924~-2.8889&style=a&lvl=18

I spent about an hour looking through Google Maps the other day, doing the same thing. Those ones were about 8-10 years old (I could tell because they showed building work that was done at least that long ago), the ones at VE are about 4 years old. The quality at Google is a bit better compared to these (although there's no annoying copyright burned in here). Managed to make this icon:

[shebit]

I didn't get the chance to go to Dave's in the end - at lunchtime I had to go to my dealer for some more gear (in non drugspeak: I went to the library and got some more TPBs), and then was distracted by Virtual World after work. I'll head there tomorrow to pick up Civil War 2, although I've been spoiled for one big thing already, thanks to the Americans getting it a day earlier than us.

Did you get Frontline, by the way? I quite liked it. I like that it's seeing it all through the eyes of normal reporters rather than superheroes/mutants.

Oh, and the pictures on VW are much more up to date - our garden is visable and it's only been that way for two years. IT guy reckons most are a year old. A building that was under construction on my campus when I left is not complete and all shiny on the aerial views.

[littlexander]

Ah, well.

I did get Frontline last week - it was quite good (I'm familiar with the characters involved from a post-House of M miniseries that was part of the huge pack I downloaded). It's a good way to get a different spin on things. I also got the Thunderbolts tie-in today, but I doubt I'll be carrying on with that one even throught the rest of the Civil War arc - it really didn't hold my interest. AXM next week, though! Ooh, and the new Neil Gaiman comic, Eternals.

What TPBs did you get? I bought my first DC TPB last Thursday - Superman: Red Son.

I would guess that the aerial photos are from different timeframes for different areas (you can't get as close in to ours, and there's no bird's eye view option). I can date ours by building works again - there's an area that is fields in the image (used to be a convent, actually, was demolished about ten years ago), but has been houses since before I started uni.

I can see your house from here! (Oh, come on, someone had to say it *g*)

[shebit]

We'll be getting the X-Men tie-in, obviously, and there were a couple of other Rhi fancied - maybe Cable & Deadpool - but we won't be going mad

[tenik]

They only have street maps for where I live. And you can't even zoom in very far on the aerial view of our capital city.

[shebit]

That's a bummer. I was fortunate in that the first place I looked - my current home - had very good coverage. All the other places only had aerial views, but I could zoom to reasonably close.

[helygen]

I found my house, and it looks like our car is parked outside, but I cannot for the life of me find a way of linking it .... what am I missing?

[shebit]

Not sure. I've not tried linking to it - littlexander managed it though.