Look at my house..

[G7HEU]

A friend of mine has just told me about Windows 'Live'. Am I slow in only just learning about it? It's like Google Earth but with much better photographs - at least for my part of the world. There's nothing to download either.

Have a look here:

Windows Live - local. (http://local.live.com/)


Here's where I live:




My house (http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=skmvv8gvh8n1&style=o&lvl=1&scene=4345530)


I would be very interested to see pictures of where other people live.

Steve.

[nx6d]

"Your house...In the middle of the street, your house"

-Madness (paraphrased)

[G7HEU]

Quote[/b] (nx6d @ Sep. 14 2006,04:26)]"Your house...In the middle of the street, your house"

-Madness (paraphrased)
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Please note that the photo is not centred on my house. I didn't want to be too specific in case any of the loonies I may have offended came to visit...

[W3MIV]

You seem to have a lot of tenants.

[K1OU]

Wow, that's pretty cool. I did a search for Bin laden, and here is what I found...

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/dc/washington-dc/pennsylvania-avenue/1600-the-white-house/the-white-house.jpg

[K8TEK]

Google earth is much better for where I live. Our Walmart store has been here for 10 years, and it isn't on the satellite photos on Windows Live.

[WB2WIK]

My house
Is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard....













then I threw rocks at them and they left the yard.

[kl7aj]

Hmmmm....Alaska isn't even on the map. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[ve2nsm]

I see nothing here, it's just a cheap map software.

And BTW, the picture HEU sent is a plane picture, not a satellite picture.

[N9XR]

Quote[/b] (K1OU @ Sep. 13 2006,23:20)]Wow, that's pretty cool. I did a search for Bin laden, and here is what I found...

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/dc/washington-dc/pennsylvania-avenue/1600-the-white-house/the-white-house.jpg
We've been laudin' your find! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[G7HEU]

Quote[/b] (ve2nsm @ Sep. 14 2006,08:21)]I see nothing here, it's just a cheap map software.

And BTW, the picture HEU sent is a plane picture, not a satellite picture.
Well, if you want a satellite photo just change the view from 'birds eye' to 'aerial'.

[KD6NIG]

Webcams on the outside of my house (http://www.kd6nig.net/webcams.htm)

Ok, so its not my house, per se, but I have webcams on the outside pointed at various locations accessible on the internet. You may even see live people on occasion. Well not right now, I'm at work and so is the wife. Not much at all usually going on, but can see whats going on there from any internet connection if I so wish. Oh, you may see her grandmother who lives next door-she likes to come over and play with our 2 small "terror hounds" that love running around the yard. You might see them wrestling around in the grass if they are out-which is better than them on the inside, raiding the clothes hamper and chewing my socks to shreds (my feet STINK but I guess dogs love that!).

What can I say, I'm into gadgets like this and stuff. It puts the pictures onto the 'net and records them locally also. I just wish the camera would timestamp the pictures it sends onto the website-it does on the ones it stores on my local computer, but not on the pictures it FTP's to my webserver.

A pretty cool project though. I'd like to put a few more up, but the wife and budget kinda restrain that at the moment.

The FTP upload eats up about 150MB a day. The drive on the inside records about 2GB a day (takes a pic every 15 seconds). Didn't realise that it would take that much till I got it going. A 360GB HDD gives me about 120 days of storage.

Actually, it would be more, but I found out that 4 cameras sending a 64k (roughly) image to a computer every 15 seconds slow a computer more than I ever thought it would. It also slowed traffic on the LAN so much that I had to buy another switch and ressurect a old computer to put the drive in for recording locally. Putting that computer and the cameras on its own switch with a line going to the other LAN switch helped the internet side out (and making it only upload to the internet side every 6 minutes helps also). Otherwise, all of the 15 second traffic stays within that switch, leaving the internet switch nice and idle so my wife can online shop or whatever. It just gets slow every 6 minutes or so when it uploads to the outside world (or if someone looks at the live picture).

All in all, I think its pretty cool, my parents like to look at it to see how the weather is, and its taught me a lot about networking. Silly me to think that a camera could saturate a 10/100 network with every 15 second snapshots. Course, 4 cameras doing it every 15 seconds is a bit more, but the pics aren't THAT big.....

The live pictures are kinda slow since I only have a 256k/sec uplink. But it works if I want to look remotely. If I really want to see something, the local storage is better though. I'm just going to have to start watching or set something up to delete the oldest files. I think I have about 90 days archived now, and the drive is getting pretty full, but I still have about 30 more days if my math is correct http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

What started as a simple project to put up a camera turned into all of this. Its been fun though, and I'm constantly tweaking it. Can't ever leave well enough alone. I only had one at first too. Its blossomed to 4, and I'd like to have more. Thank god the wife controls the checkbook or I probably would.

Oh, and if you're looking at cameras-stick to wired. The wireless ones I tried wouldn't record as reliably to disk, or the internet. I got a lot of chopped off images (I still do on the internet side if I or the wife is on the internet heavy while its trying to FTP, but doesn't affect the local storage a bit).

Enjoy looking at my wife's car, the front yard of my wifes grandparents, our patio, or our small little front yard. Who knows, you might catch a hummingbird on the feeder occasionally. If he happens to be there when it takes the 6 minute photo. I have quite a few pictures of the local hummingbird thanks to the local storage....

But don't expect anything dramatic on them http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif You can watch my grass grow. Speaking of which, I better cut it this weekend, its getting pretty unruly.

[G7HEU]

Joshua

Thank for the post - that was interesting. On one of the 'windows' I can see a light brown dog - it looks well built and about 60 Lbs. What breed is that?

I'll check back for a humming bird sighting. Here I have a feeder three feet away from me on the other side of the shack window. It's delightful to watch the Gold Finches feeding at such close proximity.

Here's a picture of a Goldfinch:

Goldfinch information. (http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/goldfinch.htm)

Steve.

[WB2WIK]

Local webcams here...update every few seconds

http://www.westland.net/piercam/

http://www.westland.net/beachcam/

You can almost watch a car crash happening! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

WB2WIK/6

[KC0W]

EDIT:

Will try to post again.

[KD6NIG]

Quote[/b] (G7HEU @ Sep. 15 2006,07:59)]Joshua

Thank for the post - that was interesting. On one of the 'windows' I can see a light brown dog - it looks well built and about 60 Lbs. What breed is that?

I'll check back for a humming bird sighting. Here I have a feeder three feet away from me on the other side of the shack window. It's delightful to watch the Gold Finches feeding at such close proximity.

Here's a picture of a Goldfinch:

Goldfinch information. (http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/goldfinch.htm)

Steve.
I believe its just a golden lab mixed with something else. He barks at everything and loves running up and down the fence. Technically he belongs to my wifes grandparents next door, but he uses our driveway to sunbathe.

Technically there are 2 seperate yards, but they own both the houses so they just have one fence. I put one up around ours so our little dogs could run without issues. The other dog the grandparents have is a rottwieler mix-it doesn't bother anyone, but it does like to chase small dogs so we decided to not take any chances. That one isn't out that far as much since it has arthritis really bad and can't move well.

It does still come running out. All of the dogs seem to go nuts when the UPS guy drives down the street (or stops) for some reason. They run along the fence when people walk by too, but the UPS guy just riles all of them up, including my 2.

They must not like the uniform or the truck or something.

If you want, try the live camera (which would be the link above the live shot on each page). It will be kind of slow (slower still if we're at home and on the 'net) but it will update every 30 seconds or so. Better odds to catch him. They have been draining that porch feeder pretty rapidly lately. I think we have 4 or 5 local ones now. There are one or 2 that don't leave for the winter either, so I leave them up year around now. They do depart my parents area in the Sierra because it gets much colder up there.

[KC0W]

Looks like you must sign up to save maps on this site.

Anyway, cut & paste my address to see the KCØW house:


4932 Woodhurst Lane 55345


My home is accross the street where the stick pin is. Looks like the fountain in my pond was not running when this satellite photo was taken.


Tom kcØw

[n2nh]

You do know that you drive on the wrong side of the road right? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[nq6v]

At the L.A. Valley College Library there is a photo from a satillite hanging on the wall. It is of Southern Ca. I first looked for Disneyland. It was easy, for the parking lot(Now Ca. Adv.) filled it out.

I found the college also, and down the road a ways, the house dad built. I could see moms car in the red tile driveway.

This was years and years ago.

[w2amr]

All wet
Hey you might need a raincoat
Shakedown
Dreams walking in broad daylight
Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees
Burning down the house

[wa5tts]

These pictures have been on terra sever since way back...My house picture was #taken in 95...It's much different around here now.

[ne6ao]

Quote[/b] (WB2WIK @ Sep. 14 2006,08:11)]My house
Is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard....













then I threw rocks at them and they left the yard.
uhn ha yeah bring back those good ole days course 69and 70 are mostly a blur,I think I had fun,but I seem to not be able to remember