From Space, No One Can Hear You Quack

I've been playing with Google Earth for a while now (the free version, of course). It's fun to note what car was parked in front of your house when the satellite passed over your neighborhood. In my case, no car out front; but the wife's burgandy Camry is in the drive where it ought to be. Don't believe me? Check out the new Usepic!

Since home owner documents rarely come with latitude and longitude coordinates, I had to hunt for our house by using known and easily found landmarks and zooming ever closer. I then did this for my friend's house nearby, for my Mom's old house, Dad's house, the in-laws place (with help from the wife who is quite a bit more familiar with Lowell, Mass). . . hours of fun. Next came Devil's Tower, Wyoming and a few other famous places.

What then?

I started looking up old work sites. This was quite a bit more of a challenge, since I was until the last few years a working merchant mariner. My workplaces have a fixed location, sure; but only when they are at the dock. Folks, boats move. That's part of the fun. I found some of the easier targets, sometimes twice! The free Google maps have overlays of different pics, taken obviously in different times of days, even seasons.

Then I started hunting for the more obscure, smaller targets. ( Oh, I found them. I found them. )