How high are you?
 

Not that way, slacker. Physically, at what altitude is your home? Go here http://terraserver.microsoft.com , hunt down your address, and then switch to the topo map to figure out your altitude above sea level.


I'm pretty much guaranteed to be close to the top, I bet. According to these maps, my house is about 5,311 feet above sea level. Since we have some steps and a little hill coming up to our house, I may be a little higher.

Im really not that high

Here in Scottsbluff, Ne we're at about 4500'. But if there's anyone from the board living in Wyoming I guarantee their up higher than you are Kevin. Cheyenne is above 6000' :thumb:

Somewhere between 50' and 73'. I couldnt tell exactly.

According to the GPS we're around 1250 here.

Right around 5900 feet.

Not sure but I think it reads 1,564. Kinda hard to read because there's a lot of read over the area where I live.


The arial photo is pretty cool. It's a few years old, (by the looks of the improvements made that aren't shown) but I can zoom right in on our church and house.

Very Cool site.

Thanks for sharing.

But hate to top ya, ~~6400 ft. (Hey it's park city, up in the mountains)

Yeah. But it's in Utah.

Well all I know is that im on a platue(sp) so I am fairly high.

Here's an interesting pic...

It's one of the places I used to shoot prairie dogs (this is one small part of a 6 square mile pasture). All of the white circles are Prairie Dog mounds.


http://terraserver.microsoft.com/til...6&y=21087&z=13

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/til...7&y=21083&z=13

Where are you?

600 feet

Shermer, Illinois

whoa,,,,at first when I read the thread title I thought,,how the hell does he know,,ROFL

5,900 feet in Illinois?

Really? I had the misconception that Illinois was semi flat.

Not a big fan of John Hughes movies, eh?

Anyway, I'm really in Colorado.

sneaky.

Have you all been hammered with snow yet this year? We're still waiting. I drove thru Yellowstone NP last week, and they had less the 6 inches of snow on the ground.

Not in the metro. Had about two feet total from about six storms so far. Nothing unusual.

The mountains are doing great, though. Something like 140% of average snowpack.

I found an aeriel photograph of my truck at the parking lot at work using that site one time. Figure that the classified stuff that the government has is at least 100 times better.....

When somebody posts the elevation in KC, that's what I am.

I'm also lazy.... and going to bed. 'nite.

24 feet

[700 FEET.
Very interesting site, thanks :thumb:

I'm higher than a kite

950 feet

about 3 feet above sea level at high tide.

About 7045.

Cool site!

It looks to be around 730 feet.

208'

I was at zero yesterday at the beach watching the waves.

790 ft. Highest point in St.Charles County MO.

Waukee, IA-316 ft.

i luv the country ese'

But how high are you?

not so much this mornin' but when im home about 4500.

~980'

I need some of what you got.

750'

Thought I would help the community....

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/add...ty%2c+MO+64129

900 feet, plus 22 floors

you must live in Phillips

I read the title and opened the thread, much to my disappointment...

Holy cow. Aren't you afraid of falling?

Are you in Santa Fe or something?

I'm slightly more urban.
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/Get...58:38.59957783
Ignore the pushpin. My house is the double lot with the white/gray roof slightly left of center on the opposite side of the street. Don't know why my picket fence shows up as a thick black line, maybe the shadows?

The black line on your fence is a shadow.

Its caused by 3 things........1. the plane/satellite isn't directly over the top of your house, 2. sun angle(must not be below 30deg) and 3. technical mumbo jumbo that sounds impressive when you say Parallax...it has to do with the 60% overlap of the photos that gives it the 3D shape, that allows them to determine elevations in post processing.

-remove nerd hat

ROFL

Monument actually, enjoying all the snow.
NOT

Or the 4th thing, a plane is currently in-between the satellite and your home, falling at a high rate of speed. Might wanna go out for lunch!

;)

That resolution is pretty amazing. I can even make out where the newer sidewalk section is directly in front of my house, where they had to do some gas line repairs a few years ago.

I'd guess from looking at it, that its better than the standard 1meter pixel res of largescale satelite pics, and the fact that its color does indicate its better than that..........I'd suspect its been done by your local govt(city/count) and provided to USGS. Its hard to tell, but I'll bet its 1' or 9" pixels, which allows you to zoom in and see stuff better at closer range.

A nice sidelight of having Lambert about 10 miles north and 5 west of my position, is that it is on an East/West footing. There is absolutely no reason for an airplane to be overhead. It'd have to purposefully take off and make a really hard turn to even get there. Tons of air traffic 10 miles north, though.

We do have a major USGS service center just adjacent to the Budweiser plant here in town. My aunt and uncle worked there a long time ago, and they gave me a huge color printout of the entire St. Louis Metro Area. East St. Louis to O'Fallon, Alton to Arnold. It was about 5' by 3'.

Looks like about 618 ft... and that's my house right below the red tack!

:thumb:

How are you guys posting the pictures? I want to put up a photo of my house, too.

I'm curious as to how BabyLee got that pic in color.

Urban areas are in color, and non-urban areas are still in black and white. I've got full technicolor on my picture, too.

Ah. There we go. My house is the one with the dark roof just to the right of the pushpin. I think that handicapped guy is parked in the alley again.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/Get...62:39.72864225

In a bigger view, you can see that we're definitely in the city. (We're still at the red pushpin.) We've got an awesome park and botanic garden northeast of us, and the downtown area (where I work) is just barely out of the picture to the northwest. That slanty road on the southwest end of the picture runs along Cherry Creek, which is one of Denver's most grand waterways. (It's about 12 feet wide and 2 feet deep.)

Just north of us is an old turn of the century elementary school where Mamie Eisenhower attended as a child, and just north of that is our grocery store, just on the off chance that anyone really cares.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/Get...62:39.72864225

Those USGS photos are 10 years old.

I found my house and it doesn't even look the same, since it was remodeled completely in 1998.

Whoa, cool. Those little size boxes in the upper left will let you blow it up even more.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/Get...62:39.72864225

Here's mine

Are you in a non-urban area? The photos of my area are dated April of 2002.

Maybe there's some sort of rolling updates that take place.

No, I'm about 45 minutes southeast of Des Moines. The photos are dated 1994.

1060'

This a REALLY COOL site. Thanks for putting it up Kevin.


There is a little spot of land here in town that has been subdivided into residential lots but hasn't sold. The idea has been rolling around in my mind about, when we have the $, talking to the person who owns and see if they will sell us a block of lots at a discount rate since there is no deveopment yet. From the looks of the pic, the place looks the same in 95 as it does today. They've been sitting on it a while then - perhaps they would want to sell.

The "color" is the type of image that was taken, either by plane or satelite. Aerials are taken in 1 of 3 formats usually....B/W, Color, or ColorIR(infared..good for vegetation, land use etc).

Not all of the images are going to be the same time periods. Large urban metropolis' normally have more flights(sometimes yearly) than smaller areas..........thats why StLoser and Dungver have the color I'm sure. It costs more.

I know a large project is underway to refly some of the midwest now. there is also a project called "the national map" that will be coming together over the next few years that will give you access to an unbelievable amount of map data for alot of areas.

Porker.........you and the other Iowanians can get newer arials and more maps than tera server on another website, that only has IA data.

http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/
use the "map search" tool. the color IR is 2002

there is another one like terraserver that showsed a color pic of my farm but i cant remember the name.

Thanks.

****ER.

I don't think Chicago is 5900 ft above sea level.....unless you are flying by....

Galena by Mississippi for snow sking is 900'-1000' ft.

100 feet below ground and digging furiously.
Sincerely,
Osama B.L.

mine is a really bad view,,,

What are all the trails for, chiefs4me? Are they walking trails or dirt roads or something else?

its actually a field behind us,,I am not where the red dot is,,I only have one neighbor on the right,,,the trails are paths that the cows made. It is sort of in the country and city both. The cows are all gone now and there are more houses,,68 to be exact. This picture was taken in 95 and the houses started being built in 94.