I Can See My House From Here!

A New Year and I have decided to kick start 'There and Back Again' for 2007!

Unfortunately I'm going to subject you all to some more ramblings and I will get more codes out there for you to crack (still upset no-one managed to decode my last one !).

It has been a busy few months in the LiS household - we have moved said household and have just about got sorted things out.

Basking in the satisfaction that things are all in relatively good order (thanks to Mrs LiS - as everyone knows ordering stuff isn't my forte) - I decided to scope out the new house on the Internet thanks to the trusty Google Maps.
As usual, it found my postcode and showed me in satellitey goodness a picture of my house and its surroundings. Admittedly, not in high-res satellitey goodness as we seem to be in satellite black spot - but who cares as I could see my house-ish!

I tend to be a massive Google fan - think the products they produce are fun and simple to use and in my opinion the best out there!
While I was waxing lyrical at work about seeing my house on Google maps and how good the detail was - one of my colleagues said what about 'Live'.

'Pah! I'm not using some 2-bit Google copy-cat!' I said.

But my interest was aroused (I'm aware how sad this sounds) and so I took a deep breathe and tried it.

This is Microsoft Live's picture of my 'old' house and this is Googlemaps.

As you can see the images are much better in Live than Google, they have obviously done a better deal with a company that offers better images - however Google still has the superior search abilities linked to the maps.

So while for high-res satellitey goodness Live is far nice (in most cases), Google still redeems it self in finding stuff goodness!

As you can see, new year - same random ramblings!

...wanders off muttering about whether I can get away with 'satellitey' as a word...

LiS