Hi, I am Pascal Scheffers
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Google imagery of our house
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By Pascal on June 26, 2005
Google has added most of the rest of the world satellite imagery to their online (very, very cool) maps application. Our house is there too! If you have trouble finding our house in there (not surprising, imo), the little image is a cut out of the annotated version.
I've located our immediate family on the map, which you can zoom with the slider and drag around with your mouse:
- Bas and Kylie live here. Look at the center of the image, note the five blobs (trees, actually) on the street there. The left most tree, the biggest, is directly in front of their house!
- Pauline lives here In the centre of the image is a white spot, remarkably similar to the number '1'. To the right, of the bottom part of the 1 is where she lives, over looking the middle of the lower segment of the grassland.
- For Lotte , there is a highresolution image again. But because she lives in downtown Amsterdam, but that doesn't make her house much easier to find. Just below the rail track in the middle, there are three large trees. Below them, there are some more trees - in that street, to the right of the water, look at the fourth or fifth tree. That is where she lives.
- The coolest image of the bunch must be Opa und Oma Maus. Their house is easy to spot, if you know where to look, you can almost make out the little wooden shed in their back yard! To find them, look at the Y shaped building on the right of the image. The roads from there point to a block of houses. They live in the identical block directly to the left of that. To further refine it, notice that you can distinguish four houses in that block by looking at the chimneys. The second house from the bottom is theirs! Across from them, one block farther to the left notice that one part of the rooftops looks diffent in that block, they live exactly across from that.
- Dirk and Lisel live in the Hague, in that block you see in the middle. The resolution, just isn't high enough to mark their house precisely, though.
- Thomas and Kim also live in Amsterdam, but the resolution is lower again. Look at the checkerboard pattern of houses and grass/trees in the middle to find their house. They live somewhere in the block with the long large white building at the lower side.
- There is only low res imagery of it, but René, my late father, rests here somewhere. Well, his body, anyway. In the middle, there is a brownish spike of land - I think that is the patch of farmland where there is usually corn growing. The cemetery is the little green dot on the right hand side of that, in the middle.
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De Gouwzee
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Pascal on January 23, 2005
Pascal and Maja have been sailing with our beautiful sailingship, de Gouwzee. This ship is an old barch which used to transport all kinds of goods across centraleurope. Today we travel across the Ijsselmeer and the waddenzee with all kinds of people.
Steffie and Evert
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