Hi All,
This is great. I found my house in Rochester with no problem at all...
Barb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael H Thorne" <mhthorne(a)juno.com>
To: <HARRIS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:46 PM
Subject: [HARRIS] Neat mapping site...
Hope I can explain this so it makes sense...
I found an internet site to day that provides both maps and satelite
images of virtually anywhere in the US and it's not at all hard to use
(and it's FREE). The site is called TerraServer and here's the basic
link to it:
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
Outside of the fun a lot of people will have with this, I was thinking
it
might have some usefulness in sharing links to views of the farms or
houses or cemeteries or towns where our ancestors are or were. Just to
give you an example, my father was born in 1921 and lived in a little
town called Matfield Green, Kansas. The town is in a remote area of the
Flint Hills in Kansas and boasts a current population of around 30 hardy
old souls. If you click on the following link, you can all see the
house
my father grew up in.
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=14&x=223&y=...
=1&ref=P|Matfield%20Green,%20Kansas,%20United%20States (this is
the
first view you get from space... but don't dispair)
now, let me zoom in on his house (well, the immediate neighborhood
anyway)
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=3568&y...
w=2
In case you're wondering, it's the house you can see just about 1/2 inch
above where it says 100M on the bottom edge of the photograph!
Don't know if people will use this, but wanted to show everyone an easy
way to share (just cut and paste the link) some different kind of
information with everyone. Best of all, you don't have to go through
airport screening now just to see the old home place.
Mike Thorne
Researching: Hart, Thorne, Hunter, Holton, Kearney, Roberts, Wright,
Shunk, Painter, Logsdon, Clayton, McCreary and a few others as well.
mhthorne(a)juno.com