Fun with Google Maps

Snowing again, but not so cold.  Last night was about 10 degrees, but today is in the 30s.

What to do on a snowy house bound day in winter?  Play with Google maps.

I got an overhead view of our lot complete with landscaping from last summer (during the worst of the heat and drought in July, so the grass and weeds look awful).  And I got a view of the actual lot lines in the same scale and overlaid the two screenshots in Picasa.

The superimposed picture, with the lot lines highlighted in blue, shows where all of the major gardens and trees are.... and some are outside the lot boundaries, as I knew they were.  Click the photo to enlarge.

I knew the spruce berm was angled differently than the lot line and the right side of it fell outside the boundary, which the map shows.

But I was surprised that the whole line of buckeyes at the back are over the line.  The hemlock and bayberry at the back of Meadow's Edge are over the line.  The deepest part of the V behind the house comes to a point just behind the end of the dry creek bed.

Pretty amazing that you can get this level of aerial detail!