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I heard that you can not upload bird's eyeview . We just have to wait patiently for Zillow's 3rd party provider to update those info.
It take 2-3 years or more to update.
You can always post your own pictures, or at your description add a link to where there is a better "bird's eye view".
Hope this helps.
- Pasadenan
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"How can we have a more recent birds eye view added?" -
Well, since these are taken from commercial satellites, and provided by Google and MicroSoft... You could always buy your own satellites and put them in orbit... The commercial satellites used for the photos don't travel a fixed orbit relative to the earth's surface and take about 2 to 3 years to pass over the same spot again. So, even if you owned your own, I doubt you could do much better.
Perhaps you know how to hack into the government satellite photos?
Just remember, in 2000, you could only get black and white satellite photo images with much larger pixel sizes, and you had to pay $10 for each of those, and you were buying them from Russian Satellites! You should be grateful that you have access to any satellite photos at all, and that you aren't charged to access them!
Well, since these are taken from commercial satellites, and provided by Google and MicroSoft... You could always buy your own satellites and put them in orbit... The commercial satellites used for the photos don't travel a fixed orbit relative to the earth's surface and take about 2 to 3 years to pass over the same spot again. So, even if you owned your own, I doubt you could do much better.
Perhaps you know how to hack into the government satellite photos?
Just remember, in 2000, you could only get black and white satellite photo images with much larger pixel sizes, and you had to pay $10 for each of those, and you were buying them from Russian Satellites! You should be grateful that you have access to any satellite photos at all, and that you aren't charged to access them!
- Spencer Rascoff, "spencer"
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Microsoft is the provider of birds eye view. Gotta wait until they take more photos.
- Pasadenan
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With the so called "upgrade" from last night, I can't find any of the birds-eye views anymore.
Were they placed somewhere else?
Were they placed somewhere else?
- Pasadenan
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I did find now that the Bird's Eye views can be selected from the "map" portion of the page; one no longer see the map at the same time as the bird's eye view; but it swaps quickly. Only zoom levels offered now, and a graphic scale has been added; so it is either a graphic scale of 20 yards or 40 yards; on my screen the graphic scale is about 2", thus about 30 feet to the inch, or 60 feet to the inch. Probably the graphic scale would print as 1" long on 8½" x 11" paper.
The scale seems to be reasonable close to correct.
The scale seems to be reasonable close to correct.
- Pasadenan
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Wow! On the "street view" now, you can click on the "google" name in the lower left hand corner, and it opens a Google window with the same street view, and that can be expanded to fill the width of the screen with the arrow key, and then one can select "full page" view on the browser to increase the image height...
And then can press the square on the upper right hand side of the image, and the image does expand to fill the whole screen!
Almost as if one really was there taking the photo!
And then can press the square on the upper right hand side of the image, and the image does expand to fill the whole screen!
Almost as if one really was there taking the photo!
- marigolds6
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Bird's Eye view photos are really oblique aerial photography provided by Pictometry International to Microsoft. Pictometry flies these photos on a contract basis with local counties or cities. If your county or city has a contract, the photos are flown every 2-3 years, and after they are provided to the local government, Microsoft receives a copy as well.
If your local county or city does not have a contract (they can easily be six figures per year), then Pictometry flies new oblique photos of the area on a 4 year or more schedule, depending on the population density.
You might want to get ahold of SanGIS http://www.sangis.org/ to see if they have a contract with Pictometry. If they do not, then Pacific Beach would have to contract with them to get the imagery updated on a faster schedule.
If your local county or city does not have a contract (they can easily be six figures per year), then Pictometry flies new oblique photos of the area on a 4 year or more schedule, depending on the population density.
You might want to get ahold of SanGIS http://www.sangis.org/ to see if they have a contract with Pictometry. If they do not, then Pacific Beach would have to contract with them to get the imagery updated on a faster schedule.
- Chad Basinger, "ChadBasinger"
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The old birds eye view...pretty amazing, yet somewhat intrusive at the same time...It's pretty crazy what you can see in the photo and I know that the photos are relatively recent (can see the burnt out backyards from the October 2007 fires in Rancho Bernardo.) Aside from having your own photos tied to a listing, you are pretty much stuck with the birds eye view until the "eye in the sky" pays another visit to your neighborhood.
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