My Hometown
Matt Howie started a meme using Flickr and Google Maps to post a satellite photo of his hometown, then annotating the image with childhood memories you can view by moving the mouse over the photo's rectangular hotspots (notes).
Monkey see, monkey do (oooh! oooh!). You can see mine here.
I found a web page where people have left comments about living in the area.
Note: You don't have to use a satellite image. If you live in an area not found in Google's satellite images, you might find one in NASA's World Wind program, or you could just use a street map from MapQuest or any other service.
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Posted 4/06/2005 10:39:00 AM
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On 4/06/2005 6:10 PM, 
Mary said...
On 4/06/2005 6:44 PM, dkgoodman said...
On 4/07/2005 8:00 AM, Mary said...
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Oh, I love this!
I have a flickr account already, but I don't know how to do that nifty labeling with the mouse scrolling over to tell the stories as you peek. Is that a function only available with the paid flickr accounts? Or is that a Google maps function?
Yours is great! :)
That's a free Flickr feature. Just go to the page where you can edit the tags for your photo, and click the + Add Note button at the top left of the photo. Then you can drag the box around and resize it, and type in the text you want. You can also go back and click a box you've already done and re-edit it.
Ahhh, THAT'S what the Add Note thing does. I hadn't tested that out yet. Thanks so much!
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