i was reading a different question and thought some of you may not know about this. soooo..... you MAY be able to get a satellite view of your farm from mapquest.com go to the website, enter your address, then on the next screen there is a tab that says photo, pick it and zoom in/out. if mapquest doesn't know where your address is located or there isn't a "photo" tab, then your out of luck. sorta neat to see your farm from the air. good luck. i can see my house and neighborhood, pools, etc...

-- steve (stevetamara@mindspring.com), January 04, 2002

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Wow. Kinda spooky. I had a small area cleared for the horses last Spring but I'm not sure it's showing it. Kinda neat, kinda big brother...

-- Gailann Schrader (gtschrader@aol.com), January 04, 2002.

Microsoft's Terraserver site also has aerial photo coverage for most of the county. http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/default.asp

-- Susan (smtroxel@socket.net), January 04, 2002.

Thanks for the notes on how to get a free arial view. I found that although I could find homes in the cities with mapquest, there was no views of anything within 30 miles of the farm. I then tried the MSN site and found 1991 views but nothing that shows my barn since I put a new roof on it.

-- Gary from MN (hpysheep@midwestinfo.com), January 04, 2002.

Waahhh!!! We don't "exist" according to the mapquest site or the terraserver site!!! Too far out in the boonies from any major city.

-- Annie Miller in SE OH (annie@1st.net), January 04, 2002.

Steve, I tried msn terraserver, wild site map taken in 1989 before I rebuilt the house, showed barns and wood shed everything all lined up all done by eyeball Thanks for the site info Bill

-- Bill Jaddatz (Billshsfrm@aol.com), January 04, 2002.

if you don't exist on the maps, i would consider that a "good" thing. that means you got a good remote farm/home location. :) hmmm if you don't exist, do you still have to pay taxes?

-- steve (stevetamara@mindspring.com), January 04, 2002.

I don't know about other states, but in Ohio counties you can go to the auditors web page and get the satellite view also. Just do a search on your specific counties page (i.e."Union County Auditor") and look for property search. Most need full owners name or address or name of road. Look for GIS views of your entire county. You can also get alot of info on the property (i.e. tax value, purchase date, purchase price). This is very spooky, but it is all public info I guess. I used it alot when I was shopping around for my farm. It was nice to see the views of the properties with the parcel lines showing where the boundry line were. I am using it now to figure out where I want to route my fence lines for individual pastures. I print multiple copies and draw mock fence lines to study.

-- Gary Morstadt (gmorstadt@cs.com), January 05, 2002.

Look myself up with this. Not a really clear view of our little homestead but you can tell the area. I think this is more than spooky !! I remember years ago a fellow coming to door selling pictures of our property that was taken from the air !! I thought my husband was going to bodily throw him off the property !! The salesman couldn't understand our problem We thought it was a total invasion of our privacy but many others didn't feel the same way we did. I supose the county needs these photos for some reason...but I don't really like it. Guess there's no place to hide anymore from someone's eyes watching you !! Sad...guess we really don't have any privacy afterall these days.

-- Helena (windyacs@npacc.net), January 05, 2002.

These are just the arial maps the government uses to administer the farm programs with. Have to show the county office what I grow every year, and these are the exact map I have to draw my fields on. Dad was using them back in the early 80's, late 70's I believe. Been around a long time, most all farmland is photographed this way. Not news to farmers. :)

--->Paul

-- paul (ramblerplm@hotmail.com), January 05, 2002.