Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Bird's Eye View of My Neighborhood

Describe what you noticed as you looked at your neighborhood from a bird's eye view.

6 comments:

  1. When I looked at my neighborhood from a bird's eye view, I realized that it was very easy to navigate from one place to another. Since you can clearly see where you are going from a bird's eye view, you can basically go anywhere you want and come back to your starting location as soon as possible without getting lost.

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  2. I noticed that the shaping of my neighborhood was very interesting. I never realized before how the shape looked exactly. In seeing that, I can better understand my surroundings. I also found it to be very cool. Just seeing how each place and thing is placed, I thought was very interesting and it caught my attention. Also, I did notice that things have changed in my neighborhood since these images from where I live were taken. I could tell some of the changes in the amount of trees. The tree count is now down from what I have seen in using ArcExplorer because of the windstorm we had. But overall everything was the same.

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  3. What I noticed as I looked at my neighborhood from a bird's eye view were houses. I guess since I have already looked at my neighborhood from a bird's eye view with Bing Maps I didn't notice much more from this program, ArcExplorer, than Bing Maps. A description of my neighborhood from a bird's eye view is there many angles, shapes, shading, even colors! The detail that goes into constructing the images must be very extreme. I am obviously used to just seeing the sides and front of my house but the top view was pretty cool. I really noticed how small everything looks from high above versus down low where we all stand.

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  4. When I looked at my neighborhood for a birds eye view was that all the house's on my block look the same expect for mine, my house looked bigger than the rest of the house's on my block.
    Also I never realized that my house has such an odd shaped roof. But the neighborhood looks the same as it does on google maps so it doesn't provide any new views of my house.

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  5. There are a lot more trees in my neighborhood than I had previously concluded. Trees are also a lot more opaque than I thought. It becomes difficult to see houses under all that greenery. Living on the ground has also skewed my perception of proportion and size. My ugly aluminum carport has always struck me as being rather large, but from a birds eye view, it appears to cover much less area.

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  6. When I looked at a birds eye view of my neighborhood, I saw small the neighborhood was. I really didn't think about it but, it was pretty small. Also, the was the houses were positioned on the ground seemed to make sense, but in a birds eye it didn't make sense at all. I guess living on the ground affects you perception a bit.

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