

Interesting to learn the assessments for all of the neighbor’s houses. Try putting in your own address – I put in mine. The map will reposition itself to the new location. Find out how often Google Maps updates its satellite images and how to tell when a map was last updated by checking specific features and timestamps on the. Like Google Maps, if you want to see something off of the current map area, just click and drag in any direction. Take a look at Zillow’s sample home, for example. Some neighborhoods also have birds eye view images of individual homes. Take a look at the screen shot from the neighborhood around the Capitol.Ĭlick on the blue diamond next to the valuations in Zillow and you’ll get more info on the property including sales history and tax info. Not just that, but it shows them on a hybrid satellite image/street map. Zillow offers free, instant valuations and data for over 67 million homes nationwide. Clicking anywhere on the map will display the co-ordinates next to the icon.Some of the scarier databases that my colleague, Bev Butula, covered in the Internet Research Workshop were those in the Investigating Individuals section. To get the co-ordinates of any location, select this icon in the bottom left hand corner of the map.Scrolling through the boxes, using the ► and ◄ tabs will reveal information about each photograph as each pop-up appears, the photograph selected is highlighted.The pop-up box will show the number of photographs in the top left corner e.g.Click on any symbol to see a pop-up about it and any other photographs of that area in the layers that are turned on.Click on the symbol to the left of the thumbnail to locate the image on the map. Click on a thumbnail to view the image in detail. A selection of images will appear on the right hand side of the screen for you to scroll down. Once you have drawn your area click on Apply. Check the satellite view of my house with property lines option online on the county assessor’s website. Hire the property surveyor to gain the property survey document if you don’t have it. Visit the county assessor’s office and get the needed help. You will then have options to draw a line, rectangle, circle or polygon and the option to add a buffer around the edge of your search area. Check the property survey you had received when you bought the land or house. To select by area click on the pull down menu in the Spatial features box and select Only return features with the shape drawn on the map.Advanced: Use the 'exact date' calendar picker to search between specific dates.You can only select images on one layer at a time. Use this button to enable the selection of multiple images or select images by date flown.Select this button for a choice of different basemaps, ranging from Open Streetmap to satellite imagery.To the right of the layer, click on this button . and move the slider to make the layer colour less or more dark.To turn individual layers on/off, tick or untick the box next to the required layer.
