Google Maps is a website you visit in your web browser. There is no software to download like you do for Google Earth. Both Google Maps and Google Earth are free to use.

See URL in related links below.

If you have larger enough property then you can put a sign or structure large enough to see from space (some do just that). For all practical intents it's easier to put a placemark on your house's location in Google Earth or Google Maps.

There are a number of free third party tools to draw circles and produce KML that can be viewed in Google Earth.

With some such tools you can create a circle of a fixed radius at a center point by latitude/longitude. Likewise you could dynamically draw a circle at the center of your current view and redraw itself every time you move then stop.

Google Earth Pro can draw circles with the Ruler tool but the free version of Google Earth client does not support this so you must use a third party tool.

See related link below for a free online circle generator where you can specify a center point and radius or auto-draw a circle wherever you're looking at.

In 2006 Google Maps was updated to use the same satellite image database as Google Earth. Before that Google had to update and process imagery for both Google Earth and Google Maps where the maps where often out of sync with each other. Now Google updates its central map & imagery database and the updates are made available to both Google Earth and Google Maps at once.

The time between getting imagery from satellite and seeing it on Google Maps is far from real-time. Once the imagery is taken by satellite, it takes time to process the data by a commercial provider like GeoEye before it is available to Google and other customers. Google will do additional processing to convert imagery into the format and coordinate system of its internal databases. This is one reason you normally won't find any imagery younger than about 6 months.

For these reasons, the Google map & imagery database is updated once or twice a month.

A nautical chart (map) shows the shore and land-marks, sea bed conditions, navigation hazards, buoyed channels, and so on, relating to the safe navigation of vessels and inshore boats.

Street view photos are updated on an ongoing basis but general plan is to include more and more cities than keep any given city's photos current. More cities are added every day.

Check out related link to see where the cars are currently driving and pick the county to see the list for that country.

you get a decent GPS and put in the longitude and latitude of the place you want to go to. then you go in the direction that the GPS tells you until you are right on top of the coordinates you put in.

I think the light blue shade represents sports facilities, like sports complexes and dedicated playgrounds. This is not based on any official Google source, but I see that all the blue shades are on such sports facilities.

-Yogesh

By definition an image is blurred if you cannot see things clearly due to a number of factors.

For example, Google Earth and Google Maps imagery can be blurred when a given area is at lower resolution than its neighboring area and appear "pixelated" when zoomed in too closely.

In some cases regions have been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for a number of reasons. Google, for example, automatically detects licenses plates and faces in its Street View imagery and digitally blurs the pixels for privacy and security concerns.

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Google collects geographical data through other map sources and their users itself to create a computerized visualization of the world.

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Historic street maps exist for many cities; you can find them at the city library, local historical society or at the State Archives.

To find the precise address: the 1880 and later censuses include a column for house number, and the street name is usually written along the lefthand margin of the page. For earlier censuses, or if the address was omitted or unclear, your best bet is to look at the city directories (which are available for most major cities and many smaller ones). City directories are great for tracing the whereabouts of your ancestors between census years as well. These can usually be found at the repositories listed above, and can also be borrowed on microfilm through the LDS Family History Library system.

Keep in mind that some cities (such as Chicago) changed their street numbering systems at some point... so the address given on a historic record may be different from the current address. If this is the case, a librarian or archivist may be able to direct you to a resource to help you determine the current address.

Thanks for your response.

I'm working with the 1870 and 1880 censuses, and, unfortunately, there were only a couple of streets and addresses recorded in the *entire county* for the years I'm researching.

And I have so far been unable to find any sort of old street maps or city directories for the two small towns I have been focused on.

I was hoping there was some sort of map of enumeration districts that could be used.

This web site may be of use to you. I have not downloaded this to make sure the instructions are on it. But the people who were hired to take the census were given spectific instructions on how the travel the area they were given, to insure they did not duplicate and to insure they counted everyone in their sector.

Each sector was given a code and and each dwelling another code. By using the codes and the instructions for the census taker you should be able to determine the location of the residence. Hopefully it will not be a office complex or parking lot now.

http://www.ancestry.com/trees/charts/census.aspx

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