Aerial photography to sell houses
December 16, 2005 by Mike Wendland
A Web site called HomePages takes high-resolution aerial photography and applies it to finding homes and businesses. Check our your neighborood by entering your address. If Google’s Earthmap impresses you, wait till you see this. The site is aimed at home buyers but, right now at least, it’s open for a sneak peak. They’ll be announcing this site at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month but you can check it out now.
I looked at it and I’ll agree it is interesting but it’s mostly flash (and very slow). Hopefully they’ll rewrite it before they launch.
I’m not sure if I would buy a house by looking at the neighborhood from above. I might use the site to check for sales in my own neighborhood but there are probably better sites for that.