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Do you have an OCD obsession with locating houses on the aerial photo on rightmove?

I'm not happy until I've worked out where a house is on the aerial photo. I'll look at roofs, chimney pots, roofs, view of the window and sometimes it can take 20 minutes to locate.

I finally gave up on one today.
Happy chappy

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  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 18,649 Forumite
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    It can save an awful lot of time and trouble as you're not interested in viewing the house with the pylon in the back garden, next to 24 hr petrol station, opposite the pub/club with trouble every night at closing time, backing on to landfill site and with the chemical works on the other side.

    And the M1 flyover just metres away!
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  • Jue_xx
    Jue_xx Posts: 295 Forumite
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    Oh, absolutely. Google Earth has been a godsend during our house hunt. High on our list of priorities was a much larger garden, and Google Earth has saved us many wasted viewings by showing up the ones with not-big-enough gardens straight away, so that we could cross them off the shortlist.
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  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    Gave up?
    We love a challenge :)
  • delain
    delain Posts: 7,700 Forumite
    Post a link, go on :D
    Mum of several with a twisted sense of humour and a laundry obsession :o:o
  • adg1
    adg1 Posts: 670 Forumite
    Not so much the aerial photos but either multimaps birdseye view or, even better, Google StreetView. Gets you a chance to see the neighbourhood before going there and the birdseye view shows up things you wouldn't normally see from ground level.
  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
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    Actually my last guess was right. I went to take a look on the way back from work.

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28109216.html
    Happy chappy
  • The Bird's Eye view on Bing Maps (formerly Windows Live Local) is far better than anything except Street View on Google.

    The new beta version has the Bird's Eye view in a slightly higher resolution than the older version, and works much better, definitely worth a look!

    http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/
  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
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    Rightmove uses bing.
    Birds eye view doesn't cover many of my local areas.
    Sometimes Google maps has a more up to date aerial photo, other times it's bing.
    Happy chappy
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