Google Street View

Incredible. I can see trees in the middle of nowhere in Australia. What a huge amount of effort for something that is rather useless haha

Originally Posted by Warthog

Incredible. I can see trees in the middle of nowhere in Australia. What a huge amount of effort for something that is rather useless haha

Erm, they covered the cities too.....

Originally Posted by Bender

Man that's awesome, nice find Luke! This is my parent's house

Wow, that's great.

I've just been using the drag feature to scan around looking for a packet of ciggies I dropped near the Sydney Airport entrance in 1993. With the price of smokes what they are here it might be worth going back for them if they're still there.

[dizzyblonde]

wow thats cool, but I'd ahve to ask em to photo by appointment.....wouldn't want em taking pics of my house with a skip full of house in the drive......

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by lukemillar

How cool is this:

My house (click on street view)

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&h...889358674,,0,5

They seemed to have covered a load of Australia and the US. Not much action in the UK/Europe except the Tour de France route. If you zoom out anything blue is covered!

A whole new meaning to "I can see my house from here" I guess

Originally Posted by lukemillar

Erm, they covered the cities too.....

Yes I am aware of that, perhaps I need to seperate my statement a little:

Genuine excitement that I can see a tree in the outback.

but, aside from Lozzo finding a pack of ciggies somewhere, what point does it serve if you can walk up and down a street somwhere else?

Originally Posted by Warthog

Yes I am aware of that, perhaps I need to seperate my statement a little:

Genuine excitement that I can see a tree in the outback.

but, aside from Lozzo finding a pack of ciggies somewhere, what point does it serve if you can walk up and down a street somwhere else?

Because you can go and hang out in da hood, without the fear of getting shot. Duh!

Seriously, I can think of a load of reasons. How many times have you arranged to look at renting a house/flat, only to turn up discover that the area/street looks like a war zone?

If you looking for directions and use google (which I do a lot) then you can check out what a particular junction/road/whatever looks like in case you miss it.

Just visiting places that you have never been - for instance. I really like the idea of living and working in NZ and San Francisco and although I have been there on holiday and seen the sites, I have never really checked out living etc.

I think you'll find it more useful than you think

[dizzyblonde]

hmmm putting it like that, i can see a very sensible use for it. I myself would probably use it for such things as landmarks in a strange place etc, as women don't use maps apparently, but direct emselves by stuff they are likely to set their eyes on.......like pubs, supermarkets petrol stations.....I have no idea what so called experts could be on about

I have your address dizz, so I will be checking out your house when its online in the UK.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Grinch

I have your address dizz, so I will be checking out your house when its online in the UK.

argggghhhh....hope theres no house in a skip, er, house that resembles a skip, skip of a bike on the drive( that'll be YCs...lol)they better have taken some when my clematis is flowering up the door...oh hang on, Bob the dog ate that