Rambling on Street View

[digitS']

Do you use Street View?

It helps me find locations when all I have is an address but I know the area. Once in awhile, I take a little tour of somewhere (very) distant or somewhere I once knew (very) well. For curiosity or nostalgia .. .

Maybe I have been off the "street" a little too long. Maybe it's been on the app for awhile. Maybe I shouldn't tread off to use the PC and should have stayed with the mobile device recently to view the "street."

When did the view become so 3-dimensional so that the view changes when I turn the tablet!!! Whoa! I was used to dragging things around to look across sidewalks and up side streets. Now, I turn in my chair ..!

Steve

 

[Larisa]

I always use. I'm poorly guided in space and I'm the champion to get lost anywhere. Sometimes I walk a route virtually "Street View" several times, then to really go through once.

 

[waretrop]

I bought a very old yellow Jeep at a dealer. I call her "Sunny Side Up!". So I got the name of the old owner. I googled him and found he lived close to me. So I looked at the "street view" and guess who I found in the driveway????? "Sunny Side Up!" I took a screenshot of it....that was fun....So I "street viewed" around to the next street over and got a screenshot of "Sunny Side Up's" front view....between the houses...LOL

Silly things you can do with "streetview"....

 

[digitS']

Ha!

I'm both at home and in one of the gardens, miles away.

On Bing's "bird's eye view," I'm standing in the middle of the second garden! (Or, third garden ... or, whatever it is .)

Steve

 

[waretrop]

Very cool.....@digitS'

 

[majorcatfish]

will use google maps now and then, pick out a part of the world or see sometime that i heard about and look over the country side from above...

 

[journey11]

When I first got my bees several years ago, the man who gave them to me lived pretty far out in the country. I was able to go to street view to find his home by seeing all the bee boxes lined up in a row in his yard.

I noticed that about the turning too. It does it with my phone. They've got a similar technology where people can video a location from a set point in 360 degrees and also downward and skyward. I've seen such videos posted on Facebook. It turns as you turn, like VR; and you can look around just as if you were there.

 

[digitS']

I wouldn't be able to experience Virtual Reality on my phone, @journey11 !

I'd probably be looking around, over, under, and behind the darn thing. Or, focus so closely on the tiny image I'd feel claustrophobic!

Visiting distant places has been fun for me. I was on that kick of doing that, looking at places worldwide, with similar climates to here.

Seeing the town in the UK from which my grandfather's grandfather had left in the mid-19th century and seeing a building with an "1832" sign on it - realizing that this ancestor would have seen the same building and others there ..! Wow! Imagine that feeling of connection , over nearly 2 centuries.

Steve

 

[digitS']

Since you have had all those homey experiences through the holidays ..

. I think you might be ready for this:

the World's Saddest Destinations on Google Maps , at least the ones with English names.

Steve

 

[waretrop]

Oh They are terrible places. I would never want to go to these places....LOL