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Google Street view now in the UK
In case you are missing looking at your old street or house, you can now see the whole street via google maps
http://maps.google.com/ type in your address and drag the little 'yellow man' onto the map where you want to look. (The Yellow man is at the top of the Zoom Up/Down thing on the left hand side). Once you drop it where you want, use the arrows to walk up and down the street. Just checked out my office and saw the deli across the street and had a bit of a flashback getting hungry for their lunch. |
Re: Google Street view now in the UK
wouldn't work for me.....but that could be this stoopid work computer blocking it :unsure:
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Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by penguinsix
(Post 7397413)
In case you are missing looking at your old street or house, you can now see the whole street via google maps
http://maps.google.com/ type in your address and drag the little 'yellow man' onto the map where you want to look. (The Yellow man is at the top of the Zoom Up/Down thing on the left hand side). Once you drop it where you want, use the arrows to walk up and down the street. Just checked out my office and saw the deli across the street and had a bit of a flashback getting hungry for their lunch. |
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I actually saw my old roommate in New York street view as he was walking down 43rd street when the google car passed. They didn't block out his face (but the UK one seems to have blurred out specific faces)
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Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by penguinsix
(Post 7397413)
In case you are missing looking at your old street or house, you can now see the whole street via google maps
http://maps.google.com/ type in your address and drag the little 'yellow man' onto the map where you want to look. (The Yellow man is at the top of the Zoom Up/Down thing on the left hand side). Once you drop it where you want, use the arrows to walk up and down the street. Just checked out my office and saw the deli across the street and had a bit of a flashback getting hungry for their lunch. That is so cool! wow, that makes me homesick! :D |
Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by penguinsix
(Post 7397524)
I actually saw my old roommate in New York street view as he was walking down 43rd street when the google car passed. They didn't block out his face (but the UK one seems to have blurred out specific faces)
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Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by Englishtart
(Post 7397689)
That is so cool! wow, that makes me homesick! :D
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Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by clynnog
(Post 7397698)
Homesick for Stockport or other places (don't worry I was born in Stockport)
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Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by Englishtart
(Post 7397782)
Stockport is my hometown, yes I am homesick for a visit, but I also lived in Oxfordshire,6 years, split between RAF Croughton and RAF Mildenhall, so it would be nice to visit that area too, haven't been home for over 4 years and I love my life here, but next year I am going to just pop over to refresh my memory:) Have you been 'home' lately?
Family in the UK are located in such diverse places as the Peak District, Marple, Irlam (btwn M/CR and Warrington), Cambridge, Tetsworth (in Oxfordshire), London, Worthing, and Dublin. As I emigrated with my parents, these relatives are aunts/uncles/cousins/ etc, and realistically as time goes on the connections get looser. To be brutally honest the 'urban' parts of the Manchester conurbation leave me cold. My son who was 6 in 2006 loved Old Trafford but found much of the rest of M/CR to be grotty. The Google Street view imagery doesn't go out as far as Stockport does it. |
Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by penguinsix
(Post 7397413)
In case you are missing looking at your old street or house, you can now see the whole street via google maps
http://maps.google.com/ type in your address and drag the little 'yellow man' onto the map where you want to look. (The Yellow man is at the top of the Zoom Up/Down thing on the left hand side). Once you drop it where you want, use the arrows to walk up and down the street. Just checked out my office and saw the deli across the street and had a bit of a flashback getting hungry for their lunch. Still can't get it to work.....I drag the yellow man but it won't show the street..... |
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It doesn't work on my old Street in the UK.. or my house here either - no fun :(
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Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by sambapink
(Post 7397986)
It doesn't work on my old Street in the UK.. or my house here either - no fun :(
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Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by Juswus
(Post 7398003)
I can't get it to work on anywhere that I've ever lived :huh:
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Re: Google Street view now in the UK
It covered all the streets around my mum's old house but not hers. The streets covered seem to be highlighted in blue.
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Re: Google Street view now in the UK
Originally Posted by clynnog
(Post 7398053)
It seems to just cover major urban areas in the UK. Most areas in the 'shires' are not covered.
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