Google Earth

I've often taken a trip around old areas that I've lived in its an eye opener for sure..

Me too. I've had a look at the house and surroundings in New Zealand where my cousin lives. It is very interesting. I am lucky that I have never lived more than eleven miles from where I was born, and if I chose, I could go and walk round all my childhood haunts, and look at my old schools. I like Google street view.

Printmiss That sounds horrific.

I sell my jewellery online and can't help Googling where customers live, especially if it's abroad. I love looking at all the different kinds of houses and the thing that always strikes me is how much bigger the plots of lands are, especially in the USA. The houses are not necessarily big, but there's so much more outdoor space. I Google addresses in the UK too if they have unusual names. We do live on a small island - and I am a naturally nosey curious person.

I sell on my clothes on eBay and do the Google maps thing. It is interesting to see the posh homes where some buyers live. Recycling is so popular.

If we're going away for a few days I always google where we'll be staying and have a wander around the surrounding area in street view. It's almost surreal to arrive a couple of weeks later and feel that I know the place already
And I too love to look at the houses I've lived in throughout my life to see what they're like now, particularly the house I was brought home to as a new born in London. The road looks so well kept, all the houses nicely painted with smart front doors. Probably worth a small fortune now.
But what I particularly love to do is to visit Zoopla or Rightmove and see if I can track the last time any of my erstwhile homes was on the market - then I can have a look at the photos and see what they're like inside. Now that is really fascinating!

I love Google Earth! Also, I`m very nosey, I exchange books quite often with people I "talk" to on forums, and I like to look and see what their houses are like. So far, all but one are much nicer than mine, hope they don`t all Google earth mine!

I used Google Earth today to check the best route from Trago Mills to the beach at Lansallos (Cornwall). It was very useful to find a road I don't often use and we were quickly in the sea for our last swim of the year, or maybe not!
I find it useful if I have to go anywhere unfamiliar.

There's a very clear picture of me on Google Earth, stepping it out very smartly on a road near us.

Can you see your face or did Google do the pixelated thing to disguise it?

It's as clear as anything. (I was only walking along - not having a pee behind a car!)

I am on Google street view, walking in front of my house

I use Google earth to "revisit" our son's house in Australia - I can zoom right in, look at the garden and remember our last visit there

Oh yes! That's what I'm on. Street View. Perhaps not Google Earth. I suppose I would show up really small on there.

Or maybe not. I haven't got a clue.

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Because your input is always of interest jing

What are the odds of two people on here being caught on camera by the Google car? Typical!

That`s what I should have said, Street view, it`s great.

The map for my house is about five years old. I can tell by the car in the drive.

Oh heck they have improved the resolution. I can see the full details of the extension in our previous house in Ilford.

I wish you lot had not started posting this stuff. I want to go to bed!

www.instantstreetview.com/@52.634205,-1.15548,-116.97h,5.07p,1z

Turn the image round and we lived in the end terrace house at number 35. There is an alley way out at the end by the detached house. I am not sure that house was there in the time I was.

I lived here from 1948 to about 1952/3

Isn't it amazing we can see these things?

BTW I don't think I have seen houses that curve like that before. It's nice.

This was my first home. My Mum and Dad rented a two room flat on the 3rd floor of a tenement from 1958 until 1967. By then I had two little brothers and we moved to a brand new 2 bedroom council house.

www.instantstreetview.com/@56.472532,-2.970529,-103.88h,11.89p,1z

Prior to going on holiday, I was looking at Wells-next-the-Sea on street view, and going along the waterfront it suddenly changed from brilliant sunshine to thick fog! Then I checked out the date at the bottom, and there were about 3 years between the pictures.

How strange! I thought it was going to be something like the driver had stopped (for lunch?) and the weather changed!