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Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 
Just cheered myself up doing a google street view drive around Islay. Going to Jura next. Great way to spend a pleasant half hour. Any favourite places for visiting?
 
Posted by Grits (# 4169) on :
 
I actually just "streetviewed" the Luxe apartment building in Santa Monica where my daughter-in-law is currently staying. It's mere blocks away from the ocean, right up the street from the Santa Monica pier. I'm threatening to visit...
 
Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :
 
IRL I was in Dublin in 2001 for two nights. I recently re-visited via Google street view, and found that I remembered my way around the few places I'd traveled on foot. Good to know I'm not the only one who does that! [Smile]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
For this, GeoGuessr is your friend.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
I like memories. Driving down roads I've traveled, teasing out recollections and seeing if they still match.
And random places are relaxing, a free-form rambling down new roads I might like to see.
related tangent/There is a thread in the Circus which is bragging/ranting about GeoGuessr.com. This is a website which randomly* places you somewhere on the planet recorded by the Google street-view cameras. You receive point for how close your guess is to the actual location./related tangent
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Y'all just reminded me. I am re-reading A Midwife's Tale and wanted to see what was left of the old town of Hartwell, ME.

[ETA: Hallowell, I mean. And I found the corner of Water St and Winthrop, which is the main drag in the area covered in the journal!)

[ 21. January 2014, 07:00: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by churchgeek:
IRL I was in Dublin in 2001 for two nights. I recently re-visited via Google street view, and found that I remembered my way around the few places I'd traveled on foot. Good to know I'm not the only one who does that! [Smile]

No, you aren't. A while ago I revisited what used to be my grandmother's house in Dublin, which I haven't seen since the last century, and wandered down to my old school. That really was a trip down a memory lane.

(Doesn't half save on plane fares and hotel bills.)

[ 21. January 2014, 07:26: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
When I stayed in Portsmouth, I would take this long walk down King's Road to get to the harbor. When I came home, I would use street view to wander down that road again. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
I street viewed a part of Belfast where I lived as a child - and not only could I not find our old house, the very street had disappeared. All of it - cobbles, Victorian terrace, Mrs McDowell's shop with jars of sweeties and the bacon slicer with the fly papers hanging above it - all under some Lego-like medical centre.
 
Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :
 
I have a dream day where I ride a bicycle from Rochefort, Belgium, the home of my favorite Trappist brewery, through Soy, home of Brasserie Phantom, a small, single-owner operated farmhouse brewery known around the world, to Achouffe, home of Brasserie Chouffe, another wonderful Belgian brewery. I have definitely spent some time doing that ride by street view.

[ 21. January 2014, 16:18: Message edited by: Og, King of Bashan ]
 
Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 
Just done Colonsay by street view. Stunning, photographed in June. Pity that Oronsay is out of bounds to street viewers. No roads.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Francophile:
Just done Colonsay by street view. Stunning, photographed in June. Pity that Oronsay is out of bounds to street viewers. No roads.

I presume you don't mean Colonsay, Saskatchewan?

The thistle and the maple leaf are friends. [Biased]
 
Posted by scuffleball (# 16480) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
I street viewed a part of Belfast where I lived as a child - and not only could I not find our old house, the very street had disappeared. All of it - cobbles, Victorian terrace, Mrs McDowell's shop with jars of sweeties and the bacon slicer with the fly papers hanging above it - all under some Lego-like medical centre.

This seems particularly common in Belfast. There are places where there are even discrepancies between street view and satellite it's changing so quickly like

see below
and
see below

TLDR the housing density in Belfast and immediate suburbs is dropping and taking with it many Victorian terraces - maps from even 25 years ago are completely useless in many neighbourhoods. Only thing comparable that springs to mind in England is Burnley.

[Edited to eliminate scroll lock
jedijudy
Heaven Host]

[ 22. January 2014, 02:03: Message edited by: jedijudy ]
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Sorry scuffleball, I'm not sure what point you're trying to illustrate here as both urls seem to be exactly the same.

May I recommend Tinyurl for lengthy urls? Keeps them neat and tidy and saves space.
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
If you look at the location scuffleball posted (twice) on street view, you see a tarmac carpark-type area surrounded by a metal fence. On the satellite view, there's a whole terrace of houses where the carpark / empty space used to be.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
When I lived in Belfast more than forty years ago, I lived in the Stranmillis area. My daughter went there recently and photographed the house where we lived.

Moo
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by scuffleball:
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
I street viewed a part of Belfast where I lived as a child - and not only could I not find our old house, the very street had disappeared. All of it - cobbles, Victorian terrace, Mrs McDowell's shop with jars of sweeties and the bacon slicer with the fly papers hanging above it - all under some Lego-like medical centre.

This seems particularly common in Belfast. There are places where there are even discrepancies between street view and satellite it's changing so quickly like

this

and

this

TLDR the housing density in Belfast and immediate suburbs is dropping and taking with it many Victorian terraces - maps from even 25 years ago are completely useless in many neighbourhoods. Only thing comparable that springs to mind in England is Burnley.


 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Scuffleball, Ariel offered you excellent advice regarding Tinyurl. I took the liberty of utilizing that website to shorten your links so they would not break the scroll lock, mostly because it was making me crazy!

jedijudy
Heaven Host

 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Francophile:
Just done Colonsay by street view. Stunning, photographed in June. Pity that Oronsay is out of bounds to street viewers. No roads.

There is a Google street view pedestrian - think man with backpack with cameras-on-a-stick.
 
Posted by Ian Climacus (# 944) on :
 
I'm off to look at the Tardis.
[Smile]


I enjoy going through locations I've visited on holiday or visited...brings it all back. Sadly Lebanon, Georgia and Istanbul do not seem to have been photographed by our new digital overlords yet so its the Western Memory Tour for me for now.
 


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