So, I'm at work, and suddenly an instant message on Google pops up from a friend telling me he can see my car on Google Street View. So I IM back, "Say what?"
Indeed, if you go to maps.google.com and type in my home address (which I will not post here, my blog being semi-public and all, but request it if you want), then click on Street View, then turn to the left and "walk" down the street, you can see my trusty ol' automobile around the corner to the right in the parking lot outside the condo. Seriously. Right there.
Can you see your car?
3 comments:
I can't believe it took you this long to discover Google's street view. That is sooo 2007... :P
It's true! I don't know where your car is, but I know where mine is on Google street view! The fun thing is, we don't live there anymore. But until they update the Billings area, we will forever be parked in the back of an old renovated fire station. It's pretty sweet :)
As a side note, street view was one way we looked for houses when we were buying. If we saw something that looked promising, we'd street view the address and take a look around the neighborhood and at the yard, without so much as walking away from the computer. That's the true, lazy way to do it. It's a beautiful thing.
K - no, ma'am. I discovered Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Street View, etc some time ago. But I never bothered to look at my own boring neighborhood. I didn't realize my car was immortalized.
Tonksfam, I love it! I actually used Google Earth to look at places a while ago, and in 2004 when I was looking at where to live in the L.A. area, I used...gosh, what was it? Some other satellite imaging site to view the neighborhoods I was looking at. There's just something satisfying, though, about "standing" in front of the building at street level and "looking around". Love it!
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