Post #211,638
6/18/05 3:05:05 PM
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OK - you non USAians
Google maps now covers the while world - show us where you live.
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Post #211,639
6/18/05 4:22:32 PM
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Eh?
Much of the world is still not present.
E.g. The map for [link|http://maps.google.com/maps?q=london,+england&spn=0.074268,0.131836&hl=en|London] works, but the satellite picture of the city is still absent.
And it still doesn't know where Paris, France is.
AFAIK, it's been this way since the beta was announced - it's still extremely heavily US-centric. Have you heard/read differently?
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #211,649
6/18/05 9:49:53 PM
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OK, this guy lies
[link|http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/18/1326214&tid=217&tid=162|http://slashdot.org/...4&tid=217&tid=162]
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Post #211,650
6/18/05 10:21:47 PM
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You trusted a post on Slashdot?!? :-)
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Post #211,687
6/19/05 4:46:55 PM
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But I bet it can find Paris
Hilton.
/me ducks and hides.
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Post #211,640
6/18/05 4:24:57 PM
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Here
[link|http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Reading&spn=0.077444,0.166512&hl=en|http://maps.google.c...44,0.166512&hl=en]
What annoys me is that if you zoom out far enough, Reading is no longer labelled but Milton Keynes is.
Matthew Greet
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
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Post #211,641
6/18/05 4:36:28 PM
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Reading? only the gaol is famous.. :-\ufffd
When boarding train in Oxford to get to Heathrow {sob} to return to Marketing Land, I asked about checking out Reading, maybe Oscar's famous-Gaol, at a stop -?-
Friend advised.. (she of the disdainful quip) - "not much to see, there".
I'm sure that a resident just might have a slightly different opinion :-0
Time to lobby Google to that end?
Ashton
ackshully - neutral on this proposition, due to ignorance of those environs
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Post #211,642
6/18/05 7:13:29 PM
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Reading: non-tourist Milton Keynes: soulless
If you were English, you'd know about Milton Keynes.
Reading is part of the UK silicon valley and is really a place of commerce and too many high street pubs and nightclubs. It has character but it's more money than sense and drunk. Milton Keynes is one of the new towns built after the war. Like all new towns, the planning was done by soulless bureaucrats trying to apply social engineering. Miton Keynes is regarded as the ugliest example. It's even got concrete cows.
Why anyone would want to highlight Milton Keynes on a high level map is beyond me (or Bracknell or Slough).
Matthew Greet
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
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Post #211,648
6/18/05 9:20:15 PM
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It still seems to have no idea of Sydney,Australia
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #211,712
6/20/05 12:05:41 AM
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No can do.
Google needs be learning about Down Under.
Wade.
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Post #211,717
6/20/05 1:21:47 AM
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Actually, a very basic map is possible.
[link|http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-34.066312,151.020813&spn=1.708671,2.282410&hl=en|http://maps.google.c...71,2.282410&hl=en]
This will show you a water-and-land-only view, which may give you an idea.
The biggest squiqqle off to the left is Lake Burragorang, behind Warragamba Dam, Sydney's largest dam. It's got four blobs to the right of it, the largest of which is Prospect Reservoir. Due east of Prospect is Sydney Harbour. South of the Harbour is Botany Bay and the Georges River and then Bate Bay and Port Hacking River. (Sydney's Cronulla beach is on Bate Bay.) The splotch to the left and slightly below the Port Hacking is Woronora Dam. I live in Heathcote which is about midway between them.
Wade.
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Post #211,715
6/20/05 1:01:35 AM
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Here
[link|http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=guisborough&spn=.141432,.335083&hl=en|http://maps.google.c...432,.335083&hl=en]
Oop North.
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Post #211,731
6/20/05 7:32:50 AM
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Looks like you're just up the road from drewk.
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Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #211,732
6/20/05 8:00:37 AM
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ho ho
Funnily enough, Cleveland's been here for over 1000 years :-)
Hundred miles, hundred years, etc.
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Post #211,719
6/20/05 1:52:15 AM
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Google Maps Not Yet Security Threat For UK
[link|http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.733537,-1.321964&spn=3.900146,5.361328&t=k&hl=en|http://maps.google.c....361328&t=k&hl=en]
That's as detailed as the satellite imagery gets.
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Post #212,459
6/24/05 1:40:40 PM
6/24/05 2:02:49 PM
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St.-Petersburg, Russia: zoom stops about mid-range
No detailed info, I guess.
(well, I don't live there any more anyway :) )
Christian, your fate must be similar.
Edit: I was wrong! Satellite imagery is available at deeper level.
My area is not available, but my wife's is there:
[link|http://www.google.com/maps?ll=59.930667,30.345976&spn=0.007939,0.008959&t=k&hl=en|http://www.google.co....008959&t=k&hl=en]
She lived at the intersection of smaller streets in the center of the picture, but I can't pinpoint the exact building.
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Edited by Arkadiy
June 24, 2005, 02:01:45 PM EDT
Edited by Arkadiy
June 24, 2005, 02:02:49 PM EDT
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Post #212,581
6/25/05 5:23:09 PM
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Took a bit of doing; scrolled west from St Pete's...
...and stopped when the contours started to look familiar. As best I can, I've [link|http://www.google.com/maps?ll=60.165854,25.045481&spn=0.066948,0.079565&t=k&hl=en|centered this pic on where we live]. (No ICBMs, please.)
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Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #212,582
6/25/05 5:46:13 PM
6/25/05 6:06:13 PM
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Neat. I was born here.
I lived [link|http://www.google.com/maps?q=Grosse+Ile,+Michigan&ll=42.104158,-83.160753&spn=0.057077,0.066004&t=k&hl=en|here] shortly after I was born. The hospital was "Seaway Hospital" across the river. No memory of it, and the actual house may not exist any more. The airport used to be a [link|http://nasgi.org/|Naval Air Station] - CAUTION - cheesy music plays when that page loads.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #212,587
6/25/05 6:49:19 PM
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Heh - me, I was apparently...
...born in picture #22 of [link|http://www.festpark.de/tuebingen-show.pps|this slideshow of Tübingen]; it's the big red-brick building labelled "Frauenklinik" [="Womens' Clinic"]. :-)
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Post #212,588
6/25/05 6:54:34 PM
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Pretty town. Looks like a tourist trap. :-)
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Post #212,583
6/25/05 5:46:43 PM
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which lilly pad is yours? nice boat country, pretty
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Post #212,665
6/26/05 11:56:26 PM
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Satellite imagery okay for my part of Sydney.
[link|http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-34.084901,151.011769&spn=0.008057,0.008916&t=k&hl=en|http://maps.google.c....008916&t=k&hl=en]
That shows my local railway station, Heathcote, in the lower left corner, the local High School in the upper right corner, with my villa complex just below an o the left of the school. My villa is right in the middle of the complex.
Wade.
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Post #212,667
6/27/05 12:46:13 AM
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Thanks for the update. Missiles targeted, weapons free.
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Post #212,675
6/27/05 5:24:13 AM
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What's the big round thing on the right-a dancing pavillion?
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Post #212,677
6/27/05 8:22:12 AM
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Water storage tank?
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Post #212,789
6/28/05 12:46:28 AM
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Yep. Water tank.
It's on a hill, too.
Wade.
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Post #212,792
6/28/05 12:53:06 AM
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It's a beauty. :-)
My grad school adviser grew up in Australia and has a home in Sydney that he rents out. He liked to tell stories of clearing out the back yard before letting his young kids play. He'd take a couple of fence pickets and smash all the tarantulas he found, etc.
He made Tasmania sound like paradise. It's another place on my To Visit list, one of these days...
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #212,686
6/27/05 9:16:13 AM
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This is fascinating
I just followed the road from Wade's place to mine. I'm on [link|http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-33.972656,151.113886&spn=0.008229,0.010664&t=k&hl=en| this map]. Below the railyway line. No I'm not going to pinpoint the spot I'm living in to the whole wide world.
But my, this is fun.
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #212,771
6/27/05 9:43:42 PM
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Holy CIA-targetting-fun, Batman!
All. those. cars.
[Ackshully not all That many...]
driving on the wrong side of the road - and
How Nice - that in your territory, they don't let the developers cut down all the trees.. then wait 50 years for some shrubs to sorta expand.
Love the %greenery; even huge copses (er coppices?). Maybe no Hampsted Heath, but then..
But how's come I don't seem to see any Roundabouts @ +1 on the gain pot?
European plan? No street parking?
Cheers,
I.
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Post #212,790
6/28/05 12:49:53 AM
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We have plenty of roundabouts.
But I'm wondering if what you're calling "roundabouts" is what we call "roundabouts". Besides, most of ours are small.
Wade.
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Post #212,798
6/28/05 2:25:55 AM
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Like UKs.. various -Circuses. Or around the Arc de Triomphe
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Post #212,799
6/28/05 3:08:08 AM
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Sydney has none that size.
And few in the "middle" category. Here's one of the few I know of: [link|http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-33.925245,151.227386&spn=0.008057,0.008916&t=k&hl=en|http://maps.google.c....008916&t=k&hl=en]
Wade.
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Post #212,803
6/28/05 4:04:26 AM
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Looks like ~ 1/3 of an Arondissement alright, but__!-Statues
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