Google maps

[joe-90]

Have you used it lately? They've got photographs at road level of almost all major cities in the world (not London yet). In Australia even little tin-pot towns are covered.

Here's a test. Put this address into google and it will bring up a map.

Hugh Street Ashfield NSW

Click on the street level link.
I used to live on that street.

At that very spot (use the gadget to look around),

I fell off my motorbike doing a U turn.
My lad fell and broke his tooth on his pencil.
Another day he fell over and broke his arm.
I met ex Man U manager Tommy Docherty walking up that very road.

It's lots of fun. I can go to any place I've ever visited in Oz now.

 

[kevplumb]

try 118 hibiscus drive TN

 

[gremlin16]

Lovely area joe, just love the art deco graffiti on norton road

 

[joe-90]

try 118 hibiscus drive TN

Come outside and wave.

 

[joe-90]

Lovely area joe, just love the art deco graffiti on norton road

That's a posh area of sydney. You need deep pockets to live there.

 

[gremlin16]

If thats posh I'd hate to see the lower class areas

 

[joe-90]

try 118 hibiscus drive TN

That's an interesting area. I love that little house opposite the supermarket on main street. Pale green I think with a really tall veranda.

 

[kevplumb]

its a motel joe


the drug store is just up the road i pass it when i go get my beer

 

[joe-90]

It's just so different from the towns we live in here. How do you like it?

 

[gremlin16]

joe

How much if any of UK has street views?

 

[joe-90]

Can't find any.

 

[joe-90]

I also lived here in a bedsit when I was 17. Rough area.

43 George Street Redfern NSW.

And an even rougher one on the edge of the red light district when I was 18.
It was like the Wild West in those days. Murders and shootings galore.

121 Victoria St, Potts Point, NSW, Australia

 

[kevplumb]

It's just so different from the towns we live in here. How do you like it?

love it

its a git having to clean the pool in the summer tho

and the sheriff only lives down the road

 

[mickyg]

joe

How much if any of UK has street views?

google have been out photographing streets around the whole of UK in preparation for a full launch of streetview on Uk streets. There were concerns raised about how useful google will now be to burglars

 

[crystal ball]

Have you used it lately? They've got photographs at road level of almost all major cities in the world (not London yet). In Australia even little tin-pot towns are covered.

Here's a test. Put this address into google and it will bring up a map.

Hugh Street Ashfield NSW

Click on the street level link.
I used to live on that street.

At that very spot (use the gadget to look around),

I fell off my motorbike doing a U turn.
My lad fell and broke his tooth on his pencil.
Another day he fell over and broke his arm.
I met ex Man U manager Tommy Docherty walking up that very road.

It's lots of fun. I can go to any place I've ever visited in Oz now.

I used to live in the flats at 2 Hutchinson St Auburn NSW not too far from Ashfield, just had a look and has not changed, used to work on the pipelines from the refinery at Rosehill to Botany, they passed through Ashfield AFAIR, went to nightschool in Redfern definitely a rough area, the teacher used to ask us to leave in pairs after class