[mike777]

http://maps.google.c...aps/streetview/

Type in a street address and view.

[GeeGee]

How to get to Paris from New York.

Use Google maps, get directions, enter from location New York, to Location Paris, and then see instruction 21.


Geoff

[Gerben42]

Strange it was instruction 17 for me. I don't know I'm up for it though...

[bid_em_up]

Gerben42, on Jun 6 2007, 02:16 AM, said:

Strange it was instruction 17 for me. I don't know I'm up for it though...

You were going from Paris to New York.

[Gerben42]

I see - it made more sense that way since I now only have to change trains once to get to Paris. New York would be more complicated.

[barmar]

Now check "Avoid highways", and I think the step across the Atlantic is the easy part. It adds about 6 hours to your month-long trip.

[mike777]

you all miss the main point sigh, why am i surprised.


you see into your house yes..I mean your house..

[Gerben42]

That's pretty cool. You think big brother is watching you? At least nondirectional and not live, eh?

[bid_em_up]

mike777, on Jun 7 2007, 12:43 AM, said:

you all miss the main point sigh, why am i surprised.


you see into your house yes..I mean your house..

Mike,

Street view would only do that if your house currently is in New York, Miami, Denver, Las Vegas, and the San Francisco Bay Area (and maybe a few others that aren't listed).

In your original post, you said "type in a street address". Even assuming that I put my street address in....does not mean I would see into my house, unless I happened to live in one of those cities or used an address in one of those cities.

Since I don't happen to know any street addresses in any of those cities, I don't see very much. Yes, I could zoom in on a location in say S/F or NYC, but for the most part, it is random junk.

[Echognome]

The Street View is really cool if you live in one of the cities where they spent the time taking panaromic shots. In the paper here, they said that they spent a year doing the filming. Apparently there's a large market for getting people to come to your site because you have the best maps.

[barmar]

It would be nice if Google Earth could use these images, too. It seems like it would fit in with it better, since it already allows you to angle down to a street view, but the images tend to be very poor.