How good is Google street view
James_taylor1
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In theory you could travel across the world from the comfort from your house and never travel again as could go to places you cant afford or go to places across and see stuff you only imagine you could
also you can go around every corner in this country and see stuff without leaving your house
do you agree or not
also you can go around every corner in this country and see stuff without leaving your house
do you agree or not
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However, there's something wrong with the pictures of I-90 just to the east of the Massachusetts/New York state line. There's no snow! While the Berkshires look very nice they're not dreamlike, and there's no frosting. Perhaps the pictures weren't taken on the first of December. Hmmmm, must go to Carolina in my electronic mind, along a Country Road through Fire and Rain and Sunny Skies of course... (sorry, couldn't resist it)
Street View is one of those things that sounds cool, and is, but that after a few times you actually don't use it much, or at all.
Oh god, I'd hate to come round your house. I can imagine you manically chuckling to yourself at the fact that you can see pictures of stuff online.
Do you also think navigating a virtual woman is the same as a real one, or do you think maybe something is lost in translation?
And yes, whilst I agree some of it is dated, they can't really be expected to update it everytime someone buys a new car or changes their curtains :rolleyes:
I decided it would be fun to view virtually EVERY Starbucks branch in the USA(I am doing it State by State alphabetically- up to New York State now!!). Anyway, Starbucks decided to close down around 6-700 under-performing branches around the country a few short years ago(2009/2010 I beleive) and its weird viewing some addresses where there used to be branches and theres vacant lots or other businesses in their place in the up-to-date shots!!
I either go to -
http://www.allstays.com/c/starbucks-locations.htm
Or
http://starbuckslocations.net/United-States/
For the addresses!!!
Its immense fun!!:D:D:D
Australia - New South Wales
Lawrence Hargrave Drive (south of Sydney, mostly very near the coast)
Australia - Northern Territory And South Australia
Stuart Highway (from Port Augusta, South Australia to Darwin, Northern Territory, best sampled very selectively)
Canada - Alberta
Icefields Parkway (Highway 93 between Lake Louise and Jasper, through the Canadian Rockies)
France
Le Bourg-d'Oisans to Alpe d'Huez (the famous Tour de France climb)
Italy - Sicily
The Autostrada from Messina To Palermo (bridges, viaducts and tunnels, but barely a straightforward section)
Japan - Hokkaido
Ororon Line (yes, it is a road, running along the west coast of the island, mostly very close to the coast, from Ishikari north to Rumoi)
Mexico
Tijuana and the scenic coast road (Mexico 1D)
Netherlands
Afsluitdijk (A7, E22) (the enclosing dike which separates the Waddenzee from IJsselmeer, which enabled the creation of the polders including Flevoland)
Norway
Andalsnes To Geiranger and the Lom Valley (Road 63)
South Africa
Rustenburg (one of the World Cup 2010 venues, although the Royal Bafokeng Stadium is actually in the nearby town of Phokeng)
USA - Arizona
Interstate 15 From Littlefield to the Utah state line (through the Virgin River Gorge)
USA - California
Merced to Yosemite National Park (California State Highway 140)
USA - Montana
Glacier National Park - The Going-To-The-Sun Road Over Logan Pass
USA - New York State
New York City (one possibility: start at Central Park, then head east over the 59th Street Bridge into Queens and eventually escape into rural Long Island)
USA - North Carolina And Virginia
Blue Ridge Parkway (469 miles from the southern entrance of the Shenandoah National Park near Waynesboro, Virginia to the entrance of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina)
USA - Utah
Colorado Riverway (Colorado State Highway 128 northeast from Moab, running alongside the Colorado River with views of the red sandstone cliffs towering above you on both sides)
USA - Virginia
US340 between Waynesboro and Front Royal (through the Shenandoah Valley, beautiful farming country)
USA - Wyoming
Jackson and the Grand Teton National Park
My street was updated in June 2012.
I like looking at places I used to live as well.
Great.
How good is it to hear the sounds, smell the smells, taste the local food, feel the heat and humidity, bask in the sunlight, meet new people, talk to the locals, experience the nightlife, bathe under a waterfall on a moonlit evening and so on?
No so great.
They don't do some entire countries. They've declined to visit Austria because of the country's privacy laws. Which has considerably increased my admiration for Austria.