I’ve been having fun with this new feature. Our house comes up very quickly, and I’ve looked up a lot of friends’ places . More useful to me is to type in the address of somewhere I’m going where I’ve never been before. You can move around and approach from different angles, and print out a map of the area if you wish. Really useful. The other side of the coin is that it can be perceived as an invasion of privacy, but I don’t look at it like that.

they have had it in America now for a while. It is nothing that can’t be seen if you drive by anyway. It’s just that it is on the net now!

handy if you want to look up an area you need to visit and are not familiar with. I get lost easily as I can never remember left and right lol.

Doesn’t look like Darwin has made it there yet.
What amazing technology!
I don’t even know how the phone works!!!!

Happy Potter said:

handy if you want to look up an area you need to visit and are not familiar with. I get lost easily as I can never remember left and right lol.

helps you identify landmarks etc. I get confused at some major intersections when the reality lools nothing like the map!

I’m trying hard not to open Google Earth today. Spent waaaaaaaaaay too long playing with Street View yesterday :)

I can’t believe how good the rural coverage is!!

I agree with you guys, it’s fantastic for planning a trip somewhere you haven’t been before. Particularly when you get directions like “turn right at the big shed”.

I think it would be really goo if your visiting a fellow gardener for the first time and what to know wha the front of their house looks like.

YAY it hasnt been near my house been up the road and down must have missed my place, my House must be to good for it.

Lucky1 said:

I think it would be really good if your visiting a fellow gardener for the first time and what to know what the front of their house looks like.

I panicked and checked my address – not in street view yet! Phew! Wipes brow. Still got time to weed the garden! lol!

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

I think it would be really good if your visiting a fellow gardener for the first time and what to know what the front of their house looks like.

I panicked and checked my address – not in street view yet! Phew! Wipes brow. Still got time to weed the garden! lol!

ROFL – maybe they have driven by already but not put it online yet :D

It’s weird looking at the Perth photos – it’s obviously the middle of summer, all the verges are dead and the sky is so bright and blue.. sorry Lucky but it really makes me crave summer!! (as long as I get my retic in by then :D)

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

I think it would be really good if your visiting a fellow gardener for the first time and what to know what the front of their house looks like.

I panicked and checked my address – not in street view yet! Phew! Wipes brow. Still got time to weed the garden! lol!

BG doesnt really matter for me last time i done my address it goes to the wrong house.

Mine is there, I have been playinall morning LOLg

YaY my old address works.

Our place, Tuesday ,morning, bin day in the summer mon ths

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=4&om=1&layer=c

Oh okay it didn’t show the actual photo f our house. Elf not happy….. thinks its in invasion …..

Lucky1 said:

Our place, Tuesday ,morning, bin day in the summer mon ths

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=4&om=1&layer=c

Link doesn’t work.

bon008 said:

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

I think it would be really good if your visiting a fellow gardener for the first time and what to know what the front of their house looks like.

I panicked and checked my address – not in street view yet! Phew! Wipes brow. Still got time to weed the garden! lol!

ROFL – maybe they have driven by already but not put it online yet :D

It’s weird looking at the Perth photos – it’s obviously the middle of summer, all the verges are dead and the sky is so bright and blue.. sorry Lucky but it really makes me crave summer!! (as long as I get my retic in by then :D)

I’m wearing shorts checking the letter box for goodness sake.!!!!!

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

Our place, Tuesday ,morning, bin day in the summer mon ths

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=4&om=1&layer=c

Link doesn’t work.

Thats okay…… just a house with a brown lawn in the summer time.

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

Our place, Tuesday ,morning, bin day in the summer mon ths

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=4&om=1&layer=c

Link doesn’t work.

Thats okay…… just a house with a brown lawn in the summer time.

I read in the paper this morning that if anyone objects to their place being on the system they can contact Google and have it removed. No sweat.

Darwin isn’t included yet but I’ve had a look at the house I grew up in in Sydney, my old primary and high schools ….
What a time waster this could be!

bluegreen said:

they have had it in America now for a while. It is nothing that can’t be seen if you drive by anyway. It’s just that it is on the net now!

That’s how I feel too. Nobody can find you unless they have your addy, and then they could drive past anyway.

my aerial is still indistinct so fringe city areas haven’t changed. altho’ there is an alarming photo of the front of my house – 3years old.