Google Maps: (Street View)
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From: n.w. corner of mo
Originally Posted by wild-mtn-rose
Well my house will probably never be on there, I live too far out in the sticks and it's private property to boot. The can't just come up my driveway and start snapping pictures of my house and you can't see my house from the road. Doesn't hurt my feelings, it's a bit creepy thinking someone out there is randomly taking pictures of your house without telling you what they're up to!
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From: PHL
Originally Posted by Bighersh
Yeah, Google Earth is pretty neat. I used it to find my old Kaserne (Hindenberg Kaserne) in Wurzburg, Germany.
I'm still under 100 posts, so I can't PM you, but I'd sure like to hear about your time in Wurzburg. It was one of the coolest places around! My wife still rags at me because every time I tell a story about those days, it always starts with, "Well...first we got a case of beer..." (That's REAL beer, gents, not this fizzy water we drink in the States). During the summer, we would fly recon each Wed and Thurs, to scout out the surrounding villages for who was putting up a beer tent...that's where we'd be Fri and Sat
Anyhow...sorry for the hijack. BOT...I saw the image of that airfield on Google Earth...pretty cool!
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From: Bossier City LA
Originally Posted by ian51279
Google Earth is pretty neat also.
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From: Texas
i saw the google car driving around Lewisville, Tx a few months ago too. I thought hey this is a weird car to have a camera on the roof. and noticed it said "google" later on i heard about the street view and connected the dots...
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From: North of Dallas, South of Frisco
Originally Posted by cletusjermal
My mom was saying that she heard they where going to start doing a live feed to google earth or one that is only a few hours old. Has anyone else heard this?
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Originally Posted by DonsFX4
BigHersh..I was stationed at Emery Barracks in Wurzburg from '75-'78. I was a Sgt in the Aviation Section, worked on top of the hill with 2 UH-1's and 2 OH-58's. Pulled A LOT of guard duty there, too.
I'm still under 100 posts, so I can't PM you, but I'd sure like to hear about your time in Wurzburg. It was one of the coolest places around! My wife still rags at me because every time I tell a story about those days, it always starts with, "Well...first we got a case of beer..." (That's REAL beer, gents, not this fizzy water we drink in the States). During the summer, we would fly recon each Wed and Thurs, to scout out the surrounding villages for who was putting up a beer tent...that's where we'd be Fri and Sat
Anyhow...sorry for the hijack. BOT...I saw the image of that airfield on Google Earth...pretty cool!
I'm still under 100 posts, so I can't PM you, but I'd sure like to hear about your time in Wurzburg. It was one of the coolest places around! My wife still rags at me because every time I tell a story about those days, it always starts with, "Well...first we got a case of beer..." (That's REAL beer, gents, not this fizzy water we drink in the States). During the summer, we would fly recon each Wed and Thurs, to scout out the surrounding villages for who was putting up a beer tent...that's where we'd be Fri and Sat
Anyhow...sorry for the hijack. BOT...I saw the image of that airfield on Google Earth...pretty cool!
We used to run to Emery Barracks from Hindenberg every Friday. Then we started running past Zell bridge (That led to Emery) on down to some other bridge. Friday was the long run day 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 miles- whatever the CO felt like... To Emery and back for us, was like 3.5 - 4 mile round trip. Freedom bridge and back was closer to 2 miles, which we did Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday.
We had some good times in Wurzburg. That's two years of my life I wish I could live over, with my current mindset.
Even better if I had a car... A fast car. I tell you, if I were to live in any country aside from the USA, it would be Germany.Yeah, US beer is fizzy, nasty water compared to even the entry-level beer in Germamny (1898's).
Two years there, and I didn't take a full rol of pics... Kept putting it off, thinking I had time. Next thing I knew, I was trying to get a ride to Frankfurt International! I did spend quality time in the field though. REFORGER, two Hohenfelds rotations, and more Warfighter ramp-ups and exercises than I can remember.
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From: North of Dallas, South of Frisco
Originally Posted by thenewbreed
where the hell in the street view button?
Go to: http://www.google.com/maps
As soon as you see the lower 48, you'll see along the top right edge, "Street View", traffic, Map, etc..
Or, you can go to the "Search the map" tab, type in your address (or the address of someone you know) and see their house from a street view.
They didn't cover every square inch of D/FW but they have a great deal of it.
If they covered the DFW like that, they probably got a big chunk of Houston too, since the DFW Metro. area is actually larger than the Houston Metro area.
*** Now that I looked for myself, they didn't do as good a job on Houston as they did DFW. Looks like they focused on downtown, and the 610 loop, and some of the major streets/highways (10 (a piece of it),6, 290, 59, 45 (a piece of it)
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From: Somewhere near the back of beyond
Originally Posted by buckin150
that's the best way to have it..
I love it!! So peaceful and quiet. You can't even get a clear picture of my house on Google earth or maps satellite view, you can't zoom in enough. I guess my area just isn't in high demand!
