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http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl....01133&z=17

 

Click to Zoom Out, then click the N arrow to go up the street, then look at the kid on the bike again. Click the arrow again, then look at the kid again! :D

 

Also, the look on the guy across the street in front of the peach house is priceless! :lol:

 

:) How did you find this?

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:lol: How did you find this?

 

 

Go to googlesightseeing.com. I have the page bookmarked.

 

They have found that the Stratosphere Tower doesn't exist, but its shadow does!

 

 

I have personally seen a few planes in flight around San Jose, CA in google maps.

 

The zooms are a series of different pictures some times. I use Google maps for work to see where I have to go on a job. For a job I did last week. the closest picture showed the property as vacant land, zoomed out to the next level and it is under construction. Zoom out a little more, and it is finished. It was built in 2005-2006.

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Go to googlesightseeing.com. I have the page bookmarked.

 

They have found that the Stratosphere Tower doesn't exist, but its shadow does!

 

 

I have personally seen a few planes in flight around San Jose, CA in google maps.

 

The zooms are a series of different pictures some times. I use Google maps for work to see where I have to go on a job. For a job I did last week. the closest picture showed the property as vacant land, zoomed out to the next level and it is under construction. Zoom out a little more, and it is finished. It was built in 2005-2006.

 

Thanks for the sight, I'll check it out.

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I must be the only idiot that can't get this to work. When I drag the guy to a street he just pops back to where he started. What am I doing wrong?

Not all streets are "mapped" or photographed. I think you can only drag him to certain streets. If you click on the "Street View" button, the streets that you can mover around on are outlined in blue.

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I must be the only idiot that can't get this to work. When I drag the guy to a street he just pops back to where he started. What am I doing wrong?

 

It took me a few tries too. Just re-read the directions carefully and mess with it until it works. It's best if you go full screen.

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Google hired people to take the street view pictures. I have seen a car once. It has panoramic cameras in all 4 directions mounted on the roof. The guy drives around and the pictures are downloaded to a computer in his car. He just was lucky to be passing by at that time. I have seen pictures on the highway where a bus was next to the car and it was just a blur, or if the picture was taken late in the day, the sun washed out that part of the panorama.

They came down the road through the complex where I live and I must have been home that day as I saw my car in its parking space! I know the picture was taken last summer as the hills nearby were all dried out as it is here in the sumer.

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BTW, if you go up the street three more times and then turn around again looking back down the street you'll see an ambulance on scene. :thumbsup:

 

I think that's the postal truck...unless I'm not doing the same thing you are. That would be one hell of a fast ambulance.

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