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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    10/14/09

    In reply to Take A Virtual Video Drive Down Any City Street
    Is there anyone left who just gets in their car, picks a place they are going to and just goes?

    Sure, a map is in the glove box but unless absolutely needed I don't pull it out.

    Sure, sometimes I'll do a quick glance on the PC before heading out to get some bearings.

    I learned the surrounding area I live in that way. I can remember being Sixteen and had a full tank of gas. Someone told me there was a great Bar 25 miles away that served underage for carry out. I didn't have a map. Maps cost money and the Twenty I had was for the Beer. I scribbled down some half ass directions and off me and the guys went after school on a Friday.

    I think it was two hours later we found the place out in the middle of nowhere. Then it took forever to get home. (Cold Beer you know) and life was good.

    What happened to our sense of adventure? Or is this it? Hoping the technology we trust so much actually works correctly. Or that the roads haven't been upgraded or changed since the last 2.09 download.

    And all that said I know what I'll end up getting for Christmas this year, a Garmin, not that I want it, the wife wants it. She so hates when I tell her, "Let's just head that way and see what we see."
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    10/14/09

    @lilwillie hides autos in the attic: "Wherever you go, there you are!" My brother and I did a 3-month jaunt once all over the US and Mexico like that.
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    Image of I was drivin' that Model A I was drivin' that Model A
    10/14/09

    @lilwillie hides autos in the attic:

    This is how my wife and I have traveled the NA continent over the past four years. Pick a turnaround point, usually only because of convenience, head there, or not, and eventually return to the starting point.

    It's a neat way to see the world, honestly. We have all the travels mapped on a PC in MS Streets & Trips by using GPS and an antenna, but that was just so we could see where we'd been.

    Referencing a paper map would have been quite useful in avoiding the dirt National Forest Service road, at night, in Idaho. We travel in a 40' diesel motorhome, and at the time were pulling a '99 Suzuki Grand Vitara, so 'bout 58', total.
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    Image of quayzar quayzar
    10/17/09

    @lilwillie: I did until I got lost where no one should ever get lost. You lose that sense of adventure real quick when you fear for your life and for that matter your car. #googlestreetview
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    Image of TimTim TimTim
    10/14/09

    In reply to Take A Virtual Video Drive Down Any City Street
    The time issue can be solved easily for long trips using a technique I already implement with Google Maps.

    My wife uses Google Maps in a way that would make a 300 mile drive into a 4 hour virtual drive video. She punches in the destination, punches in the starting point, and prints out turn by turn directions from our driveway to the destination... on the other end of the state. Printing a map is secondary to those turn by turn directions.

    This works fine until you take a wrong turn, or ignore the directions 'til you get close at such time as you've forgotten which turn you're on. You end up hopelessly lost on some logging road, roaring through someone's hunting camp at the intersection of nowhere and Timbuktu because you didn't have the information you really needed.

    Here's what I do: If my journey is 5 miles of driving from my house to the freeway, 300 miles of freeways, and 5 miles from the freeway to my destination I don't need 310 miles of turn by turn directions, I need 6 to 8 miles of map surrounding my destination. Google Maps has a great feature after you've looked up your destination. You can pan around 'til you find a freeway or familiar landmark, right click and select "directions from here". It gives you the 5 miles you weren't familiar with and skips the 305 you could drive with your eyes closed (figure of speech... don't drive with your eyes closed).

    A virtual drive would be less help to me than a plain ol' road map. But then, I'm an engineer and Eagle Scout... spacial awareness and navigation aren't really a problem for me.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    10/14/09

    In reply to Take A Virtual Video Drive Down Any City Street
    I've been known to use Google streetview to take a virtual trip through my old neigborhood. It can be rather entertaining, but not much use when planning a trip.

    I use MapQuest almost exclusively when planning a trip to anywhere I haven't been. The text directions can be sometimes turn you in the wrong direction, so comparing it to the map is a good idea.

    This seems like the logical next step in the evolution of online mapping, but I'm not sure that it adds enough functionality to justify its existence. Not that an amalgamation of Streetview and MapQuest is a bad thing, just unneccesary.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    10/14/09

    @smalleyxb122: Map... quest... ?
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    Image of Pete Gaines Pete Gaines
    10/14/09

    @smalleyxb122: Bing Maps' birds-eye view puts Google Maps Street View to shame. Give it a try.
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    Image of Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss  Deartháir II Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II
    10/14/09

    @Pete Gaines: I have to agree. Living in the land that defined the Michigan Left, Bing makes it easy to find a turn around on Woodward that won't be clogged.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    10/14/09

    @Pete Gaines: Bird's eye is very cool indeed, but there's currently far less coverage than Street View, which just substantially expanded its own coverage. Rural areas are pretty much left out of bird's eye so far. Looks like Google is also starting to reshoot streets that earlier had fuzzy low-resolution pictures. The recent high-res photography is spectacular. I can see Google offering animated street views before long.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    10/13/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    Mobile Meth-Lab! There was a meth-lab in a white work van that exploded about three blocks from where a friend of mine lived in high-school (thats how I came to hear about it).

    Seriously though, with those hoses coming out of it, I'm guessing it had a running air compressor or something in it that had some mechanical and/or electrical issue that started the blaze, the fact that no one seems to have noticed yet is the most puzzling aspect to me...
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/08/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    Spontaneous human combustion?

    Wow, I get here late today and it's just one damn enigmatic photo after another!
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    10/08/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    I vote crack pipe.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    10/08/09

    @Tanshanomi: G'night, folks!
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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    10/08/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    I know what happened.

    Garfield Peart, owner of M&M Garage Door Services, was inside the garage of a home near Pearson International Airport about four months ago when he heard the voice of a child coming from the other side of the door he was installing.

    "Suddenly, a kid runs up," Peart said, "and he said, ‘Sir, your van is on fire!’ There was a window above the garage door; I went up top, and I look out, and yes, there it is, on fire — actually the van of the owner of the house — beside my truck. So I had to rush outside while the fire was gushing from the side of the van to move my truck. And as soon as I moved my truck, the van blew up."

    Nobody was hurt in the explosion, so Peart laughed loudly when he was told why he was being asked about this peculiar chain of events so long after it unfolded: a Google Street View camera car, we now know, drove by the Robinglade Drive house minutes before the explosion, photographing the flames before Peart was made aware of them — and then, apparently, proceeding on its merry way.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/08/09

    @Triborough: I hope Garfield's brother Neil tried to drum up popular support to buy this guy a new van.
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    10/08/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    Floor mat zip tie failure.
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    Image of FormerlyPreferredCustomer FormerlyPreferredCustomer
    10/08/09

    @tempesjo: Well played.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/08/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    I also say that "Canadian Van Fire" would be great as either a band name or album title.
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    Image of Shamoononon:  I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    10/08/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire

    I had this really great gimpshop idea, but I couldn't find a horned owl with it's talons out that could be fixed to hold bail bonds matches. I give up.
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    Pessimippopotamus promoted this comment Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of weatherman weatherman
    10/08/09

    @Shamoononon: I appreciate the effort anyway. Made me chuckle.
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    Edited by weatherman at 10/08/09 9:07 AM weatherman was starred weatherman was unstarred
    Image of ss750ie ss750ie
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire

    Could have used this
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    Image of Ryanrule Ryanrule
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    hotboxing.
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    Image of ss750ie ss750ie
    10/07/09

    @Ryanrule: That could almost be a bumper sticker:
    If this van's hotboxin',
    Don't bother knockin'!

    How about:
    If this van's a burnin',
    The owner's not returnin'!
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    Bonfire of the Van-ities?
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    Some brilliant & witty coments below, but I think you guys have it all wrong... this is a shot of the new Ferrari "Vanzo" in its natural environment.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Street View Catches Confusing Canadian Van Fire
    The homeowner said that the painters park like this every day.

    /too much?
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