To ask if you ever go for a little wander on Google Maps?

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And if you do, where do you go?

I like looking around London where I used to live and finding lovely streets to admire.

Also, love looking around various parts of America. I found this the other week

www.google.com/maps/@34.0433622,-118.2458055,3a,75y,218.23h,77.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEmKbr4InS-8TZfsg4duAxQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Skid Row!

I wandered about there for a while and it's so awful...looks like some really poor country.

Skid row is in lots Angeles it’s very dodgy there.

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But yes I like to do that too, it’s interesting and kind of cool you can have a cheeky spy on various places.

The link is broken

I quite often go and visit my late grandmother and "drive" up to her front door. (It's now been changed but I can see what it used to look like when she lived there by looking at the old version). God that sounds really sad, doesn't it?

I've been known to wander around places I used to live for a bit of nostalgia.

I also use it if I have to go somewhere new and walk from a train station or something. I 'walk' my route on Google maps first so I know where I'm going and sometimes I'll see somewhere that looks nice to get something to eat too

I love google maps and google earth! I visit places I used to live, and places I'd like to visit.
Theres an online game where they drop you somewhere on earth and you have to drive around and guess where you are.
geoguessr.com/

Only to continually complain to them that they have listed an old cart track (no public right of way for vehicles) on our farm as a road, so anyone using google maps to get from the motorway junction to village A or town B and beyond gets directed over the cart track as in theory it cuts about 15 minutes off the journey (but only if you are in an all terrain vehicle and adept at sheep dodging)

Thankfully most people only get so far before turning round as it is blatantly obvious it's not passable in an ordinary car, but some complete numpties try and carry on and inevitably wreck their cars.

OP can you redo the link?

I love just wandering around, looking at gardens, allotments, rural roads, anywhere really.

I think this is the link to Skid Row: www.google.co.uk/maps/@34.0422923,-118.2438829,3a,75y,142.14h,70.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0-cB4e_GSuZJd5w92fz6VQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I find it very useful for plotting walks - checking there really is access to footpaths off roads.

Try Google Maps in 3D. It will blow your mind!

I got very over-invested in playing this a while back: geoguessr.com

Google Maps doesn't seem to like linking. It works, until you post it. You can find the area discussed if you just search 'Skid Row, Los Angeles' and take a wander on Streetview.

I love it, and often just wander on there... all over the place really.

The aerial views are amazing for getting the scale of things - try getting to the sort of level where you can see individual buildings, a bit like on the approach to an airport, then "fly' across the Sahara, or the river deltas of Pakistan. I remember once "flying" for what seemed like hours across Tibet, then suddenly coming across a little group of tents in the middle of nowhere.

It beats mumsnet for timewasting!

I go all over, including to touristy places I will probably never go to, and nostalgia journeys, like my home town and places I’ve lived.
I virtually visit destinations that I might have difficulty finding, like my son's new house, or inner city places.
And I have a look at the environs of all those properties I fantasise about buying.

Google Maps lets you view the other planets in our solar system now too.

I often wander around Rio de Janeiro it’s fascinating

Yes, I'm obsessed with Google Maps! I love looking around cities I've been to in the past and seeing if I can still retrace routes I used to know, but quite often if I hear of a new place or address I'll see where it is too.

Ds discovered you can actually tour Kennedy Space Centre on google maps. There must be lots of other places you can visit on it too

Yes I do...and this has reminded me to re-look as the Google car was filming when I was going to get DS from school last summer. I may of dawdled

It's only just gone up on Google maps

I'm reading a fascinating book on North Korea and have had a good luck around some of the places mentioned, fascinating and a bit weird

I'm busy reading a series of books set in NY and a bit further north. The author has kept the places in the books as real places. It's a zombie apocalypse type book and when the character runs to the corner of 4th and 61st (or where ever) I like to look on maps so I can visualize it. Also they move to a farm further north, and I had a lot of fun (yes I'm sad and probably spent way too much time on it) trying to work out where it was by following them.
(It's Until The End Of The World series by Sarah Lyons Fleming)

Ah love using Google Earth and taking a look at places like Pyramids, Machu Pichu, etc

Yikes it's amazing to think that skid row is in one of the richest countries in the world 😕