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.

I used to share an office with someone who went on google map 'trips': he would sit at his desk, alter the temperature in our office to something appropriate, put on some 'local' music, buy some 'local' food and go on his trip
Amazing!
I so want to do that!

We found dh on Streetview. He was showing me the route to his new job, and there was his car going around the roundabout! Then he showed me how close his office was to the town centre, and there he was, walking down the road to buy a sandwich! So weird

Street view is very helpful for solving mystery geocaches where you have to get info for the coordinates.

Slightly naughty but useful if it's peeing down and you have 'reluctant' children.

I went up a road in town the other day, as DD told me she had been seen on it there. She was indeed there, as was a friends DS, just down the road from DD and it looked like the boy he was with was being quite aggressive towards him.

I also had a look at my Aunties house, she lives some distance away, I have never visited her, I do have her address though, so had a look. I have done the same with a friend too. Nice to see where people live.

ChickenPaws that is amazing!

It it frasier you can go to the summit of Everest too

Again, open in YouTube for the proper view.

Being a nosey git, I sometimes go on Rightmove and Google Street view and check up on old houses I used to know. My aunt's old house was on once but has changed loads. It's flats now.

I have a mooch on streetview when nosying at properties on Rightmove.

I do this all the time. Current favourite is Howard, Wisconsin. No one has back yard fences, it’s just all open. I love to explore random places.

Also spend a lot of time in my home town and at places I went to on holiday as a child.

I do, especially when I'm reading a book I'm really enjoying. I love to see where the characters 'live'. My 7yo son loves it too.

All the time!! I've found my people.
I love going on trips all over.
In fact,I take it even further. You know the real time plane tracking website, Flight24? I'll pick a random one, say London to Chicago.
Then when it lands,I "get off the plane" too and go for a walk around the area like I've really gone on holiday with it.
Or say if your chosen plane goes over some random interesting town in a country you've never been to. then I check out that too.
Also like wandering random American towns,or Australian outback type ones.
Loving the colleague of a poster who puts on the music and has a little trip.
He sounds just as unique nerdy as me lol,we'd get on famously

ChickenPaws Wow he charges the camera and everything.

Just imagine what it will be like in the future with drone technology etc.

I took my son to The Shard and they have a 360 virtual reality experience that slides through the city's skyline. I didn't have a go (big queue) but the people trying it were screaming in fright!

It’s great isn’t it? I love technology

I go all over the world on Flightradar24. It's amazing how much you can see.

I go all over the world on Flightradar24. It's amazing how much you can see.

Long story short, polish guy was homeless, broke in and lived in it for a few years before he split the house into rooms and rented them out to five different people. It cost £8000 in fees to get them out. He said he would go quietly if we gave him £10000 pounds. He even had the neighbours phone the PI to say we were selfish for putting him out. Did get him out eventually and sold the house. After my sister left the country initially she had cancer and then lately Sepsis so was never fit enough to do anything about it. It was in Livingstone.

deste Glad you got him out but that's a lot of money for something that was a crime against your sister. That's awful.

I'm looking forward to visiting some of the places suggested on this thread!

Before we emigrated to Oz, I'd never even visited before. But I'd Google Streetviewed the hell out of the area we moved to! When we got off the plane we dumped our bags in the rental and were able to walk straight to the beach, my husband was very impressed by my uncanny navigational skills!

I buy loads of second hand books and when I buy say an old annual for DD, I like it if it's from yonks ago...and the original owner wrote their name and address in it.

Then I look it up on Streetview and imagine "Mary Tomlinson, aged 9 at 34 Whatever Road, Blackburn 1956"

Love it for some reason.

You should all play the online game: “Geoguesser”. It provides you with a random place on google maps and you have to wander round and try and figure out where in the world you are

15y did and her friends play Geoguesser. It was one of their teachers at school who got them all into it.

geoguessr.com/

Am I missing something i looked around skid row. I saw bins unvandalised. Open shops, clean streets, it was busy and productive looking. There are far worse areas out there!

Yes, i spent a whole evening recently street viewing around a district of China, wandered through a big park with beautiful bonsai trees and a river (wide enough walkways that they drove the car in obvs) and then half way up a mountain as far as the car park

Has anyone 'done' the moon? Or Mars? You can see some funny old stuff if you zoom right in and go slow. Some bits definitely look blurred out on purpose .......