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Step 1: Go to maps.google.com
2: Zoom out all the way.
3: Turn on satellite view and remove labels, so you have just the geography
4: Zoom in until you find your house.
It's a surprisingly fun exercise :)
--
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:27:23 -0700, Chambers wrote:
> Step 1: Go to maps.google.com
> 2: Zoom out all the way.
> 3: Turn on satellite view and remove labels, so you have just the
> geography 4: Zoom in until you find your house.
>
> It's a surprisingly fun exercise :)
About 15 seconds for me - though honestly, with the big stinky lake (aka
"The Great Salt Lake" and the local giant park (aka Liberty Park), those
two landmarks make it pretty easy to find stuff. :-)
Just for grins, I also did the house I grew up in, that took about the
same amount of time, but I was surprised that I knew that geography still
pretty well.
Jim
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On 4/26/2009 3:38 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Just for grins, I also did the house I grew up in, that took about the
> same amount of time, but I was surprised that I knew that geography still
> pretty well.
I tried the house I grew up in, but there's a lot of sprawl in that area
(rows and rows of identical streets, nothing really distinguishing
them). Once a found a landmark I recognized, I was able to follow the
streets to my old house.
--
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:46:07 -0700, Chambers wrote:
> On 4/26/2009 3:38 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Just for grins, I also did the house I grew up in, that took about the
>> same amount of time, but I was surprised that I knew that geography
>> still pretty well.
>
> I tried the house I grew up in, but there's a lot of sprawl in that area
> (rows and rows of identical streets, nothing really distinguishing
> them). Once a found a landmark I recognized, I was able to follow the
> streets to my old house.
Yeah, that's more or less the trick. I tried it with a location I'm less
familiar with - the town my wife grew up in - and I ended up one state to
the west.
Jim
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> About 15 seconds for me - though honestly, with the big stinky lake (aka
> "The Great Salt Lake" and the local giant park (aka Liberty Park), those
> two landmarks make it pretty easy to find stuff. :-)
Ditto here, just looked along the Alps in roughly the right place until I
saw the lake that I live near, then it was easy.
For the house I grew up in it's also very easy, I know exactly where the
town is in relation to a small island, and the house is right on the outside
edge of that town.
I wouldn't attempt to find my father's house though, he lives in the middle
of a massive built up area where every street looks the same, without the
map overlay there is no way I could find it without a lot of time zoomed
right in.
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Chambers wrote:
> Step 1: Go to maps.google.com
> 2: Zoom out all the way.
> 3: Turn on satellite view and remove labels, so you have just the geography
> 4: Zoom in until you find your house.
>
> It's a surprisingly fun exercise :)
>
Took me something like 3-4 minutes to find the exact placement of my
home without the labels.
-Aero
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Chambers wrote:
> Step 1: Go to maps.google.com
> 2: Zoom out all the way.
> 3: Turn on satellite view and remove labels, so you have just the geography
> 4: Zoom in until you find your house.
>
> It's a surprisingly fun exercise :)
Oh, I've already done this. Several times. I can now get from the view
of the whole Earth to the view of my car [the one I no longer have, BTW]
without any labels at all. Which is impressive, when you consider I'm
120 miles inland with no notable geographic features nearby.
(I must say though, at low magnification Google just shows off the
different colourings of its map chunks rather than the features of the
Earth!)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:49f6189d$1@news.povray.org...
> Oh, I've already done this. Several times. I can now get from the view of
> the whole Earth to the view of my car [the one I no longer have, BTW]
I thought you loved that car?
~Steve~
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> Oh, I've already done this. Several times. I can now get from the view of
>> the whole Earth to the view of my car [the one I no longer have, BTW]
>
> I thought you loved that car?
I thought I loved the girl I had *in* the car, thus causing me to not
pay sufficient attention to where I was going... o_O
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Bah. 3.5 minutes, 'cuz I spent most of it looking one town south of where I
am.
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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