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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 19:03:12 GMT
We really need to trim back the front bushes! There really is a front door and house behind them!
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Post by moletteuk on Jan 29, 2017 20:42:48 GMT
OMG there are miles and miles of suburbia! The lawn patterns look so weird when you zoom out. We are so crammed in in this country, I would love to see the open spaces of america or canada or australia, and I live in one of the least populated parts of Britain.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 21:03:08 GMT
Try this www.google.com/maps/place/358+Limestone+Rd,+Ridgefield,+CT+06877/@41.3305228,-73.4946643,461m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2aaebb984e425:0x5456fdd0d48b5d4c!8m2!3d41.3301569!4d-73.493294 That's my house. to the left are the woods with the trails, I have to walk north (up) just around the curves to get to the trails. If you zoom out, my town is to the south southwest of my house. Keep zooming out, New York City is southwest. Boston is Northeast. Keep zooming out, pick another part of the country and zoom in. All I can find is 63, 59 and 55 limestone road lol!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 21:09:09 GMT
I don't think it's numbered very well on street view as I've just checked my parents house and the number that comes up on the floor is wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 21:10:29 GMT
My parents pug walking grounds lol! Looks so big on google earth, doesn't feel so big when you walk it.
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 23:07:45 GMT
Try this www.google.com/maps/place/358+Limestone+Rd,+Ridgefield,+CT+06877/@41.3305228,-73.4946643,461m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2aaebb984e425:0x5456fdd0d48b5d4c!8m2!3d41.3301569!4d-73.493294 That's my house. to the left are the woods with the trails, I have to walk north (up) just around the curves to get to the trails. If you zoom out, my town is to the south southwest of my house. Keep zooming out, New York City is southwest. Boston is Northeast. Keep zooming out, pick another part of the country and zoom in. All I can find is 63, 59 and 55 limestone road lol! You're looking on the wrong side of the road. I'm opposite 363. The numbers don't quite match up on my section between opposite sides of the road.
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 23:10:21 GMT
tried something else, didn't work
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Post by mattandhis3degus on Jan 30, 2017 1:23:02 GMT
It's interesting seeing the area you live in. This is where I grew up: www.google.co.uk/maps/place/27+Stag+Leys,+Ashtead+KT21+2TF/@51.2997767,-0.3062281,718m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4875e10ca10849fb:0x608539c7930ab644!8m2!3d51.2997734!4d-0.3040341?hl=en
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Post by winic1 on Jan 30, 2017 2:32:09 GMT
Because of the forests, they take the pictures during the winter, so you can see through the trees, so it doesn't look very leafy-green, however if you go back in time to older scans/photos, taken during summer, you can't see half the houses or roads. But if you go down to street view, those were taken in the summer and you can see how in the woods we are.
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Post by bouncy on Jan 30, 2017 10:58:25 GMT
GPS is only accurate to something like 100m2,so it doesn't surprise me it's showing fields etc. I'm not so much a Google earth person, but I do love sussing out places before I go, zooming in to see the door number etc. winic1 I've worked for numerous businesses with north American locations. The bit we always had to remember to work out was the timing of changes between summer and winter. You guys never seem to have a fixed weekend like we do, so sometimes the standard timezone differences were plus/minus an hour for a couple of weeks.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2017 12:33:25 GMT
Wow!
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Post by deguconvert on Jan 30, 2017 17:11:46 GMT
Which one is your home, Winic?
Oh, your bushes comment might have clued me in. Is it the sort of tan home with the brick red trim? (Allowing for the colours on my computer screen to be different)
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Post by winic1 on Jan 30, 2017 18:52:45 GMT
No, it's reddish-brown with green trim. Bushes are right up against the house, in the middle, where the door actually is. Trees out at roadside. Remains of a 5 and an 8 tacked to the tree. On either side of the driveway, about 10 feet before and after, are yellow street signs, one says Stop Sign Ahead, one shows a sideways T intersection. Green garbage pail on street next to driveway, although several have that as it was garbage pickup day, which means this photo was taken on a Wednesday morning, you have to roll your pails out for the truck to empty. Opposite side of street has a 5 foot high white picket fence set back from the road a bit.
When I click the link, it takes me to the map with my house marked directly. If I click on the picture on the left side below the address, it moves the main map directly to the street view of my house, and then I can move down the road or zoom in or out from there. Is it not doing that for you all?
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Post by moletteuk on Jan 30, 2017 20:16:24 GMT
I can't nail down any of the descriptions And you know it's becoming more and more important in my mind that I get it right, you never know when I might be passing by! When I click on the address, it does go to street view, I see the Christian something center ahead on my right, a house on the left with garage, maroon below, cream boards higher up, next ahead on left is the farmer's market.
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Post by winic1 on Jan 30, 2017 20:37:53 GMT
None of that is even my neighborhood, or my town, I don't think!
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Post by moletteuk on Jan 30, 2017 20:48:13 GMT
Oh man, I have it now, I kept the street name and number, and typed ridgefield after and now I see it - it looks beautiful...way nicer than the other place!!! Oh, I see what has happened now, only the 358 limestone rd has hyperlinked properly, we were looking at the first address that googlemaps shows us with that street, which is Oxford, PA - go on have a look, you'll laugh! I'm so pleased we got there in the end, because the real picture is pretty close to what I have been imagining for you all these years
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2017 21:59:19 GMT
I still can't figure out what to do 😂 we are all so hell bent on seeing your house Winic! Quite funny really.
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Post by moletteuk on Jan 31, 2017 13:59:17 GMT
Follow the link and then type in ridgefield after the street name in the search box, top left.
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Post by deguconvert on Jan 31, 2017 16:59:37 GMT
YES!! FOUND IT!! LOL! SO much better than the other, and there really ARE trees!! LOL! Thank you Moletteuk for discovering this. I was just ready to think that maybe I just have a different measure of what a lot of trees looks like. Hee hee!!
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Post by bouncy on Jan 31, 2017 17:32:49 GMT
Trees are those purple spikey things that look like spiders
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