OT---street view now in the south pacific

I found it (I think). I put your whole address in and there was a little square marker on the street near a house with a blue pool and what looked like leafless trees - just down from a house with shiney squares on the roof. I think I saw you just coming out of the door, so I waved!

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

jeanne-nzlstar* wrote:

So if the addy's on the map aren't correct -- near which addy will we find you?

Is yours the home (looks like maybe a split level) with brown siding and white trim on the windows? Looks like 4 leafless trees in the driveway -- so I'm only guessing!

Just looked at my home -- no street view -- but the address puts you dead on!

My brother told me about a colleague at work who actually turned up in street view. He was standing in front of his house watching some city workers fix a drain or some such thing. He was so busy concentrating on the work that he didn't notice the google camera rive by. But plug in his street address and there he is, plain as day, staring at a hole in the ground! LOL

Allison

Our address is wrong too, and the wrong address has migrated to the other maps as well (yahoo maps, mapquest). It was okay a couple of years ago but then our number got moved around the corner according to them. I do think I heard something about you being able to edit but not sure about that. I did contact them about the incorrect location and they told me the addresses are approximate and even have that statement somewhere on the site.

Judie

#12 i think. tho you know my addy is 46, the other side of the street is around mid 30's i think. i dont really look at their numbers but i know its not gonna be 12 or anywhere near that. our house is on the east side of the north/south running street, if that helps at all. silly people who did the pix. j.

"Kate G." wrote... So if the addy's on the map aren't correct -- near which addy will we find you?

yup. sounds the right one, well done you. its aluminium windows. hmmmm, maybe its not the right one. not too sure. tis vertical timber siding. we've lots of green trees on the other side of the driveway at the footpath side of the lawn away from the house, if that clarifys it. j.

"Kate G." wrote... Is yours the home (looks like maybe a split level) with brown siding and white trim on the windows? Looks like 4 leafless trees in the driveway -- so I'm only guessing!

not sure which house has shiney squares on the roof. uphill neighbour has a dark green corragated iron roof. downhill is a red tile roof. ours is black tiles. i didnt zoom in slow enough to see the pool. tho we are the only ones backing onto the park on this street with a pool, i'm pretty sure. j.

"Sally Swindells" wrote... I found it (I think). I put your whole address in and there was a little square marker on the street near a house with a blue pool and what looked like leafless trees - just down from a house with shiney squares on the roof. I think I saw you just coming out of the door, so I waved!

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

jeanne-nzlstar* wrote:

rofl, nearly as good as watching grass grow. snorfle, j.

"Allison" wrote My brother told me about a colleague at work who actually turned up in street view. He was standing in front of his house watching some city workers fix a drain or some such thing. He was so busy concentrating on the work that he didn't notice the google camera rive by. But plug in his street address and there he is, plain as day, staring at a hole in the ground! LOL

Allison

yea it does say it is the approximate addy but they're too far off for a short street that one side is over half the park so no houses til ya get past the park. thats my side and the numbers run from #38 or #40 up to about #60. so #12 is waaaaaay off for sure. oh well. j.

"Judie in Penfield NY" wrote... Our address is wrong too, and the wrong address has migrated to the other maps as well (yahoo maps, mapquest). It was okay a couple of years ago but then our number got moved around the corner according to them. I do think I heard something about you being able to edit but not sure about that. I did contact them about the incorrect location and they told me the addresses are approximate and even have that statement somewhere on the site.

Judie

Had another look - the shiney shapes are in a garden. Your house seemed almost at the corner of the field. Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

jeanne-nzlstar* wrote:

other than the 4 leafless trees -- what else can we look for to figure out which home you are hiding inside of??

Describe your home... pleeze!

Thanks!

I just spent a few minutes looking at houses I knew from when I was there and in Australia. Three very little changed, one totally demolished and unrecognizably built over, the house in Hamilton I lived in as a kid not very different but most of the neighbours' places gone tacky beyond belief, and an ex-girlfriend's place in an Auckland estate now looking like something they rejected as too seedy for "Once were Warriors".

Edinburgh still isn't on Street View - they took the photos a few months ago.

Those wide-angle shots are really not at all flattering to most neighbourhoods. If you're walking around you don't notice how much of your visual field is taken up with tarmac.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

Hamilton where Jack?

Dee in Oz

"Jack Campin - bogus address"

ok, i finally got the right view from the satellite. those shiney things are on two different houses. i'm assuming they both have white or shiney clean corregated iron roofs, common here. i'm guessing that the time of day the pix was taken the sun was shining off just those sections of the roof. the sections that are facing the angle of the sun at the time. my house is up the street with the pool backing on to the park/rugby field. tis the only one with a pool. our house has a black roof between two houses with red roofs. that should clear it up for ya. looking straight out the back of my yard is a row of oak trees in winter so they are bare. the rugby field is obvious and there is park with grass and a wandering footpath between my back fence and the square field with shrubs etc. :) i couldnt zoom in any closer to be positive that the 4 shiney things are what i said but i cant think of any other thing they could be. solar panels would be black so wouldnt shine like that. i'll go out now and wave back atcha!!! :)) j.

"Sally Swindells" wrote... Had another look - the shiney shapes are in a garden. Your house seemed almost at the corner of the field. Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

jeanne-nzlstar* wrote:

Kate, tis the two storey brown (cedar, i think, vertical siding) house. there is a van in the driveway, tho ya might not be able to decipher that. the house next door(down the hill if you can tell has the view right up their driveway) has a low brown fence with white top and posts. we're on the right of them as you face them. you can just see the light green garage door facing the driveway not the street at ground level. the room above the garage is our bedroom. tis easy to see the house on that street view. j.

"Kate G." wrote... other than the 4 leafless trees -- what else can we look for to figure out which home you are hiding inside of?? Describe your home... pleeze!

i think Jack means in Hamilton, south of Auckland. j.

"Dee in Oz" wrote... Hamilton where Jack?

Dee in Oz

"Jack Campin - bogus address"

If you meant "where in Hamilton", it was 9 Grey Street (on the corner with Cobham Drive). The section has been split so there's a house in what was the bottom of the garden, and they must have changed the planning rules - my father had a small wedge-shaped shed at the front to keep far enough back from the boundary line, now there's a big boxy one that comes right up to the fence. There are a lot less trees in the neighbourhood than I remember and it all looks more car-infested.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts