barryd
Free Member
I had a look at Google Maps and the Street View this morning and at last my village is on. If your not familier with this go to http://maps.google.co.uk/
From there in the search box put your village or town name or a place of interest, even a post code. You should then get a satellite image of the area which you can zoom in on. Now here is the interesting bit, once you have zoomed in on a road or place of interest you can click and drag the little yellow man on the Zoom control bar on the left and drop him in the road and now you get close up imagary of the street and houses. You can even move up and down the street.
I managed to find my house with the motorhome parked outside and could zoom up close enough to read the number plate or look into my house windows.
Now. What do you think? Really useful or a burglers dream?
I can see it being fantastic for checking out areas in the UK to camp such as CL's or wild camping spots but I cant help feeling a little exposed by it.
From there in the search box put your village or town name or a place of interest, even a post code. You should then get a satellite image of the area which you can zoom in on. Now here is the interesting bit, once you have zoomed in on a road or place of interest you can click and drag the little yellow man on the Zoom control bar on the left and drop him in the road and now you get close up imagary of the street and houses. You can even move up and down the street.
I managed to find my house with the motorhome parked outside and could zoom up close enough to read the number plate or look into my house windows.
Now. What do you think? Really useful or a burglers dream?
I can see it being fantastic for checking out areas in the UK to camp such as CL's or wild camping spots but I cant help feeling a little exposed by it.