Re: Do you Googlemap?

ggg wrote:
On Nov 24, 8:25 pm, Carol Harkness <c...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fran Read wrote:
Is there a fee for using googlemap?
Joan
It's free. Just go to Google and select Maps. Then you type the exact
street address into the bar and when that comes up, then choose the "Street
View" button. If you try with your own address first, it should give you a
photo of the front of your house and you can "drive" up and down the street
just by using the mouse. It's really good fun!
They've done USA and Australia but last time I looked, not Canada yet.
Fran
Nothing in my town (in Wyoming) is there; they don't even have a good
map. Not my mother's house in Wisconsin, either.

The house where we used to live in the Chicago suburbs sort of comes up;
there's a street scene, but it shows the middle of the street, not the
house and yard. Not very useful. And our friends' house about five
miles away doesn't even drop down to a regional map; it stays with the
US map if I come in from the Google page. Strangely, I can find the
satellite view of their house if I move from our old house to theirs via
the directional arrows on the map.

Not terribly useful for places I visit. Strange.

Carol Harkness

Pardon the intrusion, but using the Google white pages I looked up
Carol Harkness in Wyoming. There was a listing for C. Harkness in
something called Teton Village with a PO box. OK. Next I clicked on
Googlemaps, typed in Teton Village, Wy. Hit search. And there it was
in the western part of the state near the Idaho border: a very
inconvenient looking place if someone wanted to just drop in for a
coffee. Then I hit the satellite and zoomed in. There's some kind of
activity going on there because I found some large areas with filled
parking lots. Streets are clearly marked and I could fiknd your house
if you were C. Harkness mentioned and you had an address instead of a
PO Box. Didn't cost a thing except 5 minutes of my down time.
Barry

Barry (and everyone else),

I followed Fran's directions to get my result. Since I was interested to pursue this further, I tried google white pages but obviously, I went there in a different form than you did, since I typed in my name and got the correct street address right off. I don't have the google software on my computer any more; things got unstable and I removed it, making things stable again. Not willing to go through the stability issue again, I went to the "People Search" bar from the google whitepages page, which leads to WhitePages.com. I typed in my name and got the correct address listing right away -- street address. It also showed an accurate line drawing map of the area. However, there's not an obvious link from there to goggle maps. Is WhitePages.com actually part of google? It doesn't really look like it.

Following Fran's directions for google maps, however, google finds Teton Village just fine. It has a very rough line drawing of streets, which are vaguely accurate but with street names unmarked. However, it has no idea of my street address. Because the house is only five years old and some mapping systems have trouble finding it, I tried a previous street address, one that's been there for 30+ years, and no different result.

Using information elsewhere in this thread, I tried again, and added the zip code to the address. This gave me the option to look at a nearby town but with my zip code (?!), so I clicked on that option and it gave me a map with blue streets. I tried clicking on my street, which was unlabeled. This indeed took me to street view of the proper street, and after a bunch of fooling around with navigation, I successfully found the house. However, this was only possible because I knew where it was. Without that knowledge, I wouldn't have found the street, or indeed much of anything else in the area.

So, no trouble finding Teton Village or my proper street address; just negligible information below that level if you don't already know where you're going. By the way, this is the site of Jackson Hole Ski Area, so it's a major winter travel destination and a major place to stay in summer if you're visiting Yellowstone or Grand Teton NP. It's not the center of the universe by any means, but it is a frequently visited destination for travelers. And it's fun to use it to test travel software, because most of it fails in one way or another.

This was a good exercise for me. I think I'll have more success with google maps going forward, but it has a lot of holes.

Carol
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