I frickin LOVE Google "Street View"

[A HERETIC I AM]

31. Here's how I use it most often

To see the area of a location referenced in something I'm reading.

Let's say someone in the Lounge talks about a restaurant in ....oh.....Seattle, and you want to see what the neighborhood looks like from the street. If they give you the name, google the place, and find the street address.

Then I just go to a regular google search bar and type it in. Whenever you do that, you ALWAYS get a small square of Google Maps with the location pinpointed. Click on the map, let it open on your screen and when it loads, a small square on the bottom left will appear that changes the view from a map to satellite.

Click on that square and when that loads, at the bottom right you will see a little yellow man figure. This is the street view icon. Zoom (or use your scroll wheel on your mouse) in close to the pinpointed address (which should still be there) and move your mouse over to the yellow man, click and hold on him and move him toward the center of the map. Every road that the Google camera car has driven on will appear as a blue line. Hover your mouse (which now has the yellow dude sort of dangling under it) over the spot on the street you want to see and let go of the mouse button.

The view will change to what the camera car saw when it last drove though.

You can also just go to a Google search bar, type in "Maps" and you will get the link to their site. From there you can move all over the world.

This is the link to that I have on my Firefox Bookmarks toolbar, right at the top of my screen;

https://www.google.com/maps