Google Street View is active in Newmarket

Google Street Vie is a massive undertaking where camera equipped cars like the one I captured last summer in Newmarket travel all the roads taking continuous pictures of the neighbourhoods. Once they are compiled and loaded these pictures give you the ability to take a virtual tour around the various cities and towns imputed.

To use Street view go to google maps and either zoom in or do a search for an adress, when you get zoomed in far enough you drag the little yellow/orange man on the zoom bar and place it on the street you wish to view and you will zoom into the street level view of the area where you can rotate, look up and down as well as move along the street like you were driving. You can also get in by zooming until you get a framed picture of the location and if you click street view in that box this you to the street level pictures.

Street View is a great tool/toy for checking out a city before travel, giving directions to friends, scouting around when house shopping or just being nosey. In some areas within hours of going live people found images of a thief scaling a house, someone taking a leek in the bushes, a few rude gestures and numerous people immortalized while they took out the garbage in their panama’s , fortunately faces are blurred out.

Go ahead and check out our town, if you find anything funny let us know.

Me I just like to gawk at houses I like but can’t afford.



It would appear I can’t maintain the blistering pace of posts that I started this blog with due to a either a wrist injury or just plain carpel tunnel. I will attempt to keep at least something fresh up weekly.