# Show your Doperhood! (With Google Maps) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201 "2005-12-05T17:27:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/41 "2005-12-05T20:13:41Z")
Here is the [small town of Paw Paw, MI](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Paw+Paw,+MI++49079&ll=42.220954,-85.882616&spn=0.032245,0.080235&t=k&hl=en) where I live. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/42 "2005-12-05T20:23:43Z")
This is the [neighborhood we live in](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.044050,-82.600579&spn=0.004093,0.006931&t=k&hl=en). This is [where I work](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=27.876364,-82.742887&spn=0.004099,0.006931&t=k&hl=en). And this is a place nearby, [where I used to spend my afternoons](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=27.876364,-82.742887&spn=0.004099,0.006931&t=k&hl=en) when I was in high school. ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/43 "2005-12-05T20:29:59Z")
DrLoveGun and I are [here,](http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=10&Z=10&X=2831&Y=20733&W=1&qs=3524+farm+hill+blvd%7credwood+city%7c&Addr=3524+Farm+Hill+Blvd%2c+Redwood+City%2c+CA+94061&ALon=-122.2496218&ALat=37.4647078) in the glorious hills of Redwood City, CA. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/44 "2005-12-05T20:34:42Z")
Right in the centre of [here](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.386455,-75.633273&spn=0.001861,0.004179&t=k&hl=en), although the brown roof is gray as of last month. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/45 "2005-12-05T20:56:07Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > Right in the centre of [here](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.386455,-75.633273&spn=0.001861,0.004179&t=k&hl=en), although the brown roof is gray as of last month. And [here](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.425270,-75.715853&spn=0.003426,0.006870&t=k&hl=en) is where I am posting from (eh, it’s a slow day). ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/46 "2005-12-05T21:21:13Z")
[here is my town, if this works](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=homewood,+IL+60430&t=k&hl=en) The big white splotch is not in my town, but a few towns over-it’s Thornton quarry, purportedly the largest limestone quarry in the world (I have no idea if that is true). ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/47 "2005-12-05T21:47:57Z")
This is my street/boardwalk/hood. I live in front of the [ocean.](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=ocean+blvd,+san+diego,+ca&t=k&hl=en) The best part is watching the dolphins. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Batman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/48 "2005-12-05T21:53:06Z")
[I live here.](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tijuana,+Mexico&ll=32.502306,-117.020906&spn=0.004066,0.010274&t=k&hl=en) But I usually spend most of the day [here.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.718112,-117.152270&spn=0.004056,0.006951&t=k&hl=en) (it’s where I usually post from) ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/49 "2005-12-05T22:00:43Z")
[This is where I grew up.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-34.024788,18.461591&spn=0.007366,0.016084&t=k&hl=en) [And this is where I live now.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.903654,-84.368230&spn=0.007377,0.016084&t=k&hl=en) ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/50 "2005-12-05T22:01:28Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > [here is my town, if this works](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=homewood,+IL+60430&t=k&hl=en) > The big white splotch is not in my town, but a few towns over-it’s Thornton quarry, purportedly the largest limestone quarry in the world (I have no idea if that is true). You’re there? Until last year, I worked right off Halsted in Glenwood. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/51 "2005-12-05T22:07:30Z")
[Here’s my street](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Jane+Street%3B+Englewood,+New+Jersey&ll=40.906994,-73.977985&spn=0.004406,0.014636&t=k&hl=en). The area I live in is basically a maze. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/52 "2005-12-05T22:08:13Z")
Gack! Where on Halsted? I don’t live near the quarry, per se–just wanted to highlight a landmark. Rasied in Flossmoor, live in Homewood since I’ve been married. Didn’t you once say that you were in South Holland or some such? Anyway, Hi neighbor! ---
**Author:** ![Dusty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dusty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/53 "2005-12-05T23:18:29Z")
[A very pretty picture, but from awfully far away.](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=farmington,+maine&spn=0.096964,0.328114&t=k&hl=en) You see the black line that snakes through the landscape? That’s the Sandy River. Now, in the middle of the map, the river shifts a little to the west and there’s a flood plain. See it? Okay, start in the bottom corner of that and move east and a little north into that grayish blob. Not the red part–that’s downtown–the grayer section. See a yellow spot? Neither do I, but one must be there if you look hard enough. That’s my in-town apartment, second floor of a 19th century dump of a cape. Pictures from a bit closer (but not aerial–can’t have everything): [This is across the street.](http://people.maine.com/publius/almanac/encycweb/images/farmin11.jpg) Behind that tree on the right, see the washed-out yellow building? That’s it. [I can’t find a new photo, this one is from 1912, but apart from the trees being bigger and the school’s trim painted white, nothing’s different.](http://pix.epodunk.com/ME/me_col_univ01.jpg) The stone building with the green copper roof behind the school is the library. Do you see the building just through the trees to the left of the library? That’s it. My house is in the woods and totally invisible at Google’s scale, so no use showing a picture of it. Follow the river eastward until there’s nothing, then take the brook that goes north until there’s more nothing. There it is, can’t miss it. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/54 "2005-12-05T23:32:50Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Gack! Where on Halsted? > > I don’t live near the quarry, per se–just wanted to highlight a landmark. > > Rasied in Flossmoor, live in Homewood since I’ve been married. > Didn’t you once say that you were in South Holland or some such? > > Anyway, Hi neighbor! There’s a school bus company on Glenwood/Chicago Hts right next to the nursery there. I ran that place for three years before I came where I am now. Flossmoor huh? We did some work in there while I was there for the school district. That retaurant still there in the train station? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/55 "2005-12-05T23:39:45Z")
[I’m a little ways from the market](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Jane+Street%3B+Englewood,+New+Jersey&ll=40.906994,-73.977985&spn=0.004406,0.014636&t=k&hl=en). _waves_ ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/56 "2005-12-06T03:44:14Z")
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=77042&ll=29.739992,-95.552838&spn=0.007151,0.020344&t=k&hl=en On the west side of Houston, Texas. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/57 "2005-12-06T05:49:17Z")
I would, but on Google Maps, my neighbourhood is covered by a cloud. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/58 "2005-12-06T09:34:10Z")
Here’s me in [North Hollywood, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.160922,-118.371398&spn=0.003728,0.006951&t=h&hl=en). The resolution on these satilites is amazing, not only was I able to pick out my apartment, I think I can make out my car parked on the street. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/59 "2005-12-06T09:42:41Z")
I don’t know how mine turned into New Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201/60 "2005-12-06T09:54:50Z")
[Here’s my current humble abode](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=colchester+ct,+burlington,+vt&spn=0.041069,0.103065&t=k&hl=en) in Burlington, VT. Lots of green, Lake Champlain, yeah, it’s good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-your-doperhood-with-google-maps/334201.md?page=4)