Virtual Turnpike...Find where you used to live!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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On a macro scale, I lead a very stationary life. In my 4+ decades on earth I have lived in only 4 houses, all within a 10 mile radius. The first one I still drive by at least 6 days per week. It’s now been converted to a commercial property but the shell of the house is still intact. The second my parents still occupy, I see it several times each month. The third (purchased when I got maried) is about 10 miles away, I see it several times each year. The fourth we still occupy, I see it every day!

In my case it really is a small, small Google earth - at least from the street view.

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The images even say ©Google at the bottom. My old house doesn’t show and for my current house the picture is 5 years old. Meh.

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My parents must have anti-Google. No street view for either of the houses I grew up in. They still live in the second house, though, so I see it quite frequently. And I’ve seen the other house within the past five years, so, sooner than the picture this site has of my current residence.

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I don’t get it. I just looked at the house where I grew up, and it’s just Google Street View. What value does Virtual Turnpike add here?

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I don’t know!!!

:frowning:

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Hey, I’m surprised no one mentioned that this is nothing but Google Street View!

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It makes me sad that the awesome Japanese weeping cherry trees are now gone from the first home I remember. There was one in front and one in back. In spring, they looked just like the linked photo. Of course, the crabapple trees that lined the road got wiped out by Japanese beetles while I still lived there. but they were awesome too. The whole neighborhood was pink and white for one month each year.

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They don’t have street view available for my crappy little house growing up. Tragic.

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I really, really don’t get the point of the site. If the OP didn’t have such a high post count I would think it was drive by spamming.

I checked several random addresses, big and small cities, and it was just a small Google Street View window in each case.

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My dad sent it to me in an email with all our old addresses and I was so keen on seeing where I used to live as a child and I immediately put it up here without really scrutinizing it. Sorry.

:frowning:

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A site with more fun street views is MapCrunch. Besides letting you go to random street views around the world, there are even pictures taken indoors. My son and I sometimes play the “airport game” where you have MapCrunch take you to a random street view and you try to find the nearest airport. It’s almost like kidnappers dropped you off in a strange country and you have to find your way home. You can make it more difficult on yourself by choosing “stealth”. It then removes the location tag and you have to use visual clues to figure out what country you are in and hopefully find an airport.