Google Earth is a way cool application!! Not only can you look at places, as if from the air, a birds-eye view so to speak... many places now have street views. You can grab the little yellow person along the side of the map/aerial view, and drag it onto a street that turns blue and voila... all of a sudden you are standing in a street in Paris or Zurich or London or... anywhere else in the world! Well, at least anywhere major in the world! My hometown now has street view.. but only along the main highway that runs through town... Still, I can stand there and take a look around and see that it was taken last summer when the river was very high... so probably June! I have been using the street view feature to visit the cities that my grandparents visited on their belated honeymoon in 1936 or thereabouts... Places like Zurich and Lucerne. It's actually very cool to be able to stand in a street in Zurich and do a 360 and see the street and the river and the fountain... and imagine my grandparents there as well... To see the things that they have in their photographs. It's a very handy feature... as long as the places you are interested in have been photographed. The technology is fascinating, and consists of a van or a car or even a bicycle/tricycle that is equipped with multi-directional cameras and a GPS device... Pretty cool...
Just go to google.ca - type in the name of the place you're looking for, and when results come up, click on maps along the top... and then the map link when it shows up... If the little person is yellow... you have streets you can swoop down on...
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