Master Villain on 14/3/2010 at 01:46
I went on a little tour of the places I used to live, it's quite fun. No middle of nowhere images in street view though. We probably have too much middle of nowhere.
Namdrol on 14/3/2010 at 08:44
I live in a retreat centre miles from anywhere, on an Island, up a mountain, hidden in a beautiful valley and they've got the entire road up to my place.
But my girlfriend in Edinburgh's been missed off.
TBE on 14/3/2010 at 09:09
Found a road I visited behind Dover Castle. Fields complete with sheep and huge radio antennas. I got out and walked in the field with the sheep to get some pics of Dover Castle. I probably could have been arrested, but it was cold and blustery. Saw no signs of anyone that day. I just checked out street view in The Netherlands too. It's cool to see how places have changed since last time I was there.
Tocky on 15/3/2010 at 04:45
Not so cool. I knew it. Deep down I knew. Upper Heyford AFB is RIP. It's now Heyford park. I couldn't stand my little yellow guy outside the old hospital barracks but I could park him outside the old pub in town. No longer a pub. That hurts but I knew that too. If you don't have the airmen you shut the doors and make it a private residence. The whole area is so sedate and family oriented and devoid of the character I knew. You can't go home again. I wish I hadn't looked. It brutally shot my memories in the forehead and left them in a pool of blood and piss.
On the plus side Google not only hasn't taken a street view down my little loop but the aerial view has the road going up a neighbors drive and across my back pasture so they couldn't find me using thier own map. Once again I defeat the forces of progress with... well, trees.
casalor on 15/3/2010 at 12:34
I used to work at(
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=raf+locking&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=1.1939,34.365234&ie=UTF8&hq=RAF+Locking&hnear=RAF+Locking&ll=51.334473,-2.906055&spn=0,359.861298&z=13&layer=c&cbll=51.334467,-2.906191&panoid=BP5XbWzhzxBOEFROmN-zRA&cbp=12,25.31,,0,1.62) RAF Locking years before it evidently became yet another brown field site for a mixed industrial/community hell hole. Who comes up with these ideas? The place and nearby Weston super Mare holds many happy experiences of work and play. Fault finding airfield radar can be fun, kids!
There should be more memories but too much subsidised Carlsberg and Newcastle Brown in the Naafi did it's dreadful work. :D
Neb on 16/3/2010 at 16:34
Five years ago I hiked from Hull to London. I think I'm going to spend hours retracing steps. :D
Tocky on 18/3/2010 at 04:09
I hiked from Oxford to Heyford one night after the buses shut down and I couldn't find a cab but I don't want to retrace those steps. I got in just in time for work that morning. Youth. Pak Fook (Lee Ho Fooks bro of werewolves of london fame) closed shop on Cowley. The restraunt/pub on Piccadilly is a Vivva. Can't find the Whitehall pub. A lot changes in 25 years. It all seems so much cleaner and more sterile with all the character washed out. I hope I'm wrong.
I've been checking out where friends live and old haunts. Quite addictive. Alaska, California, Texas, they go everywhere. What a great job to have. They even got Eric pulling out of the drive where I work. Been checking the new route I'll take on vacation too. Maybe one day Garmin and Tom Tom can do a run through like that. It annoys me they didn't finish that last little bit of the hook atop Estelle cemetery road, I mean hell, they went up a gravel road to the last 50 feet?
henke on 26/3/2010 at 20:18
Have you guys noticed that some YouTube videos have Transcribed Sound Closed Captioning now? Just noticed it on (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yiMZrAaWOw) this video. Click the CC button, and then "Transcribe Audio". Looked around a bit but didn't find any other videos that had it, maybe they're just testing it out on a few videos before going wide with it. It's far from perfect, and you end up with a lot of nonsense senteces of Engrish-like proportions, but still it's pretty awesome. :D
