Pre trip tool

[Curt Sprenger]

Google Maps works great. Try Virtual Earth.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Gregory OConnor <"Gregoryoc@aol.com"> wrote:

I may be the last to see this but that does not diminish my 'amazement

at the value' and 'fear of the intrusion' of the tool



I went to google maps to look at an arial view of a realeastae listing

of interest. To my surprise a small pic of the home taken from the

street showed up. I clicked the thumbnail pic and was given the tools

to walk down the street turn corners and rotate the camera 360deg. I

entered my home address and too was able to see and walk the streets .

I clicked "STREETS" ( their is a glitch where you must close Googlemaps

and reopen it for another search??)



The tool is so manuverable that I was able to walk pass a tree that was

blocking the view of a truck on the side of my house , spinn the camera

and identify that the truck belonged to a contractor who worked in my

house 4 months ago.



I used the tool to ;measure access for a project by scaling a fence

comparitive to a standard garage door ;check for the ability to turn my

rig in a residential area; and qualify my interest in makeing a sales

call to an address. I can see that it might help qualify or add

credability to a ebay purchase trip or help presight a RV Park. I can

also see that it could be used to harm.



This is way cool, may save someone a trip , fuel and money



GregoryO'Connor



94ptRomoland

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Curt Sprenger
1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
Anaheim Hills, CA