Dtwclipper From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1368 times:
Dumb question. Does Bing Maps know where I live or is it just a coincidence? What happens when you open the page and just zoom in without putting in a location?
N867DA From United States of America, joined May 2008, 974 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1357 times:
I suppose they're tracking your IP and getting geographical area from that. In my case, Bing zooms into Atlanta, not the suburb where I live. They're off by about 20-25 miles.
Cadet57 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 9081 posts, RR: 34 Reply 4, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1286 times:
Oxford Ma. 50 miles off haha.
Doors open, right hand side, next stop is Springfield.
Kingairta From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 445 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1282 times:
Get's to about six miles from my house.
I'll have to try it from the work computer on monday seeing how that's on a govt. server.
Yellowstone From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 3071 posts, RR: 7 Reply 6, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1277 times:
Mine gets to within 600 or 700 yards of my present location.
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Cadet57 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 9081 posts, RR: 34 Reply 10, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1203 times:
Quoting Lnglive1011yyz (Reply 9): It appears to be MUCH more updated than googlemaps does for the aerial view.
It isnt here. The Birds Eye is atleast 5 years out of date. Our city's new library that opened in '04 is still under construction, At our house we still have our old cars, a dodge dealership that moved around '05 is still in its current location. And a restaurant that was demolished to make way for an autozone is still standing
Doors open, right hand side, next stop is Springfield.
Ihadapheo From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 6026 posts, RR: 59 Reply 11, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1201 times:
Sadly it appears that I am nearly in the middle of the Niagara river (Canadian side), that result is about 5-6 miles from my house. Of course you would have to add about 150 feet to the left on the river to get to the Canadian side
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Ha763 From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 3492 posts, RR: 6 Reply 13, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1166 times:
Doesn't come anywhere close to where I am. Using the zoom button on the map to zoom in without a location puts me somewhere in the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico. It's at least 1000 miles off from where I live in Hawaii.
Oldman55 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1517 posts, RR: 39 Reply 14, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1134 times:
I was zoomed into downtown Harrisburg PA; about 4-5 mlles from my house Not too bad I guess as Harrisburg is not a major metro.
too bad most of us get too soon old and too late smart
NZ107 From New Zealand, joined Jul 2005, 5672 posts, RR: 40 Reply 15, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1132 times:
I zoomed into somewhere in Victoria, Australia - about 4000km off my present location!
EDIT: Bing Maps is stupid as it doesn't have a revolving map. There's a cutoff line around about the International Date Line which means it can't center itself on New Zealand. I find that very unhelpful.
N867DA From United States of America, joined May 2008, 974 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1100 times:
Quoting Lnglive1011yyz (Reply 9): It appears to be MUCH more updated than googlemaps does for the aerial view.
It's a really interesting view, but there's a minivan in my driveway. I haven't seen it in at least two years...
2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 22, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1014 times:
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Quoting Blackbird (Reply 7): I just hope they don't do what Google did, driving around everywhere and taking pictures of everybody's houses.
It's not like this "problem" doesn't exist elsewhere, or is going away. Even without Google's Street View, it will become easier and easier to find photos of various business and even residential addresses on the web.
Last month, I had to be at a certain location in downtown Chicago. I wanted to see what it looked like, but the photo on Google Street View was off pretty low quality. So I searched for the place on Flickr, and voila....excellent, high-quality shots for me to enjoy. And Flickr isn't the only large photo site out there.
Thus, banning Google from producing Street View content is a complete waste of time. It pictures views available to the general public, so it's safe to assume that sometime in the next decade or two, most populated areas will have been photographed and made available to view online in some other way, shape, or form.
USAIRWAYS321 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1806 posts, RR: 10 Reply 23, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 22 hours ago) and read 938 times:
Zooms in to downtown Boise for me. About 20 miles away - not bad.
Tb727 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1372 posts, RR: 4 Reply 24, posted (3 years 10 months 1 week 22 hours ago) and read 934 times:
Quoting Cadet57 (Reply 10):
It isnt here. The Birds Eye is atleast 5 years out of date. Our city's new library that opened in '04 is still under construction, At our house we still have our old cars, a dodge dealership that moved around '05 is still in its current location. And a restaurant that was demolished to make way for an autozone is still standing
Yeah I was just looking at that. It's pretty old, that's too bad. I looked at DOV just to see and there are a couple C-141's on the ramp and the nice little museum they have there isn't there yet. I guess it's kinda cool to see what things looked like back a few years and compare it to now on the other web maps out there. My house in Michigan doesn't really show up either even though it's 35 years old. Oh well.
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25 RFields5421: Bing maps is the old maps.live.com If you have any cookies on your computer from using that map viewer - then Bing will read them and zoom in. Yes, it
26 Smcmac32msn: Scrolled in and found myself at Washington Park Zoo in Milwaukee, WI. 10.5 miles as the car drives to my place in St. Francis, WI
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