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Archive => Archived Boards => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Deniseam on March 12, 2010, 05:13:36 PM
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Don't know if this has been mentioned on another post but Marple is now on Google Street view. Having great fun trying to spot people I might know.
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They must have taken the pictures very early in the morning as the picture of my house shows all the curtains closed!
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Thanks Deniseam, - I've just had a look and it's brilliant. Surprisingly, it doesn't just cover built-up areas - you can follow it along some very quiet lanes, around Mill Brow and Mellor Cross.
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As my sister said to me in an e-mail telling me about this - make sure you don't have anything cooking on the stove before you start playing with it, or you will have a burnt offering!! I agree it must have been early in the day - wasn't the Co-op car park quiet? :D
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hehe I ve just found my car in Brabyns park... now to find me and my dog :)
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Thanks for that, there goes another hour of my life! ::) Great fun though ;D
You can tell the pictures were taken last year as there isn't half as many pot holes in the road!
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I was passed by the Google streetcar when I was walking my dog, but it doesn't seem to have been filiming as I'm not there at the poiny it passed me.
It is slightly bizarre though, to see Marple like that.
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These seem to have been taken at various time of day (or possibly days) and then stitched togetehr as in some it's clearly early in the day (e.g. co-op car park) and others it's very busy (Brabyn's Brow). If you look at the clocks on Church Lane on the insurance brokers and All Saint's Church it was between 1pm and 1:30pm. Any other clocks around Marple?
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Yes, another example is up at Five Lane Ends (top of Mellor). They went up there on a glorious summer's day, blue sky, fluffy white clouds etc. But when they turned right along the rough track towards new Mills Golf Club, it was suddenly pouring with rain! (Of course, that's New Mills for you ;)
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Howard's right, some definite stitching together of images from different times going on.
If you use streetview to walk down Lower Fold to where it meets Town Street, you see sunny weather and some extensive road works (SMBC were resurfacing the road at the time).
But you approach from Town Street, the road works aren't present, cloudy weather appears, the shadows under street signs vanish and the covers over the traffic lights, due to the road works, suddenly disappear.
Steve.
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It is still a great way to waste time,though!
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tried to get my car on my drive as well as at brabyns but clearly i was still at the park ;)
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Fame at last for me, running along Gun rd Mellor, just past the farm.
I remember seeing the car go past us and commenting if we were being filmed.
It was an early Sunday morning run last June.
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Can someone please put a link on so that i can find out where to go, never done it before and tried to do it myself but not having any luck thank you in advance :)
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http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Stockport,+Cheshire+SK6+7LZ,+United+Kingdom&ll=53.3945,-2.063391&spn=0,359.983456&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.394511,-2.063526&panoid=0Aoft6Gnw44BQMQ9nK0bTA&cbp=12,149.64,,0,7.57
click the arrows to move around. CLick and drag anywhere except the arrows to change your view
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Thank you NBT had a look at Marple when i looked at Marple, my dad was at his front door looking out. I had a look at Dukinfield where i live you can see straight in to my living room.
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Thank you NBT had a look at Marple when i looked at Marple, my dad was at his front door looking out. I had a look at Du kinfield where i live you can see straight in to my living room.
I'm stud bus stop lower fold . slimmers world for me .grate fun
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it's 3D now too !
as long as you have the 3D glasses!