Hello, I like to browse maps, the oldfashioned ones and the digital ones like Open Street Map. Even stranger, I could spend hours browsing the satellite images that are overlayed on the digital maps. They reveal things and structures that you are not aware of if you only walk on the ground. Regards Gyro
yes. i like to do this. i just wish they had cab eye level views of every railway line that exists. i like to fallow these. i find them so much more interesting then roads and cars. i like to fallow railway lines all over the planet. every place where they are. of course i like to start out from my house and follow everything around it. they keep renewing the copyright date, but they don't really renew the immages. they tend to be something like five years out of date, other then maybe in some of the largest metro areas. and of course its not these that interest me. i grew up in small towns along the railways. when i was growing up there were passenger services to most of these. yes, i like always to know what is around me, and also what is far away. to see what people do next, with where they are, this is one of the things that keeps me alive.
Hello, decades ago, when I was a school boy, I often walked home on the tracks. Most of the time it was faster to walk the three or four kilometers than to wait for the bus. The trains on that line were so slow that you virtually could not be overrun by them. Sometimes the engine driversyellled at me or showed a fist if they saw me waiting next to the tracks . Regards Gyro
Hello, you can see which of your neighbours has a pool . Or you can find interesting structures like this: Regards Gyro
industrial back yards with all the fascinating and inspiring junk in them. well at least it is to me. things that you don't see from the main streets and highways driving in a car, where mostly you see only the fronts their owners want to show to you. those can be interesting too, but its usually only from the air or space, that without trespassing, you can see what's really there. (you get to see some of this when you ride a train, but even then, only those that are along the main tracks where the relatively few these days rail passenger services run).
I love maps. Topographic maps are my favorite. I like knowing what a ridge, valley, depression, spur, contour lines and hilltops are.
I like to use it (google satellite images) to snoop into peoples yards saw a funny image on streetview last year..ill go look for it cant find it now...must have been updated...it was a rough looking biker dude on streetbike with front basket for his white poodle
