>>I think I may have threaded this last week but I've just thought how useful this is for zooming in and out of each others' cities to get a better idea of each others' environments.
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>>Give the lat/long and we can find each others' locations.
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>>Dragan's Virginia Beach, for instance, is strange to English eyes, all laid out in a neat grid, with numbers for roads (like many US cities), not many swimming pools for by the sea, and I can even make out how any cars are in the car parks (parking lots)
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>Google Earth is one of the most impressive apps of last year.
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>For me lat=49.2566875937, lon=-123.119706467
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>My neighbourhood is a grid like Dragan's. My work (Vancouver General), daycare, grocery store, movie theatre, gas, starbucks (5) are all within a few blocks. Downtown is 2-3K from us, a 5 minute car or 45 minute walk. Because of the bridges, it isn't so urban, but more like a nice small town near us.

Thank you

Man, are Canadian cities sprawling!

Near as I can get it you live in a large area appartment block. There's a park-like large block of 'burbs some 4 blocks west of you, with pools and "centred" on a ring road, other roads radiating from it?

I live at:

50 deg 49' 24.31" N
00 deg 07' 13.50 W (as you can see, very close to the Greenwich Meridian.

There is not much close-up detail but, if you have the Roads checkbox set you can tell me the names of my street and those around.

On the "Fly to" tab, just enter "Brighton" in the destination box, to put yourself on autopilot :-)