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Prefer Google Earth myself.
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usually check out former places where I lived to see if they have kept up the lawn 
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Yes. Especially when I meet some one from another country, and they try to explain (lol) where they're from. Love traveling, meeting people, and seeing photos from their home town.
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Philatelia said, "It made me wonder, do other stamp collectors share my enthusiasm for good maps?"
I do! I have a few old atlases which are invaluable to me. I scan maps or portions of maps from them to use as illustrations in my web pages, and sometimes find fascinating information. A friend gave me 1908 Dutch world atlas which shows only two towns in New Mexico, Santa Fe and Silver City, the latter being my home town. It's never been a large city. Population now is about 10,500, which is surely the largest population ever. So why did it get on the map? At that time, more gold and silver was coming out of the ground than anywhere else on the planet. Records indicate that more than 4,000 mines have been in operation there, at various times, since the 1870s or thereabouts. I have published five web pages, most with philatelic illustrations, about that area. See New Mexico Connections.
Bob
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Very well researched and presented,enjoyed reading.
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.......kind of off base, but this reminds me of a story, (most things do.)
I took a friend to an auction that happens the first Monday of every month in North St Paul. They rarely have stamps, but they always have cool old stuff. At this particular auction they had a bunch of old maps. We looked over them and I, as the auction know it all, proudly told my friend, "Ya Know, If I can get this for around 50 bucks or so I think I am going to be a bidder".
Well, when they got to the maps, the one I liked was the first one up. Tracy,the auctioneer said "We have an opening phone bid of 13,000.00 dollars, do we have 14,000?" My friend turned to me and said "I don't think your 50 bucks is going to go too far here today." We still laugh about it and I think of it every time a map is mentioned.
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I use Mapquest and Google maps all of the time and was actually using Google maps a little while ago, looking at Westchester county NY . It's very interesting what can be seen from up above and then down at street level. Sometimes I will search out an area, check the roads and then drive through the area because of what I've seen using Google or Mapquest. It's very informative looking into army or navy bases and prisons, just to see how much detail you can see.
I was working out in the yard last year, and one of the map vans went down our street, with the camera array mounted on top of the vehicle. Sometime when you are viewing a city, or whatever, you can see the shadow of the van with the cameras mounted.
Mike
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Luv a good map to track down and get a feel for where postmarks are from. Especially to see early maps vs current in the countries I research.
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slightly off base but
Last year the lady who cuts my hair said "you must check out Google Maps and type in this address" (I forgot the exact address). Sure enough there was a street view option. Turns out it was a small cute house with a "For Sale" sign in the front yard. The front door was slightly open with an old women looking out towards the street.
The problem is the house was for sale because the occupant (an old women) had died three months earlier.
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It should be fun at the closing as the three children squabble over whether it is priced too low, they should keepit and one of them live here or they should just sell the dam place and move on with their lives.
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Hi everyone;
I've always liked old atlases, that were published just before WW1 and WW2, so I can see where the country borders were before they were changed!
keep on stampin
Ken Tall Pines
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I've used Google Street View a lot, even included some images from it on a few web pages. This morning, as a result of this discussion, I decided to see if it now included the un-incorporated village of Arenas Valley, New Mexico, where my family first lived when we moved to New Mexico from New York State in 1949. Previously, the best Google Maps view was a satellite image, and fairly low-res at that. But now, Arenas Valley is included in Street View. And...how disappointing! In the 1950s, it was no paradise, but many residents had some pride and maintained their homes well. There were a couple of nice orchards, and a sense of community. Today, except for a handful of homes, wretched-looking house trailers predominate, along with weeds, piles of junk, old cars and trucks. It really seems to be mostly a rural slum.
Here's a picture of the house we lived in. In 1957, my family moved to nearby Silver City and my grandparents moved into it:
Here's the property now, and it's better than average for today's Arenas Valley. The house has been renovated extensively, as you can see (it now has a pitched roof, not clearly visible in this image). The "bunkhouse" at the rear of the property appears to have been replaced with a new building. The cinderblock pump house at the right is pretty much the same, but the water tank on the roof is gone.
We just can't ever go home again, except in memory.
Bob
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Does anyone else love browsing Google maps? Here I am at 4 in the morning looking at some of the little islands such as Lundy that have cindy issues, then looked at aerial views of Omaha Beach. Sooooo cool! It made me wonder, do other stamp collectors share my enthusiasm for good maps?
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Prefer Google Earth myself.
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usually check out former places where I lived to see if they have kept up the lawn
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Yes. Especially when I meet some one from another country, and they try to explain (lol) where they're from. Love traveling, meeting people, and seeing photos from their home town.
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Philatelia said, "It made me wonder, do other stamp collectors share my enthusiasm for good maps?"
I do! I have a few old atlases which are invaluable to me. I scan maps or portions of maps from them to use as illustrations in my web pages, and sometimes find fascinating information. A friend gave me 1908 Dutch world atlas which shows only two towns in New Mexico, Santa Fe and Silver City, the latter being my home town. It's never been a large city. Population now is about 10,500, which is surely the largest population ever. So why did it get on the map? At that time, more gold and silver was coming out of the ground than anywhere else on the planet. Records indicate that more than 4,000 mines have been in operation there, at various times, since the 1870s or thereabouts. I have published five web pages, most with philatelic illustrations, about that area. See New Mexico Connections.
Bob
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Very well researched and presented,enjoyed reading.
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.......kind of off base, but this reminds me of a story, (most things do.)
I took a friend to an auction that happens the first Monday of every month in North St Paul. They rarely have stamps, but they always have cool old stuff. At this particular auction they had a bunch of old maps. We looked over them and I, as the auction know it all, proudly told my friend, "Ya Know, If I can get this for around 50 bucks or so I think I am going to be a bidder".
Well, when they got to the maps, the one I liked was the first one up. Tracy,the auctioneer said "We have an opening phone bid of 13,000.00 dollars, do we have 14,000?" My friend turned to me and said "I don't think your 50 bucks is going to go too far here today." We still laugh about it and I think of it every time a map is mentioned.
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I use Mapquest and Google maps all of the time and was actually using Google maps a little while ago, looking at Westchester county NY . It's very interesting what can be seen from up above and then down at street level. Sometimes I will search out an area, check the roads and then drive through the area because of what I've seen using Google or Mapquest. It's very informative looking into army or navy bases and prisons, just to see how much detail you can see.
I was working out in the yard last year, and one of the map vans went down our street, with the camera array mounted on top of the vehicle. Sometime when you are viewing a city, or whatever, you can see the shadow of the van with the cameras mounted.
Mike
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Luv a good map to track down and get a feel for where postmarks are from. Especially to see early maps vs current in the countries I research.
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slightly off base but
Last year the lady who cuts my hair said "you must check out Google Maps and type in this address" (I forgot the exact address). Sure enough there was a street view option. Turns out it was a small cute house with a "For Sale" sign in the front yard. The front door was slightly open with an old women looking out towards the street.
The problem is the house was for sale because the occupant (an old women) had died three months earlier.
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It should be fun at the closing as the three children squabble over whether it is priced too low, they should keepit and one of them live here or they should just sell the dam place and move on with their lives.
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Hi everyone;
I've always liked old atlases, that were published just before WW1 and WW2, so I can see where the country borders were before they were changed!
keep on stampin
Ken Tall Pines
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I've used Google Street View a lot, even included some images from it on a few web pages. This morning, as a result of this discussion, I decided to see if it now included the un-incorporated village of Arenas Valley, New Mexico, where my family first lived when we moved to New Mexico from New York State in 1949. Previously, the best Google Maps view was a satellite image, and fairly low-res at that. But now, Arenas Valley is included in Street View. And...how disappointing! In the 1950s, it was no paradise, but many residents had some pride and maintained their homes well. There were a couple of nice orchards, and a sense of community. Today, except for a handful of homes, wretched-looking house trailers predominate, along with weeds, piles of junk, old cars and trucks. It really seems to be mostly a rural slum.
Here's a picture of the house we lived in. In 1957, my family moved to nearby Silver City and my grandparents moved into it:
Here's the property now, and it's better than average for today's Arenas Valley. The house has been renovated extensively, as you can see (it now has a pitched roof, not clearly visible in this image). The "bunkhouse" at the rear of the property appears to have been replaced with a new building. The cinderblock pump house at the right is pretty much the same, but the water tank on the roof is gone.
We just can't ever go home again, except in memory.
Bob
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