Quick - before it's pulled.

[kyburg]

You want to see the building our apartment was in, when Cliff and I lived in Zurich?

Quick, take a look at the street view. (Graffitti was not present when I was there. You might also see the lack of it on surrounding buildings. It was an understood thing that this was a building full of foreigners...and I don't think anything has changed in that regard.)

You'd better look quick because the Swiss ain't happy about the way Google built their street views.

Amazing. I can see the park we walked the dog at is still there. So are some of the businesses. Some. Buildings are there - but I don't see the phoneboxes I used anymore. Thai restaurants. *shakes head* Wow.

Comments

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Google maps street view is such a great toy. It didn't even occur to me to look at it before I went to Zurich last week! :) *goes to put in address of where I stayed there*

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Oh! What was the address? (Since I lived there myself for a good chunk of 2008 and like looking around my city!)

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Schifflände 18, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland

Just three trolley stops from Zurich HB. :-)

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Ah, fun area, that! There's a great little fondue place about 2 blocks away, should you go back :)

[moropus.livejournal.com]

I lived at 58 High Street, lakenheath England for 7 years, but there's no street view.

[elfwench.livejournal.com]

How did you do that? I'm trying to do the same thing for my neighborhood, and I can't do it.

[elfwench.livejournal.com]

Yes! I didn't get that figured out, but I did find out how to get the pointer changed to the right location for my address. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/11/edit-locations-in-google-maps.html

Color me happy since Google Maps has been wrong for years on the location of my trailer.

Here, you should be able to click "see original" and it will show you where the errant marker was.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=4766+Weaver+Ave,+Indianapolis,+IN+46227&sll=47.373274,8.523503&sspn=0.000434,0.000831&ie=UTF8&ll=39.697281,-86.134315&spn=0.007892,0.013304&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A