Posted by Joan Bergstrom on 2/12/09 10:46pm
Msg #277381

Google Directions

This is one of these posts that might be on a subject that everyone knows about and I am just clueless.

I did a google direction's search and when I clicked on the "B" location on the google map it provided a picture of the house I was doing the loan signing for.

I printed the directions and the picture was included. It was great to see the actual house I needed to find!

The picture was a little hazy but just looking at the house on the Internet helped me to find the home.

It's so much easier to find homes when it's light outside (duh) but this information from google/directions really helped me.

Reply by Calnotary on 2/12/09 10:54pm
Msg #277383

It's been a few months like that Joan. It's very convenient to see the house or the neighborhood you'll be driving minutes later.

Reply by Calnotary on 2/12/09 10:55pm
Msg #277384

Oh by the way, did you get a call from Richmond Title for one in Feb 19 edocs for 75.00 dollars?

Reply by Joan Bergstrom on 2/12/09 11:18pm
Msg #277386

No
I didn't get the email from them.

Reply by BrendaTx on 2/13/09 6:35am
Msg #277393

Google gives a panoramic view of many places I look up on it. They've been working on the picture views since 2007.

Frankly, I think their taking this picture-of-everything a little too far, but it was bound to come with technology. Google's literally creating a "big brother" scenario. It's pretty invasive as far as I'm concerned, but hey...I got nothing to hide. I'll benefit more from it than I'll lose from it, although, I think it's a little much.

It's pathetic when humans have become so dependent on computers for simple things like addition and subtraction (math) and now an address and directions to a house is not good enough. We've got to have a picture as well. We're "dumbing" it down alright. It's a sad day when the only keepers of mental math are people over the age of 50...the ones not likely to procreate.

I know when I check out at a retail establishment to the dollar how much my bill will be. I know how much mileage my vehicles are getting without punching a calculator. In a meeting the other day people were scrambling for a calculator to figure out that a certain type of paper costs exactly a nickle a sheet in spite of the fact that I calculated it in my head in a split second. (I think it was something like $300 for a case of high quality paper. 12 reams = $25 a ream. 500 sheets to a ream = $.05 a sheet. Simple math! As I told them, if we were getting 10 reams to the case the price was $.06.)

Oh wait...we were talking about pictures of houses. Helps to find them. The numbers work better for me. Many houses look alike side by side. Numbers are required by the 911 enforcement here in the country and in the city.

Take Omega oil pills. Keeps the brain oiled.

I argued at length the other day with a Subway restaurant about the amount they charged me for my two salads. It should have been around $9. I walked out after paying only $3.56. "I hit the salad button twice. That is the RIGHT amount." Okey dokey.

Reply by Lee/AR on 2/13/09 7:40am
Msg #277394

Don't you just love it when your bill comes to $5.08 and you hand the person a $10 bill, a nickel and 3 pennies and watch 'em get a deer-in-the-headlights look and start fingering the change in the cash drawer.

Reply by Dorothy_MI on 2/13/09 8:10am
Msg #277396

Even better

Give them a $10 and a dime. I've had them hand me back the dime and tell me I gave them too much money. I just give it back and tell them to enter it in the register. When the change is shown as $5 and $.02 their eyes almost bulge out of their head.

Reply by MistarellaFL on 2/13/09 8:47am
Msg #277397

It's interesting this math discussion came up.
I was just contemplating the inability of the retail workforce to calculate simple addition and subtraction.
When I was growing up, my parents owned a restaurant and I was a cashier at age 9 or 10, before there were calculating cash registers.
I had to calculate change in my head, and count back the change. No one does that anymore.
It's like all those kids took what they used to call "new math".
Sheesh. Old math seemed to work better.

Reply by Shoshana Roller on 2/13/09 9:47am
Msg #277405

Whenever I am in an establishment where the cashier counts back the change, I compliment them on that! It's a dying "art"!

Reply by Charles_Ca on 2/13/09 11:32am
Msg #277423

Never argue with idiots. On a similar note

I volunteer with the National Map Corps, a service of the US Government that produces topographic maps of the entire US. I am responsible for the content of a couple of topographic 7.5 minute quadrangles and everything that is within their boundary. My duties include visiting various physical attributes on the maps and checking their locations with a GPS, tape measure, measuring wheel etc. The other day I was verifying the location of a launching ramp at a local marina and checking it against the map. I was amazed at the number of boaters gathering around me who had never seen either a topographic quadrangle or even a navigation map from NOAA. I believe that we as a Nation are rapidly losing valuable and essential skills.

Reply by Teddog/CO on 2/13/09 8:58am
Msg #277399

Don't you just love Google directions. They are great! At night it's darn near impossible to see house numbers especially in the rural areas. You would have to be a Bloodhound to find some places in the new housing developments here.

Thanks Google

Everyone have a great day.

Reply by Shoshana Roller on 2/13/09 9:46am
Msg #277404

That's why I have a GPS on my phone!

Reply by Joan Bergstrom on 2/14/09 1:06am
Msg #277495

I guess people in Texas have every borrower(s) address on his/her home or mail box but we certainly don't have that in the Inland Empire/CA.

It's pitch dark and I get out of my car with my flashlight trying to find the borrowers home, going up and down the street trying to find anyone's address so I can get a starting point.

I have a GPS system but it doesn't say: "hey stupid the address is on your right now open the car door."

My GPS system gets me to about 400 feet.

Reply by Shoshana Roller on 2/14/09 1:29am
Msg #277498

I use VZ Navigator on my Verizon cell phone.

Most of the time it guides me right to the house. Also, I never lose the signal as I did with my old Garmin.

Reply by jojo_MN on 2/13/09 10:50am
Msg #277421

I don't know. I tried using it to get to my house from three different cities. It was a block off all three times. :-(

Reply by jba/fl on 2/13/09 3:59pm
Msg #277443

It's off by about 4 houses on my house, plus on wrong side of street. I have yet to find my mom's house where it should be, no matter who's photos and maps are used.

Reply by Mia on 2/13/09 1:10pm
Msg #277427

Google even maps these.....

Toad crossings mapped on Google Earth

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4601202/Toad-crossings-mapped-on-Google-Earth.html