Toronto is now on GOOGLE Street view !

[charlene]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=toronto&sll=43.655857,-79.380705&sspn=0.009315,0.022724&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario,+Canada&ll=43.670233,-79.386755&spn=0.035263,0.090895&z=14

enjoy the city!
lol

type in the search: Massey Hall, Toronto. and then stroll by The House Of Gord..
;)

[Sydney Steve]

Just guessing Char,
But I presume places and of course the less reputable people who inhabit them that might make Toronto look bad are photoshopped out ...like say your place.....
whoops.. the devil has a lot to answer for ...he.... (actually more likely "she") made me type that !!! ;)

[Jesse Joe]

This is from Google maps !

The ink in my printer is low I printed these, but seem to remember there is another way of doing it.

Works really good Char, they were also filming in Moncton this summer. And tonight they showed Halifax on the CTV evening news.

Boy Toronto is a good looking city, I viewed the CN Tower, & Rogers Centre. Also it was as if I was standing in front of Massey Hall ! :eek: AMAZING !!! :eek:

[charlene]

they didn't get my place...ha!
I live east of Toronto..no Googlers here..just us devils.
;)

[Jesse Joe]

Check again Char, I was in your neighborhood just before noon ! :)

[charlene]

oh oh..I see my house now! lol Pic was taken when lilacs were in bloom this spring..
GOOGLE has the wrong number tho..

[Jesse Joe]

Yes those numbers are not right on every place you look for. I hope they will correct that soon. :rolleyes:

This afternoon I travelled a lot in The Bridle Path, :eek: (WOW) is that place of Toronto ever nice. Then to Kitchener where I saw some of my relatives places.

I check out Yuri's neighbourhood,:clap: very beautiful, and again the numbers were not making sense. In Montreal I did see Lisa's street, my niece which I am her Godfather, the poor girl... lol ! :redface:

For some reason couldn't get anything here in Moncton, but they were here this summer w/ the google mobile...

Maybe should try out "The Mud Holes of Moncton", like the late great Barbara Frum once refered to the City of Moncton... lol ! :biggrin: She was great, I liked her a lot... Bless her soul.

But in Ontario, everything is so neat, I think I had your street Char, may be another person, but it is a lovely neighborhood that I saw.

Tonight Westmount in Montreal, which is like Toronto's Rosedale. :whistle:

Also the Bell Centre & other places.

This is kind of fun right now, really Amazing !

It looks so live, that last night in front of The House Of Gord, I almost got hit by a car... :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

[Jesse Joe]

One of Google street view car !


http://hothardware.com/newsimages/Item9301/google-street-view-car.jpg

[Jesse Joe]

This is what provides the magic !


http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/2860/camera_head1.jpg

[DJ in MJ]

I just checked my old haunt back in the 90s. The apt building I lived in shows up clear as can be.

[Jesse Joe]

It is great technology eh, DJ in MJ ! :)

[DJ in MJ]

I'd say it's both good and bad, Jesse. It all depends on how well it's used, and whether or not it's abused. But I'm a techno freak so I do admit it's pretty cool.

[johnfowles]

I was hoping that Canada would soon be covered by the remarkable Google Streetview system
for a long time now I have been able to look at our New Jersey house and only last weekend I made some pix for an old UK friend now retired in La Jolla (San Diego)
I have also "visited" my old university building which just so happens to be on Prince Consort Road and pretty well opposite the Royal Albert Hall in London where I saw Gord in 1972 and 1981
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/Royal_Albert_Hall.jpg
I found that they have changed the link method for accessing any available streetviews:
there used to be a simple drop down notification under the view menu.
Now it is on a drop down list from the main menu under "more"

http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/more_on_menu.jpg
but I don't know how you lot were able to see any Toronto views because as far as I can see neither of those two menu arrangements just ain't there.
It is however there and functional for addresses in Montreal so I was able to snap the first avenue I lived on when I arrived in April 1964
alhough the buldings around have changed in 45 years!!
The one time Morgans' (later the Bay) store in the nearby shopping centre where I bought my first (United Artists) Lightfoot LPs has gone and is replaced by a supermatrket
I also found both of the last two apartment blocks I lived in.I then thought I would see what happenned to the site of the New Penelope coffeehouse where I first saw Gord live in 1967
the address on the poster is 378 Sherbrooke Street West
which Google located at the junction of Sherbrooke and Bleury
the best estimate I can make is that the building behind the streetsign might be where the place was
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/378_Sherbrooke_west.jpg
trying to find more about the New Penelope
I then googled for the address and found three items of interest
I was delighted to find a 2005 Globe and Mail article by Gary Eisenkraft's sister., that mentions Gordon:-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article873339.ece (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article873339.ece)

It was Gary who founded the New Penelope in 1963 and closed it in 1968
I also refound an old corfid thread at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=15200

subject
"Lightfoot presents award to GUESS WHO - fe.b8-05"
and there is the interesting albeit lengthy and duplication ridden old thread subject
"My Lightfoot Connection" at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=12816

which I for one really enjoyed rereading so I will be bringing it back to the top

[johnfowles]

There we were being so busy considering Toronto and Montreal that that the other major Ontarian city indeed Canada's capital was being overlooked yes Ottawa too has streetviews now
I tested it by checking on the Folk Music Walk Of Fame where Mr Jones so memorably posed in front of Gord's Mural a while ago sure enough having ascertained that it was on a building at the junction of Bank and Sunnyside I was able to home in on the mural
http://johnfowles.org.uk/images/henry.jpg
Sadly the Google camera has presumably yet to venture north to Orillia so no Opera House streetviews yet (actually not even a "satelite" view just a plain jane map)
As you might have noticed I greatly enjoy making screenshots
I noted that Char, if I am not mistaken had had to resort to printing a view from the webpage then presumably scanning her print.
It is for people like her who might like to make their own screenshots that I have at very long last completed and uploaded a fully illustrated tutorial on the subject.
Perhaps a few of you (Char especially) could take a look at it and tell me if you can understand it and in particular Char the vocabulary that I was obliged to use and better still make and display a few screenshots yourself
(all my streetview pix were made using the freeware Gadwin Printscreen as described in my tutorial at):-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/Tutorials/screenshots_tutorial.htm

[BILLW]

For stalkers and real estate buffs and investors this is a great tool. Since they only show the best angles in real esate ads or listings by using Google maps with street view you can often see if that "perfect house" is right next door to a hog farm or crack house. That saves you a drive out to look at it. But be aware that once they take the pictures it will be a long time before they update them. So if the house next door burns to the ground it will be seen with steet view for quite some time after the fire.

But it is a great piece of tech, no?

Bill :)

[Jesse Joe]

It is indeed Bill, but very true what you and DJ in MJ are saying about, it all depends on how well it's used.

[Jesse Joe]

Great pics John, I have to find the way on how you are able to post them like that.

[charlene]

Ron and The Wall in Ottawa

[johnfowles]

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/12309690.jpgGreat pics John, I have to find the way on how you are able to post them like that.

I simply do not understand your problem mon ami
you make a screenshot as per my fantabulous tutorial at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/Tutorials/screenshots_tutorial.htm

Then tres simplement save it as a jpeg on your computer's hard drive then upload it to a free website in the time honoUred tradition , either a free picture site like http://www.imageshack.us
or photobucket or your own Internet Service Provider provided free web space or open a new free website at for example http://www.fileave.com.
the choice is yours!
Either way you will obtain an address (URL) of the uploaded picture
which you can then use to display on corfid easy peasy

OK I have already displayed Google maps' screenshots showing where I first saw Gord in Montreal in 1967 plus an evocatve picture of London's Royal Albert Hall (1972 and 1981) so to complete the picture so to speak here is the venue for three more concerts I saw in 1968 and 1969
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/images/Place_Des_Arts.jpg

And here is the lovely old Tarrytown NY Music Hall where I saw Gord for the 62nd time last June 28
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/12309690.jpg
No streetview yet of that suberb of New York City.Google either forgot or were too busy up in Canadia!??

[charlene]

TWO CN Towers!
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/10/11/11371776-sun.html

[Jesse Joe]

Hey, that's not right ! :confused:

I tried it and there they were ! :eek: :biggrin:

[johnfowles]

TWO CN Towers!
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/10/11/11371776-sun.html

That's a hoot but I failed to get it to show up in streetview
Equally amusing would have been to see
"a man giving the finger to the camera while he's sitting on a park bench at College and Shaw Sts"
OK I had found a streetview link for that but failed to find the offending finger perhaps google have already airbrushed him out? Nor again could I see anything like a streetview of Massey Hall,Nor the Delta Chelsea or the Elephant and Castle, both on Gerard and Yonge Streets
More worringly I tried to snap McVeighs Irish Pub at 124 Church Street but although I could get numbers 122 and 126/128 there was no sign of McVeighs! only a car park at 128 (roughly where 124 should have been) (I do remember that parking lot from May 2008)
Has McVeighs been demolished or what??
http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/images/church_toronto.jpg

[charlene]

head north up church - it's right there on the corner like it's always been...marked as 142 church..lol

[johnfowles]

head north up church - it's right there on the corner like it's always been...marked as 142 church..lol
Right!!
Well that's a relief it appears to be due to some sort of cyber-anarchic typo.
I had originally tried google maps for 124 Church Street the address that appears in a web search and as I showed I drew a blank
I did rather better by searching for Richmond and Church and snapped this
albeit allegedly 142 not 124!!
http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/images/McVeighs.jpg

[johnfowles]

Phew
I eventually found Massey on Shuter Street but searching for Shuter street whilst producing a streetview out in the boondocks I did with some difficulty get back West to the Massey area ,.A quicker way was ro go to the MH admin address at 178 Victoria Street then walking past the familiar stage door to turn left into Shuter Street being careful to avoid the concrete mixers and odd stray cyclists!:-
http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/images/Massey_Hall.jpg
So it looks like Google have failed to adequately provide streetview links .I will try again by moving up Yonge to snap the Delta Chelsea and Elephant and Castle and go further North to find the building housing the EMP offices

[charlene]

there's a white cube truck in front of 1365 yonge...turn onto Rosehill and the windows on 2nd floor are EMP office windows..
not sure if they are the ones above the convenience store or the ones to the right.

[Jesse Joe]

I was searching for {Early Morning Productions Inc. 1365 Yonge Street, Toronto}, Saturday night, early Sunday morning.

I was on Yonge Street, but for me who had never seen the place, and Google not being acurate with it's street numbers, It took me a while.

But I finally found it, the 1365 number, but could not see any sign of EMP...

And I knew they were @ Suite 207, so I began to zoom in on those second floor windows but to no avail.

In the rear of that edifice is a parking garage, correct me if Im wrong Char.

So i went to bed Sunday morning quite please ! :)

[charlene]

there isn't a sign for EMP-
on the inside lobby wall is a directory listing the tenants of the building and that's where EMP #207 is noted..
dont know if there's a parking garage.

[Jesse Joe]

Thank you much Char, yes I had figured that the name would be on the inside lobby...

The reason I asked about the garage, is I went around that buiding on street view, and as far in the back as I could. And that is where I saw what was probably a parking garage.

But I couldn't help to think how many times Gordon must have walk in that place. ;)

[Jesse Joe]

http://www.corfid.com/vbb/attachment.php?attachmentid=2975&d=1255045600

[johnfowles]

By searching for 1365 Yonge Street I was initially able to see Char's white truck which is certainly obscuring the building behind it but then by simply moving to the left (northwards) I was able to see what is unquestionably number 1365.
Using my preferred screen capture tool Gadwin Printscreen I could make two limited area screenshots:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/1365_yonge_street.jpg
the streetview itself
And the associated left hand pane in which Google most helpfully lists the occupants of the building!!:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/selected_businesses.jpg
To me that illustrates the most incredible achievement of combining basic digital photography, GPS positioning technology and integration with a more traditional address database .
With Nobel Prizes being currently topical I would nominate the geniuses (genii?) at Google who conceived and so successfully executed this feat a suitable prize.
No matter that occasionally they failed to get adjoining views to line up correctly
(in addition to the twin CN Towers I did noticed a poorly made streetsign near to McVieghs pub but could not find it again to snap!!)

I had started my visit to the Yonge Street area by looking at the entrance to the Delta Chelsea Hotel on Gerrard Street, the traditional meeting place for Lightheads attending the Massey Hall "season" to meet and scene of a number of memorable jam sessons
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/delta_chelsea.jpg
before the appalling attitude and lack of appreciation of the hotel staff led o the selection of McVeighs Irish Pub in 2008. from the hotel it is a short walk to the corner of Yonge and Gerrard Streets where I found the entrance door to the Elephant and Castle Pub passing through which I have been eagerly looking forwards to since passing Fuller's London Pride brewery on the drive into London
from Heathrow airport back, because the pub hopefully will again be serving proper full pint glasses back in July of that "real" ale next month
http://johnfowles.org.uk/images/elephant_and_castle.jpg

http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/fullers-415x439.jpg
By turning around I was then able to snap the Doner Kebab emporium from where I had purchased one of those delicacies for Susan after walking back to the hotel from Massey after one of the 1999 concerts
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/doner_kebab.jpg
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/doner_kebab.pg

[johnfowles]

Well one thing is for sure Google maps and/or the original Microsoft local.live.com
and its bird's eye views (now nicely intergrated in the Bing decision engine as bing maps are wonderful time wasters!
Fresh from my travels round Toronto
I turned to other Canadian landmarks plus the UK and Australia
I failed to find any streetviews of
Niagara or Montreal's Mount Royal Chalet but I did find the
Vancouver steam clock
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/steam_clock_vancouver.jpg
pity the google camera came by 17 minutes after a steam eruption though!!
I am surprised that the Australian contingent has been quiet so far since there is some limited streetview coverage of both Sydney and Melbourne
I could look at Flinders Street just across the Yarra from where we stayed in 2007 but was unable to get near to this wonderful sculpture
https://webspace.utexas.edu/whiteatl/www/Spicebrush/events/081106_Aussie/DSC08368.JPG
the most memorable being I saw in Melbourne after Mende!!
I did better in Sydney where after some dogged travelling from the spot chosen by google for "circular quay" I was rewarded by this splendid and evocative full screen view which I used the printscreen button to capture http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/sydney.jpg.
I decided to try Bristol UK in particular the 4 brass tables known as " the nails" in front of the Corn Exchange
where per the wiki:-
Deals could be closed by payment on the nails—the popularly supposed origin of the saying "pay on the nail" or "cash on the nail".However, this origin of the term is disputed. Whatever here is one of them
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/A_Nail_Bristol.jpg

[Sydney Steve]

I am surprised that the Australian contingent has been quiet so far since there is some limited streetview coverage of both Sydney and Melbourne


The reason I have said nothing about Google street view in relation to Sydney is simple Mr Fowles. The area I live in (and I think large slabs of Sydney) is all there as clear as day house by house and my own palatial mansion is all too clear.
The issue is of course, when you are such a highly desirable catch as I am , female stalkers from far points of the globe could jump on the quickest international flight with a view to jumping on my bones and having their wicked way with me at some point down the track.

It is a mystifying conundrum though that the local girls have so far been so retrained for so long - indeed many would qualify for an Academy Award such are there skills at pretending to hold views in the range of indifference to disgust towards me.

Oooh ! Must away ! Nursie is calling ! It must be tablet top up time then it's off to some soothing basket weaving .

cheers !