fab
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GOOGLE EARTHwhat look like your neibourhood(s) on google earth ?
(Could you post it at about an altitude of 1000ft)
In Paris, where i live now
Work place
In Nice suburb, where I lived in the past
In a village in the Paris region where I grew up.
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Pauline
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They are great pictures !! 
I will try get pictures of my neighbourhood as well and post them here.
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Elaine
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This thread seems so lonely...  so why not play along?
Current neighborhood in Echo Park:
...which is close to Dodger Stadium:
Old neighborhood in Los Feliz:
Work:
A small portion of my high school alma mater, Immaculate Heart (left):
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Elaine
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My favorite places.
Fred Segal on Melrose Avenue:
Sunset Plaza, Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood:
3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica:
Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills:
Farmer's Market (left) and the Grove (right) - Shopper's Paradise!:
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fab
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Interesting fotos elaine !
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Porthos
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It's funny. You spelled "foto" in Spanish. Maybe it's the same in French, and you did it without realizing it.
First off, i would like to say that this google earth stuff is amazing, like something out of a spy movie about the CIA. Here are some places I have lived.
I sent some of my finds to my email address, but how can I post them on here to show you guys? They only come as an attachment, and I can't copy their url to post them here on this site.
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Elaine
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| fab wrote: | | Interesting fotos elaine ! |
I couldn't get them as clear as yours. Especially around the edges. Are you using the professional version of Google Earth? And for some reason your 1,000 ft images look farther away than my 1,000 ft images... or are your homes just smaller?
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fab
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| Quote: | It's funny. You spelled "foto" in Spanish. Maybe it's the same in French, and you did it without realizing it.
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No, in french we say photo. It is a word of Greek origin, and we generally keep the Greek orthography. I just write it in Spanglish !
| Quote: | | First off, i would like to say that this google earth stuff is amazing, like something out of a spy movie about the CIA. |
Google earth is very usefull. I am urban planner, so I use it as a geographic source almost everyday.
| Quote: | I sent some of my finds to my email address, but how can I post them on here to show you guys? They only come as an attachment, and I can't copy their url to post them here on this site.
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Just copy it on your computer and attach the file to your post. with "attach file"
| Quote: | | I couldn't get them as clear as yours. Especially around the edges. Are you using the professional version of Google Earth? And for some reason your 1,000 ft images look farther away than my 1,000 ft images... or are your homes just smaller? |
No, I use the standard version. But I just thought of something about it, it may be different if your city is not close to altitude 0...
If the place of your photos are taken are at 500 feet, it would seem closer.
Technically to compare we should add the 100ft to the altitude... It is a bit more complicated.
Actually Our homes are also smaller... and Paris is at an altitude of 30meter, so about 100 ft.
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Deborah
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I never even noticed "Attach File"! Did we have that on the old Langcafé?
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Elaine
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| Deborah wrote: | | I never even noticed "Attach File"! Did we have that on the old Langcafé? |
OMG. I never noticed that either. And here I was uploading my images to that godawful GeoCities.  Thanks for the tip! 
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Elaine
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TEST
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Elaine
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Hey, it works! But I wonder how much memory this site's server can hold. I can see it being a problem in the future.
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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Yep, it works!
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Loic
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A-hah. It works as well!
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Julian
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Re: GOOGLE EARTH | fab wrote: | Work place
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Fab, that large rectangular structure that looks like a picture frame, is that the Marché Saint-Germain? And in the bottom left corner, Place Saint-Sulpice?
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Deborah
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Here's where I live. I'm just across the street from the southernmost part of the park.
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Deborah
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And here's where I work.
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Deborah
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Finally, just to slow things down even more, here's my favorite lunchtime walk -- up the Filbert Street steps to Coit Tower. Coit Tower is the whitish tower on the left, atop Telegraph Hill (elev. 250 ft). The Filbert Street steps start at around the large north-south street on the right (elev. 25 ft) and are hidden by the band of trees running east-west in the lower part of the picture.
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fab
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| Quote: | Fab, that large rectangular structure that looks like a picture frame, is that the Marché Saint-Germain? And in the bottom left corner, Place Saint-Sulpice?
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Ouais, je bosse dans le 6éme. Tu es parisien aussi ?
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Julian
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| fab wrote: | | Ouais, je bosse dans le 6éme. Tu es parisien aussi ? |
Non. Je suis Californien (de Los Angeles), mais je suis souvent à New York en raison de mon travail.
My neighborhood in LA:
My neighborhood in NY (home & work):
LA office, just down the street from Sunset Plaza where Elaine hangs out  :
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Walker
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Here's my current neighborhood, or at least part of it. I live on the "other side" of the stream i.e. on the right side in the picture. I cross the bridge at the bottom every day on my bicycle.
Having crossed the bridge you're downtown and the most central part looks like this:
That's the cathedral to the left and those two grey areas are the main squares, Stora Torget and Trädgårdstorget.
This the hospital where I work. The buildings with dark roofs are the old buildings, and those maze-looking buildings are the new ones.
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Elaine
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| Walker wrote: | Here's my current neighborhood, or at least part of it. I live on the "other side" of the stream i.e. on the right side in the picture. I cross the bridge at the bottom every day on my bicycle.
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Looks like you got a lot of room to build. 
I was driving through the canyons of Malibu with my bff the other day. We had the top down, pristine mountains all around us, cool sea breeze blowing nicely... and as we drove up an incline I see the blue sky and wispy clouds in the horizon, it was sheer bliss! I felt so at peace and one with nature, but then my girlfriend, a part-time real estate agent-slash-unemployed actress pipes up, "This would be a great spot for housing development." I was like, "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Just because there's space there doesn't mean you gotta fill it.
Malibu Canyon
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fab
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Elaine,
Malibu canyon seem nice.
It make me think about The "massif de l'Esterel" not far from my parent's home.
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Elaine
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| fab wrote: | | It make me think about The "massif de l'Esterel" not far from my parent's home. |
Wow, that terrain looks so similar to what we've got here.
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Benjamin [inactive]
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Very nice mountains! Our 'impressive scenery' looks pretty pathetic by comparison, lol —
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Joanne
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I live in one of these buildings in Fort Lee, NJ:
I work in one of these buildings near Bryant Park in New York:
And I occassionally have to go here for work, too, in the South Street Seaport / Wall St. area (closer to South St., though):
Yes, that is Ground Zero in the upper left side of the last picture. Wow. From these views, you can really, REALLY see why it's called the "Concrete Jungle."
Oh, and where the heck did that nifty "Attach File" thing come from? To think, I've been receiving threatening emails from ImageCave to delete some of my pics when that nifty little feature was right there all along...
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Deborah
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South Street Seaport is so nice in the evening, when the lights go on -- the Brooklyn Bridge is gorgeous.
Joanne, your second photo makes me think of the opening of West Side Story, the way the camera follows Broadway up Manhattan. (For the unitiated, Broadway is the large street -- or canyon -- that runs diagonally to the grid on the left side of the picture.)
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Joanne
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Dear Officer Krupke,
We're very upset.
We never get the love that every child ought to get.
We're not just delinquents, we're misunderstood,
Deep down inside there is good!
There is good!
Good golly, I loved West Side Story when I was a kid.
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Joanne
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I also work here, in Jersey City, NJ (although they haven't needed me for a while, but still...):
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fab
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[quote="Elaine"] | fab wrote: | | It make me think about The "massif de l'Esterel" not far from my parent's home. |
Wow, that terrain looks so similar to what we've got here.
I would say the same Elaine ! The pictures you show seems to have been taken from the same place ! :
with smaller highways !!
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fab
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| Benjamin wrote: | Very nice mountains! Our 'impressive scenery' looks pretty pathetic by comparison, lol —
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Benjamin,
Don't be so self-depreciative... !
Actually in the UK, there are really beautiful sceneries that we won't have here :
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Benjamin [inactive]
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Fab — that's in Scotland. I'm not Scottish yet!
Actually though, British people are apparently often known for being self-deprecating, and it's probably true. People here never like to admit that they're good at anything, whilst talking all the time about what they're bad at. The attitude we have towards our country is often similar — we like hearing depressing statistics in the news everyday about how the UK is 'the worst in Europe' for various things. Of course, we never talk about how the UK is supposed to have the safest roads in Europe, because we're not so interested in hearing about good things.
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Elaine
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Fab, when you visited California, did you take a tour through wine country? I'd imagine they'd be reminiscent of the French or Italian countrysides.
(Those last 2 shots look awfully familiar...  )
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Deborah
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Elaine, those first few pictures look just like the Sun-Mail logo!
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Elaine
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| Deborah wrote: | | Elaine, those first few pictures look just like the Sun-Mail logo! |
Oh you really think so?
(Quick somebody tell me what Sun-Mail is...)
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fab
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Elaine,
Next time I'll go to California I'll do a wine-testing tour with you ! 
Actually your Three first photos could have been taken in France, the only thing is that the exploitation seems more wide-sized, "clean", and industrialized :
I like vineyard landscape, with its graphic curved lines.
now, with automn, it is more like this :
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Deborah
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| Elaine wrote: | | Deborah wrote: | | Elaine, those first few pictures look just like the Sun-Mail logo! |
Oh you really think so?
(Quick somebody tell me what Sun-Mail is...) |
Isn't it obvious what Sun-Mail is? It's a typo! I meant "Sun-Maid" as in Sun-Maid raisins and other dried fruit.
But now that I've checked out the Sun-Maid website, I see that the traditional Sun-Maid logo doesn't have that background. I think I'm confusing it with some old advertisement for agriculture in California.
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Deborah
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It's interesting to see how brown bodies of water look in satellite photos. But some don't, such as Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada on the California-Nevada border.
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Porthos
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| Quote: | Fab, when you visited California, did you take a tour through wine country? I'd imagine they'd be reminiscent of the French or Italian countrysides.
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You see, this is possibly another reason why I don't identify with the Germanic, beer drinking cultures of northern Europe. Where I live, I am surrounded by vineyards everywhere I turn. I can take a walk from my house, and in ten minutes, be in the middle of some sprawling vineyard.
Fab,
The pictures you provided of southern France are excellent examples for the other thread. This part of France looks and feels just like Italy or southern Spain in my eyes, including the local scenery, landscapes, climate, and architecture. This part of France I strongly associate with most of Italy and the mediterranean. I can't help but feel different about places like Paris or farther north in France, which is what most outsiders primarily see of France in their perspective.
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Pauline
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How about Wallonie, where french is spoken, the most of people is catholic, lunchtime is 12h - 14h, the climate is north west european and wine and beer are popular ?
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Benjamin [inactive]
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Josh — it may surprise you that these are all of typical scenes in the Rhine Valley in Germany:
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Porthos
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No it doesn't surprise me at all. I am well aware of the presence of vineyards in some parts of Germany. But all in all, Germany has a beer drinking culture.
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fab
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| Porthos wrote: | | No it doesn't surprise me at all. I am well aware of the presence of vineyards in some parts of Germany. But all in all, Germany has a beer drinking culture. |
There are some vineyard regions in Germany, generally located in at the regions that are close to France. The same way the fact that Normandy could have visual similarities with southern England without making France a northern country, south-western Germany has similarities with north-eastern France.
But, yes Josh is right Germany still a very beer culture country 'one of the most), even if it produces wines (mostly whites, it's generally too cold for red wines).
Actually, in France, most vinyards are not in the regions of "pure mediterranean climate", but more in the west (south west (Bordeaux) and north west (Val de Loire) and in the east (north east (Champagne, bourgogne), and south-east (provence/languedoc).
| Quote: | | The pictures you provided of southern France are excellent examples for the other thread. This part of France looks and feels just like Italy or southern Spain in my eyes, including the local scenery, landscapes, climate, and architecture. |
Actually only a part of these were from southern France, and a very few of them from the mediterranean area, the other from atlantic Bordeaux region.
other exemples of "medium France/central France tipical landscapes" :
Poitou region (central-west)
Charentes (central west/north west):
Ile de Ré central/west, very nice little island
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Burgondy (central-east)
Lyon (central/east)
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Elaine
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| Deborah wrote: | | Elaine wrote: | | Deborah wrote: | | Elaine, those first few pictures look just like the Sun-Mail logo! |
Oh you really think so?
(Quick somebody tell me what Sun-Mail is...) |
Isn't it obvious what Sun-Mail is? It's a typo! I meant "Sun-Maid" as in Sun-Maid raisins and other dried fruit. |
OMG. I must've been real tired yesterday, because I didn't even piece that together! 
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fab
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| Quote: | | This part of France looks and feels just like Italy or southern Spain in my eyes, including the local scenery, landscapes, climate, and architecture |
Yes, this ambiance is tipical from the European regions that surround the mediterranean.
The villages in my region: Actually for me they are very French as I could recognise them from the neighbouring countries.
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