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ok...........but what do you click on to see Fifi and her owners? The green arrow didnt do anything for me. and yes, I do know this is an incredibly dumb question, but my sons pretty much wore me down telling me how computer=ignorant I was, and am, therefore it doesnt bother me to ask resoundingly stupid questions.

ANSWER! You click on the arrow and it moves the direction down the street it is pointing. -- LNP

Click on the "Sat" box in the upper right corner which gives you the satellite view. Then use the plus sign and arrows in the upper left corner to zoom in and move the map to stay focused on the green arrow. It will get you in close enough to see the cars parked on the street! I'm not sure you can see Fifi and her owners though--maybe that was just the author's way of saying that you get a really close up view of your house or anyone elses. Google maps has varying detail in their maps. Obviously they have better detail of metropolitan areas than they do of smaller towns and country addresses so you'll get a closer up view of LR than some areas of Arkansas.

KEEP TRYING: You'll find them if you navigate east on Kavanaugh. I tried to embed the shot, but couldn't. - LNP

OMG! When did sweet Fifi fall in with this pair of yellow dogs?!?

Oh boy....THIS is eerie. I looked at my little house here in the People's Republic of Hillcrest and some the houses of some of my friends. They even have a picture of my childhood home down in Mabelvale. I checked a friend's address in Jackson, MS. Google apparently hasn't gone there yet.

Granted, I understand that you have a zero percent expectation of privacy from the street. But it just strikes me as odd and somewhat off-putting that you can look at a person's house with just a click. Does Google have so much damn money that they can run folks up and down the streets to take digital pictures? Of practically anywhere? Does anybody know how they did this? This obviously took a WHOLE bunch of time and resources.

And let's play the "what if" game? Let's say I am a pissed off ex and I want to see where you have moved and don't have the nerve to actually go over there? And let's say I'm up to no good and decide to pay a call after 3 or 4 glasses of Kentucky Courage?

Is it such a good thing that I know what your house looks like?

Brave new world that has such people in it.......

This has actually been around for some time. It is just now making its way into central Arkansas. When this first came out, people in San Francisco, and LA were complaining that they had been photographed going into and out of Strip clubs, paraphernalia shops, and other unsavory locations. I guess it's no different than the old days of parking in the adult book store parking lot or the local strip club. You take your chances, and deal with the consequences. It might be fun to look up some local joints and see if anyone you know is part of the scenery.

Be careful, this is addictive. For a year now the satellite photo of my office has shown only my car present - I have used it as a joking way to berate my employees. "Why am I the only one here, as usual?" (The photo was taken on a Sunday - I can tell from other clues.) Here are some other observations I've had while wasting time on this fascinating feature:

-Doubtless someone's car is going to have been at the wrong place at the wrong time, revealing naughtiness.

-Another idea I had, cranking down on rooftops from the sky - roof graphics! If everyone is going to be surfing satellite pictures, you have some valuable new space from which to make your statement to the world.

-No more backyard or balcony nude sunbathing.

-Hey! Everyone has a swimming pool but me!

-Hmm. My relatives in Lower Arkansas are digging gravel again on our mutual property. Where's my check?

Here's how to do it:

Click on the street address

Then click on the underline "Street View"

Hey folks, consider yourselves lucky. Little Rock is one of 40 cities to have google street view. If you click street view and zoom out you can see which cities have street view. You know, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and, of course, Little Rock. The important ones.

"Does anybody know how they did this?"-bopbamboom

They have roving vans that comb streets. The vans have 360 degree cameras mounted on them.

I'm still wondering why they chose Little Rock. Maybe they were going for the "groovy mid-sized city," and Little Rock fit the bill. It makes their locales look more diversified.

mag, gravel mining makes me hot! And you left off the new dangers of rooftop sex. However I cannot see these things because I use a Mozilla Firefox browser, so in order to view Fifi us Firefoxers will have to dig out another browser to do the Google map thing. There are many other free choices rather than the very buggy IE, Internet Explorer.....so look around.

I'm living for the day when Google goes inside the houses. Once every little dirty secret is out, hypocrisy will finally become a thing of the past. And maybe we'll finally find out who bought off Mark Pryor, when and how. Go Google!

Ever wonder what's at the corner of Country Road 8 and Country Road 9--both gravel roads?

Me neither. But if you were, the link's in my name.

This is the most complete Google street view ever. If you go to the eastern portion of the street view, which ventures to Stuttgart, you can view all these little dirt rounds in rural eastern Arkansas with soy bean and cotton fields. Impressively thorough images is all I'm saying.

DBI, I use Firefox without any problems. Check your version. An update may be in order.

Google would never restrict it's site to only IE.

They don't exactly like each other.

From the looks of a construction site I supervise on my daily perambulation, the tour of downtown LR was done sometime late spring '07.

It is a little be addictive. Anyway, I found it interesting that they drove through the Pleasant Vally County Club and you can see right through the circle. However the LR CC stops just inside the entrance. If you want to see a glimpse of the car they use. Look at the LRCC stopping point and pan around until you are looking straight down.

Well I live on one of the few streets in WLR that doesn't have the blue outlines--so no street views for me! Looking at my old neighborhood and place of business, it looks like those were taken late last spring or early summer. I know the first because 2 or my former neighbors got new cars last summer not long before I moved and this shot shows their old vehicles. My place of work was newly built last year and the car of one of our newer employees shows up in the street view shot of our parking lot.

The least they could have done was come by in Spring or early Summer when the yard looks so pretty.
I wonder if I can ask for a redo on my house.

I've used the satellite view to track news stories about what happens on the White River as it winds
close to Fayetteville. Soon it will become a good county-wide planning tool when they can get it to realtime. Oh my. There I go. REGIONALISM! It's commie plot that will destroy us all.

Keep in mind most of gogglemaps views are at least a year old. So each year I get to check in and see all the wetland prairies being destroyed in Benton County.

I think I've found the most bizarre Google street view in Little Rock yet. I just randomly checked this place out (I was looking at roads along the river). The extreme end of N. Gaines street seems to materialize out of nowhere. The normal translucent Google guidelines goes straight into a patch of forest.

Yes, it's lame. I'm procrastinating here. Link in name.

There are websites devoted to this type of thing.

I know when they did my street -- first Saturday in May, 2007. We were out of town (as can be evidenced by which vehicle is there and which is not). Also, the Water Department is there, working on the lines (we had a neighborhood collapse problem right around that time) -- a shot from another address shows the workers.

This bothers the hell out of me. Fortunately, my husband had already mowed the lawn, goody for us.

Here's another weird one for you, JD. Put your little yellow Google-street-man in the middle of the intersection of 7th & Chester in LR and do a 360º. Look up and down and all around.

(Not sure if the bluename link will take you exactly there. If not, put in 700 chester, little rock ar.)

Google says that if jazzy and dbi are seen nekkid doing a sex-ed video in her living room's picture window, they'll blur the images without a request having to be made.

The street level photos go as far as Heber Springs and south Pine Bluff. But the satellite view of Smyrna is nice. There's a few street views near Scotland, Ark..... and here's Bee Branch. Oh well, there goes the productivity level. George will blame Google maps for the economic depression.

Hah, strange find, Hugh.

Eureka! No, not Eureka Springs, Eureka my Firefox is healed!!!!

Here is the fix to make your Firefox browser handle Google maps! Just follow directions, as strange as they sound and you'll be seeing me and jazzy buck naked in her picture window.

Reconfiguring the way your browser handles JavaScript may resolve this problem. If you're using Mac OS X or Windows with Mozilla Firefox 0.8+, Mozilla 1.4+, or Netscape 7.1+, just follow these steps:

1. Type "about:config" (without quotes) in the browser's location bar.
2. Type "image" (without quotes) in the Filter field.
3. Verify that "dom.disable_image_src_set" is set to FALSE.
4. Verify that "network.image.imageBehavior" is set to 0 (the default setting).

Please note that "network.image.imageBehavior" may appear as "permissions.default.image" for some browsers.