Toronto is now on GOOGLE Street view !

[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]

[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:-

the streetview itself
And the associated left hand pane in which Google most helpfully lists the occupants of the building!!:-

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

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



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

[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

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

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 .
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

[Sydney Steve]

Originally Posted by johnfowles

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 !