Maps and Geomapping

Okay, so maybe this one wasn't so much for me. Or maybe it's made for super-fast computers; maybe it's the 64-bit, 32 bit issue. But this was s-l-o-w and cumbersome for me.

I have used google maps before. Before we went to Disneyland last year, we got a street shot of what was on the road between our house and the park.

I did download Google earth to the particular computer I was using; no problem so far. But when I got to Google earth, the place to click to 'fly' somewhere was not evident at all. I finally figured it out, though I'm not sure I really know how I did it.

I guess I picked the wrong place to fly to, which was Walt Disney World. They've been touting that you can go right down Main Street, USA, though I never figured out how to do that, either from the offical Disney website or Google earth. They say you can see 3D images, but I didn't really see that, either, unless they are considering a photo of a resort '3D'. It took FOREVER to get from one place to another, too. Maybe it was because WDW has lots of graphics, etc.

So, I went to my house, which I found fairly easily, but when we got to my street, we got pretty fuzzy. They say you can 'swoop' down the street, but I didn't have much luck with that. I think I'm going to have to spend some time on the tutorial.

When I tried to print my house, what I got was a black rectangle on the sheet about three inches high and 7 1/2 inches across.

I guess it just wasn't my day.