google maps

hargi · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:23

quick question. im trying to find out which way my house faces been on google maps, would up be north? as theres no indicator?

Tefal · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:23

just zoom out till you see the north pole?

Zogger · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:24

sorry, but lol. Are you expecting it to spin round when you zoom in and out?

MarkLP · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:26

I'm sure theres a compass in one of the corners??

delta555 · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:28

hargi said:
quick question. im trying to find out which way my house faces been on google maps, would up be north? as theres no indicator?

Google maps uses a proprietary system for directions:

North
Out
or
Back

Which means that yes, up in google maps is north.

Zogger · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:41

delta555 said:
Google maps uses a proprietary system for directions:

North
Out
or
Back

Which means that yes, up in google maps is north.

took me a while to work out you were talking about the ol' N double O revision b system.

RetiredGreyFox · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:44

This is waaaaaay better and add the Virtual Earth enhancements - http://maps.live.com/

delta555 · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:50

Zogger said:
took me a while to work out you were talking about the ol' N double O revision b system.

Yeah, but i was spelling it out as it seemed he hadn't heard of it.