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02-10-2010, 08:08 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Shore
Posts: 6,009
M.O.C. #7110
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Having fun or just board.. Is this your Montana?
This is somewhat interesting where you can use Google Maps and get street view photos almost anywhere in any city now. I looked for a few campgrounds and you can virtually see people’s campers in some searches. Here is one that shows at least two or three Montana’s in this park.
Open up Google then click on “maps” then type in “171 Casting Lake Rd” it will give you an option to click on “171 Casting Lake Rd, Miramar Beach, Walton, FL 32550“ select that option then zoom in on the main photo and then drag the little gold man at the top left of your screen to the roadway that shows Casting Lake Rd and you will get a bird’s eye view of someone’s Montana. It looks like they are getting ready to leave or are just getting set up. As a matter of fact you can see them in the photos. The quality isn’t good enough to tell who they are but who knows it may be one of us. You can move around on the screen following the line and get several different angles.
Your Montana might be in a Google search of a park somewhere. I found our truck and PT Cruiser sitting in front of Bob Evans in Portsmouth, Ohio when I Googled it using the map and the Bird’s eye view. You can search for your address and you might possibly see your home.
Have fun!
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2011 GMC 4X4 dually CC, 6.6 Duramax with Allison Transmission. Formally 2001 Montana,2007 3400RL Montana, presently 2018 3401RS Alpine.
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02-10-2010, 08:49 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Troy
Posts: 1,980
M.O.C. #808
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Did the same thing with Bing maps and saw out Montana beside our house.
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02-10-2010, 09:11 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Murrieta
Posts: 5,816
M.O.C. #9257
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Same here with Bing and Google maps and depending on picture view, bird's eye view or whatever they're called, I typed in my stickhouse address and sometimes the RV was there and sometimes not and sometimes only the TV. Knowing this I was able to tell when some of the pictures were taken because of where my truck, or RV was parked (on the street, in front of the driveway or in the setback of the garage. Now that's wierd to think we are being photographed at arbitrary times. But never in any picture was the car shown and there was only one week since we lived there that this happened which is why I can estimate when the pictures were taken (May 2009 or was that March 2009). Big Brother is not watching you, he is just taking snapshots at different times of the year for posting on the web.
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02-11-2010, 06:57 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Oceanside
Posts: 20,028
M.O.C. #20
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Amazing, isn't it? When we plan to be in a park more than a couple of days I try to use those satellite pictures to get a look at the park in advance. You can't see everything, of course, but it sure helps in the decision sometimes. One of the pictures of our "home park" in Independence, MO has our rig in it, we're pretty sure. But the aerial and the birds eye pictures are from different times so only one of them showed us.
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