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use google maps to find new skate spots
« on: April 11, 2010, 10:27:35 PM »
ya so recently I've been too lazy to venture off and find new spots in my area.  i still do drive to a new area and skate around and look for shit.  but now i'm into using google maps "street view". 

kinda lame, i know, but fuck i'm saving so much time.  does anybody else do this?  any success?

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2010, 11:19:54 PM »
Never thought about it. You can't really check out the depth of it though...?

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2010, 11:43:45 PM »
kinda lame.

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2010, 11:54:40 PM »
ive used it to confirm spot locations.

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2010, 11:55:53 PM »
i know a filmer who swears by google earth! haha chills at home zooming in with sattelites and shit

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2010, 11:59:10 PM »
ive used it to confirm spot locations.

Don't deribrately go out looking. Just cruise and stumble on those hidden gems.

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2010, 12:02:36 AM »
defeats the purpose
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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2010, 12:42:15 AM »
Most of the time, google maps is dated a few years. So the spot might not be there or have been altered.

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2010, 07:01:24 AM »
i heard John Motta does this a lot.
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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2010, 07:44:12 AM »
i hear a lot of people do this, they just wont admit to it to discourage other people from using it themselves.

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2010, 09:21:09 AM »
This was a thread already, no?
and i'll still say its lame, go skate! quit sitting!
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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2010, 10:37:55 AM »
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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2010, 10:43:27 AM »
i use it all the time but not for finding spots, but its good for finding ditches.

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2010, 10:46:43 AM »
i use it all the time but not for finding spots, but its good for finding ditches.
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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2010, 10:47:17 AM »
i know a filmer who swears by google earth! haha chills at home zooming in with sattelites and shit

i've heard of dudes using google earth to find empty pools.  my boss actually had some skaters come to his house when his pool was drained and try to break in the backyard.  luckily for them he is a cool person and was cool about it.  they told him they found his pool on Google Earth.  pretty mindblowing actually
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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2010, 10:49:55 AM »
It seems like a fun thing to do to find spots in other cities or something, but why wouldn't you want to just go cruise and find spots on your own?
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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2010, 12:15:46 PM »
I remember on the old eS website it had something like this where you put spots on like a modified google earth and could find them in your area. It had the doctor's office banks in Cincinnati (watch Kelch's epicly later'd)

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2010, 01:03:03 PM »
i wonder if you can see le dome on street view, i dont have time to look right now
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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2010, 01:09:04 PM »
yeah pools. look for the blue blotches and then zoom in. everybody knows this though. what's the big deal? i mean, dudes used to rent helicopters to do that shit.

street spots? naaah. the cruise.

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2010, 01:28:30 PM »
im never skated a pool I wasnt invited to, yall telling me niggas just go to people back yards and skate the pools?

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2010, 01:55:44 PM »
if I find a pool, I'm not going to sit on my hands waiting for some fucking invite, I'm going to try to skate it...

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2010, 01:59:49 PM »

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2010, 02:05:22 PM »
i heard John Motta does this a lot.

He said in an interview he like to just cruise with his car looking for spots. But that was a few years back, maybe the street view was not covered as much or something.

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #23 on: April 12, 2010, 03:18:35 PM »
im never skated a pool I wasnt invited to, yall telling me niggas just go to people back yards and skate the pools?

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2010, 09:48:43 PM »
I did this to find the China Banks.

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Re: use google maps to find new skate spots
« Reply #26 on: April 12, 2010, 10:45:34 PM »
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pier+14+san+francisco&sll=37.746524,-122.376301&sspn=0.008365,0.012767&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Pier+14,+San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&ll=37.798779,-122.396839&spn=0.000527,0.000798&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=37.798724,-122.397039&panoid=SkDBWxq0D8TDnu3tf-Ft_w&cbp=13,99.39,,0,5

not sure why no one has skated this...

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pier+14+san+francisco&sll=37.746524,-122.376301&sspn=0.008365,0.012767&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Pier+14,+San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&ll=37.797002,-122.398983&spn=0.000527,0.000798&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=37.797019,-122.398854&panoid=vuGRXvdkZQYZY8H0NE37Ww&cbp=13,353,,0,5


this is dope you can actually see a guy skating!

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pier+14+san+francisco&sll=37.746524,-122.376301&sspn=0.008365,0.012767&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Pier+14,+San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&ll=37.796142,-122.398711&spn=0.000527,0.000798&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=37.796106,-122.398793&panoid=zTy1noJ8iIKE9x52vXO62A&cbp=13,266.32,,0,5

THE ILLUSTRIOUS HUBBA HIDEOUT

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pier+14+san+francisco&sll=37.746524,-122.376301&sspn=0.008365,0.012767&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Pier+14,+San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&ll=37.79561,-122.398054&spn=0.000527,0.000798&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=37.795694,-122.398071&panoid=cd5NNB6omGzZOX1kJdg4pw&cbp=13,120.67,,0,5

the ledges you were wondering why no one skates... thats really close to my work and the ground there is terrible/rough. although jaya bonderov did 5050 that insane white handrail, which is totally fucked. fun park to kick it in on a warm day.