If you're having trouble with the "walking man" on googlemaps, read these directions.

I wrote this sad note to one of my blogging buddies.

"I'm still having trouble with controlling the google man.  I need to know how to switch from one side of the street to the other etc.  If I could do that I wouldn't have to drive around looking for these houses!!"

 Here is his reply that may help lots of us. 

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Simple really. Bring up your Google map. There's a zoom scale with a little man on top. Above that is a "compass rose".

Click and drag the man to the location you wish to view and release the button. Inevitably the little guy will be facing the wrong way.

Go to the compass rose and adjust it by clicking and dragging the "N" around:

With the "N"  pointing up you'll view the north side of an east-west street.

When the "N"  is at the bottom you are looking south.

To look west, on a north-south street, put the "N" on the right (East) side of the rose.

To look east; do just the opposite.

Sometimes you may be able to read a house number by clicking on the plus sign below the rose displayed with the street view..

If what you need to see isn't in the enlarged view, just click and drag the picture until it is.

Click again for more magnification.

Happy hunting. Hope you save  lots of gas, too.

BC

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Bob C, this was so much help to me, I think we need to share it.  Thanks for the help!!