How To See Photos of Your Potential New Tennessee Town (Knoxville: houses, neighborhood)

[LauraC]

From time to time, people post here looking for photos of their potential new Tennessee town.

Go to the Google homepage. Right above the search box you will see: web images video news maps more. Click on Images. It will bring you to a page that looks just like the Google homepage only this one just searches for photos/images. In the Images seach box type in the name of your town and TN like this -- Sevierville TN

It will search the web and return multiple images and multiple pages of images (places, maps, people) only of Sevierville Tennessee. I suggest putting TN at the end of the town name so you don't get images of other places named Sevierville. While Sevierville might be a one of a kind name, there is more than one town called Knoxville or Oak Ridge, for example.

You can click on any image to see it larger if it was larger on the website from which it came and you will have the opportunity to also click on the link to the website from which it came.

[TNNative]

Originally Posted by LauraC

From time to time, people post here looking for photos of their potential new Tennessee town.

Go to the Google homepage. Right above the search box you will see: web images video news maps more. Click on Images. It will bring you to a page that looks just like the Google homepage only this one just searches for photos/images. In the Images seach box type in the name of your town and TN like this -- Sevierville TN

It will search the web and return multiple images and multiple pages of images (places, maps, people) only of Sevierville Tennessee. I suggest putting TN at the end of the town name so you don't get images of other places named Sevierville. While Sevierville might be a one of a kind name, there is more than one town called Knoxville or Oak Ridge, for example.

You can click on any image to see it larger if it was larger on the website from which it came and you will have the opportunity to also click on the link to the website from which it came.

Laura, unforunately some of these images can be misleading. For example, Google images sometimes pulls up mountain scenery that was taken in a place in the Smoky Mountains known as the Greenbrier area, and for someone that does not know the difference, it can be confusing.

[Tek_Freek]

Wow. Good idea, but by the time I got to page 5 it was mostly geeky people, cats, and advertising. I like the idea, but it would be nice to figure out how to filter out some of that.

[Rapunzll]

I've done this many times, and more often than not, it gives me pictures of things in the town that are of no interest at all. Nice thought though!

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by TNNative

Laura, unforunately some of these images can be misleading. For example, Google images sometimes pulls up mountain scenery that was taken in a place in the Smoky Mountains known as the Greenbrier area, and for someone that does not know the difference, it can be confusing.

I guess after I click on the photo, I go to the webpage the photo comes from to make sure of what I'm looking at. I do know there are an awful lot of Oak Ridges out there because I also get Oak Ridge news alerts from Google.

I actually like to click on the group photos (like some church choir or some bowling team or some company picnic) of people every once and awhile to find out how they are tied to the town. I also like to click on the photos of houses especially if I can place them in a neighborhood. And, I never met a map I didn't like.

[Tinman313]

Their are great photo's but all so the photo's are linked too advertisers and the local civic groups.......

[BOAT RIDE]

One might also use google earth or microsoft live local to view the town they want to see. It will only be a birds eye view for the most part but it could give someone an idea of the size and layout of the town and maybe how industrialized it is. I use both alot when I'm going to travel to a new place.