Finding Banks With Yahoo Maps

[ianSF]

To make the most effective use of my sometimes limited hunting time, I plotted some bank locations on a yahoo map. As I live in a major city, there's branches all over. (If you live in a small town with few banks, this may not be useful to you unless you're planning a city trip.) I managed to scrape together a decent pile of cash for coin roll hunting this coming weekend, but I'm not going to have too much time to hunt due to other commitments.

On the main Yahoo page there's a link for maps. Click on this and bring up a map for your area. On the right hand side, there's now a function that lets one find the nearest restaurant, florist, ect. Click on the "Financial/ATM" tab and check the box next to "banks". Yahoo will overlay dots where there are bank branches.

If one clicks the "printable version" for the map, the dots change color, get numbers, and below the map will be a corresponding list of bank branches with addresses and phone numbers. This way it's easy to find the big clusters of banks in commercial areas even if one has never been there before. Printed versions of these maps will now live under the seat of my truck and in my backpack for when I happen to have some free time.

Happy hunting! Ian

 

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[ringding]

Ian, I have done exactly what you describe. Makes you wonder if maybe your search sets off some alarm at the FBI though. You know if there ever was a bank robbery and you got pulled over and had those maps sitting on your front seat, they may not believe your explanation. Anyhow, I tried it and it worked great. I live in a small town, but I did a search for a city about 45 minutes away that I have never visited.

 

[mr.theman]

I have used this method before also. My biggest problem is that I never decide to go until I get off work and am walking to my truck. I do have a state map and plan my routes with that. When I get to a town that I haven't been to before I look for the business district and stop at the first bank I see. While there I ask them were any other banks are in town and they can usually tell me right where they are at. I haven't hunted any big cities yet though. I don't imagine that my method will work very well in a big city .

HH
Mr.T

 

[bobr]

I tried this using a small town I know has a bank, but Yahoo didn't find it. It found banks in the surrounding towns, but not that one. You have to take their results with a grain of salt.

BTW... Other sites found the bank, but had the location wrong on the map.

 

[Postalrevnant]

Google Earth? Does it have a function where you can ask to highlight schools...places etc?

Dang I need to download that tonight and see. I was told you could pick an area and a particular type of place and it will show you all of them in the search area you choose.

If not the Yahoo tip is a good one TY.

Postalrevnant