Google Maps Streetview

i like msn virtual earth bird's eye view/3D view. disclaimer: it's msn.

http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/

hmm. the original url doesn't work for some reason when you click on the link. just cut and paste it if you're interested, i guess.

My car is in two places simultaneously. I guess their camera-car came by my place when I was home, and my friend's place when I was there.

I'm a little disappointed by the low resolution. I can't even read the sign at the site of my old favorite restaurant, to see if it's changed. Of course it might be a little creepy if you could zoom into peoples windows...

Albany, Richmond, Albuquerque, Boise and many others added now. I make it 41 cities in total

oh god, goodbye office productivity
i've just spent half of the afternoon, "cruising" the streets of Anchorage

You've gotta get your bearings!

didn't notice Anchorage and Juneau. thats 43 cities in total

my sister is freaked out that she can see her car at her apt and her office (albany) using this. it wouldn't really bother me, i think it's cool. at least the resolution of the photos isn't high enough to make out the license plate!

http://tinyurl.com/5w4you

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&q=6436+S+Oakley+Ave,+Chicago,+IL+60636,+USA&layer=c&cbll=41.776747,-87.681011&panoid=R4fqWJEJkVCRco2uu3GK9Q&cbp=1,261.1320878166891,,1,9.011977324668344&ll=41.780241,-87.680168&spn=0.006992,0.016072&z=16

bang!

Typically the British press are getting their knickers in a twist about this, snoopers charter, invasion of privacy, licence for thieves to case out properties etc. Clearly the useless twunts haven't even looked at the US experience. I can't wait till they get my streeet and the rest of the UK photographed.

I saw the car, wonder if I'll be in a pic.

I drove past the car, and then it pulled out behind me and was sat there as we waited at lights. I really hope I'm in there (although the car's on Google Maps already at the previous owner's house).

when you virtually walk down our street youll see our next door neighbor standing at the back of her minivan staring straight at the camera and looking kind of shocked

I am amazed that my crap rural town is in street view already. You can see our broken freezer in the driveway, giving our house just that little extra bit o country.

Has anyone seen the camera?

Why can't you use streetview in London?

yeah dunno what the holdup is - the picture-taking cars have been driving around for london for a while now

Move up two clicks, then look down and to the left.

That's fucked up!

jeezus. If you go another click further and keep looking back, it's all the way in the ditch.

omgggggg

and if u go one more they stop the van

When Google Streeview inevitably helps solve a murder in a city, please bump this thread.

OMG!!!

http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=UTF-8&q=8+Sampsonia+Way,+Pittsburgh,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15212&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ll=40.458262,-80.007505&spn=0.008588,0.01693&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=40.457662,-80.007541&panoid=KD0g-IcPQW09qFcP2RU2kg&cbp=12,310.45443546675455,,1,10.375837805207798

shenanigans

lol

Move up two clicks, then look down and to the left.

― James Mitchell, Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:48 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

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wasn't there one w/ some chick flashing the van?

I'm so brilliant, at first I thought, "Why did they find a dead deer in the ditch and throw it back up on the road?"

I still can't get that one to work

When Google Streeview inevitably helps solve a murder in a city, please bump this thread.

Will you accept a kidnapping?

i've been caught by google street view twice now.

Also pot bust.

I will not accept the kidnapping success story. I will only accept a shot of someone chasing another person with a bloody knife raised high!

Landmarks and skyscrapers I can see. But ordinary people's homes? Christ some of these spoiled internet assholes need a dose of reality. Motherfucking hate these people.

there's this jogger guy i always see around my bf's neighborhood and it turns out he's in the google streetview picture of my bf's house!!

I just discovered that google streetview existed yesterday. Accidentally. I inadvertently clicked something or another trying to see what part of Auckland my new apartment was in when suddenly a vivid, sunny, interactive panorama was presented to me and I was like OMG MY NEW LIFE and it was crazy.

Gathering the imagery for Street View requires quite a bit of driving; as such, we take safety very seriously. Unfortunately, accidents do happen -- as some people have noticed, one of our Street View cars hit a deer while driving on a rural road in upstate New York. Due to several user requests using the "Report a concern" tool, these images are no longer available in Street View.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/01/oh-deer-street-view-and-road-safety.html

OK so its gone already? Anyone get a screenie?

http://i.gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps

London's up

I drove past the car, and then it pulled out behind me and was sat there as we waited at lights. I really hope I'm in there (although the car's on Google Maps already at the previous owner's house).

― Bocken Social Scene, Friday, 11 July 2008 14:37

It is!

glasgow's up too, you can see my flat but not my street

link

Can't see meself at Camberwell.

bit creeped out by this tbh

My house is the one with the black window frames and 'For Sale' sign outside. I'm at work right now, if anyone wants to go round and rob me.

wtf are you all doing posting your addresses on the internet

what?

Can't see meself at Camberwell.

Pics are taken from the other side of the road from where I saw the car :(

my living room window = above and to the right of the blue arrow:

I'm going to come round and murder you or some lurker is

It's the quiet ones you have to worry about.

Am expecting paparazzi when I get home.

ledge, call 999, say you're having a stroke and see how long they take.

follow fallen branch on top of of electric box thing and that's my bedroom window open.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=se1+7bb&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.248626,39.550781&ie=UTF8&ll=51.499738,-0.109452&spn=0.019743,0.038624&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.499831,-0.109393&panoid=spft1A4b2JgGcZEsRbrxjA&cbp=12,353.64662429373345,,0,4.299999999999999

oops, sorry, biggest link ever.

Also appears to be my house. I cannot believe you posted a picture of my house on the internet!!

erm, that went wrong, i'll try again.

my parked car is at neither my old residence, nor my new one. i appear to have vanished.

how come stevie never posts here anymore?

follow fallen branch on top of of electric box thing and that's my bedroom window open.
<iframe width="425" height="240" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/sv?cbp=12,305.3486422857701,,0,5&cbll=53.449877,-2.274035&panoid=&v=1&hl=en&gl=uk";></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=Manchester+M16+0ED,+UK&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=20.193763,51.328125&ie=UTF8&z=14&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=53.449877,-2.274035&panoid=ZNCaZJ_8g0IndtzdwAVJEg&cbp=12,305.3486422857701,,0,5&ll=53.457547,-2.270136"; style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

fucking hell, what a mess.
sorry everyone, any mods wanna make it look pretty, feel free.

also ledge, soz!

i'm complaining to my mp.

fair enough, tell mine too, it'll give him something to do.

my mate just sent me photos of both the outside of my house and my girlfriends. theyve got the numbers wrong which is a bit less unnerving. my upstairs window is open though, and it also makes my house look lovely, i hope it doesnt mean we get robbed

It can't get past the gates of my poncey estate. Take that, The Man!

Bloody typical - Derby, Nottingham, Coventry...no Leicester...we are truly the Forgotten City.

Amazing quality though - seems better than a lot of the US streetviews - are they using a different camera?

And they seemed to have gone around Birmingham city centre in the dark...

Hull of course is the first and true Forgotten City and we've been left out again here. ( leicester missing is wrong too.)

Scunthorpe though... why? eh?

Oh hey, Oxford streetview!

Which goes no further west than the station, so I can't invite you all to spy on my work. Not that you'd want to.

I accidentally ended up outside my GP's surgery when trying to drag the icon to somewhere a couple of blocks away from it, and am relieved to note that I am not pictured coming out of the door clutching pamphlets about embarrassing conditions or anything.

Daily Mail readers wade in - difficult to tell which ones (if any) are taking the piss...

What an invasion of privacy-google is a cancer and should be obliterated, what happened to our right of privacy, I saw one of these last week parked in a private driveway near Totton College in Southampton am I glad I'm emigrating.

Wow. Just looked at a picture of my house without any cars in the driveway and got a little creeped out. This is what your house looks like when someone's casing the joint!

Fancyapint.com in like Flynn!

I've been caught by the Google street view van TWICE now. The first one seems to be gone now, thank fuck.

link?

The camera seems to be going mental around ledge's place--side-on and close to the google van on both sides it's all distorted, all around the streets in that area

Actually, it's like that all over the UK: software seems to have done a bad job editing out the van.

I think its funny you guys are all "omg this is creepy" - when streetview debuted in Aus last year everyone I knew was completely "OMG THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER LOOK THERES MY HOUSE!" at work and productivity went to zero for about 4 hours.

I'm excited!

Also we don't do any work anyway.

omg this thing is so funking useful!!

I think its funny you guys are all "omg this is creepy" - when streetview debuted in Aus last year everyone I knew was completely "OMG THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER LOOK THERES MY HOUSE!" at work and productivity went to zero for about 4 hours.

Same here--people spent all their time finding pics of workmates roaming the streets and sticking them up on pinboards.

Street view in my suburb ends two blocks from my house. :\

Holy crap, wait, no, they changed it! I can tell this was taken on a Thursday morning, sometime between 8am and noon, because there is recycling waiting to be picked up on my tree lawn, but the trash has been picked up already.

if only SPECTRE in james bond had this tool
http://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Greek+St&daddr=Dean+St+to:Margaret+St&hl=en&geocode=FRYMEgMdxv_9_w;FUIQEgMdqvX9_w;FUYTEgMdVs_9_w&mra=cc&via=1&rtol=0,1,2&dirflg=w&sll=51.513717,-0.134647&sspn=0.004901,0.009656&ie=UTF8&ll=51.514485,-0.135323

sorry wrong link
http://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Greek+St&daddr=Dean+St+to:Margaret+St&hl=en&geocode=FRYMEgMdxv_9_w%3BFUIQEgMdqvX9_w%3BFUYTEgMdVs_9_w&mra=cc&via=1&rtol=0,1,2&dirflg=w&sll=51.513717,-0.134647&sspn=0.004901,0.009656&ie=UTF8&ll=51.503059,-0.126096&spn=0,359.991578&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.503166,-0.126113&panoid=4m9IGtmq8ZR4YEv3T6IYVw&cbp=12,268.726035518684,,1,4.667583055269528

if anything i think the widespread acceptance, even excitement, is more disturbing than the actual photos - i don't assume my flat will be burgled or that i'll be stalked b/c of it (though if i'd had stalker problems ever i'd be petrified about it) - it just transgresses a basic expectation of privacy for me. ok, any random lunatic could take pictures of my flat and put them on flickr or whatever, but that would still be indefensibly creepy, and this just makes the creepiness so much more official. it's awful.

people can walk down your road

http://neoshinka.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/lost_highway_robert_blake_video_camera_400.jpg

People taking pictures of your flat would only be creepy if they are doing it because they wanted to take a picture of your flat for no reason (or for personal reasons to you)?

Pancakes Hackman, why does your neighbourhood hate front fences?

Beats me! They're not very common in this entire suburb.

A lot of the families here are Orthodox Jewish, and have tons of kids who all run around through each other's yards, so maybe that's part of it? We're going to put up a small fence or hedge, though.

How about some piano wire six inches off the ground?

yah its not like all the houses are tagged with who lives there. it's just streetscapes right? no different to driving down to high st to see what it looks like

I'm looking for a new flat at the moment and am finding this thing very helpful

stfu creep

All the orthodox jews in my neighbourhood must have complained to google, because within weeks of my area going up on streetview, large chunks of the surrounding streets disappeared again. Not whole streets - just bits, 2-5 properties wide.

It then occurred to me each was where a temple or jewish high school was.

I dont understand the paranoia, but eh *shrug*. Its not like the places arent blazingly obviously jewish temples/schools when you pass them on the road!

They snapped my place on trash day too.

Makes it look like there's always trash in front of my house :(

- can you seriously not work out why jewish bodies might not want detailed pictures of their institutions, locations and environs on the internet
- do you seriously think that people being able to walk down your street on is the same level of intrusion as this

I don't see how someone looking at a static picture of my house counts as intrusion.

not seeing the big deal here.

i mean the problem. the application itself is kind of woah.

Dont get me wrong, I know exactly why they'd want to be removed. I just think it's a bit uneccesary - these are very visibly jewish institutions with signage and gates and banners and its not like theyre area 51 or something. Still, I dunno.

Also a picture of a house on an indeterminate date months ago. Aren't churches/synagogues/places of worship marked on maps anyway? Now you can see a picture and see that the big churchy-looking building at the address of a church is actually a church after all.

next thing you know they'll be publishing books with people's names addresses and phone numbers in.

They took the picture of my house well over a year ago cos the front yard isn't covered in rubbish and weeds, it looks all neat and tidy. I gave up trying to clean it up a long time ago, it was a losing battle.

will never happen

if you saw someone outside your flat staring at and studying the building - not in a casual, walking-past way, but loitering and looking closely & carefully - would you not be creeped out and discomfited? if i saw that i'd be calling the fucking police. if someone physically did that there's a reasonable expectation that someone would see them, but the thing with google street view is that anyone can do this without you knowing.

apparently there was some furore when this was rolled out in japan - cis sent me links to the debate here and here - cut through the "cultural divisions" argument and plenty of the points are massively otm

also you may not necessarily have had problems with stalkers, or wanted to keep certain people from knowing too much about where you live or work, but it should seem obvious that plenty of people do have to think about such issues.

does anyone know how often the streetviews are updated?

i looked at my old houses and have no idea when they were taken, if i was living there at the time or not. there were some blurred-face people around, but pretty sure none were me.

surely the whole point of stalking is you have some idea of the stalkee before stalking them? ie not randomly scrolling through streetviews and looking out for blurred-face people... idk, maybe even stalkers are aspie shut-ins these days. but the odds of someone finding out where you live or work from streetviews have got to be pretty small.

If my stalker doesn't know where I live, no problem. If the stalker knows or can find out where I live, that's a problem regardless of streetview. Don't see how this enables anything.

Maybe if you leave your key in view through the window...

http://vision.ucsd.edu/~blaxton/pagePapers/laxton_wang_savage_ccs2008.pdf
"Using modest imaging equipment and standard computer vision al-
gorithms, we demonstrate the effectiveness of physical key teledu-
plication — extracting a key’s complete and precise bitting code at
a distance via optical decoding and then cutting precise duplicates"

- if they ever bring out a super-hi-rez version.

Who fancies playing the BNP members streetview game then?

they're updated every two to three years apparently. if you don't want your house featured, you can have it obscured. police are happy with it. information commissioner is happy with it. whiners stfu.

thanks for links lex, those were interesting

says he in his cator estate ivory tower xxp

people are focusing too much on actual concrete consequences - i'm not arguing that bad things will definitely happen as a result of this, but it instinctively feels intrusive and uncomfortable, and for people with security concerns, it does absolutely nothing for their peace of mind

It's odd that this weirds so many people out considering people have been for several years totally okay with the idea of putting pictures of their face on the internet, with their name attached, for anyone to see, and even with the notion that it's virtually impossible to stop people from doing so in this day and age. But as soon as houses come into it people freak.

There's another argument to be made about sheer saturation of information, one house among hundreds of thousands of others isn't really that interesting, unless you have a special reason to be interested in it. In which case that's either creepy or not depending on your interest and, as Ledge says, if that reason is creepy then whether you can look at that house on the internet is almost irrelevant seeing as you can turn up there in person any time you want.

it's not about houses vs faces - it's an issue of control. putting photos of myself on the internet is an information flow that i'm 99% in charge of - this is something i have no control whatsoever over.

and turning up in person to do creepy shit and loiter around is absolutely not the same thing as being able to study and look closely on the internet. the first will probably get you arrested, for one thing.

it seems so innocuous tho in terms of actual useful stuff it outputs: bcs it is updated so infrequently it doesn't really give stalkers/thiefs all that much useful information (terrorists/etc it gives more useful info perhaps). compared to something like club cards, e.g, and which seem to me much more invasive of privacy, giving tesco/etc a daily account of everything you buy and letting them target you based on that. but again with these and with facebook I'm giving my explicit consent for the info to be shared. I guess I'm giving google tacit consent by not complaining to them?

But if someone wants to take a photo of your house and put it on the internet without your consent they have been able to do so for years. At least with Google it's accountable to them and you can get it removed.

(Someone needs to try that with their house, see how long it takes)

I was gonna say that's still not equivalent but then I remembered that you can upload your own "streetviews" to google maps can't you?

what about people putting photos of you on the internet?

Actually it took about 30 seconds of Googling to find an unauthorised picture taken of my house with information about its exact location. And I assume it's been there for a while.

In attempting to argue with the Lex I've actually succeeded in weirding myself out now.

for stalking purposes, i'd be more worried about ilx before i worry about googlestreetview, to be honest.

What's really annoying about Google Streetview is that it actually restricts itself to streets so there are huge swathes of eg Hampstead Heath that you can't actually see. Including the view from the top of Parliament Hill I think.

i DO worry about ilx

It never phones, it never writes...

clubcards don't seem odd to me. i mean, you know what you're letting yourself in for, there's a specific reward, and tbh i couldn't care less about targeted marketing - it's not like i'm being forced to buy anything

if you saw someone outside your flat staring at and studying the building - not in a casual, walking-past way, but loitering and looking closely & carefully - would you not be creeped out and discomfited? if i saw that i'd be calling the fucking police.

I do exactly what you are describing AND then take photos AND then put them on flickr. As do quite a few weirdo creeps like me...
Modernist houses group on flickr
Post war houses in the UK group on flickr
No-one has ever called the police on any of us as far as I know. Usually people are intrigued that someone is interested in their houses.

many x-posts also there's other gaps like they can't drive down Oxford Street, and other places like in Kings Cross where they'ev just got fed up with one-way systems and miss out streets.

wtf are those flickr groups

apart from anything else that's just fucking impolite

Yeah, because no-one has ever taken photos of houses before. What the hell are you talking about?

are the google bikes they use for narrow streets motorbikes or bicycles? if it's the latter, they should def send them through the parks.

wtf are those flickr groups

More specifically they're amazing resource for anyone interested in domestic architecture of the twentieth century. Instead of having to buy really really expensive architecture books.

yeah who cares what the people living in those houses might think

are the google bikes they use for narrow streets motorbikes or bicycles? if it's the latter, they should def send them through the parks.

Blurred-out faces of irate (or smug, more likely) members of the Parks Constabulary in every frame.

I have taken pictures of random people's houses and put them on the internet before (like, every fucking time I go on holiday for one thing). I think that's part and parcel of living in an architecturally striking house, you accept that people are going to stop and look at it and take photos for ages.

yeah who cares what the people living in those houses might think

― lex pretend, Friday, March 20, 2009 11:15 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Well I care and if someone objected I'd take down their photo but I'd also point out to them that it's pretty pointless. You seem to be arguing against a whole history of photography.

lex if you were standing in the window with your willy out then maybe you'd have a point. but there's nothing private about the outside of a house unless you build a big fucking wall around it, always been the case for obvious reasons and google streetview does nothing to change that. Also I'm really worried by the idea that people walking down the public street looking at stuff (with their eyes!) should be arrested! That's the real big brother shit, not this.

By the way Alex you really shouldn't leave your rubbish piled outside like that.

if i could, i would definitely live in a house with a big wall around it

what if people take a photo of that big wall?

weird houses with big wall in front of it flickr group

you'd have to put another big wall around that one.

http://www.movieforum.com/movies/titles/labyrinth/images/labyrinth.jpg

oh no you can still see the house ;_;

no the castle at the top is just a decoy the house is somewhere behind the wall.

can still see Lex's willy.

Lex yesterday - waiting for those pesky googleflickr folk...
http://www.davethewave.co.uk/hector/book/hector-the-gardener-front.jpg

http://www.davethewave.co.uk/hector/book/hector-the-gardener-front.jpg

Hahaha Tomofthenest I got that one...

Hey - it's our old place in London! They've painted the outside:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=percy+circus+london&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.638819,79.101563&ie=UTF8&ll=51.529145,-0.114605&spn=0.007422,0.019312&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.52909,-0.114817&panoid=EeW8O191LOyEmyDxj-VmFQ&cbp=12,141.6283033276249,,0,5.000000000000001

And there's a Travel Lodge there now! That's definitely new.

Nice. Looks like half of it got bombed during the war or something? That crescent is quite difficult to navigate on this.

Yeah, it is hard to navigate. So cool to see now though and notice little changes etc.

they've found wally btw - he's hidden on putney high street, outside the o2 shop.

http://tinyurl.com/dyqqz6

This is the house near me that I have been raving about for ages. I want to live here.

Maybe there will be some uproar about local councils using this to see if people have done anything to their house fronts without planning permission or something.

That house is awesome!!! I don't blame you for wanting to live there.

My old office building.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=vauxhall+bridge+road+london&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.638819,79.101563&ie=UTF8&ll=51.488598,-0.129218&spn=0.007429,0.019312&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.488669,-0.129352&panoid=IECletTIxT8Vk6CNN_vmIA&cbp=12,102.61534147518684,,0,5

Was hoping I'd spot ex co-workers but no such luck.

Nice little green bit in the middle - I love the little squares/circuses in Islington.
At the bottom of Great Percy Street at the junction with Kings Cross Road there's a traffic warden(?-CPSO?) without her face blurred out!

xp to ENBB's original post about where she used to live, incidentally.

Ned, yeah I really loved living there. It was so central but so cute.

I didn't realize faces were supposed to be blurred out!

They have some software that is supposed to do it I think? It's a bit hit and miss though.

My old office building.

So, across the bridge from MI5 then eh?

I'm more concerned about having my telephone number and address available in a directory to thousands of people than google streetview.

x-post Yep, right across. I see the lady now!

you know what i'd love to see? photos of streets where i grew up, but from different eras in the past. you get some of these on the transport for london site, i guess. but its ace, to get a feel for how those areas have changed, especially the ones which are now pedestrianised shopping centre type areas, like my former ends of wimbledon.

they don't have to be 3d or nuthin.

The massive brutalist wonder that is Pimlico School appears to still be there and I thought they'd demolished that.

It's quite good to be able to check places like that out without having the haul my arse across London for it, I must admit.

The hit and miss-ness of the face blurring is obvious from the link to the Pagoda House Matt linked to - the mini in front of the house has it's wheels blurred out.

they blurred out the mural of bobby sands on the falls road too.

x-post Or across an ocean as the case would be for me right now.

What would be really cool would be if you could enter in a start and end point and it would automatically 'walk' the route for you.

That would be absolutely fantastic. I spent last night looking at Dundee, where I used to live, 'walking' through some of the places which I spent a lot of time around and although interesting the constant clicking and dead ends can be quite tedious.

xp Pimlico School is definitely going - but in stages - they've knocked down one bit and started building the new one, the rest goes this year.

http://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=twickenham&sll=51.503059,-0.126096&sspn=0,359.99043&dirflg=w&ie=UTF8&ll=51.433116,-0.338516&spn=0.006073,0.03828&z=15&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.433007,-0.338548&panoid=66AP6bR9-UqJGluciDaFyg&cbp=12,200.4840870734139,,0,-2.163677130044837

pub i used to frequent when i lived in london :'''''''''(

good idea Matt. altho maybe we should cut to the chase and make it a proper video game.

aw i liked pimlico school.

ENBB: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=highgate&sll=51.529145,-0.114605&sspn=0.004792,0.013218&g=percy+circus+london&ie=UTF8&ll=51.575939,-0.143402&spn=0.001197,0.003304&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.576226,-0.143839&panoid=78jCXjyZkO9JknSK38i74A&cbp=12,20.178142241538552,,0,2.662337662337663

http://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rowans&sll=51.433116,-0.338516&sspn=0.014555,0.026436&g=twickenham&ie=UTF8&ll=51.56484,-0.105143&spn=0,359.986782&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.564916,-0.105258&panoid=W19H6j5pQmlR_XhG-ijaTw&cbp=12,9.798431821001292,,0,-2.8896103896103833

few things as sad to me as a boarded up pub.

good idea Matt. altho maybe we should cut to the chase and make it a proper video game.

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:01 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes and with added functions like stealing cars and shooting people

aw i liked pimlico school.

yeah, but its like a huge greenhouse when the sun's out, innit. impressive building, though.

Ken - YAY!!!! Too bad pic wasn't from a Tuesday when the music quiz duo were entering the establishment. Now that I would have liked to see. Still, awesome.

Aw, the Headington roof-shark in Oxford is all shored up by scaffolding ;_;
http://tinyurl.com/cck4ll

I've just been interviewed by the local paper re: the shocking exclusion of Leicester from streetview. I think they might have trapped me into saying rude things about Scunthorpe. For which I apologise to all Scunthorpians, but you know wot journos are like...

Dave Gorman is claiming HE is on streetview. It doesn't look much like him to me.

I found a picture of a guy from work walking to work. Looks like this area was pictured at about 7 in the morning, meaning there's no chance of me being on it unless they took a picture of my bed.

Blimey, I can see my neighbours walking out of their gate!

Coming soon Google Bed View

They're apparently going to be talking to someone from Google on PM (BBC Radio 4) shortly.

This is incredibly creepy!

But making the little yellow man walk around is fun, nintendo should make it into a game, coz it's as involving as Animal Crossing.

my grans old house looks well manky now :(

just typing "Ealing" will give you a picture of a guy taking a picture of the google car!

Missed this - Paisley jnr. almost as daft as his dad.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/technology-gadgets/google-maps-street-view-lsquomay-be-a-security-threatrsquo-14237716.html

Mad comments too. I find it hard to believe that some people actually think this is a livefeed.

personally its a good idea but i am not at all happy that people ca get such a close up of my home....that is my sanctuary and if wish for burglar
to get such a close up re access...i am not happy at all

Thanks for clearing that up Anna.

i will coment when i get on to it

Posted by mary | 21.03.09, 22:16 GMT

outside the office I work in in Clerkenwell, you can see a girl from my office sat on the front steps crying, while another dude from the office consoles her

it's on the east end of Aylesbury St, Islington

found it, jeepers.

also randomly found a view of a guy working underneath his car, the odd thing about it was that it seemed to be in some kind of quiet cul de sac neighbourhood. something eerie about the google van driving around somewhere so secluded.

i was thinking about starting a thread containing street views of addresses celebrated in song but electric avenue has not been mapped so fuck it

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Electric_Avenue_Market_01.JPG/300px-Electric_Avenue_Market_01.JPG

Is that electric avenue?

outside the office I work in in Clerkenwell, you can see a girl from my office sat on the front steps crying, while another dude from the office consoles her

nothing creepy or intrusive or wrong about that at all, oh no!

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_01/kissTIME1208_600x897.jpg

What an invasion of privacy!

giant corporation gloats over individual woman's indeterminable grief

i take it you two would be ok with a recognisable image of yourself crying on the street was on this, then?

what if you were so upset by the possibility of your privacy being invaded that you ran out onto the street to cry and then the google van took a picture of you

I do all my crying on the dance floor.

i believe it was because a child kicked a ball in her face

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7961000/7961224.stm

what an invasion of privacy!

last 10 posts or so = total fucking excelsior

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/starla_zero/emoboy6ez.jpg

none of the last 10 posts are funny, like, at all

^^^this one is

what if the google van took a picture of me laughing at these posts

boxes w/in boxes

mostly just max's post tbh but that 60-foot penis swayed my praise

because faces are blurred it's not at all obvious that someone might be crying. gnarly sceptre you carl lewis of conclusions, honestly...

Maybe he was the dude doing the consoling?

I love viewing decrepit small towns in rural southern US. Behold, Hughes Arkansas, which I drove through once to get to the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=hughes+arkansas&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=IwLJSZCsHYLnnQfksa2PAw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

wow so much space. pretty bleak altho kinda love the Poor Boy's Liquor sign.

the gnarly spectre colleague picture looked like the dude was kissing the girl. Spread that round the office please.

Do Google image vans not go south of the river or something? How come Electric Avenue hasn't been done when my little street out in Zone 3 has?

Google Street View omits roads not passable by traffic. The market on Electric Avenue prevents traffic access. Same with Ridley Road in Dalston, which is also not covered.

they don't seem to have done the roads where my office is, just off Old St/City Rd

There's other roads around Brixton you can't go down on Street View that are traffic accessible, I reckon they're just shirking.

Oh come on people, this again? If you don't want to be photographed doing something, don't do it in public.

Heh the closet of the crying lass pics is deleted , I wonder if they asked it to be taken off.

Closest. Gah.

my girlfriend just showed me her home in japan, and then took me on a little tour of her town. she said it helps cure her home sickness, taking these little virtual walks. i thought that was incredibly sweet.

Busta Rhymes always headlines the Streetview... WOO HAH

I just checked in with my old college house that I shared with three other guys and yep, it appears to be a daycare now.

I just looked round the streets of the little beach village in southern NSW that we spent all our childhood summers in... havent been back there in like 10 or 15 years. Boy did I feel homesick, and it's not even home!

Heh the closet of the crying lass pics is deleted , I wonder if they asked it to be taken off.

― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 10:38 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

it's still there, just further along

Ah no what I meant is, yeah you can see them in 3 or 4 frames but as you move up the street closer to them, one frame's been deleted.

oh i see now

i can see my bike on this thing, out the front of my old sharehouse

my long since stolen and trashed car is in front of my old house :\

RIP

Behold, Hughes Arkansas,
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3384738930_4821dfd447_o.jpg
This is pretty much what I imagined the USA to look like (outside of cities) until I was in my teens.

You should try dragging the little figure to Australia - outside of the cities it looks like Mars with stubby trees. And I also had my first Google Maps Streetview dream last night - I dreamt that I was Streetviewing along the main street of my home town, but when they took the pictures there was a carnival in progress, so all I could see was floats and people dressed in costumes.

http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=55.852938,-4.307327&z=15&layer=c&cbll=55.850552,-4.304141&cbp=12,5.343154515894224,,1,2.012916204217535

Haha. Ned, that pretty much IS what the US looks like where I'm from! You might need to add a farm supplies store, then you'll have it.

its true a lot of the country looks more or less like that

I just realized, y'all probably havent seen the "best" part of Hughes, Arkansas. If you plug in 106 Bush St, it'll take you up a bit from Poor Boy's Liquor to a completely abandoned retail block. I'm fascinated looking at stuff like this, don't know why.

The rural south is obv poorer than the norm, but yeah churches and a farm supplies store pretty much defines small town America in general.

vermont
http://i40.tinypic.com/2s9bub9.jpg

iowa
http://i39.tinypic.com/116rimr.jpg

montana
http://i42.tinypic.com/2zi78uc.jpg

california
http://i39.tinypic.com/o8t4xg.jpg

Oh God that Montana one is awful.

outside the office I work in in Clerkenwell, you can see a girl from my office sat on the front steps crying, while another dude from the office consoles her

nothing creepy or intrusive or wrong about that at all, oh no!

Creepy is when you follow around a particular person and photograph them crying. Creepy is not when you take a pic of a building and a crying person just has to get themselves in the frame.

A person crying in public is really invading the public space with their weeping, y'know? It's not an invasion of privacy. It's an invasion of publicity.

Did you guys hear about the aus guy who's friend had died, so after the wake he went and got proper trashed (fair enough I suppose) and passed out on his front lawn somehow. And thats when mr Googlevan went by, and snapped him sprawled on the lawn.

The picture's been removed - but the thing I found odd was the moral indignance of the paper saying "well THIS kind of thing is a bit much isn't it google" and then they printed a copy of the image in the paper for all to see

did someone already post that one of the dude falling off of his bike

when you go further and further along the street he's in different stages of falling

where where

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&sll=51.54057,-0.160589&sspn=0,359.980989&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FcSsEgMdzTD-_w&split=0&t=h&layer=c&cbll=51.572642,-0.090421&panoid=uHilFYHULRvF5GxanNF7VA&cbp=12,333.9231995342988,,1,9.304169845589092&ll=51.572349,-0.090981&spn=0.024006,0.038023&z=15&iwloc=addr

I just realized, y'all probably havent seen the "best" part of Hughes, Arkansas. If you plug in 106 Bush St, it'll take you up a bit from Poor Boy's Liquor to a completely abandoned retail block. I'm fascinated looking at stuff like this, don't know why.

Me too. The car left askew with one door open in the median is a nice touch.

12 vishoek, groningen (nsfw)

lololol

Here's another nsfw image from a lay-by outside Rome. This lady has got her own van and is being studiously ignored by several men working on the lay-by). Pretty odd.

I'm sure I read somewhere that because there are so many streetview shots of prostitutes around Rome the Mayor says he's "going to do something".

Ooops I got that link wrong - you'll have to click along the lay-by a bit, you can't miss her - she's the one not wearing an orange jacket.

Village mob thwarts Google Street View car

Ned: is it that lady sitting in the folding chair? Im not sure how it's NSFW unless I've missed somehting.

her tits are out

and there are dildos

wrong pic

"My immediate reaction was anger; how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?"

Flashmob anyone?

srsly. broughton is a shithole anyway

Unbelievable. How to attract attention to your "affluent" area 101. I really despair of my fellow Brits.

Ned: is it that lady sitting in the folding chair? Im not sure how it's NSFW unless I've missed somehting.

Yes, last time I looked she was nakkid from the breasts up. Have they shopped a blouse on her? tbh I feel a bit depressed just looking at that view now and wish I hadn't linked to it. The whole scene is so seedy, the woman (I suppose she might be happy in her job I guess), the litter. At least the sun is shining...

[there's some splendid wall paintings in the church at Broughton incidentally.]

"My immediate reaction was anger; how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?"
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/03/article-1166722-04402D39000005DC-651_468x361.jpg
Paul Jacobs there on the left. Having his privacy invaded.

You just have to love the Mail, they also posted a photo of a house in Broughton.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/03/article-1166722-04402C6F000005DC-147_468x286.jpg

Do these idiots not realize that anyone that wants can drive down their street and look directly at their house? Jesus. It's not like its a real-time cam that allows you to watch for when the house is unoccupied for prime burglary action.

Ooops wrong pic, although that does show a house this one is better from a burglars pov...
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/02/article-1166722-043EA0C2000005DC-8_468x634.jpg

Another villager, John Holmes, said Street View was 'an invasion of our privacy' and said Google 'should have asked our permission'.

He must be one of those fellows with a "Yes, I do own the road" bumper sticker.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/03/article-1166722-04402D39000005DC-651_468x361.jpg

guy on right says on TV news "an englishman's home is his castle"

when in reality an englishman's fleece is his suit of armour yes I posted this five minutes later

L-R - once-trendy English teacher who now hates "the kids", PE teacher who was a professional football player until injury cut short his career...

Still want to know why the UK/Europe software is so much shitter at editing out the Google car than the Australian version.

I don't know what you mean but the photos seem a lot clearer on the UK ones than anywhere else.

Oh, you mean at the bottom of the picture?

Yes, that is irritating and led to the the Telegraph running this totally ridiculous story...

Local medium Jane Cohen, 39, said: "Apparitions have often been caught on film but are invisible to the naked eye. "This woman is very smart - but she is dressed in clothes that you just don't see these days unless it's in a period drama on TV.

"But what is really strange is that she doesn't appear as a full figure - you can't see all of her."

Except of course you can...

Hahah what are they, utterly dense?

It is odd though that the editing out of the car body is a lot worse in the UK - its all blurred and obvious, you dont even really notice it on the aus pics.

I wonder if it's something to do with the cameras rather than the software - they seem radically different.
Aussie streetview car
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2219/2051749701_5b81783834.jpg?v=0
Brit streetview car
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2666901841_a16aa6a53b.jpg?v=0

In the spirit of Creative Commons - the first photo is here by Sebr and the second photo is here by Byrion. Looking through the flickr googlecar group it's interesting to see the wide variety of cameras they use. Maybe of the Brit one hadn't been so huge it wouldn't have caused so much bother in Broughton?

...if the Brit one...

Paul McCartney takes his house off streetview.

Seems neither he nor his security team has heard about live search maps.

A+ headline

xp...
or, in fact, the internet.

They've really cocked up that road actually. They blocked out a lot more than his house (I wonder who else lives down there?) and (just past Maccas pad) all the car number plates are still visible.

28 IF ?

loving the motion blur that they now add to the transition as you click through a street

"Maybe if we wait around long enough we can see Oprah!" (SW corner)

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=41.884255,-87.65325&panoid=3itxBNbw90Xj10LZKTXjoQ&cbp=12,226.49,,0,7.77&ll=41.88416,-87.653244&spn=0,359.993032&z=18

Singapore added. Looks quite awesome.

Also Coronation Street

OK, so not interested in that?
How about a walk around Pompeii?
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.751,14.487&spn=0.3,0.3&t=m&q=40.751,14.487

or Kew Gardens?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.650964,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=51.47144,-0.293798&spn=0,359.961419&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.471314,-0.298664&panoid=3MCrkLthqgG0r27UbS4ZTg&cbp=12,112.58,,0,6.5

http://i47.tinypic.com/iog31e.jpg

ew

"Report a problem"

peepoop

taiwan is looking well nice on streetview right now and so is hwy 395 between bishop and lone pine (and then 136 se of there)

it's really upsetting to me that i live in a major u.s. city and yet my entire neighborhood is not streetviewed. i wonder if i can contact google to volunteer and they'll come out and weld the camera tower to my car and commission me to do it, including paid training. cause i would do that.

I did actually complain to google that my main minor UK city had not been s/v'ed when Scunthorpe had been. And literally a couple of weeks later they were out and about. However this may not be cause and effect (and they've still not released the maps even though it was months ago).

In the meantime some Berlin art pranksters claim to have attached a GPS device to the googlecar.
http://streetcar.fffff.at/

The road my parents live on in rural eastern NC is streetviewed. I find that astounding.

There was an article in the paper here a couple weeks ago saying Google are now doing to go round on pushbikes getting areas they couldnt get to by car - zoos, botanical gardens, pizzas, that kind of thing. That'll be awesome!

By "pizzas" I clearly meant "piazzas", erm erm.

Trayce, they're already doing this. See upthread a few posts.

Yeah that kew gardens thing was what made me think of it. Theyve not finished it here yet but I'm looking fwd to being able to see some cities pedestrian plazas, inside taronga and melb zoo, and so on.

I HAVE DISCOVERED THE VORTEX

http://i46.tinypic.com/1ys3no.jpg

Turns out it's on Nevada 427.

In the meantime some Berlin art pranksters claim to have attached a GPS device to the googlecar.
http://streetcar.fffff.at/

...and its still sitting where it was on February 7th. Prankster FAIL.

And the whole of Britain is up (or about 96% of the roads anyway). Now we really can see what the most rubbish county is.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257622/Google-faces-storm-naked-child-Streetview.html

URL tells you everything you need to know.

The photos, showing the child's mother or nanny helping him dress and a man looking on, have sparked fears that paedophiles will have a new way to search for photos or targets online.

A MAN LOOKING ON.

Google had blurred the child's face but not the registration plate of the family's car, making it possible to trace their address.

ATTENTION PAEDOS, NAKED CHILD LIVING AT KNOWN ADDRESS IN UK

in my day you could kick a ball in the street with it all hanging out, without fear of being raped by perverts online

Does any country in the world wring it's hands about streetview as much as us Brits?

Google's Street View has come under fire after a new survey shows that two-thirds of people find the images 'intrusive' and 24 per cent think it is a 'service for burglars'.

New survey shows that two-thirds of people find people walking down their street 'intrusive'...

The report was carried out by myvouchercodes.co.uk

yeah they sound reliable

Is the 3D button on Streetview an April Fools joke?

ha! don't have any 3d glasses to test whether it's actually being applied "for real"

haha it totally works

I used my Avatar 3D glasses and it didn't work.

it's just the old fashioned blue & red glasses you need, i don't know how the avatar ones work.

A "View In 3D" option has been added to Google Books as well, so surely it has to be a hoax?

I mean, an AFJ

apj or not, it still works pretty cool. some scenes work better than others there are some dodgy parts.

I'm feeling more fucked-with from the fact that my tiny hometown is now comprehensively covered on Streetview. They've gone too far.

'Horse-boy' on Google Streetview

Google Steed View

oh horse-boy when will you ever become a horse-man

this is my favorite new thing: http://web.mit.edu/~jmcmicha/www/globegenie/

Wow, I think I know what I'm doing for the rest of the afternoon.

I don't understand what it's supposed to be doing.

Okay this is kinda fun

It randomly shows you places on Streetview. Except it's not all that random, as it gets stuck in certain regions.

for me that region is the ohio valley

I keep getting stuck in North Carolina.

What I've been doing in my spare time.

Haven't had that much spare time lately.

That's great, PP. I like.

i'm visible on streetview in 2 diff. locations. the most famous i'll ever be (other than appearing in a live shot from the Gene debut album booklet).

a genie for live cctv's would be more interesting than this street view

true, cctv would be great but i'm having a lot of fun shuffling locations.

hi ireland

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Cherrington+Place,+Castlebar,+Ireland&sll=53.851919,-9.301643&sspn=0.090525,0.219383&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Cherrington+Pl,+Castlebar,+County+Mayo,+Ireland&ll=53.861183,-9.284606&spn=0,0.027423&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.861384,-9.284951&panoid=io3QE80zK7uiBvfWA18cvA&cbp=12,204.27,,0,7.39

spot the fucking yobs next door, nice touch. now that i've moved back in, the car is better, the garden's neater and the curtains aren't always drawn. drop in sometime.

nice bench

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Dublin,+County+Fingal,+Ireland&t=h&layer=c&cbll=53.00981,-9.029999&panoid=cXC-3CRzaMjICXWWCpHsbQ&cbp=12,346.2,,0,7.5&ll=53.009703,-9.03008&spn=0.002527,0.008256&z=18

that's just where i live, though- this is where a darraghmac is from

is that the fr ted house!??!

Yes it is.

disgracefuil that it's in dublin tbh. another example of the inherent bias in the system

Hello Penguins!
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-62.59663,-59.904971&spn=0,0.030899&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-62.59609,-59.901651&panoid=ZzuMubmHCfCGGo3ePSlpCQ&cbp=12,277.36,,0,5

There's a couple of shifty looking fellas a little bit down the road from the Father Ted house. Something's definitely going down.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Dublin,+County+Fingal,+Ireland&t=h&layer=c&cbll=53.011163,-9.028946&panoid=GSfwJF2Fv4AuZpMfiSeDRg&cbp=12,90.42,,0,11.33&ll=53.010933,-9.029126&spn=0,0.007725&z=18

can remember getting completely lost driving around here (aka the middle of nowhere)

my favourite mountain

wtf

shangri la? k2?

haha, nothing to see here, just god and jesus hovering in the clouds over a swiss lake.

nakh did u find that urself?

miracles are real!

Big ol bug on the lens. Or a leaf.

go down the road a bit and it stays in the same place on the screen. then turn the other way and it's still in the same place on the screen, over the land instead of the lake. obviously something someone stuck on the camera for a laugh. xpost!

nakh did u find that urself?

― max, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 03:50 (11 hours ago)

yeah

appearing on gawker in 5....4....3....2...

already happened!

nakhchivan got a 'hat-tip' which im sure will please his bank manager

33,107 views already for a streetview glitch?

dang I hope the friends who I e-mailed this to check the timestamps to see I wasn't cribbin offa gawker

jesus christ one look at gawker comments is enough to make one never want to read anything but ILX ever again

Yeah, Gawker's commenters are way too smart.

omg looooool at all of this. A++

Gawker's one of the few bigger sites where I actually bother to skim read the comments

n e ways max, thx for the hat-tip but (inna markers style) could u remove it just in case this goes viral on xtian sites or something and they find this thread? (you never know, right)

he is hat-tipping the armenian exclave ffs

azeri

yeah even i knew that ffs

rd yr wikipedias rmde

whatever, nobody knows a goddamn thing about you after nrly 1 year's ILX posting, you're not gonna be tracked by some crackwad fundies

no, but this thread might, right?

lol the obsession continues, this thread's just the matrix

nakhchivan austrian lake jesus god apparition streetview google miracle amazing holy turin lourdes stigmata behold

there it is

front page on yahoo news this afternoon

n e ways max, thx for the hat-tip but (inna markers style) could u remove it just in case this goes viral on xtian sites or something and they find this thread? (you never know, right)

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, no prob. i owe you a meal, let me know if youre even in nyc.

doesn't let anyone know of his movements imo

except 'to the kebab place and back'

these street view things are almost always nuts for us, for whatever reason.

hat tip max, u r a true mensch of ilx

^ that is a compliment iirc

darragh i know what "mensch" means

that one would look awes even w/o the glitch

very nostalgic for switzerland right now

ha i was reprimanded for misunderstanding it previously max, is all

i believe i referred to a child-rapist defending bishop as a mensch before i was corrected

very nostalgic for switzerland right now

lol breaking character

i believe i referred to a child-rapist defending bishop as a mensch before i was corrected

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 17:12 (1 minute ago)

haha

hahahahaha

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac) wrote this on thread Ratzinger becomes Pope on board I Love Everything on Apr 8, 2010

THE VATICAN has again hit back in strong terms at those criticising the Catholic Church over its handling of the sexual abuse of children by priests.

In an interview yesterday a senior Vatican figure, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, said criticism of the Holy See over the issue was “truly incomprehensible”.

“What we are dealing with now is a cultural battle: the pope embodies moral truths which people don’t accept and for that reason the shortcomings and errors of priests are used as arms against the church,” he told the Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano.

Cardinal Sodano, who at the weekend said the church would not be distracted by “idle gossip”, in an apparent reference to the child abuse scandal, again defended the record of the pope and bishops on the issue.

“It was not the fault of Jesus if he was betrayed by Judas. Nor is it the fault of a bishop if one of his priests sullies himself with grave crimes. And certainly, it is not the responsibility of the pontiff,” he said.

“The Christian community correctly feels itself injured when people try to involve it as a whole in grave and painful incidents concerning some priests, thus transforming individual guilt and responsibility into collective guilt with a manipulation that is truly incomprehensible.”

this guy is quite the mensch, if i understand the term correctly.

idnuttc

looool

:D

could see my red face from google maps after i was taken aside and given a quiet word after that post.

probably time to rescreen 'the apartment'

this will put a whole new complexion on it

God-like apparition on Google StreetView‎ - Stuff.co.nz
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jesus....

not all of those baout this but anyway

looooool

welcome to the big leagues son

the big leagues of "stuff.co.nz"

lily allin - This summers biggest hit?

LOL I was just reading the tech section of the Age (proper Melb broadsheet paper) and this is mentioned! I'm like "oh lol doo doo wait Max R3ad I know that name hahah wtf".

So yeah, legit papers reporting this even over here. And this is where it started? You guys.

haaaaa!

fuckin guys

http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/brad_hirschfield/2010/10/god_and_google.html

One of my editors forwards a Macks Reed story to the writing staff probably once every month or so (October's entry was about Clarence Thomas.)

Each time, I get that same feeling I got when my boss saddled up to me one day and asked, "Tre, do you know what a sockpuppet is?"

aw thats nice to hear

This image, captured by the Street View feature of ubiquitous searcher (a fact about Google which may hint at the search engine itself is increasingly God-like, if not actually God) has been interpreted by thousands as a glimpse of God captured on camera

hmm

From: Andrew Johnston <astrosand✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧>
Subject: http://gawker.com/5667404/did-google-street-view-find-god-above-a-swiss-lake
To: Max Read <✧✧✧@gaw✧✧✧.c✧✧>

fake,gay and photo choped

display name potential there

America's next top media critic

photo choped

Man loses seven stone after seeing himself on Google Street View

Bob Mewse, 56, weighed 21 stone 3lb after years of feeding his sweet tooth with cakes and biscuits.

He was so horrified a year ago when he saw himself on Google Street View – a mapping service that uses a 360-degree camera to record images – that he decided to start losing weight.

Mr Mewse lost a third of his body weight after drastic changes to his diet and a strict regime of exercise. He now weighs 14 stone (89kg)

germany, the land of the ghostly floating boxes

- "You've got plenty of square feet in here, utilities are paid, new flooring and a new refrigerator were just put in last January… One of the prettiest little houses you're going to find here in Topeka."
- "Sounds great! So, uh, why is the rent so much cheaper than the other houses we've looked at?"
- "Well, your across-the-street neighbors …"

shudder

Virtual road trip!

I always expected that was going to be one of Google's next applications, yeah. But maybe it's way too much network traffic even for their infrastructure.

http://robotflaneur.com/

nothing you couldn't already do, but still fun

random teleporting flaneur. following actual routes - with faster refreshing - would be much better.

I prefer this to the Virtual Road Trip thing above which pretty much does what you want, because:
1. moving between adjacent streetview feels slow and clunky, which saps the joy out of following a route
2. if I'm looking at an unfamiliar city, I don't know which bits are interesting to look at, so I don't want to pick the route myself - I'm quite happy to zap randomly between unknown locations, some of which are central and may contain glimpses of famous landmarks (possibly not from the usual angle) and some of which are pleasingly off the beaten tourist track

I just had a pleasing teleport around SF, which I visited for 4 days in 1999, so it's a good combination of mostly unfamiliar + a little bit of "hey I think we went down the next street across" for me

(but setting the refresh time might be good, though at least you can pause if you get an interesting one, and skip if you don't)

pressing 'x' to stop teleportation wasn't working for me
also, I got stuck on that thing where the camera pans whenever the pointer moves, and couldn't get out of it. (I guess I just don't know the trick; to get out of it I'd left click, which would zoom me in, then I'd have to zoom out etc)

http://www.mapcrunch.com pretty good for random teleport fun

they really need to get the car out at night, as an option for selected locations

Well, as long as they stay in the city.

I 'travel' a lot via Google Maps Streetview. Yesterday, I drove down the north coast of Yorkshire to Robin Hood's Bay and then tooled around on the Moors. Later I went from Castellane to Moustiers Ste Marie via the Verdon Gorge.

lol i tweeted something yesterday 2 the effect that if you couldn't go 4 a drive but wanted 2 u could just use google maps in street view mode

Oh, and I tooled around downtown Aix-en-Provence and the old part of Nice.

yeah i tried to recreate a vice city style drive around in miami. and realised just how fooking big compared to a video game a real city is.

This is one that I plan to use someday on my borderline blog.

When I have time and Wyoming comes back into the rotation...

I had either this thread or the o_O thread to post this in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopM8uPTl_8

Or maybe I should have posted it in Attention Tuomas - I have Finnish question

I'm enjoying this app, which I discovered about 5 minutes ago!

Click on "GO" on the upper right and it kaleidoscopes!

http://rorschmap.com/?lat=41.89002071845417&lng=-87.6522518713623&z=14

Click here and then move forward.

Oh my god. I have some friends who must never see that video.

Florida's outrageous color palette has gotten way out of hand.

That's a cool site, Je55. Check out the Heartland.

That reminds me, I need to see if my friend has a J I can bum.

That is really cool, PP.

Do You Want To?

Why have I never noticed the aeroplane in Russell Squre before?

it only showed up a month or two ago.

It's flying pretty low for such an urban area, right?

It is not flying, it has no shadow.

i don't think you can tell how high it is? only how much higher the camera is (twice as high according to my calculations). typical approach height over london might be 2-4000 feet tho.

er not feet, metres. i think.

you wouldn't see the shadow because of the height. not in the same frame anyway.

i don't think you can tell how high it is? only how much higher the camera is (twice as high according to my calculations). typical approach height over london might be 2-4000 feet tho.

I wasn't even thinking right when I said that. Of course, the plane would appear larger in relation to how close it was to the camera, not the other way around.

Ned T Rifle found another one over Tottenham.

http://t.co/Ttidxfv

There's something about these I find unsettling to look at, like the thread of shipwreck photos.

That's one big piano to the left of the Tottenham plane as well.

Old news, but you ain't trippin.

http://www.whatwasthere.com/

That is so awesome!

Sometimes I like to pick out random cross streets in New Orleans and "drive around." 1604 St. Thomas Street, down in the warehouses near the river, features a burned out, gutted car.

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/1604.jpg

I used to live on St. Thomas! It was much nicer where I lived (Irish Channel). So weird to go for a run near the levee and see a ship towering way above you.

New Orleans and Detroit are two depressing cities to explore randomly on Google Street View.

i've been doing this in Ciudad Juarez

Yikes....

I don't find NOLA that depressing overall. There are plenty of blighted areas (and the Lower 9th Ward, obviously), but it's deceptive b/c even totally livable and even desirable areas look ramshackle compared to other cities.

It's just crazy that even in 2011, you get photos like this one of NOLA.

Yeh, you're right. It is pretty heartbreaking. I was there about a year ago and along I-10 on the edges of town, there were still several huge apartment complexes (the kind of generic sprawling ones with dozens of 2-4 story buildings) that stood empty and untouched from the day Katrina came through. It's some zombie apocalypse looking stuff :(

I couldn't find the complexes on Street View, but they're like these, but wrecked and falling apart with no one to even demolish them.

http://g.mnp0.com/dimg/2115260/460x345/2115260.JPG

It's surreal, and it's got to take its toll on people who see them every day. I was only there for 6 months, but even that made me feel *off* - too dramatic to call it "crazy," but not just right.

THERE I AM DEPRESSED ARE YOU HAPPY??

:)

I was looking at SW Detroit, actually seemed kind of nice! Leafy streets with single-family houses that were a little weathered but not run-down or anything. Looked at Zillow and all these houses are valued at $25K each.

http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/detroit.jpg

Yep, Detroit is depressing as fuck.

You can drop the little orange man into any residential neighborhood of Detroit proper and likely see something like that on any block.

Oh I know, there was just something about this particular view that captured my imagination.

Oh yeah definitely. Some are surely sadder looking than others.

How does someone abandon a castle.

I would love my very own midwestern castle.

however, I'm not going to Detroit to get it.

Midwestern Castle, you say?

That's actually a pretty beautiful corner in jvc's pic.

I went to high school in Charlevoix, MI where this thing is located

http://i.imgur.com/aEz54.jpg

Besides weddings and parties, they hosted rock concerts. I once parked on a hill near it and listened to Ratt and Ugly Kid Joe. Pretty sure they were playing the same night? But I could be merging memories to save mental bandwidth.

Welcome to Miami Beach

Found this today while "driving around" the upper ninth ward in New Orleans. It's the Club Desire, an early showcase for Fats Domino.

http://prestonlauterbach.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/clubdesire-1.jpg

cool find, dp

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3056/3078278579_13712c8943.jpg

http://web.mac.com/jsdart/Site/5years_later.html#6

Wow, that interior shot is crazy. Here's info.

http://www.regional-modernism.com/2008/10/club-desire-threatened.html

Nothing much about this one. Patton Oswalt tweeted about an L.A. 7-11 last week and I found this dude whizzing past it.

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/4932/screenshot20120507at319.png

andorra, croatia and chile now viewable on GMSV

i get so excited when they add new places!

speaking of which, this is really cool!:
http://gawker.com/5946727/googles-underwater-street-view-will-show-you-the-way-to-fish-clubs-mermaid-graveyards-whale-parks-etc

Welcome to Namie, a Japanese city that has been quarantined since the 2011 tsunami.

20,000 people have yet to return to their homes. Google Street View gives those people a tour of the city's current state.

This is kind of weird - Google Streetview is usually so good about blurring faces. I've even seen artwork on signs blurred because the mapping thought it was a real face.

But, on the one street in America where you probably would demand to have your face blurred, GSV has been leaving everything out in the open.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102818AM_zps7a234729.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102756AM_zpsf895bafa.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102805AM_zps72853b48.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102029AM_zpsbc133e92.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102123AM_zpse79beff4.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102103AM_zps4d63c04f.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101759AM_zps2634f544.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101759AM_zps2634f544.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101738AM_zps84bd0361.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102421AM_zps86dd2d30.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101812AM_zpsaf476e92.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101101AM_zpsebcaf821.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at100817AM_zps44bf4fea.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101644AM_zpsf6455261.png

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101617AM_zpsbfe6df44.png

holy shit. makes sodom and gomorrah look tame by comparison.

thought this revive was gonna be about this awesome site which is awesome & should have its own thread & is absorbing & great,
http://www.geoguessr.com/

Oh, cool

My first try: 10070 points

Guessed the right continent for all of them
U.S. plains guesses were close
Thought Alaska was Washington or Oregon

That was fun!

we did discuss that here: Guess the City

Does deserve its own thread. B/c it's a game I don't suck at.

I LOVE THIS GAME.
I can only assume that PP hasn't posted about it yet because he is currently engrossed.

I'm pretty good at it, but once I guessed someplace in the Missouri River valley in the US and it turned out to be Finland. :\

...and who knew that so much of Australia looks like Africa? Or vice versa?

I knew that was Portugese, not Spanish. Dammit!

I kinda suck at World Geography, truth be told.

This is all I want to do all day.

Was greatly helped in one round by the truck that said a company name and "SCOTLAND" on it. Guessed outskirts of Glasgow, but it was Aberdeen.

Was very proud of guessing w/in 100 km of a place in Argentina b/c it looked arid and the truck in the picture was a Mercedes.

New high score.

My first try: 17,230
Was helped greatly by two road signs in somewhat clear view.

Not helped by Brazilian farm looking like the Great Plains of NoAm.
Also not helped by guessing that remote African rolling highway was located in inland South Africa, not the Northwest corner.

I'm lucky I can sound out Cyrillic. One time it plopped me right down in front of the main train station of what was helpfully labeled, in 20 foot letters, СМОЛЕНСК.