Lex yesterday - waiting for those pesky googleflickr folk...http://www.davethewave.co.uk/hector/book/hector-the-gardener-front.jpg
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.davethewave.co.uk/hector/book/hector-the-gardener-front.jpg
Hahaha Tomofthenest I got that one...
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
And there's a Travel Lodge there now! That's definitely new.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice. Looks like half of it got bombed during the war or something? That crescent is quite difficult to navigate on this.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, it is hard to navigate. So cool to see now though and notice little changes etc.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:36 (fifteen years ago) link
they've found wally btw - he's hidden on putney high street, outside the o2 shop.
― joe, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tinyurl.com/dyqqz6
This is the house near me that I have been raving about for ages. I want to live here.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
xp to ENBB's original post about where she used to live, incidentally.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
They have some software that is supposed to do it I think? It's a bit hit and miss though.
So, across the bridge from MI5 then eh?
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm more concerned about having my telephone number and address available in a directory to thousands of people than google streetview.
― Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post Yep, right across. I see the lady now!
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Darramouss Darramouss will he do the fandango? (stevie), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
they blurred out the mural of bobby sands on the falls road too.
― joe, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post Or across an ocean as the case would be for me right now.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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 :'''''''''(
― fap fap fap wtf crazy caps self-publishe... (1) (rent), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
aw i liked pimlico school.
― ledge, Friday, 20 March 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
few things as sad to me as a boarded up pub.
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
― 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
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, but its like a huge greenhouse when the sun's out, innit. impressive building, though.
― Darramouss Darramouss will he do the fandango? (stevie), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Aw, the Headington roof-shark in Oxford is all shored up by scaffolding ;_;http://tinyurl.com/cck4ll
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 20 March 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Dave Gorman is claiming HE is on streetview. It doesn't look much like him to me.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Friday, 20 March 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Blimey, I can see my neighbours walking out of their gate!
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Coming soon Google Bed View
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
They're apparently going to be talking to someone from Google on PM (BBC Radio 4) shortly.
― krakow, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
This is incredibly creepy!
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
my grans old house looks well manky now :(
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
just typing "Ealing" will give you a picture of a guy taking a picture of the google car!
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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 burglarto get such a close up re access...i am not happy at all
Thanks for clearing that up Anna.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i will coment when i get on to it
Posted by mary | 21.03.09, 22:16 GMT
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― ambient bangers (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link