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― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't see meself at Camberwell.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
bit creeped out by this tbh
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf are you all doing posting your addresses on the internet
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
what?
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Pics are taken from the other side of the road from where I saw the car :(
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
my living room window = above and to the right of the blue arrow:
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to come round and murder you or some lurker is
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the quiet ones you have to worry about.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Am expecting paparazzi when I get home.
ledge, call 999, say you're having a stroke and see how long they take.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
oops, sorry, biggest link ever.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Also appears to be my house. I cannot believe you posted a picture of my house on the internet!!
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
erm, that went wrong, i'll try again.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
my parked car is at neither my old residence, nor my new one. i appear to have vanished.
― fuck all y'all i'm gonna die young w/bubbles in my mouth (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:08 (fifteen years ago) link
how come stevie never posts here anymore?
― fap fap fap wtf crazy caps self-publishe... (1) (rent), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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>
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking hell, what a mess.sorry everyone, any mods wanna make it look pretty, feel free.
also ledge, soz!
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm complaining to my mp.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
fair enough, tell mine too, it'll give him something to do.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― straightola, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
It can't get past the gates of my poncey estate. Take that, The Man!
― McDonaldinho (Matt DC), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Bloody typical - Derby, Nottingham, Coventry...no Leicester...we are truly the Forgotten City.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazing quality though - seems better than a lot of the US streetviews - are they using a different camera?
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
And they seemed to have gone around Birmingham city centre in the dark...
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― tomofthenest, Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Daily Mail readers wade in - difficult to tell which ones (if any) are taking the piss...
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Eephin' Pageant (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 19 March 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Fancyapint.com in like Flynn!
― from beyond the anal destiny citrus fruit explosion (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 19 March 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been caught by the Google street view van TWICE now. The first one seems to be gone now, thank fuck.
― The Lost Boys Buff Guy Playing Sax (rockapads), Thursday, 19 March 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
link?
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 19 March 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) 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
― James Morrison, Thursday, 19 March 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, it's like that all over the UK: software seems to have done a bad job editing out the van.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 19 March 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― one art, please (Trayce), Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm excited!
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Also we don't do any work anyway.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
omg this thing is so funking useful!!
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Same here--people spent all their time finding pics of workmates roaming the streets and sticking them up on pinboards.
― James Morrison, Friday, 20 March 2009 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Street view in my suburb ends two blocks from my house. :\
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
if only SPECTRE in james bond had this toolhttp://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
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry wrong linkhttp://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
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
people can walk down your road
― unaustralian (jabba hands), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://neoshinka.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/lost_highway_robert_blake_video_camera_400.jpg
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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)?
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Had to check some old addresses a while before Xmas so wound up going down the rabbithole with streetmaps. INteresting to see the change in places over time. Cos they use photos over a 10 year or higher span of time. So I can move through the streetmaps world and see a number of buildings and things in this area not being there. The local LIDL disappears if you move through the area, so does the KFC . Assume this must be happening in most areas.Also noticed that the street changes that ahppened around my mother's place to prevent people speeding through backstreets come and go depending on which way you approach the street. Think it is possible taht you can press advance in a couple of places p0articularly on wider streets. & they will take you forward into the view from either one year or a very different one.Presumably at some point if they are allowed to continue updating and people's fears of surveillance don't block things there will be a point when they do keep things on a standardised era basis. THough presumably it will only make economic sense to update areas taht have actually physically changed the road layout.BUt like semi trippy to see a road suddenly jump 9 years as you advance down it. Or see yourself jumped to a spot a couple fo roads away as the system has a gap in its photo record.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 March 2020 09:24 (four years ago) link
It looks like Pringles are really popular in Kabul!
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.5033595,69.1338412,3a,75y,237.49h,88.32t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMgGV0AAmSqbAH1lP47vJPIOMBouKleQjTWJTrN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMgGV0AAmSqbAH1lP47vJPIOMBouKleQjTWJTrN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya138.04868-ro0-fo100!7i6144!8i3072
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 19 April 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
Much more intrigued by the Twix packaging!
― pplains, Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Reclaim the streets, OAP edition: https://goo.gl/maps/yrwzum4AZ4x4Tsvr8
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/23/geoguessr-world-championships-2023-inside-story
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 23 December 2023 16:25 (two months ago) link