I still can't get that one to work
― Edward III, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
When Google Streeview inevitably helps solve a murder in a city, please bump this thread.
Will you accept a kidnapping?
― Pancakes Hussein Obama (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
i've been caught by google street view twice now.
― fwiw (rockapads), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Also pot bust.
― Human kind cannot bear very much (Michael White), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
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!
― the maximum value that ZS obtains given its constraint is 8 (Z S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― u s steel, Friday, 30 January 2009 02:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
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!!
― forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Friday, 30 January 2009 02:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― ╓abies, Friday, 30 January 2009 03:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
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
― James Mitchell, Friday, 30 January 2009 03:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
OK so its gone already? Anyone get a screenie?
― Trayce, Friday, 30 January 2009 03:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://i.gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps
― M.V., Friday, 30 January 2009 04:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
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!
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
glasgow's up too, you can see my flat but not my street
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
link
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Can't see meself at Camberwell.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
bit creeped out by this tbh
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
wtf are you all doing posting your addresses on the internet
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
what?
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
Pics are taken from the other side of the road from where I saw the car :(
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
my living room window = above and to the right of the blue arrow:
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm going to come round and murder you or some lurker is
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's the quiet ones you have to worry about.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
oops, sorry, biggest link ever.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
erm, that went wrong, i'll try again.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
how come stevie never posts here anymore?
― fap fap fap wtf crazy caps self-publishe... (1) (rent), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
i'm complaining to my mp.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
fair enough, tell mine too, it'll give him something to do.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
It can't get past the gates of my poncey estate. Take that, The Man!
― McDonaldinho (Matt DC), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
Fancyapint.com in like Flynn!
― from beyond the anal destiny citrus fruit explosion (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 19 March 2009 18:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
link?
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 19 March 2009 19:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://web.mac.com/jsdart/Site/5years_later.html#6
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, that interior shot is crazy. Here's info.
http://www.regional-modernism.com/2008/10/club-desire-threatened.html
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nothing much about this one. Patton Oswalt tweeted about an L.A. 7-11 last week and I found this dude whizzing past it.
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
andorra, croatia and chile now viewable on GMSV
i get so excited when they add new places!
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 28 September 2012 03:39 (7 months ago) Permalink
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
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Friday, 28 September 2012 03:41 (7 months ago) Permalink
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.
― pplains, Thursday, 18 April 2013 16:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
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.
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:44 (4 days ago) Permalink
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:46 (4 days ago) Permalink
holy shit. makes sodom and gomorrah look tame by comparison.
― dylannn, Monday, 20 May 2013 16:57 (4 days ago) Permalink
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/
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 20 May 2013 17:03 (4 days ago) Permalink
Oh, cool
My first try: 10070 points
Guessed the right continent for all of themU.S. plains guesses were closeThought Alaska was Washington or Oregon
That was fun!
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:21 (4 days ago) Permalink
we did discuss that here: Guess the City
― dylannn, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:22 (4 days ago) Permalink
Does deserve its own thread. B/c it's a game I don't suck at.
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:29 (4 days ago) Permalink
I LOVE THIS GAME.I can only assume that PP hasn't posted about it yet because he is currently engrossed.
― kate78, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:57 (4 days ago) Permalink
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. :\
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Monday, 20 May 2013 18:01 (4 days ago) Permalink
...and who knew that so much of Australia looks like Africa? Or vice versa?
― kate78, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:04 (4 days ago) Permalink
I knew that was Portugese, not Spanish. Dammit!
I kinda suck at World Geography, truth be told.
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:24 (4 days ago) Permalink
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.
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:50 (4 days ago) Permalink