Google Maps Streetview

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!