Google Maps Streetview

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.