Google Maps Streetview

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.

12 vishoek, groningen (nsfw)

lololol

Here's another nsfw image from a lay-by outside Rome. This lady has got her own van and is being studiously ignored by several men working on the lay-by). Pretty odd.

I'm sure I read somewhere that because there are so many streetview shots of prostitutes around Rome the Mayor says he's "going to do something".

Ooops I got that link wrong - you'll have to click along the lay-by a bit, you can't miss her - she's the one not wearing an orange jacket.

Village mob thwarts Google Street View car

Ned: is it that lady sitting in the folding chair? Im not sure how it's NSFW unless I've missed somehting.

her tits are out

and there are dildos

wrong pic

"My immediate reaction was anger; how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?"

Flashmob anyone?

srsly. broughton is a shithole anyway

Unbelievable. How to attract attention to your "affluent" area 101. I really despair of my fellow Brits.

Ned: is it that lady sitting in the folding chair? Im not sure how it's NSFW unless I've missed somehting.

Yes, last time I looked she was nakkid from the breasts up. Have they shopped a blouse on her? tbh I feel a bit depressed just looking at that view now and wish I hadn't linked to it. The whole scene is so seedy, the woman (I suppose she might be happy in her job I guess), the litter. At least the sun is shining...

[there's some splendid wall paintings in the church at Broughton incidentally.]

"My immediate reaction was anger; how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?"
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/03/article-1166722-04402D39000005DC-651_468x361.jpg
Paul Jacobs there on the left. Having his privacy invaded.

You just have to love the Mail, they also posted a photo of a house in Broughton.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/03/article-1166722-04402C6F000005DC-147_468x286.jpg

Do these idiots not realize that anyone that wants can drive down their street and look directly at their house? Jesus. It's not like its a real-time cam that allows you to watch for when the house is unoccupied for prime burglary action.

Ooops wrong pic, although that does show a house this one is better from a burglars pov...
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/02/article-1166722-043EA0C2000005DC-8_468x634.jpg

Another villager, John Holmes, said Street View was 'an invasion of our privacy' and said Google 'should have asked our permission'.

He must be one of those fellows with a "Yes, I do own the road" bumper sticker.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/03/article-1166722-04402D39000005DC-651_468x361.jpg

guy on right says on TV news "an englishman's home is his castle"

when in reality an englishman's fleece is his suit of armour yes I posted this five minutes later

L-R - once-trendy English teacher who now hates "the kids", PE teacher who was a professional football player until injury cut short his career...

Still want to know why the UK/Europe software is so much shitter at editing out the Google car than the Australian version.

I don't know what you mean but the photos seem a lot clearer on the UK ones than anywhere else.

Oh, you mean at the bottom of the picture?

Yes, that is irritating and led to the the Telegraph running this totally ridiculous story...

Local medium Jane Cohen, 39, said: "Apparitions have often been caught on film but are invisible to the naked eye. "This woman is very smart - but she is dressed in clothes that you just don't see these days unless it's in a period drama on TV.

"But what is really strange is that she doesn't appear as a full figure - you can't see all of her."

Except of course you can...

Hahah what are they, utterly dense?

It is odd though that the editing out of the car body is a lot worse in the UK - its all blurred and obvious, you dont even really notice it on the aus pics.

I wonder if it's something to do with the cameras rather than the software - they seem radically different.
Aussie streetview car
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2219/2051749701_5b81783834.jpg?v=0
Brit streetview car
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2666901841_a16aa6a53b.jpg?v=0

In the spirit of Creative Commons - the first photo is here by Sebr and the second photo is here by Byrion. Looking through the flickr googlecar group it's interesting to see the wide variety of cameras they use. Maybe of the Brit one hadn't been so huge it wouldn't have caused so much bother in Broughton?

...if the Brit one...

Paul McCartney takes his house off streetview.

Seems neither he nor his security team has heard about live search maps.

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