Google Maps Streetview

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.

A+ headline

xp...
or, in fact, the internet.

They've really cocked up that road actually. They blocked out a lot more than his house (I wonder who else lives down there?) and (just past Maccas pad) all the car number plates are still visible.

28 IF ?

loving the motion blur that they now add to the transition as you click through a street

"Maybe if we wait around long enough we can see Oprah!" (SW corner)

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=41.884255,-87.65325&panoid=3itxBNbw90Xj10LZKTXjoQ&cbp=12,226.49,,0,7.77&ll=41.88416,-87.653244&spn=0,359.993032&z=18

Singapore added. Looks quite awesome.

Also Coronation Street

OK, so not interested in that?
How about a walk around Pompeii?
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.751,14.487&spn=0.3,0.3&t=m&q=40.751,14.487

or Kew Gardens?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.650964,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=51.47144,-0.293798&spn=0,359.961419&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.471314,-0.298664&panoid=3MCrkLthqgG0r27UbS4ZTg&cbp=12,112.58,,0,6.5

http://i47.tinypic.com/iog31e.jpg

ew

"Report a problem"

peepoop

taiwan is looking well nice on streetview right now and so is hwy 395 between bishop and lone pine (and then 136 se of there)

it's really upsetting to me that i live in a major u.s. city and yet my entire neighborhood is not streetviewed. i wonder if i can contact google to volunteer and they'll come out and weld the camera tower to my car and commission me to do it, including paid training. cause i would do that.

I did actually complain to google that my main minor UK city had not been s/v'ed when Scunthorpe had been. And literally a couple of weeks later they were out and about. However this may not be cause and effect (and they've still not released the maps even though it was months ago).

In the meantime some Berlin art pranksters claim to have attached a GPS device to the googlecar.
http://streetcar.fffff.at/

The road my parents live on in rural eastern NC is streetviewed. I find that astounding.

There was an article in the paper here a couple weeks ago saying Google are now doing to go round on pushbikes getting areas they couldnt get to by car - zoos, botanical gardens, pizzas, that kind of thing. That'll be awesome!

By "pizzas" I clearly meant "piazzas", erm erm.

Trayce, they're already doing this. See upthread a few posts.

Yeah that kew gardens thing was what made me think of it. Theyve not finished it here yet but I'm looking fwd to being able to see some cities pedestrian plazas, inside taronga and melb zoo, and so on.

I HAVE DISCOVERED THE VORTEX

http://i46.tinypic.com/1ys3no.jpg

Turns out it's on Nevada 427.

In the meantime some Berlin art pranksters claim to have attached a GPS device to the googlecar.
http://streetcar.fffff.at/

...and its still sitting where it was on February 7th. Prankster FAIL.

And the whole of Britain is up (or about 96% of the roads anyway). Now we really can see what the most rubbish county is.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257622/Google-faces-storm-naked-child-Streetview.html

URL tells you everything you need to know.

The photos, showing the child's mother or nanny helping him dress and a man looking on, have sparked fears that paedophiles will have a new way to search for photos or targets online.

A MAN LOOKING ON.

Google had blurred the child's face but not the registration plate of the family's car, making it possible to trace their address.

ATTENTION PAEDOS, NAKED CHILD LIVING AT KNOWN ADDRESS IN UK

in my day you could kick a ball in the street with it all hanging out, without fear of being raped by perverts online

Does any country in the world wring it's hands about streetview as much as us Brits?

Google's Street View has come under fire after a new survey shows that two-thirds of people find the images 'intrusive' and 24 per cent think it is a 'service for burglars'.

New survey shows that two-thirds of people find people walking down their street 'intrusive'...

The report was carried out by myvouchercodes.co.uk

yeah they sound reliable

Is the 3D button on Streetview an April Fools joke?

ha! don't have any 3d glasses to test whether it's actually being applied "for real"

haha it totally works

I used my Avatar 3D glasses and it didn't work.

it's just the old fashioned blue & red glasses you need, i don't know how the avatar ones work.

A "View In 3D" option has been added to Google Books as well, so surely it has to be a hoax?

I mean, an AFJ