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Geek Culture / Google Street View comes to the UK :D

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El Goorf
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Posted: 19th Mar 2009 15:35
In september I was walking past the barracks where i train for the TA, and a google car came past with the periscope on the roof. I immediately told all my friends i was goign to star on google maps. 6 months later, well, it looks like the car must have taken a second pass down the street, as i dont appear to be in the photos of the street where it drove past, oh well.

however, here's my house with my (moms) blue VW that i happened to be borrowing for the week:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=m15+6fg&sll=51.515366,-0.100497&sspn=0.004947,0.013947&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&ll=53.46037,-2.2328&spn=0.009467,0.027895&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=53.460367,-2.232641&panoid=blMjfcsKidMNKTWYBcjG9g&cbp=12,336.48501070993285,,0,23.138461538461527


as for where i used to live, well, not everything has a happy ending:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=m15+6fg&sll=51.515366,-0.100497&sspn=0.004947,0.013947&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=52.403087,-1.924526&panoid=8SLihF-IZK4cDu85SMaf8Q&cbp=12,346.0529883451154,,0,9.22307692307692&ll=52.403021,-1.924453&spn=0.009701,0.027895&z=16&iwloc=addr



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bergice
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Posted: 19th Mar 2009 16:01
Hah, thats cool

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 19th Mar 2009 20:28 Edited at: 19th Mar 2009 20:29
Cool, they recently added my house apparently around Halloween, since there are Halloween decorations in the yard (and also, surprisingly, the roads around and inside my university, since it's in a relatively small city). I'd rather not post my house, but here's one of the streets in my university (must've been taken last summer since no one is around):
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Baylor+University&sll=52.403087,-1.924526&sspn=0.007082,0.016737&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&ll=31.545067,-97.12148&spn=0,359.991632&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=31.544732,-97.121092&panoid=iHaX0rSG4LV4Oy8R9TAp1Q&cbp=12,2.2590895217805644,,0,-4.461538461538459


AlexI
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Posted: 19th Mar 2009 21:00 Edited at: 19th Mar 2009 21:00
Imagine if they had Street View live

I know that wont happen but if it did...

Tom J
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Posted: 19th Mar 2009 21:17
Quote: "I know that wont happen but if it did...
"


Everyone's a spy
NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 19th Mar 2009 21:19
There'd be terrible congestion if it did. All those cars sat there.

Dude232
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Posted: 19th Mar 2009 21:41
@galvanti

i live in texas too

id rather not post where i live though

fallen one
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Posted: 19th Mar 2009 21:57 Edited at: 19th Mar 2009 21:58
How do I know if I'm on it, I put my postcode in, but only got a view from above, I guess if your on it, it zooms in to the street or something like automatic, without me doing anything.

AlexI
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Posted: 19th Mar 2009 23:42 Edited at: 19th Mar 2009 23:44
Quote: "There'd be terrible congestion if it did. All those cars sat there.
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lol, maybe they will make Google Spy where they place CCTV cameras everywhere They will also change AdSense so it delivers relevant ads about what you do every day

Blobby 101
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Posted: 20th Mar 2009 09:52
@fallen one: you have to press the little icon of a person above the zoom icons to go into street view. It will tell you if you are on it or not.

NaGaCreMo:
Alucard94
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Posted: 20th Mar 2009 12:17
Okay, now bring this to Sweden.


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El Goorf
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Posted: 20th Mar 2009 12:51
Quote: "A little over zealous with their privacy in Swansea?"


google use a software to automatically blur out faces and number plates, i guess that a lot of road signs will also be mistaken for number plates.

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Monk
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Posted: 20th Mar 2009 14:11
Apparently, this came to Kendal, though I havent seen any proof yet, and god knows why they would come to kendal

Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 20th Mar 2009 19:11
This reminds me of a funny article I read in the Daily Mail a while back, it's funny because it showed how moronic the journalist was.

When the cars started coming round the kick up in the Mail was privacy, they called them 'Spy cameras', seeing a headline today from another paper calling it 'Spyware'

The Daily Mail journalist seemed very scared of stalkers and people being attacked because their house is on the internet...funnily they put one of the images in their newspaper. The journalist clearly missed something, to get the image you first need a post code or an address. If a stalker knows your address or post code, then they can easily find your house.

But the journalist insisted them as being spy cameras, thus begs the question, how can you spy on someone through a 7+ month old image? I checked my student house, and it had some of the building work outside, so they took the image 7 months ago.

And they miss out the whole ideas that any person can walk down any street. How does google change that. So the claims seem retarded.

It's quite cool to look at, it particular helps house hunters, if I'm looking for a house through the internet, then I could just easily see what kind of street or house I'd be living in before walking down there, so if it looks like a dodgy neighbourhood, then I know to through it off of the list.

tha_rami
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2009 03:20
The Netherlands are still a bit buggy as far as Street View is concerned, really.


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AndrewT
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2009 05:56
Quote: "The Netherlands are still a bit buggy as far as Street View is concerned, really."


Just so you know you can rotate the view.

I would post my house but I just so know someone here would hunt me down and kill me in my sleep...

Keo C
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2009 07:51
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I would post my house but I just so know someone here would hunt me down and kill me in my sleep...
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*hides knife*


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Tom J
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2009 17:43
Quote: "The Netherlands are still a bit buggy as far as Street View is concerned, really.
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That bug is still there when you move down the road, maybe Google should have checked for stuff like that more frequently
bitJericho
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2009 17:56
Quote: "That bug is still there when you move down the road, maybe Google should have checked for stuff like that more frequently "


It doesn't seem like a very big issue, unless you plan on looking at the sky.

Tom J
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2009 20:05
True, but it's the little things that make something feel polished. Although agreeably it doesn't affect your use of it much.
BatVink
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2009 21:39
My family rang me up last week, screaming down the phone because they were following a Google Cam-car. It's a funny scenario, loved by people who are on it (or potentially on it), hated by people who missed out

Insert Name Here
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2009 21:48
Hasn't dared come anywhere near my village. We through bricks at the last one, then the camera nearly got lopped off by a tree.

El Goorf
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2009 01:49
Quote: "True, but it's the little things that make something feel polished. Although agreeably it doesn't affect your use of it much. "


naw, its little things like this that add the surprise element that makes you wanna look around, like easter egg hunting in games

Quote: "Hasn't dared come anywhere near my village. We through bricks at the last one, then the camera nearly got lopped off by a tree."


yeh.. uhh. great.

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