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.
― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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"
― conrad, Friday, 3 April 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
when in reality an englishman's fleece is his suit of armour yes I posted this five minutes later
― conrad, Friday, 3 April 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― snoball, Friday, 3 April 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Still want to know why the UK/Europe software is so much shitter at editing out the Google car than the Australian version.
― James Morrison, Saturday, 4 April 2009 05:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know what you mean but the photos seem a lot clearer on the UK ones than anywhere else.
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 07:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 08:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahah what are they, utterly dense?
― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 4 April 2009 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 4 April 2009 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder if it's something to do with the cameras rather than the software - they seem radically different.Aussie streetview carhttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2219/2051749701_5b81783834.jpg?v=0Brit streetview carhttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2666901841_a16aa6a53b.jpg?v=0
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 08:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 09:02 (fifteen years ago) link
...if the Brit one...
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 09:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Paul McCartney takes his house off streetview.
Seems neither he nor his security team has heard about live search maps.
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 22 May 2009 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link
A+ headline
― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Friday, 22 May 2009 09:00 (fifteen years ago) link
xp...or, in fact, the internet.
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 22 May 2009 09:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 22 May 2009 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link
28 IF ?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 22 May 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
loving the motion blur that they now add to the transition as you click through a street
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 24 July 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
― Snorks is worst cartoon in america and world plus fuck Snorks (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 25 July 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Singapore added. Looks quite awesome.
Also Coronation Street
― the acquired taste that is howard wolowitz (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― the acquired taste that is howard wolowitz (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 4 December 2009 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― poster x (ledge), Friday, 4 December 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/iog31e.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
ew
"Report a problem"
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
peepoop
― shartin jort (am0n), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― Parish Priest!, Friday, 29 January 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 29 January 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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/
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 7 February 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
The road my parents live on in rural eastern NC is streetviewed. I find that astounding.
― Jeff, Sunday, 7 February 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Monday, 8 February 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
By "pizzas" I clearly meant "piazzas", erm erm.
Trayce, they're already doing this. See upthread a few posts.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 February 2010 09:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Monday, 8 February 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I HAVE DISCOVERED THE VORTEX
http://i46.tinypic.com/1ys3no.jpg
Turns out it's on Nevada 427.
― Pontiac Driving Excitement (Z S), Friday, 5 March 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
...and its still sitting where it was on February 7th. Prankster FAIL.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 March 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 11 March 2010 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
in my day you could kick a ball in the street with it all hanging out, without fear of being raped by perverts online
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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'.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
New survey shows that two-thirds of people find people walking down their street 'intrusive'...
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
The report was carried out by myvouchercodes.co.uk
yeah they sound reliable
― joe, Monday, 15 March 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Is the 3D button on Streetview an April Fools joke?
― nate woolls, Thursday, 1 April 2010 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ha! don't have any 3d glasses to test whether it's actually being applied "for real"
― Nhex, Thursday, 1 April 2010 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
haha it totally works
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 1 April 2010 11:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I used my Avatar 3D glasses and it didn't work.
― Duke Newsom (DavidM), Thursday, 1 April 2010 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
it's just the old fashioned blue & red glasses you need, i don't know how the avatar ones work.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
A "View In 3D" option has been added to Google Books as well, so surely it has to be a hoax?
― Convenience Fish (snoball), Thursday, 1 April 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link