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- kss42, on 12/10/2008, -2/+95Hey, I can see my house!
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HOLY ***** THEY CAN SEE MY HOUSE - Infinitex2, on 12/10/2008, -1/+74I wonder when they will go into houses. I have lost some stuff that would be easier to search for with Google.
- ayeroxor, on 12/10/2008, -7/+69ALL of Maine?! WOW! That must have taken MINUTES!
- Nairebis, on 12/10/2008, -0/+27Google street view rocks. I love being able to check out wherever I'm going. Why people are paranoid of it, I don't know (my house has been on there for 6 or 9 months).
A particularly cool use came up the other day... I was searching around for Autochrome pictures (it was a color photograph technology used as early as 1907... yes, color in 1907...) and I found this picture of schoolchildren from 1910 near Harvard...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/ ...
What made it especially cool is that exact same house in the picture is visible from Google maps...
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=ox ...
(Someone figured out the corner was Oxford and Brighton). You have to flip around to see the center median, the Google camera was on the other side of the street from the camera a hundred years ago. Look at the front stairs of both houses and that helps to see that it's the same house. And go around the corner and you can see the same side windows.
In fact, if anyone lives near there, could you snap a picture of exactly the same angle as the original photographer? That'd be really cool. - dtstuff9, on 12/10/2008, -1/+23Do France!
Do Megan Fox's underpants!
Haha...I'm so immature - doublefelix, on 12/10/2008, -3/+25Can anyone make heads or tails of that coverage map? The red dots (actual street view cities) are under represented, while I am assuming that the blue areas are going to be under sea level if the polar ice caps melt.
- Rockkybox, on 12/10/2008, -0/+19Do London!
- Narcism, on 12/10/2008, -1/+19I look forward to Google Street View - Heat Mapping so noone can hide.
- inactive, on 12/10/2008, -0/+16I'm still waiting for the day when we can just Google our car keys.
- penguin1908, on 12/10/2008, -0/+14That's what she said.
- SniperZero, on 12/10/2008, -0/+14can you believe that some people actually think street view is updated so frequently that people can stalk them using it >_>.
- ayeroxor, on 12/10/2008, -0/+12The blue is the worky part. The red is the major part of the worky part.
- AnotherDiggGuy, on 12/10/2008, -0/+11The only drove by my city on the interstate... they didn't get off
- SuperVepr308, on 12/10/2008, -0/+11They can't see me in Vault 101.
- cawpin, on 12/10/2008, -0/+10Welcome, Kaczynski. How ya been?
- Pobotrol, on 12/10/2008, -0/+10It's not safe to ***** in the streets no more.
- Zippo, on 12/10/2008, -2/+11I hope Google covers Canada soon.
- slapded, on 12/10/2008, -0/+9I hate telling people with no knowledge of technology about google street view.. here is the first response I always get.....
"IS THAT LIVE?"
grr.. - inactive, on 12/10/2008, -0/+9Except the Governator.
- drlha, on 12/10/2008, -0/+8Google could probably make a live image of the whole of London if they could tap into the CCTV cameras.
- Cornea, on 12/10/2008, -0/+7And Italy, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
- cawpin, on 12/10/2008, -0/+7Why the hell would Google have to use their cameras? The UK is already completely mapped by its own cameras.
- rharris, on 12/10/2008, -0/+6Taking a picture of my house from the road violates my privacy how? As much of a privacy nut as I am, I have no problem with this. This is no different from when I just go driving to see somewhere I haven't seen before. Only now I can do it without using gas.
- eastcoast1978, on 12/10/2008, -0/+6I love Google Maps but I'm often in spots that it hasn't updated. Glad to see it is expanding.
- pantherxx, on 12/10/2008, -0/+5@ jhandfield & IphtashuFitz
You speak as if you are from Maine; you guys have the internets up there now? - Natnie, on 12/10/2008, -0/+5Yep. Not like it's really any different to someone just walking along the street and seeing your house there....
- dheaddy, on 12/10/2008, -0/+5Now I just wish they would put up street view maps for the UK. The cameras have been spotted all the over place (in the Midlands anyway) and still nothing.
- inactive, on 12/10/2008, -0/+4They only get off on spying on interesting cities.
- CTK14A, on 12/10/2008, -4/+8Google Street View West Virginia:
http://tinyurl.com/5rraxa
Google Street View North Dakota:
http://urlcut.com/11
Google Street View South Dakota:
http://myturl.com/0pl10 - antidense, on 12/10/2008, -1/+5Google accidentally Maine.
- megamod, on 12/10/2008, -0/+4you're missing the point. Now we can see more pimps and hoes, houses on fire, robberies, car accidents, Brangelina's 20 kids crossing the street, etc.
I'm going to be waiting for all these new findings on digg! - IphtashuFitz, on 12/10/2008, -0/+4Somehow I doubt the thousands of miles of unpaved lumber roads, private roads, etc. were covered. I've yet to see any pictures of a Googled-out 4 wheel drive SUV capable of surviving driving some of those sorts of roads with camera equipment that would survive hundreds of hours of tortuous terrain.
- Nairebis, on 12/10/2008, -0/+4Not near Harvard, scratch that part. It's Rochester, NY.
- JackOfAllGeeks, on 12/10/2008, -1/+5The question I have to ask, though, is do they know it's your house, and do they care? And why do you care if they care? I mean, I can understand that the creep-factor can get kinda high, but is there a real basis for concern here?
- inactive, on 12/10/2008, -0/+4Wouldn't it be the same as someone walking by your house and happening to see you standing by your window nude?
- Baryn, on 12/10/2008, -1/+4Meh, it had a good run.
- Zippo, on 12/10/2008, -0/+3Actually, they are planning to cover all major cities in Canada. And, honestly, the privacy concerns of Street View are overblown. Sure, it can be a little disconcerting when you first think about it, but honestly, it doesn't show anything that you wouldn't see anyways if you yourself drove down a street. The outside is the general public. Anything you do out in public can't be considered "private".
- marciot, on 12/10/2008, -0/+3The new google street view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgV6-gnQaE - inactive, on 12/10/2008, -1/+4If they get off who would drive the car?
- SpacePoet, on 12/10/2008, -1/+4I just used it this morning and i hate the new interface. It makes you drag a symbol to the spot you want to look at instead of just highlighting the streets that have it and clicking in the spot (the street view highlighting option has been removed from the normal functions). It took me 8 tries to get the person to the right spot and then to move to another spot you get this little tiny window that you can't see any other portion of the map, it sucks... The only upside to this is that the view is bigger, bleh.
- drlha, on 12/10/2008, -0/+3They've still got a lot of work to do with Pennsylvania. Odd that cities like Altoona and State College have no coverage for miles, and yet you can get images of middle of nowhere dirt roads in Georgia.
- JackOfAllGeeks, on 12/10/2008, -0/+3Wouldn't it be the same as someone walking by and seeing a crime committed? Doesn't that count as eye-witness, and not evidence collection?
- jaymulder, on 12/10/2008, -1/+4My city just recently had the image satellite pass over!
- feenstrovski, on 12/10/2008, -2/+5They wont because Canadians unlike Americans have Individual privacy rights. Until the laws change they won't be doing this in Canada.
- rockouttomcr, on 12/10/2008, -0/+2wow....poor minnesota
- akchrs, on 12/10/2008, -0/+2Our town was google mapped then they made changes to it and deleted a lot of the streets and the map doesn't match where you are on it anymore.
- Gizza, on 12/11/2008, -0/+2I was actually surprised when I found out how much of Australia they've covered. I wasn't expecting them to have even come here.
- Paulish, on 12/10/2008, -0/+2Google is everywhere and nowhere. It is the all seeing eye. Worship it (and create a gmail account) and your sins will be forgiven.
- troymccluresf, on 12/11/2008, -0/+2Several other website offer similar services... MapJack is one (with way better image quality).
- NoozeHound, on 12/10/2008, -0/+2 - see below. Justr wait for 'room view' :-)
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