Google Street View on Google Maps

[Hockey9019]

Anyone see this? This is awesome! I found a really good friends of mine house and called her and asked if she ever saw them doing it. She said they drove around with a van with a camera on top. Pretty sweet





www.maps.google.com and click Street View

[Samuel]

I was at Legoland (San Diego) when the street view guy was pedaling around inside the park. Bummer that Google doesn't have the inside of the park available...

[greenlead]

Some moron let them into a military installation. Heads rolled.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/62017.html

[WellAdvised]

They have been in my city for the last few weeks. The UK is being done at the moment.

[Hockey9019]

I wonder if you can get a job doing that for Google? I would LOVE to do that around here...

[Hockey9019]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technolog...702214157.html

[Hockey9019]

Hahahaha http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/2...701857311.html














Kazz, Aussie?




I saw this before, and never really thought about it and figure to post it now

The 'Googling' Part I

You Tube

[Norm357]

Google street view is VERY useful in my business.

[Drummadude]

Street view is very creepy. When I was in San Fran on vacation, I saw a motorcycle with a pole with 360 degrees of cameras, at the Fisherman's Wharf.

Google has created very powerful technology. In a recent teen police academy, my city's head dispatcher came in to talk one day. He said that once when a 911 hangup was made, through the CAD he was able to get the phone's lat./long. through GPS.
When police went to the general area of the call, it seemed impossible to find this phone. Yet, he decided to type it into Google Maps.

And the officer was surprised when the dispatcher asked him "Do you see a huge pine tree?" and right under it was the phone. So now it can be used in dispatching. That's pretty powerful.
I wouldn't be surprised if officers serving warrants on drug houses or something may have used Google Maps in their intel. Although the addresses are often messed up, if they knew what the house looked like, they could get a lot of info just from Google.

I have to say, the first time I saw my house in street view was pretty creepy.

[Stupie680]

this is great for getting an idea of the area for serving warrants

[Hockey9019]

I put an app in with the company that does it


24k, fulltime, vehicle and travel. Not too shabby

[ngcsubutterbar]

I can just see Switch now using this to help plan his door kicking.

[suzanne1020U.S.]

Satellite technology at it's best. :D

[Aussie George]

I found my house. From that pic I could tell it was taken early this year (my Christmas lights were still up), and it was probably a day I had off work, because my car is in the driveway and the wife's is out, so we were probably out in her car (as usual).

I also found out that my neighbour has a pool from Google Earth. Confirmed by walking to the back yard and looking over the fence!! :p


We are moving soon and plan on using it to check out the new neighbourhood of any potential houses.

We also use Google Maps in the dispatch to get a good look around. Google Earth would need dowloading and work won't allow that.

[Hockey9019]

Sweet





A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet.

He had been drowning his sorrows over the death of a friend and collapsed after climbing out of a taxi.

As he slept off his excesses, a car-mounted video camera passed by to record pictures of the street for Google's StreetView website.

Within days a pho More..tographic record of the neighbourhood and its unusual presence was available for worldwide viewing.

The new Google service has been at the centre of controversy over claims it represents a breach of privacy.

But the latest victim, who gave his name only as 'Bill', is not planning an official complaint.

'I'm not too happy about it' said Bill.


'I mean, I wouldn't have been there in the state that I was in, but I wasn't really thinking there would be someone driving by with a video camera on the roof filming me, either,' Bill, 36, said from northern Australia, where he is working with a fishing company.


'What do you do when you lose a mate like that?' he said of his pal, with whom he had been planning a motorbike holiday around the island of Tasmania.


'I know what he would have done if I left - he would have partied, too. That's what I would've wanted him to do so that's what I did with some friends.'


Bill said he accepted he could not expect to have complete privacy in a public street, but he questioned whether his embarrassing moment should be broadcast over the internet.


Street View was launched in Australia last week and since then there have been a number of complaints about what has been captured on the video camera.


One woman who wrote to a Sydney newspaper said she was mortified after logging onto the site.


'Both my parents were pictured outside their house, but my dad passed away a month ago,' said Janice Creenaune.


'While recognising that Google-time is never real-time, the image renews the raw loss,' she said.


Another letter writer, Elizabeth Maher was, however, delighted.


'While others may have legitimate complaints about Google publishing pictures of their house, I was delighted to view ours, with me pictured hard at work in the garden, complete with broom and bucket, thereby dispelling any uncertainty as to who is the gardener in the family.'


A spokesman for Google Australia, Mr Rob Shilkin, said the company had taken significant steps to protect the privacy of individuals, including face-blurring and tools for people to flag sensitive imagery for removal.


Since Bill's case became known to Google Australia, his embarrassing sleep-in has been removed from the site.