HOLY SHIT, have you seen Google Maps' "Street view"

[NightWatcher]

I type in my address and it shows a pic taken from the road in front of my house. You cant quite make out my car tag, but the make and model are clear.

This is way too touchy and close for me.


ARGGHHHH I just googled my SO's address and MY CAR IS IN HER DRIVEWAY TOO!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lethe]

1. well yah

i'm of the firm opinion that google will destroy civilization one day

[NightWatcher]

2. google was started with seed money from the cia

[Pierre.Suave]

4. Link?

:shrug:

[Orrex]

6. Don't worry--that's the Culinary Institute of America

They need to keep an eye on what's cooking.

[Initech]

43. Or so that's what they *WANT* you to think.

:yoiks:

[Orrex]

48. Nice post, Penetrode

:hide:

[Initech]

50. Yeah... I'm gonna have to ask you to come in on Saturday...

Sunday too...

[Silver Swan]

3. Street view hasn't come to my street yet

But if you visit the address of our favorite bar, you can see our car parked in front.

[NYC_SKP]

5. How they did it amazes me, driving up and down streets...

...taking 360 degree panoramic shots every few feet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

Google Cars in Romania with spherical cameras:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. That's wild!

I was either out of town or my car was broken down when they came down our street, because Mr GoG's car is parked in the driveway.

[NYC_SKP]

16. I looked up old New York addresses I had.

227 Sullivan and an East Houston address, then went by the Cooper Union.

It's cool to tour around!

They drove up and down streets in broad daylight in those funny cars and I've never seen one!

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. Drunk Guy Passed Out on Curb Shows Up on Google Street View

Google Street View has certainly made a name for itself in the U.S. by catching some interesting situations, such as people braking into houses, a kid wiping out on his bike, and even a marriage proposal. The service has now launched in Australia and, go figure, is already getting itself in trouble down under, this time catching a drunk passed out on the curb after an all-night bender.

The man, who isn't releasing his identity, went on a crazy night out to drown his sorrows over the loss of a friend. He passed out after getting out of a cab and the Googlemobile happened to drive by as he was still sleeping it off. Thankfully, Google is being good about removing such sights from its sites, and has already banished the offending picture from the Aussie Street View. Something tells us it won't be the last.

http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/drunk-guy-passed-out-on-curb-shows-up-on-google-street-view/

[DS1]

32. "braking into houses"

God dammit I'm sick and tired of illiterate fucks working in the press.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

36. Maybe they're talking about people who apply their brakes

before smashing into someone's house.

[InternalDialogue]

7. Yeesh. My car too, although it's not one I park here anymore.

You can just about make out stuff inside my front window as well.

[flvegan]

8. Google has my car in the driveway of 3 of my "regulars" here.

I hope word of that doesn't get out.

[Iggo]

9. Our garage was open when they drove past our house...

...and you can see our stuff inside.

[Initech]

10. Yeah, its fucking creepy.

I actually saw my car parked outside where I work. :scared:

[struggle4progress]

11. Download the free version of google earth and try that

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. You can't see my house...

Too many trees in front of it, thank goodness.

But the mailman is leaving one of my neighbor's houses. Pretty wild.

[Radical Activist]

14. It shows me naked in the window!

Not really but my car is there.

[Lucian]

15. Thank god my street isn't available on street view.

[NYC_SKP]

17. What's creepy...No people...There are NO PEOPLE in Street View.

Google = Evil.

Actually, I'm guessing that they had to do their best to not photograph people's faces for legal reasons.

Just checked, there are people in Manhattan.

But there's nobody in the suburbs!!!

[Drunken Irishman]

26. To be fair, you never see people in the suburbs.

They're all inside.

Which is why the suburbs have slowly killed the openness of America.

We've all isolated ourselves from one another.

[NYC_SKP]

29. That's a fact...

And truer it seems everyday as evidenced by the rise gated communities.

Interesting observation: the older neighborhoods on the east coast, no fences.

West coast, no such thing as a yard that isn't completely enclosed by six foot high fences.

[Drunken Irishman]

39. I live in a trolley-suburb.

One that was built in the 40s and 50s. It's not nearly as urban as some central city neighborhoods here in Salt Lake, but it's got its own little downtown center and the streets are gridded, not snaking around like in the burbs. People are always out and about, walking to the store, over to the park, up and down our street. We have block parties and are always close with our neighbors.

My family lives in the suburbs. They know two people on their street and that's about it.

What gets me is people complain about how they can't get their own yard or privacy in the city, but that isn't true. My neighborhood is older, my house is brick and was built in the late 40s, but I have my own front yard and backyard. It's perfect and a healthy mix of city and suburban without the isolation.

[NYC_SKP]

42. There's a movement, a slow one, in California to return to that model..

Neighborhoods of homes built in the 1920s-1940s had local grocers and shops and one did a lot of walking.

I've noticed some new projects in Sunnyvale, for example, that have condos above shops and offices, which is a different model than the neighborhood grocer model, but more pedestrian friendly and less auto reliant, and that's a good thing!

Eight years in NYC, never owned a car.

Have a great weekend, D.I.!

[NewJeffCT]

30. It is odd, as my street has so many kids

that it's almost never empty. Even during a school day, there are moms and/or grandparents with infants in strollers about.

They must have digitally removed people in the suburbs, but couldn't do it with city pictures because of the number of people?

[City of Mills]

52. They caught my FIL walking his dog

He looked up his own address and saw himself - creeeeepy!

[DarkTirade]

18. Yeah. It's recycling day at my house.

The recycling bin is by the curb.

[merh]

19. Heh, the satelite photo for my street is well over a year old

:)

[Kat45]

20. A local political official got pissed off at google because the picture

of his street showed him in front of his house putting out the trash and he was shirtless with his boobs showing. No shit! He complained loudly about it but I don't know how it all played out.

[Jamastiene]

21. ROFLMAO

You are EVERYWHERE and The Man knows ALLLLL about you. So does anyone else looking up your neighbor or your SO's neighbor's address.

It IS creepy, isn't it? I've seen my car before too.

[orleans]

22. sounds like you're everywhere. got a link? (lol)

there is a street shot of my house too. all decorated for halloween. oh yes, i am the queen of halloween

[rcrush]

23. My street isnt on there but I found the head shop I go to.

!

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. yep. Google is keeping tabs on us all

[sfpcjock]

27. I kno. They're aiming for street level shopping soon

I think. I use it all the time. Can't figure out how to tunnel to the Google maps streetview from Google earth, but KML files are fun things in Earth.

[MorningGlow]

28. I just checked out our house on that yesterday

The pic was taken in summer, so a lot of the street is covered in green leafiness, blocking the view of a lot of houses. My Jeep is parked on the street in front of the house and I think one of our black cats is in one of the front windows, but heck, she's black, so it could just be the curtains askew. So they must have taken the photo on a weekday morning, and I was home...that's weird...

[DS1]

31. 2 years ago

[no name no slogan]

44. THIS

Here's a blast from 2007:

http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some Bill Dennis Kucinich '08 signs to put up

This is the DU member formerly known as ItsASeriesOfTubes.

[BeachBaby]

33. Google didn't photograph me.

I live in a farmhouse, surrounded by hundreds of acres of farmland.

I guess I wasn't worth the drive. :P

[SidneyCarton]

47. More's the pity.

:blush:

[bigwillq]

34. My car's not in the driveway.

It used to be when they just had the aerial view but it's not there now.

Street View is cool, but yeah, I think it goes a bit far as far as privacy is concerned.

[Midlodemocrat]

35. I used street view a while back to find a memorial service

at a graveyard with which I wasn't familiar. I saw a guy picking his nose as I was kind of scrolling up the street. :rofl:

[bigwillq]

38. ha ha

We really do have to watch everything we do!! No more picking my nose in public! ha ha :rofl:

[KansDem]

37. Uh-oh! Time to finish painting my house!

Gotta clean up the yard, too!

[kwassa]

40. on Zillow you can get four aerial views from different angles

aside from finding out the market value for your house.

[AlCzervik]

41. the pic of my house looks like it's from at least a year ago.

[azmouse]

45. I like the way my house looks from the street in the pic.

Not bad. In fact it makes my whole neighborhood look way better than it does in real life.

[blondeatlast]

46. It's got the wrong house for me?! the one it shows is the abandoned one next to me. nt

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

49. I used it to scare the shit out of an internet scammer

All they have of my address is the utility box outside my fence, but I used it a few weeks ago to scare the shit out of an online scammer by describing in detail the shit in his front yard. The guy claimed to be in Canada - but he was really in Riverside, he registered his internet domain with his real address.

[SPKrazy]

51. its pretty limited right now to larger areas

but it sounds cool

I wanna see myself wave at it nekkid


:rofl:

[Deja Q]

53. Big brother - not quite in government form... cool, huh?

:evilgrin:

[BeachBaby]

54. I would like to know what Google is gaining from this.

This project has to be very expensive, yes? So what exactly are they investing in?