Google Street View

gohan2091

penrhyn wrote: »

You don't need to download Google Earth to use Street View.
Its available on Google Maps.

You just drag the little man over one of the highlighted streets and drop him where you want to view.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en-GB&q=&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GPCK_en-GBGB350GB356&ie=UTF-8

I think everyone already knows this... My mention of Google Eath wasn't suggesting the only way to access Street View was through Google Earth, I was just saying download it for a better Street View experience and additional features.

daedana

I think that the service is really cool. Though it has faced lots of fire from different countries in EU. Finland, my home country, is also in there and I find this service really cool. I hope that people of UK will embrace this service as I have.

tla19

My house shows santa and a snowman in the front garden. Therefore I assume Google came down my street around Christmas time

Neddy2000

tla19 wrote: »

My house shows santa and a snowman in the front garden. Therefore I assume Google came down my street around Christmas time

Either that or they are both fed up of 'Walking in the air'. Maybe Santa's moonlighting! :rotfl:

mrcol1000

gohan2091 wrote: »

I think everyone already knows this... My mention of Google Eath wasn't suggesting the only way to access Street View was through Google Earth, I was just saying download it for a better Street View experience and additional features.

Although it does make you travel sick as it wooshes between destinations. But it is well worth downloading and using. It makes streetview much easier to use.
As for the critics. Every single thing anyone ever does is going to upset someone somewhere but its no reason not to do it.
When they first started building passenger railways in this country they said it wasn't natrual for humans to travel faster than a horse could run and that the shock of seeing a train would kill all the livestock in fields.

Mike_J

zenseeker wrote: »

No privacy is being compromised here, faces are blanked, as are license plates.

Personally I have no problem with this as, as many people have stated, there are so many other "public" images out there and people see my house when they pass every day.

One thing though is that the licence plate blurring part of the software needs some attention. Ive been having a look at some friends houses who live around the country (with their knowledge) and on at least 7 occassions their reg number is visable. The Google blurring software seems to fail if the picture has not been taken square on.

jacktyler

Mike_J wrote: »

One thing though is that the licence plate blurring part of the software needs some attention. Ive been having a look at some friends houses who live around the country (with their knowledge) and on at least 7 occassions their reg number is visable. The Google blurring software seems to fail if the picture has not been taken square on.

interesting that you say that. i've also noticed a few motorcycle number plates not blurred.

on the face-blurring side, i've noticed some amusement arcades at the seaside where the thomas the tank engine kiddy ride has had its face blurred! :rotfl:

skintandsad

grumpycrab wrote: »

Just seen our Mother in full view (no blur) on a public path by a public road. She was disabled and the picture shows this. Bit of a shock.
And the fact she died last October.


Bloody google.

Grumpy, this must be very upsetting for you, but you can do something about it.

On the image, there is, in the bottom left hand corner, in very small white writing, a link "report a problem". This link will open up, and give you the option of having the face blurred, so that your mother cannot be recognised by the general public.

You can also do the above for number plates, or any other privacy matters.

Hope this helps.

S&S xxx

indelacio

jacktyler wrote: »

interesting that you say that. i've also noticed a few motorcycle number plates not blurred.

on the face-blurring side, i've noticed some amusement arcades at the seaside where the thomas the tank engine kiddy ride has had its face blurred! :rotfl:

hello martin:beer:
and yeah I saw the british heart foundation sign was blurred, I thought maybe they werent allowed to mention that charity or something lol! Every other shop on the road was fine.

Contessa

I'm looking at moving to the other end of the country and find street view very useful. I can do "drive pasts" from home. I was interested in a bungalow which ticked most of the boxes-but street view showed that next to the garage, apparently within the garden, is an electricity sub-station!