Google Street View

SewerSide

Reverbe wrote: »

Couldn't have been a year. People on my local area are wearing tshirts.

In Oxford, it was last June. You can see the date on the front of the Academy on Cowley Rd.

manch235ter

It was about July/August when they did parts of Manchester. I can remember seeing them outside work

widowmaker

Wow big brother really is watching us.
thanks to the OP this is very cool.

zierisaver

It really is amazing, lets hope burglars don't use it to look for entry points in houses though!!!!

geordieracer

zierisaver wrote: »

It really is amazing, lets hope burglars don't use it to look for entry points in houses though!!!!

what? Like doors and windows?

dont make me laugh:rotfl:

olivetti

I fail to see what the problem with Streetview is on any level. You see nothing that you would not see walking down the same street, at the same time the car was driving down it, which was sometime in the past.

If you want to clone a registration number, you will go out and find one, using your eyes in real time. Or get one of the TV when it goes past in the background of a news article etc.

If you want to look for houses to burgle you will walk or drive around the streets.

If someone want to take pictures of kids, for what ever reason, they will take a camera into the streets and take pictures.

If you have a problem with Google Streetview then I suggest your problems do not start or end with Google.

What next ban people taking pictures, blur out all the faces on Flickr, Picasa, Bebo, Facebook, the TV news, and newspapers?

chloecat_2

My little bit of the world isn't up yet but I used to live in london and I have just seen my old home and "walked" to school. Feel a bit weepy now but isn't it fabulous?

chloecat x

^!£$&

OMG So Funny I was in as my cars on the drive and the windows open so defo summer

LittleVoice

Rabbitx wrote: »

Insurance companies use these sites to double check whether parked on or off road!

A car may be on a driveway during the day (eg just before the school run) but in the garage at night. The residential pictures aren't taken at night as far as I have seen, so really not much use to an insurance company regarding any statement about where the car is normally parked overnight.

waspsforever

I find it absolutely brilliant. So many legitimate good uses for it. Have been using the Australian version for quite a while now to view areas I am about to holiday in before I go. You can view the Sydney Opera House from the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Bondi Beach etc. Hope it expands to the rest of the UK very soon.