On Google Street View ...

fenlander_uk

Another aside. Take a look at Le Locle (Switzerland). You can zoom in and use Street View, even though there are no blue routes marked. But all the houses are cardboard cutouts with the road details fuzzed. You can even move the viewpoint inside walls. It can't just be Swiss rules as neighbouring towns are perfectly normal. I've noticed this because I have family connections there, but I haven't been able to find anywhere else with similar graphics.

System

Fruit_and_Nut_Case wrote: »

As an aside, I feature on Street View and was peeved that Google blurred my face. I e-mailed to request that it be un-blurred but their (presumably automatic) system blurred me some more. You can't win.

Edit: I even stopped and posed for the Google camera car.

I found one view in my home town where they not only blurred the face of a dog walker but also blurred the mutt's face !:)

LucianH

fenlander_uk wrote: »

Take a look at Le Locle (Switzerland). You can zoom in and use Street View, even though there are no blue routes marked. But all the houses are cardboard cutouts with the road details fuzzed..

Sounds fascinating but can't find it. Could you post the direct link from street view (click the link button just next to the printer button (top right hand corner of the left hand pane))

Pikeyp

Stonehenge is a 'walk-around' job too ...

fenlander_uk

LucianH wrote: »

Sounds fascinating but can't find it. Could you post the direct link from street view (click the link button just next to the printer button (top right hand corner of the left hand pane))

Sorry, no link button (or print button for that matter) on my machine. However, the coordinates are:
47°03'25.68" N 6°44'54.91" E

blossomhill_2

Our house isn't shown because we asked them to remove it - maybe same applies for the query house

System

blossomhill wrote: »

Our house isn't shown because we asked them to remove it - maybe same applies for the query house

'Our house is easy to find, if you look on Google maps we are the blurred one'

adamc260

!!!!!! wrote: »

'Our house is easy to find, if you look on Google maps we are the blurred one'

Haha I love it ! If it's blurred out it makes people ask far more questions than if it weren't.. don't you agree?

LucianH

LucianH wrote: »

Just a little aside, for those that aren't aware, Google Street View also uses man-portable "Trekker" cameras and various places of interest are now mapped. For example:

Inside the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project.

And here's another example (which baffles me since I can't see the Trekker's shadow!).

And just to add to may last post - they can really create the atmosphere. With this view you can see how hot and humid it is in the Biome!

OneYorkshireLass

Norman_Castle wrote: »

So the owners who are secretive and concerned for their privacy are now being pointed out on a well used forum.:rotfl:

I've never understood peoples' concerns about Street View. Any number of people can go and stand right outside that house, take photos from the public highway, post them anywhere etc ...
Hundreds of people walk past my house every day and they can do the same thing every day, checking out the locations of my doors, whether there's post sticking out of the letterbox etc .... why would anyone be bothered by a static picture of their house being on the internet along with billions of others?

I landed on that street mistakenly; I was aiming for the local garden centre, but my netbook went crazy when I moved the little man. I just thought it was interesting as, after viewing tons of places on Street View, I've never seen a whole house blocked before.

And if they really were worried about privacy I reckon they would've made sure the whole house was obscured - you can view the whole of the rear of the house from the main road.