Google street view

[kiwifruit]

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/

pretty cool! Invasive? Do you care?

[Cajun]

yeah they have the whole of aussie done.

NZ is meant to be next 6 months or so last i heard

[Jez]

OMG now you guys will be able to see if i have mowed my lawns or not ... thats far to invasive for my liking!!!

seriously its a damned cool feature, ill be able to check out what bikes are in front of the Yamaha store in Sydney before i head over there in October :)

[jim.cox]

NZ is meant to be next 6 months or so last i heard

Their camera cars have already been seen around.

Chch appears to have been done

[Tank]

OMG now you guys will be able to see if i have mowed my lawns or not ... thats far to invasive for my liking!!!

seriously its a damned cool feature, ill be able to check out what bikes are in front of the Yamaha store in Sydney before i head over there in October :)

Im sure you're joking but you do know that its not 'real time' right???

[kiwifruit]

Im sure you're joking but you do know that its not 'real time' right???

not yet! :calm:

[wybmadiity]

OMG! That's amazing! Is it just this one picture they take or is it updated often? If it is a one off not so bad I guess but I looked up my mums place and if the car had been parked a little closer to the road I would have made out the number plate...
Need more information before I make an opinion... :scratch:

[mark247]

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

a few things to look out for

[James Deuce]

It's bullshit.

You people are happy to hand any form of privacy over, provided it's "cool".

There's peaceful anonymity to be had in a crowd. Google can GFT.

[mark247]

It's bullshit.

You people are happy to hand any form of privacy over, provided it's "cool".

There's peaceful anonymity to be had in a crowd. Google can GFT.

Who cares if someone can go see your driveway / house from the road on the internet? If google street view wasnt there, if anyone wanted so badly to go see your drive way / house they'd just go have a look in real life. I guess someone driving past your mail box is an invasion of privacy as well? I really dont see a problem.

[Jorja]

when my brother was living in England last year I used google to check out where he was living. Was curious to see what the area was like.

[Big Dave]

Got some plants going in the back yard Jim?

[Str8 Jacket]

EXCELLENT!!!! *rubs hands together* now I can stalk people without ever having to leave my lounge! :devil2:

[kiwifruit]

You people are happy to hand any form of privacy over, provided it's "cool".


Of course not.

I don't think this is breaching people's privacy... its just a heap of snap shots taken from PUBLIC streets carefully taped together innit? Be different if the places were private.

It is cool tho :cool:


Got some plants going in the back yard Jim?

As long as one hasn't got them as a front hedge one should be right. Right?

[Big Dave]

As long as one hasn't got them as a front hedge one should be right. Right?

Seen the Google earth interface too?

I rang my old man in Sydney and told him the gutters over the kitchen are blocked.

He rang back an hour later and demanded to know how I knew.

If it's in a hi-res area you can see the strands of wire on the clothesline.

[kiwifruit]

Seen the Google earth interface too?

I rang my old man in Sydney and told him the gutters over the kitchen are blocked.

He rang back an hour later and demanded to know how I knew.

If it's in a hi-res area you can see the strands of wire on the clothesline.

Yes.
Thats where the Dr. Greenthumb Sizzlean screen comes in!

[SPman]

Our house is 100m from the road behind tree, so, you can see bugger all. Taken in early summer,judging by the paddocks, and I don't think it will be updated very often - like the maps.

[boomer]

not yet! :calm:

Don't look them in the eyes..!!!!

[kiwifruit]

I might take up tagging, be an effective way on going international

[boomer]

I might take up tagging, be an effective way on going international

Alternatively you could just RAGE on Kiwibiker..

[Trudes]

EXCELLENT!!!! *rubs hands together* now I can stalk people without ever having to leave my lounge! :devil2:

You do already... it's called Kiwibiker.co.nz :bleh:

[Swoop]

Interesting. Coming home tonight there was a 4x4 with a weird roofrack coming out of an intersection. There was a pole, about a metre high on top of the cage and it had a small black box at the top. I wonder if it is a vehicle for doing this sort of filming?

Imagine the fun if you knew exactly when they were going to be travelling along a certain road...:whistle:

[peasea]

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/

pretty cool! Invasive? Do you care?

Stand at the letterbox with ya willy out and see if THEY care!