Googlemaps street view

[phantom]

I see that they have got street view available for NZ now in Google maps. Just choose the address you are interested in , drag the little pegman icon onto the map and hey presto there is a 360 degree photo taken from street level. Good job I had painted the house, but the lawn looks a bit rough

[nodrog]

fuck thats freaky, sombody left the lights on that day

[Slyer]

Oh wow I was wondering when this would be available.
The fireworks sale is on in some of the pictures so we know when the google cars went around.

[Finn]

They got the wrong street where my house is. Photo is of a lane adjacent to it.

[MSTRS]

Could have picked a more typical HB day to photograph...still, Chez MSTRS/Yungatart looks nice.

[nodrog]

They got the wrong street where my house is. Photo is of a lane adjacent to it.

are you sure your house wasnt built on the wrong street?

[Finn]

are you sure your house wasnt built on the wrong street?

Strange. I came home one day and my wife looked completely different, had two kids that I didn't know about and found this guy crying in the wardrobe.

[nodrog]

Strange. I came home one day and my wife looked completely different, had two kids that I didn't know about and found this guy crying in the wardrobe.

was it Mr Whippys house?

[Finn]

was it Mr Whippys house?

Could have been. She seemed to like soft serve.

[MSTRS]

Could have been. She seemed to like soft serve.

Takes all sorts. It's the sprinkles you need to be careful of...

[ManDownUnder]

all very interesting but - where's the nudes?

Where's all the pics of people rooting goats and having it away with the neighbour. I want drunks ambling about the streets with vomit down their front and girls flashing cars just because they can. It's all very interesting I'm sure but I want someting to remember!

[nodrog]

Where's all the pics of people rooting goats and having it away with the neighbour.....

i dont think they have done edgecumbe yet.

[Mikkel]

i dont think they have done edgecumbe yet.

Funny, the coverage does otherwise appear to be international...

[slofox]

SHit! Just as well I live in the back section........!!!

[vifferman]

My street looks deserted, like some terrible cataclysmic event has wiped out all life. Worst of all, my lawn needs mowing...

[James Deuce]

If I catch one of those fuckers taking the photos I am going to make sure that they get a couple of decent shots of their lower intestines. It won't be an internal shot either.

[vifferman]

If I catch one of those fuckers taking the photos I am going to make sure that they get a couple of decent shots of their lower intestines. It won't be an internal shot either.
Would you recognise them? They just drive around in a special car with a fancy camera gizmo poking out the roof. Apparently, it doesn't even use GPS - just some fancy-schmancy inertial dohickeys and accelerowhatsits to work out where it is relative to where it was a nanosecond ago.
Beats me iffen it's so technofreaky why the photographic evidence ends up being of the neighbour's house. Thank goodness my mouse can drag the viewpoint 20m or so further up the road. I mean, I'd really hate to believe the images were really my house, and ride home tonight and park in the gargre of the asian dude on the corner whose name I don't even know. Could get embarrassing.
Reminds me: my next door neighbour (yeah him - the nosey one who's responsible for the stupid fucking pedestrian island / traffic 'calming measure' [fuck I hate those bureaucratic weaselwordz]) erected a fence, just inside his boundary, because there were some shrubby things on the boundary he didn't want to disturb. Because it was on his property, he didn't ask the asian dude neighbour on the corner what he thought, nor did he ask him for money or help. He was also careful to keep it under the regulation council-enforced height.
So, he duly finished the fence (did a good job too), added a nice fiddly trellis thingie along the top, painted it with some of the 20,000litres of redwood-flavoured acrylic fencepaint he bought at auction, and that was that.
However (but!) asian corner house dude neighbour guy decided (apparently) he didn't like the fence, on account of the fiddly trellis work along the top. Mebbe it attracted Hungry Ghosts, or bad feng shui or summat. So... he erected his own fence inside his boundary, just tall enough that it obscured the other trellis-crowned, redwood-flavoured monstrosity. :laugh:
Soon, Nosey Neighbour is going to demolish the fence on our boundary (he's warned me several times). But because he's also said he'd gonna pay for all the materials, and asked me nicely to just help him erect the new one, I don't give a rodent's rectum. He can put as much fiddly decoration and whatnot on it as he wants. I'm not going to erect a bigger! Better! one on our section to hide it.
Nor am I going to complain about his pohutukawa trespassing on a few cm of our section that serves no use apart from needing mowing; that's the vifferbabe's job. Territory? Pfft!!

[Lias]

I was wondering why our internet connection at work was drowning in a sea of lagginess this morning.. Every cunt and his dog is apparently looking up their house.

That being said it is kinda cool innit

[ManDownUnder]

I was wondering why our internet connection at work was drowning in a sea of lagginess this morning.. Every cunt and his dog is apparently looking up their house.

That being said it is kinda cool innit

You disappointed me! I'd have though this obvious threat to internal security would be something you'd stomp on! Image the nefarious uses the state could put this too - or even worse a foreign state.

And like I say - where's all the rootin'???

[Lias]

You disappointed me! I'd have though this obvious threat to internal security would be something you'd stomp on! Image the nefarious uses the state could put this too - or even worse a foreign state.

And like I say - where's all the rootin'???

I moved jobs at work and it's no longer my job to moniter teh interweb usage, or control it or shape it.. That being said I did suggest to the person who does such things that he should do evil things to the users google maps access.

Re the state, despite what the lefties think Key is WAY too centrist to start getting big brother, and if they did start going down the authoritarian nationalist path what on earth makes you think i'd stop them? :-P

Re foreign states, If they want to take over, they can.. we have no defense force to speak of, and we've already let shitloads of 3rd worlders in to destroy the country from the inside. Within 50 years we'll be part of Indonesia.. you just watch.. There is a reason Aussie keeps 80% of its armed forces up north :-)

[imdying]

There is a reason Aussie keeps 80% of its armed forces up north :-)Because down south there's only penguins and orcas?

[nodrog]

And like I say - where's all the rootin'???

edgecumbe -

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/group.php?groupid=41

[SPman]

I see my brothers still parking his van on the grass verge.........

[marty]

Most of Cambridge is not there.

[Finn]

Most of Cambridge is not there.

Maybe it was crafts day.

[Gremlin]

Scary... you can just about see license plates on vehicles... Here's a shot from Aviemore Drive in Highland park :gob:

http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=43+aviemore+drive+auckland+nz&sll=-36.871647,174.907153&sspn=0.011827,0.027895&g=43+aviemore+drive+auckland+nz&ie=UTF8&ll=-36.903046,174.905047&spn=0.011822,0.027895&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=-36.902013,174.905085&panoid=IYWyyVZuwSY7GSOr068uHA&cbp=12,327.32085096295623,,0,13.214497547533233

edit: and I never saw a fuck off huge satellite zooming down that road... maybe it did it when I wasn't there?

[The Stranger]

edgecumbe -

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/group.php?groupid=41

Fuck that's funny. I gather your application was declined.
Still at least there are 2 of them.

[Pussy]

Obviously a Friday when they took the pics up my street... a lovely candid shot of my wheeliebin and the neighbour's rubbish bags.... lovely!
AND, it was taken before some bastard stole my old letterbox

[nodrog]

Fuck that's funny. I gather your application was declined.
Still at least there are 2 of them.

mate i cant even mention frosty boy's competition or that international place in the bay of plenty without getting infracted these days. i dont think im allowed to put my keys in the bowl.

[xwhatsit]

If I catch one of those fuckers taking the photos I am going to make sure that they get a couple of decent shots of their lower intestines. It won't be an internal shot either.
:Pokey: What's your reasoning behind that, Jimmy?

[klingon]

Oooh that's kinda spooky... The pic must have been taken in winter because none of the trees have leaves on them and our garden isn't flowering. All the curtains were closed along the front of our house which means we were still in bed when they took the pics.

I feel kinda violated! :pinch:

[marioc]

hehe good fun,cant see nothing for the trees of my place

[Madness]

all very interesting but - where's the nudes?

Where's all the pics of people rooting goats and having it away with the neighbour. I want drunks ambling about the streets with vomit down their front and girls flashing cars just because they can. It's all very interesting I'm sure but I want someting to remember!

Try "Timberlea"

[SPman]

Hey - I can do the Coro loop again, from the comfort of my own computer chair.........

Nah - it's not the same...........

[Gremlin]

Nah - it's not the same...........
but the blur as it surges forward IS kinda cool :shifty:

[slimjim]

prety cool.....alright

[alanzs]

My garage door was open in the street view.

[Ixion]

Has anyone seen a motorbike in any of the street views?

[Trudes]

Our place is a back section, so couldn't see how much our lawn needed a mow, my car wasn't at work, Kendog's bike not parked in its usual spot on the street in town, snow on the Rimutaka hill road and a bunch of trucks in our car park at the top!:blink:

[chanceyy]

hmm mine must have been through winter .. not my vehicle next to the house & winter landscape for sure

[mrchips]

Thats freakin awesome !

I can zoom right in to some kids playing in the middle of the street & i can't see no friggen camera guy standing thereabouts !:confused: .....how'd they do that shit !


Oh, my lawns look shit hot btw:shifty:

o.k. hands up who this is

112265

[MadDuck]

Now that is way cool! You can actually see what an ass my steep driveway is

Edit: the photo of my place is at least 2 months old

[aroberts]

Has anyone seen a motorbike in any of the street views?

There are some at Mt Eden Motrcycles.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-36.867056,174.762096&spn=0.008721,0.02738&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-36.867164,174.761701&panoid=pVpnCem7l0bELyOO-qxBdA&cbp=12,150.38085445712335,,0,5

Kind of interesting. If you move one frame down Boston Road it is much later and they are building next door.

[Lucy]

Why has it been done? What or who is it for? If it's just for our benefit, then it's awfully nice of someone to do all that for free. Must have cost a bit.

[James Deuce]

Why has it been done? Simply because it can be.


What or who is it for?Anyone to scope your house out for good stuff to steal.
If it's just for our benefit, then it's awfully nice of someone to do all that for free. Must have cost a bit. A minor drop of the cash injection from advertising and share speculation that Google rake in every second. Good on them for that.

Just remember: anyone who says they are doing something for free is a lying, rabid dog. Anyone from a Government or Corporate who says they are here to help should be shot out of hand, with the weapon we should be allowed to freely use at our own discretion.

[Slyer]

Google do a lot of things just because they can.
'tis why they are awesome.

[Brian d marge]

google maps street view has been round for a long time ,,they have done 1/2 of NZ ,,but cant do 1/2 a mile from the kawagoe kaido ,,,swines ...my house is still 2d ....and I live in the future !!!!


Stephen

[sels1]

I see they photographed my street in late summer. On a weekday morning judging by the lack of traffic and people. Glad to see my lawns freshly mowed and everything tidy.
Looked up a rellies place and there he was out hosing his garden.

[Nasty]

I see they photographed my street in late summer. On a weekday morning judging by the lack of traffic and people. Glad to see my lawns freshly mowed and everything tidy.
Looked up a rellies place and there he was out hosing his garden.

hehe .. they got mine in summer, the top of the driveway .. I can just see the roof behind the neighbours in amongst the trees.

[klingon]

Has anyone seen a motorbike in any of the street views?

I haven't :( Will keep looking.




o.k. hands up who this is

112265

Well spotted mrchips!

We should start a whole new thread of "bikers caught on google streetview" and see who we can identify. (Not fair to post pics of bikes parked outside their houses though - just asking to have them stolen.)

[Tank]

edgecumbe -

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/group.php?groupid=41

Is that where they ride each others ho-bags?

[nodrog]

Has anyone seen a motorbike in any of the street views?

yep, several infact.

[Tank]

Street view Biking fail.

http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kid-falls-off-bike-street-view.jpg

[ManDownUnder]

yes yes - but where's all the rootin'???

Oh this is going terribly terribly wrong. What's the point of taking photos everywhere if there's nothing to perv at???

[Tank]

http://www.gstreetsightings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/google-street-view-sightings-showing-thong.jpg

http://www.gstreetsightings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/street-view-sightings-sun-tanning.jpg

http://www.gstreetsightings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/street-view-sightings-hot-babes.jpg

[Beemer]

My sister doesn't speak to me so I've never been to her house - until now, that is, ha ha! She's got an unlisted number but her house is there for all to see, complete with the dodgy looking guy in a hoodie (probably her son...) strolling past. She's a prison officer so would most likely be horrified to know she's not as invisible as she thinks she is!

Our place isn't on there but it's a little country road and I doubt they would even bother.

[Tank]

to see a root you could street view the Ohakune carrot?

[klingon]

There are some at Mt Eden Motrcycles.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-36.867056,174.762096&spn=0.008721,0.02738&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-36.867164,174.761701&panoid=pVpnCem7l0bELyOO-qxBdA&cbp=12,150.38085445712335,,0,5

Kind of interesting. If you move one frame down Boston Road it is much later and they are building next door.

I've just been looking at Barry's Point Road... Cycletreads was closed & so was Cyclespot, Holeshot was at the last stages of putting their bikes away for the night, street lights were on and it had been raining. What a miserable sight. I think we should all report Barry's Point Road for its miserableness and insist they go back and re-do it in the sunshine with all the bikes outside.

[speights_bud]

I must have taken the car to work that day as it's missing from teh Driveway, live down a back section but found it hard to get a good look down the drive

Photo's from work are a bit old, several vehicles parked outside and down the drive belong to former work mates from last year

[klingon]

Aha! Take a look at Motomail (30 College Hill). All kinds of dodgy looking bikers outside there (including one woman in a pretty pink jacket). Own up! Who are all these people?!

[portokiwi]

Got my rubbish bins so must have been a Wednesday lol. only gets the top of the driveway. can see the tagging on the fence though:lol:

[Pussy]

yes yes - but where's all the rootin'???



NOT at chez Pussy...... :(

:weep:

[EJK]

I can see your car!

[speights_bud]

BAHAHA This be GIXXER 4 EVER checking his mail on teh not so Gixxerish Farm bike. Which i do believe is a Yamahahaha Snapd!:woohoo:


http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=tangoio+road+New+Zealand&sll=-36.848402,174.748825&sspn=0.003795,0.012413&g=30+College+Hill+New+Zealand&ie=UTF8&ll=-39.323874,176.906576&spn=0.014308,0.049653&z=15&layer=c&cbll=-39.323874,176.906555&panoid=Fd747fyYg2SxbbMyY9IcCw&cbp=11,316.821601693268,,0,7.764435118008435

[Mom]

Our place is in full view, complete with the work van parked in the driveway. Beautiful sunny day for us, and the lawns look good.

[aroberts]

Another one on K-Road at the lights but can't see much from the back.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-36.855707,174.761517&spn=0,359.98631&z=17&layer=c&cbll=-36.857751,174.759524&panoid=N4MykE4_8UYTz_LJrRm3oA&cbp=12,287.88316070541185,,0,5

Tip: If you want to post a link just click the Link button on the top right of the Street View screen. It opens a little window with the url in it.

[aroberts]

Another one heading home late on the Northern Motorway.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-36.727462,174.71734&spn=0.069893,0.21904&z=13&layer=c&cbll=-36.760732,174.736985&panoid=cVt5YCxBlCbBPSXtLJwxUA&cbp=12,162.82434570114094,,0,8.31504702194357

[aroberts]

And another little one on Fashawe St. I'll give up now. :cool:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-36.850024,174.760723&spn=0.034891,0.10952&z=14&layer=c&cbll=-36.846069,174.757409&panoid=VxRC0-BCdWWhEr649vd25Q&cbp=12,291.7443457011407,,0,5

[pzkpfw]

Opposite my old house I can see my neighbours old ute.

They had it parked up, unregistered for five months, and began filling it with rubbish.

Smelly rubbish that sometimes blew onto my lawn.

Now I have google-proof of it (you can even see some of the rubbish in it).

[Eventually the council stickered it, and they did get rid of it...]

[Manxman]

Thats freakin awesome !

I can zoom right in to some kids playing in the middle of the street & i can't see no friggen camera guy standing thereabouts !:confused: .....how'd they do that shit !


Oh, my lawns look shit hot btw:shifty:

o.k. hands up who this is

112265

Ain't that Riffer??

[HTFU]

Our car is in our driveway and its a cloudy shitty day but as you move down the road and into the next street its a nice sunny day and our car is also parked at school. At least I know the missus was at work that day :niceone:.

Funny shit and somehow it took more than one day to photograph all of Otorohanga.

[Tank]

Funny shit and somehow it took more than one day to photograph all of Otorohanga.

They didnt even bother with Edgecombe. (Its true - look for yourself).

[ManDownUnder]

Funny shit and somehow it took more than one day to photograph all of Otorohanga. Where's the surprise there? Probably didn't notice it as they went through - only when looking at the photos tyhey realised something was actually there!


They didnt even bother with Edgecombe.

Google's in the majority then...

[The Stranger]

They didnt even bother with Edgecombe. (Its true - look for yourself).

Probably pick up a couple of Whippy trucks on Google earth though.

[nodrog]

They didnt even bother with Edgecombe. (Its true - look for yourself).

somebody probably complained so much about them taking their photos, blah, blah, blah, that they decided to leave everything from edgecumbe out.

i think kiwibiker should do the same.

[Sully60]

It would apear that there is a Google logo on my van in street view.

It looks like it's actually on the vehicle so anyone who bothered to view it would look like I'm adverstising Google.

I'm sure that this isn't particularly cosher, Google haven't paid me a cent to have that logo there.

Anyone with legal knowledge got any advice on how I can get something out of this?

I feel like something's going to go international!

[Trudes]

It would apear that there is a Google logo on my van in street view.

It looks like it's actually on the vehicle so anyone who bothered to view it would look like I'm adverstising Google.

I'm sure that this isn't particularly cosher, Google haven't paid me a cent to have that logo there.

Anyone with legal knowledge got any advice on how I can get something out of this?

I feel like something's going to go international!

:rofl: Ring 'em up and tell them you want 1% of their profits quarterly for advertising on the Homy or you would like them to replace your Homy with a brand new eighteen wheeler race truck!

[Pussy]

It's not covering up a Mr Whippy logo is it, Sully? :bleh:

[Sully60]

It's not covering up a Mr Whippy logo is it, Sully? :bleh:

Nah, I don't use my van for that, I have other 'uses'

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/picture.php?albumid=48&pictureid=11693

[Tank]

Probably pick up a couple of Whippy trucks on Google earth though.

A challenge to all.

10 green blings for the first person to find a ice cream truck anywhere on google street views.

15 if its a Mr Whippy

[nodrog]

A challenge to all.

10 green blings for the first person to find a ice cream truck anywhere on google street views.

15 if its a Mr Whippy

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/hunt-submissions/cat186/

[imdying]

Free bling you say.... :wari:

[Tank]

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/hunt-submissions/cat186/


Free bling you say.... :wari:

well done the pair of you. nogrod was first, but imdyings was better - thus 5 bling each (that also makes it easier for me).

Now if you can find a bloke wearing a hello kitty t-shirt - I will be really impressed.

[imdying]

I looked long and hard for a Mr Whippy truck instead of working, but Viper called
'No joy'. Not even a blimmin Tony Chimes. A sad day.

If we can look in Japan for a HK guy, shouldn't be too much trouble :lol: Was out visisting with a mate last night... this friend of his had a pink PC case in amongst about 20 others... complete with HK stickers :puke: