Find your way home

Den · Mar 10, 2010, 22:13:18

Find your way home with Google

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1256838/Google-Street-View-All-UK-streets-appear-map-tool-tomorrow.html

Love Google or hate them, you have to admire them

Simon · Mar 10, 2010, 22:29:11

I wondered what the vans were doing around again.

Rik · Mar 11, 2010, 01:01:55

It's when they have men in white coats in them that I start to get nervous.

Glenn · Mar 11, 2010, 05:56:19

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXZMZ-XvvzI

Rik · Mar 11, 2010, 09:18:02

How many times I played that in the 60s...

Inkblot · Mar 11, 2010, 09:26:14

Over the next few weeks people all up and down the country are going to be turning to their partners and saying "Whose car is that on our driveway?" and "Why was the same make/model/colour car your ex-lover had parked just down the road when I was at work?"

Rik · Mar 11, 2010, 09:29:09

Disguises are going to become very popular.

DorsetBoy · Mar 11, 2010, 10:46:30

Hmm, they pixilate car reg numbers now BUT with the zoom tool you can view the contents of cars and in several homes in my road I can see into rooms

this is NOT good news.

Rik · Mar 11, 2010, 10:48:11

I certainly feel the whole thing is a gross invasion of privacy.

Simon · Mar 11, 2010, 11:05:05

I just hope I didn't have washing hanging in the windows!

Rik · Mar 11, 2010, 11:06:22

Most people call it net curtains, Simon.

Simon · Mar 11, 2010, 11:18:48

Blokes who live in their own don't have net curtains.

Simon · Mar 11, 2010, 11:19:14

Or even, on their own.

Rik · Mar 11, 2010, 11:19:47

Bloody phone.

Ray · Mar 11, 2010, 12:04:04

I'm lucky, living in a cul de sac they've only photographed it from the entrance, so I can only see my front garden and a side view of my car.

Steve · Mar 11, 2010, 13:38:31

Can't see the front of my house either but I can see that picture was taken on a Thursday morning in late Autumn

Rik · Mar 11, 2010, 15:46:14

Bin day?

Gary · Mar 11, 2010, 16:34:46

I can walk around my street virtually with street view based on google maps on the iPhone most odd

Rik · Mar 11, 2010, 16:39:15

I just had a look at ours, quite scary the detail they had. Taken last April/May to judge by the vegetation.

Gary · Mar 11, 2010, 17:06:00

Quote from: Rik on Mar 11, 2010, 16:39:15
I just had a look at ours, quite scary the detail they had. Taken last April/May to judge by the vegetation.

Ours was taken quite recently, the trees are bare, not sure I like that.

Glenn · Mar 11, 2010, 17:09:20

Mine, I think was taken March/April, as my trailer tent is not behind my fence, but the new gates are there.

Rik · Mar 11, 2010, 17:18:01

Well, we had the TV aerial installed mid-March, so it's after that. The wisteria is out, so Sue assures me it's going to be April/May. I have no idea what a wisteria looks like, of course. It isn't June, because the window's open and we were away then.

Simon · Mar 11, 2010, 22:22:30

It's actually a wonderful tool. I've just been back to where I used to live on the Isle of Wight, and they've had the cheek to have a new front porch door fitted, and have installed bay windows! I then went round the estate where I used to cycle, and took the walk to my primary school. Even the sweet shop is still there in the village! I shall no doubt be back there to explore some more, as I could have spent hours there this evening.

gizmo71 · Mar 12, 2010, 08:41:28

Quote from: Ray on Mar 11, 2010, 12:04:04
I'm lucky, living in a cul de sac they've only photographed it from the entrance, so I can only see my front garden and a side view of my car.

My parents' house is the same - mine's on full view, although I wasn't at home at the time. Obviously taken more than 6 months ago as the neighbours still had their enormous collection of cars, now down to two.

Sadly my office isn't in there as it's a little way up a semi-private road, and the Streetview car obviously stopped at the guard hut.