Google released street view here in NZ today.
Pretty impressive me thinks
Any other thoughts out there.
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Pretty impressive me thinks
Any other thoughts out there.
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Google street view
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[quote author=DaveM link=topic=2770.msg18829#msg18829 date=1228206020]
Wow this is something I think I could spend hours playing with. I just took a ride in your neighbourhood :y114: I think :silent:
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At least you could have called in for a refreshment.
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Wow this is something I think I could spend hours playing with. I just took a ride in your neighbourhood :y114: I think :silent:
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At least you could have called in for a refreshment.
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Just looked at it. Never heard of it before. Very cool. I guess a few map businesses will be going under once they do the whole planet.
The technology used here is mind blowing 
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I like that! Thanks for the post.
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Harry, let me if my camper is still parked outside the house will you. Its a bit too cold to go and look :y18:
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yup tis still there geoff.
BTW street view isnt available where you are, but your daughter is at home. :ya2:
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Harry, let me if my camper is still parked outside the house will you. Its a bit too cold to go and look :y18:
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yup tis still there geoff.
BTW street view isnt available where you are, but your daughter is at home. :ya2:
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Here is our abode.
cool huh :y115:
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Yes, it is. I just have to figure out how to manipulate it.
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The guys in our land department just bought some software that runs about $3,000 plus $200 a month for updates. They claim they can do a close up 360 degree look around any building or other structure in the world! Its creepy to think that someone somewhere has the capability to do a close up of your house from any angle.
I wonder if the military has more capabilities - peeping in bathroom windows at women taking showers, etc. Maybe they have enough resolution to see what you are entering on your PC right now. What a tremendous waste of time and resources it would be to watch me 24 hours a day.
They have all this and still can't find Obama, whoops, I mean Osama?
I wonder if the military has more capabilities - peeping in bathroom windows at women taking showers, etc. Maybe they have enough resolution to see what you are entering on your PC right now. What a tremendous waste of time and resources it would be to watch me 24 hours a day.
They have all this and still can't find Obama, whoops, I mean Osama?
[quote author=Gary link=topic=2770.msg18897#msg18897 date=1228249916]
The guys in our land department just bought some software that runs about $3,000 plus $200 a month for updates. They claim they can do a close up 360 degree look around any building or other structure in the world! Its creepy to think that someone somewhere has the capability to do a close up of your house from any angle.[/quote]
Big Brother has arrived!
The military and intelligence services have some truly amazing and shocking capability. What was sci-fi a few years ago is routine today.
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The guys in our land department just bought some software that runs about $3,000 plus $200 a month for updates. They claim they can do a close up 360 degree look around any building or other structure in the world! Its creepy to think that someone somewhere has the capability to do a close up of your house from any angle.[/quote]
Big Brother has arrived!
The military and intelligence services have some truly amazing and shocking capability. What was sci-fi a few years ago is routine today.
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Couple Sues Google Over "Street View"
Pittsburgh pair claims privacy invaded by posting of home photo
APRIL 4--A Pittsburgh couple is suing Google for invasion of privacy, claiming that the web giant's popular "Street View" mapping feature has made a photo of their home available to online searchers. Aaron and Christine Boring accuse Google of an "intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion" of their seclusion and privacy since they live on a street that is "clearly marked with a 'Private Road' sign," according to a lawsuit the couple filed this week in Allegheny County's Court of Common Pleas. A copy of the April 2 complaint can be found below. According to the Borings, they purchased their Oakridge Lane home in late-2006 for "a considerable sum of money," noting that a "major component of their purchase decision was a desire for privacy." But when Pittsburgh was added last October to the roster of cities covered by Google's "Street View" feature, the Borings allege, their "private information was made known to the public," causing them "mental suffering" and diminishing the value of their home (which cost the couple $163,000, according to property records). The Borings are seeking in excess of $25,000 in damages and want a court order directing Google to destroy images of their home. Click here for some photos of the Boring property, which is now even easier to locate via Google Maps, since the plaintiffs included their home address on the lawsuit's first page. And while they are litigating, perhaps the Borings should consider suing Allegheny County's Office of Property Assessments, which includes a photo of their home (which was built in 1916 and sits on 1.82 acres) on its web site. Here's a screen grab. (8 pages
Click here for the photos http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0404081google7.html
Pittsburgh pair claims privacy invaded by posting of home photo
APRIL 4--A Pittsburgh couple is suing Google for invasion of privacy, claiming that the web giant's popular "Street View" mapping feature has made a photo of their home available to online searchers. Aaron and Christine Boring accuse Google of an "intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion" of their seclusion and privacy since they live on a street that is "clearly marked with a 'Private Road' sign," according to a lawsuit the couple filed this week in Allegheny County's Court of Common Pleas. A copy of the April 2 complaint can be found below. According to the Borings, they purchased their Oakridge Lane home in late-2006 for "a considerable sum of money," noting that a "major component of their purchase decision was a desire for privacy." But when Pittsburgh was added last October to the roster of cities covered by Google's "Street View" feature, the Borings allege, their "private information was made known to the public," causing them "mental suffering" and diminishing the value of their home (which cost the couple $163,000, according to property records). The Borings are seeking in excess of $25,000 in damages and want a court order directing Google to destroy images of their home. Click here for some photos of the Boring property, which is now even easier to locate via Google Maps, since the plaintiffs included their home address on the lawsuit's first page. And while they are litigating, perhaps the Borings should consider suing Allegheny County's Office of Property Assessments, which includes a photo of their home (which was built in 1916 and sits on 1.82 acres) on its web site. Here's a screen grab. (8 pages
Click here for the photos http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0404081google7.html
Leave it up to a couple Pittsburghers to sue over this.
....and $163,000 for a home around here certainly hasn't been considered "a considerable sum of money" since the 1980's.
I have however always wondered about what sense it makes for the Allegheny County Office of Property Assessments to list EVERYONE'S name, address, and photo of their property. If you were a stalker, that is like Manna fro Heaven! I'm glad I moved from Allegheny County for several reasons, and this is just one more to add to the list.
....and $163,000 for a home around here certainly hasn't been considered "a considerable sum of money" since the 1980's.
I have however always wondered about what sense it makes for the Allegheny County Office of Property Assessments to list EVERYONE'S name, address, and photo of their property. If you were a stalker, that is like Manna fro Heaven! I'm glad I moved from Allegheny County for several reasons, and this is just one more to add to the list.
I saw this a while back when a friend showed it to be. (i guess the U.S. got it first) We sat there trying to figure out how the **** they did this. I think if i recall correctly they actually drove around filming. How else could they get shots that are of things UNDER trees and such from a satilite. So it's a mind blower that they could do even a fraction of the states let alone other countries. I looked at my old place when i first tried it, then i tried it again today to see my new place but they haven't shot that street yet. I did however look from above and the pics they took were LONG ago because my studio which is in the back of a house on a hillside isn't there in the pic, and this studio as far as i know was built onto this house several years ago. So a lot of the google earth pics are pretty old.
Yes, they put ads in newspapers to hire people to photograph areas they plan to put online.
When they were preparing to do Pittsburgh, I remember (this was like two years ago) a story on the local TV news saying Google was going to do this and eventually you'd be able to see it.
Google also has some type of thing now where you can take a series od personal photos, upload them to a certain place, and it will "splice" the photos together to create a panoramic interactive scene of the place you photographed. I believe it's the same technology they used to create Google Street View.
When they were preparing to do Pittsburgh, I remember (this was like two years ago) a story on the local TV news saying Google was going to do this and eventually you'd be able to see it.
Google also has some type of thing now where you can take a series od personal photos, upload them to a certain place, and it will "splice" the photos together to create a panoramic interactive scene of the place you photographed. I believe it's the same technology they used to create Google Street View.
