Google Street View is here!

[schwinn]

Hi guys! I believe today google street view is launched in Australia! If you go to maps.google.com, type an address in, and if the street is outlined in blue you should have a street level view of the place!

My boss' husband was caught running from the garden into the house to pick the phone up hahaha...

[bourbon]

haa thats pretty cool...people are worried you might find porn on it :p hahaha

[02-KQ-LASR]

my next door neighbour is on the street pic! lol
funny as because iv only ever seen her about 6 times in 3-4 years!

[Ky_88]

haa thats pretty cool...people are worried you might find porn on it :p hahaha

Now that would be SO funny!!

I was playing with this in my lunch break and it's so weird to think that one of those camera cars went down my little street in Valentine. Cool though.

My photo was taken on a really miserable day weather wise. Middle of the week because no cars are home.

[DavoAust]

woo i can see my astina in the driveway!! i know what day that was too, i started working on the car just after they took the shots :)

[DVS]

wtf how did they take the photos? my work car and my car is out the front of mine so must have been taken before 7am and after 4pm

[Plutonus]

wtf how did they take the photos? my work car and my car is out the front of mine so must have been taken before 7am and after 4pm

They used cars, Smikey linked to a pic in another thread: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2459337905_1758501a6a.jpg

[Ky_88]

I just saw this article and thought some of you might like to have a look. There are a lot of people complaining about it already. As I just said in the "Google Maps Game" thread, I originally thought it was a little bit intruding, I now don't think it's that bad - after reading this you might understand.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=609843

NB - Link also posted in "Google Maps Game" so if you've read it in there, you don't need to read it here. Cheers :)

[mcwilly]

you can see my car clear as day i dont really care as anyone drivinf past can see the house and car etc. like to know how they did it but

[Rupewrecht]

A mate got lucky! LOL

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3291/2734989404_fd78a81263_o.jpg

[Bear]

yawn .... I'm so tired of all the idjits in the press complaining about how Google street view is going to ruin our privacy, let people look into your loungeroom, stop the chickens producing milk and the cows laying eggs ...

you have to find it funny that someone contemplating running out of their house in their nightie didn't notice a car in front of the house with a 3 foot tall camera rig on top of it ... a bit like missing the giant robot hiding behind the street light

[Cosmo Dude]

Look at it a different way.
The pic of Kitty and Aarons house shows an old Laser and the COD, brown grass and a big sack of recyclables. If you don't know the background then you get the wrong impression.
If you were an employer you could look at this and form the wrong impression. Imagine if you were selling your house and Goggle showed a police car out front, you could loose thousands off your property value for the sake of a misunderstanding.

[Bear]

HAHA ... that's part of my point ... people have no idea what street view really is or even how old the pictures are ... it's like the Google Earth sat shots ... they show the building I work in as a hole in the ground ... and the street view still shows them completing the building

[Plutonus]

I don't think its any of an employer's business how I choose to decorate my front lawn.

[skippy]

ahahah thats not a bad point there cosmo,

I work in HR and say i wanted to see where people live I could easily just do random checks on peoples houses.

sure I could do this witha few hours and street directory but I can do it online now in minutes

meanwhile I have to say I am disappointed I wasn't on my balcony smoking when the car went tpast.


Excuse me a minute while I see what sort of house a salary of 3million a year gets.

[Bear]

I work in HR and say i wanted to see where people live I could easily just do random checks on peoples houses.

sure I could do this witha few hours and street directory but I can do it online now in minutes

heheh ... assuming things haven't changed at the person's address since the start of the year ... like the house they live in being completed ;)

[rodhog]

in the view of my street only cars parked in the street
ARE ALL MINE or part of my collection.

Waht a joke. As I said on another site

Privacy is going out the door.

oh well everyone will soon be able to see me cross dress and make out with blow -up animals

[Blade_shinigami]

lol my cars in my driveway hehe, guess i must've been at home. must've been a fair while back coz half the stuff ont eh porch that was there a couple of montsh bak isnt there yet

[bourbon]

my car is at work and at home :p it was taken month ago...the work one would of been during the week and the home one i wouldnt have aclue but pretty sure a weekend probably sat or sunday arvo...

[Rupewrecht]

This is hilarious!

click me (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=lakes+entrance+vic&layer=c&ie=UTF8&t=h&cbll=-37.872301,147.997224&panoid=xeMAnlkGS5P4tmeQiNMQug&cbp=1,297.91082930150606,,0,24.801411195735827&ll=-37.868857,147.998264&spn=0.01201,0.019312&z=16)

[Ky_88]

This is hilarious!

click me (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=lakes+entrance+vic&layer=c&ie=UTF8&t=h&cbll=-37.872301,147.997224&panoid=xeMAnlkGS5P4tmeQiNMQug&cbp=1,297.91082930150606,,0,24.801411195735827&ll=-37.868857,147.998264&spn=0.01201,0.019312&z=16)

OMG I LOVE IT!!!! :D

Random drunk passed out... classic!

[Ripper323]

They haven't gotten any where near Darwin yet for the street view. Hopefully my car is in the driveway when they finally do it!

[marcs_sp20]

This is hilarious!

click me (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=lakes+entrance+vic&layer=c&ie=UTF8&t=h&cbll=-37.872301,147.997224&panoid=xeMAnlkGS5P4tmeQiNMQug&cbp=1,297.91082930150606,,0,24.801411195735827&ll=-37.868857,147.998264&spn=0.01201,0.019312&z=16)

The image has been removed :(

[Squirt758]

The image has been removed :(
Party Poopers Eh!

[gtarone]

Haha, there was a kid that ate **** on the footpath riding his bike, somewhere in america, first image u see him riding his bike, then he falls to the side and then theres a few frames of him rollin along hahaha

It has since been taken down, and pictures re-taken, but heres an article with him in it :P (http://valleywag.com/383258/google-street-view-catches-kid-crashing-bike)

Check these out too (love the picture that proves google was speeding while photographing):
http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/

[gtarone]

Guess what i found at Toowoomba Holden today?
Click to find out! (http://cid-8e44949cad1e39ce.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/AstinaGT/03092008131.jpg)

Forgot to grab inside picture, lets hope it's still there when i finish work today, has NSW plates too, love the bucket on top too :P

[marcs_sp20]

Hahaha nice one, now back to work!! :p

[gtarone]

Hahaha nice one, now back to work!! :p

Ur so mean to me :'(

[marcs_sp20]

Ur so mean to me :'(

LOL, take a joke ya big wuss :p

[gtarone]

LOL, take a joke ya big wuss :p

Lol, i was in a bad mood, can't believe i have to wait 6-9 weeks for my new mags...

[Plutonus]

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&q=RACQ+eight+mile+plains&fb=1&cid=0,0,8673096716411868292&ll=-27.5788,153.096328&spn=0.009491,0.022745&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-27.583551,153.098874&panoid=SmiwRgEKC-QdPS0rzi3-kA&cbp=1,69.24031682459469,,0,26.599673961616883

Caught!! And yes, I found it myself :p

Aren't I awesome.

[Buzz_LightYear]

lol street veiw is stuff you go down my mates street and get teleported across the other side of town