Google maps, holy carp!

[Kabob]

So, I got an email from my dad saying to look at his house on google maps. So I did and then hit the "street view" button, apparently google rolled down his street with a 360 degree camera and took a bazillion pictures. You can pan in a circle and move up and down the street. It's amazing, and the picture quality isn't bad either. He's even in his front yard mowing.

They don't have alot of places photographed yet, he's in the middle of Knoxville, TN and it's up. Here in Birmingham though they don't have alot of the area up yet.

Dunno if this has already been posted or not, if so...sowwy.

 

[BeauJangles]

Google had a huge expansion of street view a few months ago.

 

[Tweak155]

Originally posted by: kabob983
So, I got an email from my dad saying to look at his house on google maps. So I did and then hit the "street view" button, apparently google rolled down his street with a 360 degree camera and took a bazillion pictures. You can pan in a circle and move up and down the street. It's amazing, and the picture quality isn't bad either. He's even in his front yard mowing.

They don't have alot of places photographed yet, he's in the middle of Knoxville, TN and it's up. Here in Birmingham though they don't have alot of the area up yet.

Dunno if this has already been posted or not, if so...sowwy.

I don't know if this has been posted already but it has definitely been on google (slowly growing) for quite some time.

 

[alkemyst]

I am on as of Christmas 2007, they must have driven by as I walked back to the garage for more decorations.

 

[RESmonkey]

I love Google

 

[jackace]

Yep you can see my house on there too. It shows my old car in the picture as well. Too bad the car was totaled in a wreck this winter. I miss my Honda gas mileage.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Ah I'm on there now.

But they just had to film Georgia Tech's campus on a cloudy day =(.

 

[Train]

I got stuck behind thier stupid minivan with the bubble camera on top as it was driving about 15 MPH down a one lane road, took me forever to get around it. Kinda aggravating.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Welcome to the internet.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: Train
I got stuck behind thier stupid minivan with the bubble camera on top as it was driving about 15 MPH down a one lane road, took me forever to get around it. Kinda aggravating.

So your car is on street view about a dozen times, eh? hah.

 

[Josh]

Yea everytime I plug in an address lately to google maps they have a street view. it's outta control...THEYRE WATCHING ME ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[EKKC]

they even mapped some of the NYC bridges. i have to wonder how the DHS didn't ask Google to shut those 360 views down.

to be fair, they dont do tunnels.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

My parent's house doesn't even have a very good satellite picture. For some reason it cuts off about .5 miles south of their house.

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: EKKC
they even mapped some of the NYC bridges. i have to wonder how the DHS didn't ask Google to shut those 360 views down.

to be fair, they dont do tunnels.

Yeah because those bridges and tunnels are so secure, it's not like a terrorist could just drive across them like everyone else.

 

[Ns1]

So google took pictures of the rock you've been living under?

 

[Kyteland]

I personally don't use street view that often, but the topo maps they provide with the "terrain" option is awesome.

 

[Passions]

So, I got an email from my dad saying the earth is round.

Dunno if this has already been posted or not, if so...sowwy.

 

[Train]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Train
I got stuck behind thier stupid minivan with the bubble camera on top as it was driving about 15 MPH down a one lane road, took me forever to get around it. Kinda aggravating.

So your car is on street view about a dozen times, eh? hah.

hmm, never thought of that, I should look up that road....

EDIT: Nope, that road is NEAR some other street view roads, but it's not. maybe it hasnt posted yet, but that was over a year ago.

But now that I remember, it seems some of the roads in the area were taken down from street view, the next major road I remember seeing on there, now its not. Wonder why they took it down.

 

[T9D]

Street view is invaluable to me for looking up properties I want to buy. It's nice when you can virtually drive through the neighborhood.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Train

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Train
I got stuck behind thier stupid minivan with the bubble camera on top as it was driving about 15 MPH down a one lane road, took me forever to get around it. Kinda aggravating.

So your car is on street view about a dozen times, eh? hah.

hmm, never thought of that, I should look up that road....

EDIT: Nope, that road is NEAR some other street view roads, but it's not. maybe it hasnt posted yet, but that was over a year ago.

But now that I remember, it seems some of the roads in the area were taken down from street view, the next major road I remember seeing on there, now its not. Wonder why they took it down.

Because you f'd up their picture, that's why! :|

Way to ruin it for the rest of us!

 

[Train]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Train

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Train
I got stuck behind thier stupid minivan with the bubble camera on top as it was driving about 15 MPH down a one lane road, took me forever to get around it. Kinda aggravating.

So your car is on street view about a dozen times, eh? hah.

hmm, never thought of that, I should look up that road....

EDIT: Nope, that road is NEAR some other street view roads, but it's not. maybe it hasnt posted yet, but that was over a year ago.

But now that I remember, it seems some of the roads in the area were taken down from street view, the next major road I remember seeing on there, now its not. Wonder why they took it down.

Because you f'd up their picture, that's why! :|

Way to ruin it for the rest of us!

I knew I shouldnt have been flipping the guy off the whole time while my passenger (Doogie Houser) was doing coke off a strippers ass while standing up in the moon roof.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Train

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Train

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Train
I got stuck behind thier stupid minivan with the bubble camera on top as it was driving about 15 MPH down a one lane road, took me forever to get around it. Kinda aggravating.

So your car is on street view about a dozen times, eh? hah.

hmm, never thought of that, I should look up that road....

EDIT: Nope, that road is NEAR some other street view roads, but it's not. maybe it hasnt posted yet, but that was over a year ago.

But now that I remember, it seems some of the roads in the area were taken down from street view, the next major road I remember seeing on there, now its not. Wonder why they took it down.

Because you f'd up their picture, that's why! :|

Way to ruin it for the rest of us!

I knew I shouldnt have been flipping the guy off the whole time while my passenger (Doogie Houser) was doing coke off a strippers ass while standing up in the moon roof.

:music: The more you know! :music:

 

[funkymatt]

Originally posted by: Ns1
So google took pictures of the rock you've been living under?

lol

 

[JTsyo]

Originally posted by: EKKC
they even mapped some of the NYC bridges. i have to wonder how the DHS didn't ask Google to shut those 360 views down.

to be fair, they dont do tunnels.

Heard they even got on to an Army base. You would think the guards at the gate would be suspicious about all the cameras. They probably let them through since it was google.

No more bases

 

[Train]

Originally posted by: JTsyo

Originally posted by: EKKC
they even mapped some of the NYC bridges. i have to wonder how the DHS didn't ask Google to shut those 360 views down.

to be fair, they dont do tunnels.

Heard they even got on to an Army base. You would think the guards at the gate would be suspicious about all the cameras. They probably let them through since it was google.

No more bases

Well they used to let Chinese and Pizza delivery places on base to deliver to the barracks at night no problem. But then there was that thing a few years back where they found a couple wanna be terrorists posing as pizza delivery guys scoping a base out, so they might have cracked down on that.