Google Street View

[Stewart]

Am I the last one to know about "Google Street View" and how much fun it is....

Having Just signed up for "Google Places" I was surprised to see my house on the map in street view when the account went live. I've now spent the last two hours stalking
My competitors (sad I know, but fun)......... As good as it is, I don't think that some peeps have thought about this when advertising on this medium, especially the guy with
2 scrap cars in his garden! I guess I'm just saying we need to be more aware of how we advertise, as it could reflect badly against your business in this world of information
if not thought through properly.

 

[Gazzer]

Go to
[h=1]Quarry Park Road, Stourbridge[/h]Then find the dog in the middle of the road...its always there.

Go to 52.788665,-1.630794 and see if you can spot my Silver Zafira on the pavement outside the school where I was working.

 

[jay]

Stewart:yikes: would of expected it from Bri but not you too :curtain:

 

[Stewart]

That's one chilled out dog and I assume that's not you waving over your car.

I just wish I'd known they were coming, so I could have been in the picture.....!

 

[user123]

Ay, I've known it for a long time as both H's and my businesses are on Google maps. No such thing as privacy any more, and it's not just people advertising, put any address in and google view is likely to show the house and street.

There are not live, but photos taken whenever the google van passed, or the satellite image(!!) - install and look on google earth, you can travel round the world! and what is doesn't show is our estate's incredible amount of security cameras from almost every house, covering every angle of every property, the local reaction to fears over being visible on google plus, all computer buffs round here and a pretty close neighbourhood where everybody really does know everybody. (I can go into my neighbours house and they have a recording camera TV set-up and see myself, very clearly, washing the car the day before!! He is a bit over the top, but he can't look into our bedroom window...just at it, phew).

So those scrap cars may well be gone by now, and extensions built, or whatever. There has been a story of someone taking bookings for a holiday cottage no longer there, pulled down for some motorway rerouting, but it's still on google maps! It's a strange world. If you pay for google earth you get live satellite views. I remember the option when I down loaded it, so I'm talking three years back or so, it's probably still like that. Have a look at Las Vegas, in the daylight from above, god it looks dire, the contrast is incredible to the fireworks of light explosion at night. YOU can spend hours on there... but it's lovely, too, I can see the house and street in Australia where my son lives!

 

[Stewart]

Stewart:yikes: would of expected it from Bri but not you too :curtain:

I've found a new underhanded respect for Bri and his devious ways....(;0)

 

[Dan]

I spotted the car and ran out to the door and waved, and you can see it now on google streetview. I wanted to follow the car but couldn't be bothered. Wish I had now though. Could have done the vogue or something behind it.

 

[user123]

I spotted the car and ran out to the door and waved, and you can see it now on google streetview. I wanted to follow the car but couldn't be bothered. Wish I had now though. Could have done the vogue or something behind it.

:lol: :lol: you're such a kid... :lol: great...

 

[Stewart]

To be honest, it doesn't bother me at all, as anyone can drive down my street and I know the pics were taken a while ago. Just think its funny that its there for all to see as it was on that day!

 

[user123]

Nah, doesn't bother me either. In Germany the attitude is very different, there are loads of towns that refused to let it happen, you can see the map but not the views.

 

[Stewart]

I actually quite like having it, as my house isn't on google maps......

 

[Deleted member 9966]

From a business point of view, I had to check the Street View from round my employers buildings as we're on a main road, just to check that everything was where it should be and that employees hadn't been waving a one or two fingered salute if they noticed the Google car going by. I noticed my car in the car park too, but it's too far away on the picture to get any detail from it.

The Street View past my house is incredibly detailed and you can see right into the back garden as we're on a corner. Not very private. I did have to ask hubby why his car was on the drive during the day though..... it took us about 10 minutes to figure out that around that time he was working in Birmingham so was catching the train to work....

 

[hillhead]

I tried trace my movements that week and searched a building site 14 miles away but no Hillhead van to be seen but I did see the joiner Chris roofing a house, lol.

 

[charlie1]

I once priced a small outside step using street view lol

 

[Dan]

haha that's a good one Charlie.

 

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