Google Maps Street View (3 topics merged)

[Patrick425]

Wow, maybe this has been a feature on Google Maps for a while now. However, I was looking for directions for something today and I noticed that when I typed in an address a picture of the location popped up. If you click on the picture, it takes you down to street level (as long as the street is coded blue on Google Map) and you can basically "drive around" the neighborhood and scan the surroundings.

 

I mentioned this to someone at work and they said that they had read about it somewhere and that they were having some privacy concerns because they were catching people coming out of porn shops and strip clubs. Wild.

[Blazer25]

No chance on catching people coming out of places. The pictures are not real-time images. If you Google map Wisconsin right now what do you notice? No snow. The aerial and street level photos are a database taken by the USGS and other aerial photo gathering places. In some rural cases the images are 10+ years old.

 

It is super cool though.

[RyDogg66]

There is Google Earth and Google Maps Street View. I think they are two different things. Google Maps Street View is only available in really big cities, like CHicago, San Francisco, etc. Google Earth is just about everywhere now.

 

I dont know what privacy concerns there would be. If you really were walking out of a porno shop and onto a public street, you sort of waive any privacy right you might have had.

[Patrick425]

No chance on catching people coming out of places. The pictures are not real-time images.

I understand that they are not real time images. However, at the time the vehicle is driving down the street taking the pictures, it could catch someone exiting someplace that they do not want anyone to know they were ever at.

 

Google Maps Street View is only available in really big cities, like CHicago, San Francisco, etc. Google Earth is just about everywhere now.

No, it's pretty much everywhere now. Type in an address in Waukesha, or Wauwatosa (or wherever). Look at all the streets coded in blue. Those are streets that you can go down to street level and see every house in pretty good detail.

 

The pictures are no where near 10 years old. The picture taken at my house could not be more than 4 or 5 months old because it shows the basketball hoop that I just put up in October.

 

Instead of questioning me, why not go check it out? You'll see what I mean.

[sgtcluels]

Pretty rad minus privacy concerns. But it is on public property so well.. I don't think there's much concern personally.

 

And I wish I knew when it was taken, I can't find my car. Not at work, might be in the garage (Neighboor just got home), no game at Miller Park...

[bullox]

There have been multiple Google StreetView pictures of guys coming out of strip clubs, porn theaters, etc posted on websites such as digg.com

[mothershipconnection]

Looking at my old house in semi-rural Texas, the image didn't have the restaurant down the street which was built in 2003.

[rluzinski]

Looking at my in-law's newly built home, it's finished but the grass isn't in yet. It had to have been taken sometime last spring or summer.

 

And this makes me want the season to start:http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/rluzinski/millerpark.jpg

[RyDogg66]

No pic for my old place in Bayview on Logan near Bayview HS. Also no pics in Oshkosh...

[thablingster]

I have been playing around on Google Maps the last few days after I noticed the new street view feature, the last time I used GM they only had the satellite view. The street view is really helpful for finding places, though.

[mothershipconnection]

Yeah, it's awesome when you're going to a strange place and you can see right where the nearest parking lot is and know what the layout actually looks like.

[Blazer25]

The picture taken at my house could not be more than 4 or 5 months old because it shows the basketball hoop that I just put up in October.

I believe you. Like I said, some of the cities have more recent pictures. Some do not. I checked out my parents house in Waukesha and the pictures were taken before their street was re-paved (which was 2005).

 

I think the more rural you go the older the pics generally are.

 

It's still really cool though.

[Patrick425]

I believe you. Like I said, some of the cities have more recent pictures. Some do not. I checked out my parents house in Waukesha and the pictures were taken before their street was re-paved (which was 2005).

I live in Waukesha http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

 

[ccbrew]

Google Maps Street View is only available in really big cities, like CHicago, San Francisco, etc. Google Earth is just about everywhere now.

No, it's pretty much everywhere now. Type in an address in Waukesha, or Wauwatosa (or wherever). Look at all the streets coded in blue. Those are streets that you can go down to street level and see every house in pretty good detail.

To be fair, the Milwaukee-area StreetView only became available on February 12, 2008. Before then, it was only limited to NYC, SF, Miami, and a few more major cities. And it's still nowhere near 'everywhere', with only 29 available cities/metro areas thus far.

Still, quite incredible to think of the amount of time it must have taken to drive through all the SE Wisconsin neighborhoods. Pretty cool how they have the whole Milwaukee-Chicago corridor covered, right down to the two-lane roads in the middle-o-nowhere.

[And That]

A buddy of mine told me about it around a month or so ago, noting that they did (and still do) have a street level view of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, replete with construction equipment. It looks like they took the photos on the bridge within a month of its collapse.

[hawing]

Well, it doesn't cover Madison yet, so you guys can't snoop on my house - only my roof.

[Patrick425]

People are going to start recognizing these cars and doing obsene things when they pass.

 

http://images.yuku.com/image/pjpeg/419350159fff7103ff1198661e875aecb9b5f3d.pjpg

[bork]

The picture of my house in Muskego appears to have been from last summer. And I know it was Wednesday, because the recycling bin was by the street.

 

Kind of creepy to think that someone can look all around the outside of my house.

[sgtcluels]

They could always.. just had to drive there! :P Well from what I can tell, it was Fall last year. Looking at my old work, the building is still there but they moved the demo equipment there. The Alterra on 92nd and North Avenue wasn't open yet, so late summer/early fall in Tosa it looks like.

[sgtcluels]

Nevermind!

 

I found a way....!!!!!

 

The score board outside of Miller Park on 94 always show the scores of the games on it! The score is Arizona 5 - Brewers 2! According to the schedule that was played July 18th, so the van drove past either on the 18th or 19th of July!

[gypcasino]

Anyone in the Milwaukee area look at their house on this? Kind of freaky.

[RyDogg66]

Last I checked they didnt have some parts of Bay View on there, namely Bay View High School

[gypcasino]

I was looking for my buddy in West Allis but it stopped at Greenfield Ave. However my house in Muskego is on there.

[patrickgpe]

i could see my car parked in my jobs parking lot, kind of creepy

[ccbrew]

Earlier this month, someone figured out the day in which the photo-car passed by the Miller Park area by using the exterior scoreboard along I-94..clever.

 

 

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