Jump to content
N-Europe

Google Street View extended to cover most of the UK


Shorty

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 83
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Interesting:

 

Now, I live on a private road (It's absolutely not as cool as it sounds) so Google didn't come down our way to take photos. However, we're on a cross junction so the car took a snap as it went past, capturing most of the road as it went by anyway.

 

Kind of renders the whole 'don't do that road' bit pointless and faintly disappointing.

 

However, they also got a shot of the builder who went on to rebuild my path a few months later with his cool dog getting out the van. Dog win.

 

edit linkage.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Finland has been covered too. I think this is going too far but this really isn't going to stop here. The whole world is like a big Big Brother scene...

I fail to see how. Just like Google says, it's no different than walking down the street privacy wise

 

I saw an article on the BBC News Site of the SAS panicing because there are pictures of a military base or something on it, when its just the view from a public highway

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The snap(s) around my house are all different. Looking at my house there is a lorry on the corner. Looking from my house up, the lorry isn't there.

 

The addresses i type in are not 100% accurate, teething problems i be guessing.

 

Remember that the Street View car is driving, so other vehicles could have moved too.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Just like Google says, it's no different than walking down the street privacy wise

 

Hmm I really don't see that that comment from Google can be an answer like "hey we just photographed every street in your country but don't worry it is just like the boy from next door seeing your house".

 

No not at all. The whole world can see my house and if I happened to pop up in some photo myself well that doesn't sound so bad it's just me and my face on the net without my permission.

 

Well in Finland we don't have religious persecution but think of some country that has (and there's many of them). What if the government of that kind of country doesn't like some religious people but they want to get rid of them. Now they can plan attacks to people's houses and see exactly where they live.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Well in Finland we don't have religious persecution but think of some country that has (and there's many of them). What if the government of that kind of country doesn't like some religious people but they want to get rid of them. Now they can plan attacks to people's houses and see exactly where they live.

 

Hahaha are you serious? You seriously think that a government will want to kill their citizens of a certain religion, and will use google maps to do it? "Shall we send a trained assassin to scope out this person? No lets just look at his house on google maps."

 

Get real.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

No not at all. The whole world can see my house and if I happened to pop up in some photo myself well that doesn't sound so bad it's just me and my face on the net without my permission.

 

They blur all the faces anyway, and registration plates.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Well in Finland we don't have religious persecution but think of some country that has (and there's many of them). What if the government of that kind of country doesn't like some religious people but they want to get rid of them. Now they can plan attacks to people's houses and see exactly where they live.

 

Well, if there religious, isn't it easier for them to be in their place of worship and get them all in once swing? Besides, how can you possibly determine their religion from seeing their house? To find their house, you need the address, and you could just go there anyway.

 

As for the thing about seeing a photo of you on the internet, faces (and registration/licence plates) are blurred out.

 

Talk about paranoid, jeez...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

That's a point. And I presume many countries have some form of census so the government have access to all that kind of information anyway. Only benefit a picture would bring is if they have a dopey secret police.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I saw an article on the BBC News Site of the SAS panicing because there are pictures of a military base or something on it, when its just the view from a public highway

 

I loved the MoD's comment on it, which was basically: The information is widely available anyway. There's no harm having it on Street View.

Link to comment
Share on other sites


×
×
  • Create New...