So is everyones house now on Google?

[addictfreak]

Spotted mine. I reckon the picture is around 16 months old as our house was still under construction.

 

[mangaman]

My street isn't even named on Google maps... let alone seen on street view. You can see our house on the satellite map, but our address doesn't exist! Good to know that's still possible and I will not be writing to them to correct it.

FM

Maybe I should start a new thread, but as this is something you specialise in (ie surveillance etc) do you think Google are taking things too far?

Do they have the right to publish an easily visible close up of the interior of my living room without consent? Which they have. As it happens I am not in the picture, but purely by chance - lots of people on this thread seem to have been spotted or have family members / cars / pets spotted without batting an eyelid.

Other people seem to be unconcerned. I suspect I'm more worried about the principle of the thing than the actual risk of a burglar coming round.

Without being too melodramatic the right to privacy in one's home is part of the Human Rights Act, and for a private company to go round photographing me, with a detailed map of where I live seems illegal at worst?

I'm also more wary of the Government than of local villains in terms of surveillance, and although people say "you get nothing more than you would by walking past" you do. You can sit in an office and search the whole country in great definition for "suspicious" things.

 

[Arch]

At the rate you can move round the maps/streetviews, you'd be quicker just patrolling the streets on foot, or a bike.

Also, a photo can be fooled - is that really a big telly, or a tank of fish?

I can't get worked up about it, myself. I love looking at maps and aerial photos, and this is just another sort of map.

 

[HJ]

Nope, it has not been down my street...

 

[annedonnelly]

I'm having a hard time imaging burglars using Streetview to find likely targets, they already know where the rich pickings are.
I can however imagine someone's curiosity being aroused by seeing a blanked out house, maybe enough to make them come around and have a look at what's there.

Well, you're welcome to come round to see why my house has been blanked out

I'm not concerned about burglars. I simply don't see the point of doing this in suburban streets. I can understand wanting to look at Buckingham Palace or Durham Cathedral but rows of terraces and semis?

My small protest is to ask them to remove it

 

[dodgy]

So you're asking them to remove your house as a protest because you don't see the point of Streetview?
Stick it to the man!

 

[summerdays]

I find Street View very useful - even suburban streets, you look along your route and note what buildings look like at points where you need to turn, you can see whether there are lights, look at the lane markings. When visiting someone you don't know, you have the address, so you have a quick look to see how far along a street it is, and what it vaguely looks like. I love Street View.

 

[Vidor06]

We are currently in the process of getting a dog and I was able to use Streetview to find the Dogs Trust in Ballymena. I would not have had a clue how to find it otherwise. Streetview showed me how to get from the motorway right to the front door. Quality. Also if you are thinking about moving home you can use Streetview to have a nose around your potential new manor.

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

95% of UK streets are now on. Mine appeared this morning. My car is in it twice.

The danger is if one's car is parked outside the wrong house.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The danger is if one's car is parked outside the wrong house.

Oh dear Patrick, been found out?

 

[Norm]

I find Street View very useful - even suburban streets, you look along your route and note what buildings look like at points where you need to turn, you can see whether there are lights, look at the lane markings. When visiting someone you don't know, you have the address, so you have a quick look to see how far along a street it is, and what it vaguely looks like. I love Street View.

+1 to all that. I used it to find a farm I needed to visit the very day our local area got uploaded. I've sent the link to Chateau Norm to friends and rellies around the world.

I think it's fantastic.

 

[mangaman]

At the rate you can move round the maps/streetviews, you'd be quicker just patrolling the streets on foot, or a bike.

Also, a photo can be fooled - is that really a big telly, or a tank of fish?

I can't get worked up about it, myself. I love looking at maps and aerial photos, and this is just another sort of map.

OK Arch - you win.

I seem to be alone, so I guess I am paranoid

I love maps and the photos too, just a bit wary of the current Govt. I suppose.

Mind you I'm not repacing my telly with a tank of fish - it would get a bit boring after a while.

 

[Fnaar]

I seem to be alone, so I guess I am paranoid

I watched you type that, on Live Street View!

 

[ufkacbln]

My house isn't - but I am!

 

[mangaman]

I watched you type that, on Live Street View!

Ah, but did you Fnaar. I took Arch's advice and that was a fish you saw, which I put next to my laptop to fool prying eyes.

A real one as well (A Dover Sole).

I was upstairs hiding in a cupboard, so last laugh for me..