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I can't believe it---I just went to Google Maps and used Street View, and by Golly, there is my house and everything around it !
My privacy is gone.
Now I am looking up all the houses of all my friends and relatives.........
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 04:27 PM
Psst, don't tell anybody, but I have been using it to look into peoples windows and keeping an eye on my wife. 
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 04:45 PM
QUOTE(Mogleymom @ Feb 20 2008, 03:08 PM) 
I can't believe it---I just went to Google Maps and used Street View, and by Golly, there is my house and everything around it !
My privacy is gone.
Now I am looking up all the houses of all my friends and relatives.........
My privacy is gone.
Now I am looking up all the houses of all my friends and relatives.........
QUOTE(ace1969 @ Feb 20 2008, 03:27 PM)
Psst, don't tell anybody, but I have been using it to look into peoples windows and keeping an eye on my wife.
Does that make both of you stalkers or peeping toms???
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 05:05 PM
QUOTE(Kate @ Feb 20 2008, 04:45 PM)
Does that you both of you stalkers or peeping toms???
That was close, since my name is not Tom I'm safe.....
Seriously though, I often check the Goggles image and MSN. I like to see when a satellite shoots a new Pic. Can usually tell by what or where the car or truck are in the driveway.
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 07:39 PM
This eye in the sky thing has really got me antsy. I thought all I had to worry about was hot air balloons and low flying planes. Now I'm trying to figure out how to cover all my skylights. 
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 08:20 PM
QUOTE(Mogleymom @ Feb 20 2008, 03:08 PM)
I can't believe it---I just went to Google Maps and used Street View, and by Golly, there is my house and everything around it !
What part of the world do you live in that is covered by Google Street View?I can't find ANY links in or around Lancaster.
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 08:31 PM
QUOTE(Mogleymom @ Feb 20 2008, 03:08 PM)
I can't believe it---I just went to Google Maps and used Street View, and by Golly, there is my house and everything around it !
My privacy is gone.
Now I am looking up all the houses of all my friends and relatives.........
I've used this feature before driving the bus to an unfamiliar locale. Sometimes it helps sometimes it doesn't. Getting an overview of how a school is laid out when taking a sport team to games comes in handy especially if there is night driving.
I did run into some trouble trying to get a good zoom on the PA Capitol buildings. The view gets very vague, those trying to help me decided it probably was for Nat'l security being PA's Capitol and all.
QUOTE(Artie See @ Feb 20 2008, 07:20 PM)
What part of the world do you live in that is covered by Google Street View?
I can't find ANY links in or around Lancaster.
Some mappings you need to click on hybrid or satellite. I think that is mapquest.
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 08:52 PM
QUOTE(Mogleymom @ Feb 20 2008, 03:08 PM)
I can't believe it---I just went to Google Maps and used Street View, and by Golly, there is my house and everything around it !
My privacy is gone.
Now I am looking up all the houses of all my friends and relatives.........
My privacy is gone.
Now I am looking up all the houses of all my friends and relatives.........
the google images are old, go to zillow.com and navigate to where you can look at 4 sided views of your families property. Its much better than google
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 09:42 PM
QUOTE(peddler @ Feb 20 2008, 07:52 PM)
the google images are old, go to zillow.com and navigate to where you can look at 4 sided views of your families property. Its much better than google
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 10:44 PM
QUOTE(peddler @ Feb 20 2008, 07:52 PM)
the google images are old, go to zillow.com and navigate to where you can look at 4 sided views of your families property. Its much better than google
zillow uses Microsoft’s virtual earth images. You can access them directly and get a bigger photo at www.maps.live.com then click on bird’s eye view.
Google has only been using street view in major cities. I've heard about people being able to recognize themselves in some of the photos they are so detailed.
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 11:22 PM
Street views are really fun if you are familiar with the city. IIRC, they were accomplished by roof mounted cameras that clicked pics as they drove down the street.
They've done street views in many of the larger cities.
You can choose a starting point and then 'drive' down the street and look from side to side as well. I had some fun with the Phoenix one. Drove by my old house.
They've done street views in many of the larger cities.
You can choose a starting point and then 'drive' down the street and look from side to side as well. I had some fun with the Phoenix one. Drove by my old house.
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Posted 21 February 2008 - 06:43 AM
No, I live in New England. I was hoping Lancaster would be on Street View, but it isn't yet. Google photographed our neighborhood the one time when our neighbor didn't have junk all over his yard. Now no one will believe me when I tell them stories about our neighbor. Or maybe the junk was airbrushed out.....
