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Daz

I gotta hand it to google, their new street view is pretty bloody impressive.

I noticed at my address that my front door was open and it got me thinking how this opens an interesting can of worms. What If I was photographed walking out of it with someone I shouldn't be? Can I contact Google and pay 'em to airbrush her out?

snap.crackle.pop

"I noticed at my address that my front door was open"

LMAO ! you mean you check on google map to see if your front door is opened. Did you check if the oven was "off" too ?

Neo_God

damn, I don't think Philly has gotten one of these yet, I was all excited to see if I could see if I was going to be out on the street or something, haha.

Still, this is pretty amazing.

though you do bring up a good point about privacy. I suppose google's next step should be "Google Human" or something something like that.

TomDunne

Awesome tech, I was playing around with this earlier today. It's crazy that you can click different spots on the same block and get a different view, literally just a hundred or so feet apart. Haven't been to SF in a few years, and it's strange to pick and choose views of places I have such strong memories of.

And to think, all this time I had believed Daz was a back door man...

Daz

Hah, looks like some of the crew made a burger stop: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/google_maps_str.html
Probably only a matter of time before something a bit more sensational than my open front door shows up...

Emil Mujanovic

Man, that's fucking awesome! Can just cruise around like you're there.

-caseyjones

Daz

Haha, somebody found the famous placard wielding Frank Chu !

Daz

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/request_for_urb.html

MoP

that's really quite scary how much detail it gets...
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=san+francisco&ie=UTF8&ll=37.798527,-122.411213&spn=0.049645,0.080338&z=14&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.785828,-122.405735&cbp=1,142.863708425442,0.822218864657485,3

very interesting though!

notman

Wow, I read about this yesterday, but didn't check it out. I didn't realize how kick ass it was. I thought it was going to be like 'birds-eye' at MS Live's maps.

adam

Daz, if you click on the 'Street View Help' button inside the cameras window theres a link to ask them to remove a picture

Joao Sapiro

Daz was mooning people on the window ! i have proofs ! you cant hide daz !!!

P.S - this kicks ass !

adam

Here's all the available cities.

Jay Evans

Now imagine this.. combined with that new microsoft table thing. That would be cool. Dragging around the map, pulling up images from all sorts of locations.