Gang of villagers chase away Google car
Google's ambitious plan to offer a 3-D street level view of communities across three continents hit a snag when angry residents of a UK village blocked the search engine's camera car from photographing their homes...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/03/google.anger/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/03/google.anger/index.html)
Thoughts on Google Street View?
You know my thoughts about it...
. . .
I hate them..I hate Google Maps alot...
They get the streets wrong...they show old (2005) aerials...and Streetview didn't get WA-531 until last week! And those pics are from 2008!!!!!
The streetview quality in Europe is way better than in the US.
Compare this:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi43.tinypic.com%2F11h7b0n.jpg&hash=9c0e9fc863cea1afb8d8f67724f50ef36036921e)
To this:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi41.tinypic.com%2F1zfnehd.jpg&hash=8888ebab03774dc6f46b86a5913ced7a66c02336)
Is that your motorcycle?
I like the concept of Street View. It helps me do some roadgeeking when I don't have the time/money to drive someplace. The only problem I have is that sometimes the images are not clear enough--like some instances where photos were taken at dusk or at night, and it looks like the image looks snowy like a bad tv antenna. If that picture is really of a Street View in Europe, Google's come a long way with this thing and needs to start going back through the U.S.
As to the people who object to photos of their houses as per the article linked above... I don't think someone has a reasonable expectation of privacy on a public street as to object to a photo of their house. What's to stop the would-be criminal from driving the street and taking photos of his potential targets? I'm sure they could tell by satellite photos where the opulent areas are anyway. But that's just my opinion.
Here is the U.S., as long as the photographers are on a public street, there is not much that can be done.
However, some streets in developments are private and that's a different story. Or, of course, if they're on someone's property.
Quote from: mightyace on April 04, 2009, 03:11:40 PM
However, some streets in developments are private and that's a different story. Or, of course, if they're on someone's property.
But what if there's no gates?
We have private roads over here with most having signs saying things such as 'No parking or turning, parking for residents only, other vehicles will be clamped, not a through route'. In most cases these signs are just threats and nothing will happen if you enter or park in these streets.
QuoteIn most cases these signs are just threats and nothing will happen if you enter or park in these streets.
True. My point was that you potentially have some recourse if you live on a private road. But, I agree with you that 99.9% of the time it makes no difference.
Go check out Pittsburgh. The shots right at intersections are some of the clearest in the program.
^ Frequently those areas of black and white images are actually in areas where Google has extremely low resolution images.
Around here and elsewhere in the US many images I've found are crystal-clear. I love Google Earth so much. Virtual roadgeeking sometimes is all I can get in these tough economic times.
Thing of it is, on a public street, anyone with so much as a cell phone can go and snap a picture of your house if they so desire. And they can post that picture on the internet. Google Street View isn't fundamentally any different, the only difference is the scale on which it's done.
As for the complaint about it attracting burglars... I think they're just being paranoid.
They should live in a gated community. Google Streetview doesn't come there. ( I wanted to look up GW Bush's new home in Dallas, but it was a gated community).
So your house is on Google Maps. So what? So is everyone else's. What makes your house so special as to receive attention from anyone? How's it different from someone driving down the street?
They just want to cause a fuss... I don't think they have a single valid argument when you bring out the fact that ANYONE can go take a picture of their house with a cell phone. Or the fact that Google is doing it from public property.
Quote from: Truvelo on April 04, 2009, 03:25:15 PMWe have private roads over here with most having signs saying things such as 'No parking or turning, parking for residents only, other vehicles will be clamped, not a through route'. In most cases these signs are just threats and nothing will happen if you enter or park in these streets.
A couple in Pittsburgh tried to sue Google for $25,000 in damages, alleging that the photos devalued their property and caused them mental suffering. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed (http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/technology/18739087/detail.html).
Well, my house isn't on Google Street View.
For the moment... :rolleyes:
Mine is... and you can clearly see everything, even my bike parked on the porch...
Mine is too and my dad's windmill(the only one in a front yard that I know of) is even visible. Google does that that my house is in Bland,VA instead of Prince George, VA(even though I do live in the Bland district)
I live in a hard-to-reach neighborhood...they'll never come...we got a petition to ban them for the time being. :biggrin:
Why? :-/
QuoteWhy?
He's probably hiding something, he's living outside of the law :)
Unfortunately, they'll never come into my neighborhood because its "gated" (not really--they built a gate but literally NEVER use it). But I just have a bad feeling . . .
I want them to take a photo of my house. I think it'd be cool, I don't see what people are so up in arms about.
Quote from: Chris on April 04, 2009, 01:51:46 PM
The streetview quality in Europe is way better than in the US.
I've just found some higher resolution street view in the US. Look on highway 111 near Calexico, CA.
I-40 through Barstow, CA has some crystal-clear ones too... VERY high-quality photos.
I normally hate necroposting, but Google Street View has reached Hawaii. There's now coverage of much of Oahu and some scattered parts of western Maui.
Here's an example, the eastern terminus of H-3 (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=21.435573,-157.75695&spn=0,359.994319&z=18&layer=c&cbll=21.435315,-157.757045&panoid=Hd4uOu8gvpF4SLa6hnesHQ&cbp=12,236.94,,0,8.57).
The Quality depends in Google street view.For example, alot of the photos on the Toll Roads out here in California are fantastic(California 261, 241, 73 and 133)
The quality in Hawaii is too good. I'm doin' my Hawaii project in SC4, which will require some roadgeekery :spin: :-D :D :)
My aunt herself is actually on street view!
What I hate the most about Google Street View, is that if I want to look up a road sign or a specific signal intersection on street view, at times it will come to be a terrible image, so I can't really see it. AGH!!!! :banghead:
It seems like the Street View cameras have been improved greatly since they first started doing it. I've noticed that many locations where Street View has been introduced more recently have vastly superior imagery. From what I briefly recall seeing, some of the images on European street views were also quite superior to many of the U.S. images.
I sure hope they go back to some of their original locations with the newer cameras and replace the blurry unusable images that are already there.
It would be nice if they eventually sort of "archive" their images, say every 5 years or so, and continually have the cars out there updating images over time.
(I'm not sure if I can articulate this in a way that makes sense)... so that in 2015 you could maybe click on something that would allow you to view the images from, say, 2010. Obviously, some images would be older than that, but it would allow people to see what people on, say Jan 1, 2010, would see in any given location (obviously, not all streets are done yet).
So, to pick some year, in 2030 you could view what would hopefully be a rather current street view of a given location, and see what it looked like roughly 20 years ago (or 15, or 10....)
Well, sadly, Street View does not cover Berlin, Germany
Google Street View Guys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35LqQPKylEA)
Funny Stuff.
Be well,
Bryant
And they drove beyond the Road Closed sign here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mobile,+al&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.713406,76.640625&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mobile,+Alabama&ll=30.805847,-88.225644&spn=0.014541,0.028882&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=30.80571,-88.225586&panoid=oSzVZjVlBJbeEvwe4or1sQ&cbp=12,337.33,,0,1.4)...
From what I was told last week at work, the equipment that the Google team uses for their image capturing will soon be upgraded fully at the cost of $220K per unit, and that with this new equipment expect to see a drastic difference in the resolutions. It already appears that they are using at least one of these units (or some equivalent thereof) as certain places now have cleaner, crisper images for Street View.
Quote from: AARoads on December 13, 2009, 12:25:48 PM
And they drove beyond the Road Closed sign here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mobile,+al&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.713406,76.640625&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mobile,+Alabama&ll=30.805847,-88.225644&spn=0.014541,0.028882&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=30.80571,-88.225586&panoid=oSzVZjVlBJbeEvwe4or1sQ&cbp=12,337.33,,0,1.4)...
Did the same here (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=39.871606,-75.352435&spn=0,359.977319&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.871899,-75.354711&panoid=KmYhPSgrgoemqFBrEsPCDA&cbp=12,283.85,,0,3.55)
that would indeed be great if they would keep the old stuff. In general, having google maps add a time dimension would be just beyond awesome...
I think in 10 years at the latest, that feature will be added, with hopefully maps going back several centuries culled from various historical resources. Would be great to set the scroll bar to 1928 and see what the US routes looked like at the time. The information is out there ...
Quote from: agentsteel53 on December 13, 2009, 01:24:32 PM
that would indeed be great if they would keep the old stuff. In general, having google maps add a time dimension would be just beyond awesome...
I think in 10 years at the latest, that feature will be added, with hopefully maps going back several centuries culled from various historical resources. Would be great to set the scroll bar to 1928 and see what the US routes looked like at the time. The information is out there ...
Google Earth has a similar feature, but with satellite imagery. I could see them doing this if they could figure out how to archive all the street view images.
Quote from: SyntheticDreamer on December 13, 2009, 08:24:42 PM
Google Earth has a similar feature, but with satellite imagery. I could see them doing this if they could figure out how to archive all the street view images.
Unfortunately in most places it only goes back to 1994.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=42.93294,-78.726954&spn=0,359.986203&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.93237,-78.728728&panoid=EhiRFpgJIycMqCNycMsOjQ&cbp=12,220.17,,0,5
That's just horrible.
how did that happen? it looks to be inside a tunnel, but the satellite view shows that the street is above ground.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone......
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=34.143138,-79.770441&spn=0,359.88842&z=14&layer=c&cbll=34.142954,-79.770384&panoid=eMByeGxezjuNuURwR8VO4w&cbp=12,354.36098111172055,,0,6.176923076923084
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=33.483912,-81.93243&spn=0,359.986063&z=17&layer=c&cbll=33.483615,-81.93233&panoid=ALqiqhEArlpBHZcan5UXtw&cbp=12,347.18,,0,8.95
Quote from: rickmastfan67 on December 14, 2009, 09:20:19 PM
Welcome to the Twilight Zone......
Or "Time Tunnel" or "The Outer Limits" :-D
Does Google have no quality control on this? :pan:
That is trippy. It seems the Google Street View folks have found several interdimensional portals. ;)
Whole stretch of [this] (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=14975+U.S.+33,+Elkton,+VA&sll=37.066447,-76.306649&sspn=0.012157,0.01929&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=14975+U.S.+33,+Elkton,+Rockingham,+Virginia+22827&ll=38.432598,-78.845937&spn=0.012001,0.027466&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=38.431473,-78.842813&panoid=NuD3lJFu64x7iDA0SBRr0A&cbp=12,335.49,,0,4.86) going both ways on US-33 east of I-81 in Harrisonburg, VA.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on December 14, 2009, 08:44:12 PM
how did that happen? it looks to be inside a tunnel, but the satellite view shows that the street is above ground.
I think Google has started taking street view data at night, with disastrous results.
Quote from: rickmastfan67 on December 14, 2009, 09:20:19 PM
Welcome to the Twilight Zone......
Great song by Golden Earring!
Quote from: deanej on December 15, 2009, 03:05:21 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on December 14, 2009, 08:44:12 PM
how did that happen? it looks to be inside a tunnel, but the satellite view shows that the street is above ground.
I think Google has started taking street view data at night, with disastrous results.
There is nighttime Street View imagery on I-90 eastbound near the eastern terminus of I-490 near Victor, NY (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.010547,-77.44046&spn=0,359.970689&z=16&layer=c&cbll=43.009629,-77.440563&panoid=Wm5wcQN2LnDJ80oVGxzaaQ&cbp=12,307.42,,0,5.86).
"New York State Throughway"? :eyebrow:
Quote from: Master son on December 15, 2009, 05:39:52 PM
"New York State Throughway"? :eyebrow:
oddly, this is the one instance in which the Sili Speling looks more correct. Miller "Lite" beer looks wrong, and even spelling of a road as a "Hi-Way" is awfully silly, as is referring to one of New York City's administrative regions as a "boro" ... but as for the Thruway - I know it's wrong but that's the way I likes it!
Speaking of NYC, much of the streetview imagery of Manhattan was taken at night, though it doesn't look too bad.
Unfortunately I can't recall any specific locations right now.
More weirdness (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mobile,+al&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.713406,76.640625&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mobile,+Alabama&ll=30.789203,-88.072457&spn=0.014544,0.028882&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=30.789118,-88.072464&panoid=jq_DZldv75aCTPcWCEiXUg&cbp=12,187.23,,0,8.13) on this stretch of U.S. 43 near Chickasaw Creek.
Quote from: AARoads on December 16, 2009, 02:21:10 AM
More weirdness (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mobile,+al&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.713406,76.640625&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mobile,+Alabama&ll=30.789203,-88.072457&spn=0.014544,0.028882&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=30.789118,-88.072464&panoid=jq_DZldv75aCTPcWCEiXUg&cbp=12,187.23,,0,8.13) on this stretch of U.S. 43 near Chickasaw Creek.
Looks like something was obstructing the camera. There's evidence of this in various places.
Mapquest now has there own version. 360 View :ded:
Quote from: Annunciation70130 on December 22, 2009, 02:03:29 AM
Mapquest now has there own version. 360 View :ded:
And its images appear to be even older than Google Street View's. Google Street View at least has the I-295 flyover ramp completed; on Mapquest, they've barely started the project.
Plus MaqQuest's 360 view is available in very limited areas (at least in NY) and seems to be a LOT slower than Google.
Quote from: PennDOTFan on December 13, 2009, 01:12:38 PM
Quote from: AARoads on December 13, 2009, 12:25:48 PM
And they drove beyond the Road Closed sign here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mobile,+al&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.713406,76.640625&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mobile,+Alabama&ll=30.805847,-88.225644&spn=0.014541,0.028882&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=30.80571,-88.225586&panoid=oSzVZjVlBJbeEvwe4or1sQ&cbp=12,337.33,,0,1.4)...
Did the same here (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=39.871606,-75.352435&spn=0,359.977319&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.871899,-75.354711&panoid=KmYhPSgrgoemqFBrEsPCDA&cbp=12,283.85,,0,3.55)
Going from going past a Road Closed sign to going past a No Motor Vehicles sign on a rail trail:
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=30.316349,-81.950594&spn=0,359.986063&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=30.31547,-81.949734&panoid=d5mCwp73x0-cHdTrdu8QKA&cbp=12,57.54,,0,-0.61 (http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=30.316349,-81.950594&spn=0,359.986063&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=30.31547,-81.949734&panoid=d5mCwp73x0-cHdTrdu8QKA&cbp=12,57.54,,0,-0.61)
Quote from: Mr. Matté on December 23, 2009, 05:03:27 PM
Going from going past a Road Closed sign to going past a No Motor Vehicles sign on a rail trail:
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=30.316349,-81.950594&spn=0,359.986063&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=30.31547,-81.949734&panoid=d5mCwp73x0-cHdTrdu8QKA&cbp=12,57.54,,0,-0.61 (http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=30.316349,-81.950594&spn=0,359.986063&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=30.31547,-81.949734&panoid=d5mCwp73x0-cHdTrdu8QKA&cbp=12,57.54,,0,-0.61)
That's interesting. That road has a lot of warning and regulatory signs for a road that's closed to motor vehicles...
Quote from: SyntheticDreamer on December 23, 2009, 07:18:23 PM
Quote from: Mr. Matté on December 23, 2009, 05:03:27 PM
Going from going past a Road Closed sign to going past a No Motor Vehicles sign on a rail trail:
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=30.316349,-81.950594&spn=0,359.986063&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=30.31547,-81.949734&panoid=d5mCwp73x0-cHdTrdu8QKA&cbp=12,57.54,,0,-0.61 (http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=30.316349,-81.950594&spn=0,359.986063&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=30.31547,-81.949734&panoid=d5mCwp73x0-cHdTrdu8QKA&cbp=12,57.54,,0,-0.61)
That's interesting. That road has a lot of warning and regulatory signs for a road that's closed to motor vehicles...
Not sure whether it's the case for this road, but in recent months Google has sent out an armada of trikes to cover trails, bike paths and the like.
Google has since censored this set of images, but nonetheless:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/30/who_killed_bambi/
Wow, that's not that far from where I live! :-o
Part of Suit Against Google's Street View Reinstituted (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10029/1032060-100.stm)
I don't like those people; their last name (Boring) really suits them. Ya know what, I'm going to go drive by their house. I bet they'll sue me for looking at their house.
'Grammatically' correct, at least. And 'throughway' sits better for me than 'thruway' (quiet, Firefox spellcheck!), but as it's officially known as the 'Thruway', that makes 'throughway' wrong in this case.
Donuts.
Looks like the Google Street View car (or more likely trike, but the former sounds more interesting...) plowed through Hersheypark. (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.287252,-76.656053&spn=0.003634,0.021973&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.287936,-76.659&panoid=noEFY_f4TRrtAulsKXc3Zw&cbp=11,208.86,,0,2.8)
Quote from: deanej on December 24, 2009, 12:44:29 PM
Wow, that's not that far from where I live! :-o
Same here. :-o
Bergen, Norway:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi49.tinypic.com%2F24d4y07.jpg&hash=2b01c44e9e670f5a285c5ded9ce71d03b0aeb996)
The rail trail mentioned earlier is cool. It even has it's own grade crossing signs (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=30.310556,-81.970405&spn=0,359.992704&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=30.310575,-81.97021&panoid=f0sUa2I-WqL66UfyLVs7Ww&cbp=12,266.7,,0,8.11) and gates (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=30.310528,-81.97077&spn=0,359.992704&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=30.310519,-81.970891&panoid=ODdyQ7xI-0rpbpMsTEPjmQ&cbp=12,263.92,,0,-2.94)!
Google is now adding Street View imagery of famous attractions, and even ski slopes! Check out the Street View gallery here (http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/gallery)
@Chris
Those people must have known the Street View vehicle was coming to plan a stunt like that. :sombrero:
I've just seen that the Google cars have documented Alaska's Dalton Highway, also better known as the "Ice Road" for those of you who watch the History Channel.
And much of northwestern Canada along with it. All HD, of course.
Wow. I remember as a young map reader being frustrated that the Rand McNally maps never showed the roads in northern Canada like they did in the south, and now I can take a virtual trip up any major highway up there or in Alaska. This is beyond what I ever expected from Street View. I'd give my right arm to be the one doing the driving.
You also need to give your right leg. But agreed -- I very much want to drive the ice roads.
I actually inquired about driving for them once--apparently they contract out to various local firms, and don't actually hire people as dedicated streetview drivers. Would be the roadgeek dream job.
They absolutely bungled Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on February 19, 2010, 11:25:35 PM
I actually inquired about driving for them once--apparently they contract out to various local firms, and don't actually hire people as dedicated streetview drivers. Would be the roadgeek dream job.
My first job in mapping included field research, where I was paid to drive around and take notes and look for changes, new streets, etc. It was both fun and nerve racking at the same time. I used a tape recorder and annotated poi's and new streets if I could not get a siteplan for them. I took it one step further and did a lot of photography too, but mainly focused on the roadding type stuff, doubling my efforts for eventual AARoads additions.
I probably would opt to do it again if given the opportunity to do so, but the frustrations with traffic, having to go extra slow to notate things like condo's on a beach road, getting tailgated, having to make frequent u-turns or three-point turns, driving down a road that you did not know was "private" and getting yelled at for it, and using the a/c non stop during the heat of the day did wear me out...
An interesting find: A Street View car captures another Street View car in Coldfoot, AK (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=67.251922,-150.174565&spn=0,359.941721&z=15&layer=c&cbll=67.251919,-150.174561&panoid=nj0wYiZHnSYficsf8cowTQ&cbp=12,223.5,,0,5). You can see it for the entire length of Winter Road all the way to the airport.
Quote from: Michael on March 01, 2010, 02:12:54 PM
An interesting find: A Street View car captures another Street View car in Coldfoot, AK (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=67.251922,-150.174565&spn=0,359.941721&z=15&layer=c&cbll=67.251919,-150.174561&panoid=nj0wYiZHnSYficsf8cowTQ&cbp=12,223.5,,0,5). You can see it for the entire length of Winter Road all the way to the airport.
That's not the only place. IIRC, one can see the same thing on the Dempster Highway, and other highways up north. I think they do that so that they have a backup vehicle at the ready.
Reviving an old thread:
A state-name Pennsylvania I-81 shield near Chambersburg (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=39.962895,-77.577384&spn=0,0.003664&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=39.96296,-77.57745&panoid=te011YkComU0ToLIMUo2MA&cbp=12,198.11,,0,4.33). The cool thing is that it's on a temporary construction sign! It's blurry, but you can definitely tell that it has a state name!
Quote from: Michael on June 15, 2010, 09:53:29 PM
Reviving an old thread:
A state-name Pennsylvania I-81 shield near Chambersburg (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=39.962895,-77.577384&spn=0,0.003664&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=39.96296,-77.57745&panoid=te011YkComU0ToLIMUo2MA&cbp=12,198.11,,0,4.33). The cool thing is that it's on a temporary construction sign! It's blurry, but you can definitely tell that it has a state name!
Old sign cruelty!
Looks like the contractor just took down the assembly from the side of the road and put it on a temporary barricade.
Looks like the Google StreetView car is on fire here. :happy: lol.
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.495734,-79.938776&spn=0.0029,0.006968&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.495678,-79.938628&panoid=02eZw7XrM8V1q158hYIocg&cbp=12,103.63,,0,1.05
Quote from: rickmastfan67 on July 16, 2010, 11:02:20 PM
Looks like the Google StreetView car is on fire here. :happy: lol.
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.495734,-79.938776&spn=0.0029,0.006968&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.495678,-79.938628&panoid=02eZw7XrM8V1q158hYIocg&cbp=12,103.63,,0,1.05
Looks more like an acid trip and not a fire... :colorful:
Quote from: PAHighways on January 29, 2010, 05:26:14 PMPart of Suit Against Google's Street View Reinstituted (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10029/1032060-100.stm)
The verdict was announced today: Google Admits Trespassing In Allegheny, Pays Boring Family $1 (http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/25998464/detail.html)
Well, here is another instance of a Google car being chased off. In this picture it appears the Google vehicle went a little too far onto USMC Quntico. A hard charging Marine was not very happy.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5212263,-77.356876,3a,15y,142.45h,85.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4_lf2lgrbzOinmIbHu3Ktw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5212263,-77.356876,3a,15y,142.45h,85.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4_lf2lgrbzOinmIbHu3Ktw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Quote from: Avalanchez71 on November 22, 2022, 03:31:33 AM
Well, here is another instance of a Google car being chased off. In this picture it appears the Google vehicle went a little too far onto USMC Quntico. A hard charging Marine was not very happy.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5212263,-77.356876,3a,15y,142.45h,85.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4_lf2lgrbzOinmIbHu3Ktw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5212263,-77.356876,3a,15y,142.45h,85.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4_lf2lgrbzOinmIbHu3Ktw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
That's a 12-year-old thread you just revived. :-|
Well I jump on the opportunity then that thread is revived to mention that old article from 2017 where a Google Streetview car meet a Bing Streetside car. ;)
https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/google-street-view-meets-bing-streetside/
Here are some spots where the most recent street view looks worse than in previous years. Taken in 2022 and NOT taken on the same day or even month.
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8565545,-91.4316541,3a,45.3y,44.69h,92.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sltI9z5Ijglu3pqJWz9LU7Q!2e0!5s20220801T000000!7i16384!8i8192
(https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8565545,-91.4316541,3a,45.3y,44.69h,92.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sltI9z5Ijglu3pqJWz9LU7Q!2e0!5s20220801T000000!7i16384!8i8192)
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5417282,-88.0853187,3a,75y,127.15h,94.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDlD9gVE3tvAKHTWaOg8vfA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5417282,-88.0853187,3a,75y,127.15h,94.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDlD9gVE3tvAKHTWaOg8vfA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
I wish that Google Street View had an option to switch from daylight to nighttime. Many places look a bit different during the night.
Quote from: Georgia Guardrail on December 17, 2022, 05:47:02 PM
I wish that Google Street View had an option to switch from daylight to nighttime. Many places look a bit different during the night.
Taking pictures at night from a moving vehicle usually doesn't result in anything worth saving, much less paying someone to drive around and make.
Quote from: chrismarion100 on December 17, 2022, 01:29:29 PM
Here are some spots where the most recent street view looks worse than in previous years. Taken in 2022 and NOT taken on the same day or even month.
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8565545,-91.4316541,3a,45.3y,44.69h,92.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sltI9z5Ijglu3pqJWz9LU7Q!2e0!5s20220801T000000!7i16384!8i8192
(https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8565545,-91.4316541,3a,45.3y,44.69h,92.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sltI9z5Ijglu3pqJWz9LU7Q!2e0!5s20220801T000000!7i16384!8i8192)
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5417282,-88.0853187,3a,75y,127.15h,94.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDlD9gVE3tvAKHTWaOg8vfA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5417282,-88.0853187,3a,75y,127.15h,94.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDlD9gVE3tvAKHTWaOg8vfA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
The first one looks fine to me. The weather conditions differ, but the resolution is high in all of them but the oldest.
The second is probably just fog on the lens. To do Street View right, you need a way of telling you that that's happened, so the driver can get out and wipe it off.
Quote from: Georgia Guardrail on December 17, 2022, 05:47:02 PM
I wish that Google Street View had an option to switch from daylight to nighttime. Many places look a bit different during the night.
They would need special cameras for that, look at the imagery in any tunnel and you'll see why. Especially with the new cameras, which are higher quality in general but seem to have a much smaller range of light levels where the images look good (as demonstrated by chrismarion100's first link).