On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Douglas Royds wrote:
Numbers 3 and 4 illustrate a privacy concern, but my favourite is number 9:
http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/
If it is what I saw the other day, the photos are taken by a black car
with writing on it and what looks like a cluster of cameras on it's
roof.
You too can instantly earn your 15 seconds of Global Internet Fame....
If you see it going by, turn around and moon it Bart Simpson style! :-)
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
_NOT_ cool at all!
Damned nosey parkers, aren't we allowed _any_ privacy any more.
Google isn't nosy. Google couldn't care less about you.
They just sell advertizing...
...to people who sell stuff...
...to your neighbours who might buy stuff...
...who like the rest of humanity...
...are as nosy as hell!
So what are you up to behind those Big Trees? Eh!? Eh!? Tell us!
Tell Us! Inquiring Minds wish to Know! :-)
Three cheers for big garden-trees.
It is easy to spot my house from google maps. It is the section with
the highest biomass density on the canterbury plains. I like trees, I
like birds. A pity that I also like cats. I'm a little conflicted
that's all. Which reminds me, I must still clean up the partially
digested something under the sofa.
Some fun stuff I noticed last night....
* The summit road has snow on it. In fact, the reason why there is no
coverage beyond Dyers pass is the road is closed due to the
snow. (You can see the sign)
* They even have images of the inside of the Lyttleton tunnel, but
either the map view is wrong or the gps wasn't working too well
under a couple of hundred meters of rock.
* On one road /view in Fiordland there seems to a car coming towards
the camera... you move a step towards it... and the car retreats.
And it retreats everytime! It was very late at night when I was
doing this so it was a click or three before my brain coughed
up the answer to what was going on. :-)
* No street view of White Island, but the satellite view shows a
large smoke plume.
* You can see Ruapehu and Tongariro from the streetview.
* Don't piss off Bruce Simpson "The Missile Man", he now knows, to
within meters, where you live.
* Well, actually I'm more worried about these loose cannons..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damadola_airstrike
* There are a surprising number of Race tracks on the Canterbury
Plains.
I wonder if there is a program that I can get to download a stream of
side images through a scenic part of the country and stitch them into
a video?
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