holy street views batman! google street views and streetviewr.com
So, for days, I've been chuckling about all the street views Google Street Views has to offer.
- First, I saw this post on mashable.com about the top 15 Google Street View sightings.
- Then, there was this /. article about how a woman wanted to her cat's photo to be removed. Jeez.
- Next, there was the thong. That's right, the thong. Naughty naughty, Goog camera van.
- Then, the sweet irony of it all.
- And finally, there's streetviewr.com. Ahh, streetviewr.com. You've helped me waste countless hours I don't have.
Finally, it occurred to me, why I haven't I checked out my place yet? And, guess what I saw. That's my Pepe. I honestly cannot remember the time it was that sunny around where I live, and there were NO other cars parked near mine. Unbelievable.
"ai"
PS: How long did it take you to get to the bottom of this post?
Technorati tags: google, google street views, mashable.com, slashdot, thong, streetviewr, streetviewer.com, pepe
Comments
- Anonymous
June 07, 2007
PingBack from http://www.cafeturk.net/holy-street-views-batman-google-street-views-and-streetviewrcom.html/ - Anonymous
June 07, 2007
too long! - Anonymous
June 07, 2007
<p>I wrote a humorous post about <a href="http://scissormonkey.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/google-maps-zoom-feature-renamed-to-address-privacy-concerns/" target="_blank">Google renaming Google Map Street Views</a> to address privacy concerns and to compete with operating systems.</p><p>People have been pretty concerned about privacy with these images being posted. We have this expectation of privacy even when we are in public that we are not entitled to - people have been upset to find that their pictures are posted of them outside doing everyday things.</p><p>I think a big difference is that Google in their concern to get street level images as accurate as possible did not realize the public reaction to images being uploaded containing people.</p><p>Microsoft street level imaging, which is still in technical preview is going slower to ensure there is a proper system for removing any identifiable images such as faces and license plates from the images.</p>Sorry for the long post, these are both topics I have been writing about lately. - Anonymous
June 08, 2007
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=436+Judah+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94109,+USA&sll=37.796133,-122.427376&sspn=0.071486,0.16016&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.762171,-122.46665&cbp=1,181.370528048144,0.30626657278227,1&ll=37.766678,-122.465694&spn=0.01089,0.020084&z=16Definition of "Irony" - Anonymous
June 08, 2007
ai, what thong? where? the picture is blacked out. did they get rid of it? - Anonymous
June 08, 2007
Note to self - quit using HTML when commenting on Anand's blog.Link that works for the Google Street Views being renamed post -http://scissormonkey.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/google-maps-zoom-feature-renamed-to-address-privacy-concerns/Sorry for the confusion, and the bad html post. - Anonymous
June 08, 2007
Looks like the thong is not there anymore. - Anonymous
June 08, 2007
@PeteK, Peter,You're right - that image seems to have been deleted. But here's a snapshot of what was originally there : http://www.gstreetsightings.com/girls/thong-girl-on-google-street-view-sightings/enjoy.ai :) - Anonymous
June 08, 2007
I run www.gstreetsightings.com.... yes it seems that google is frantically taking a lot of these pictures down. That is why I'm not just linking but taking the pictures to have. I'm doing it on my own so it takes some time, never mind all the SEO for it.Thanks for the link. I'll shoot ya one back Peter! - Anonymous
June 08, 2007
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June 09, 2007
http://streetspottings.com is similar to streetviewr but the the interactive view is available there without having to go to maps.google.com(it's a lot quicker, not just because you don't have to go to google but i guess it loads less javascript than google)