From Thursday, STREETVIEW to cover almost EVERY UK STREET

[Bluebarge]

Shay HTFC said:

telegraph said:

The entirety of Spain, France, Italy and the USA is already covered

I assumed only the cities were covered in these countries, but alas the whole nations are covered including lots of Scandinavia. Feck me, its unbelievable. Just drag and drop onto a random road in Finland and see what its like. It truly is astonishing what is going on here!

Personally, I can't wait. I can't wait to see what some of the great roads in Scotland are like and see where my friends live and stuff.

P.S. Just zoom right out on google maps and drag the yellow man icon. So many random places are covered. Hawaii, remote roads in the Australian outback, the northern tip of Alaska in the Arctic circle etc etc. I could spend hours on this just 'going on holiday'. Superb.

And all this privacy talk is bullst. Its a public road for crying out loud. You could drive on it tomorrow and see the same thing.

Torygraph speak with forked tongue - Spain appears to be covered, France isn't (at least, not the towns I picked on in the French Alps).

[Parrot of Doom]

Don said:

Looking forward to it. It's a massive achievement/investment. I hope Google can actually now do useful things with it (SatNav with pictures is on the cards) and, of course, I am sure they've already thought out how to leverage the technology for a profit...

Already here, my Nexus One can see streetview, and has GPS (although navigation isn't yet enabled for the UK)

[Jonny671]

Don said:

Looking forward to it. It's a massive achievement/investment. I hope Google can actually now do useful things with it (SatNav with pictures is on the cards) and, of course, I am sure they've already thought out how to leverage the technology for a profit...

Has anyone used Google Latitude?

I used it yesterday whilst out doing deliveries.. Work could see where I was, down to quite good accuracy.. Was very impressive.

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/latitude/intro.ht...

[cottonfoo]

Pints said:

Although I've never been there, I was able to take a "stroll" around the area my sister lives in, in NZ. I'm all for streetview.

I once spent most of an evening 'driving' down the Forgotten World Highway trying to find where I'd taken a photo, only for a large chunk of the area I was in to have the streetviews taken directly into the sun

[[AJ]]

I drove behind the google car for about 3/4 mile about 8 months ago. I was wondering when it would appear on the web.

We should start a thread for PHers on google street view!

[MaximumJed]

Parrot of Doom said:

Don said:

Looking forward to it. It's a massive achievement/investment. I hope Google can actually now do useful things with it (SatNav with pictures is on the cards) and, of course, I am sure they've already thought out how to leverage the technology for a profit...

Already here, my Nexus One can see streetview, and has GPS (although navigation isn't yet enabled for the UK)

Yep, this was announced ages ago and is freely available to android phone users in the states. The demo videos when it was launched used pretty much everything that google could do, so it did voice recognition, used google search to work out where you wanted to go if you weren't specific about an address, then used google maps to show the overhead route and a realtime streetview route with where you needed to turn and what lane you should be in added to it.

People have hacked it to work in the UK but obviously we haven't had the needed coverage, so hopefully after Thursday it will be officially launched here and I can junk my TomTom!

[Marc W]

It's really useful if you need to go somewhere on foot you've not been to before. I've used it a couple of times now to check up on somewhere I've been going so I've got an idea what I'm looking for. Looking forward to more areas being available!

[TankRizzo]

Marc W said:

It's really useful if you need to go somewhere on foot you've not been to before. I've used it a couple of times now to check up on somewhere I've been going so I've got an idea what I'm looking for. Looking forward to more areas being available!

This. I had to go to a garage the other day and used it to have a look at the road system so I knew the way and which lane to be in. Can't wait for the rest of the UK to be mapped.

[Morningside]

V8mate said:

I wish Google would just refresh its satellite images more often.

I agree with that. They are about 4 years out of date here.


As for streetview I have seen the car about five times and maybe on there multiple times.

[BliarOut]

TankRizzo said:

Marc W said:

It's really useful if you need to go somewhere on foot you've not been to before. I've used it a couple of times now to check up on somewhere I've been going so I've got an idea what I'm looking for. Looking forward to more areas being available!

This. I had to go to a garage the other day and used it to have a look at the road system so I knew the way and which lane to be in. Can't wait for the rest of the UK to be mapped.

I've used it to read parking restrictions when visiting customers in another town. Fantastic app

[MiniMan64]

I think the fella in Northern Ireland got a bit a lost...

End of the line buddy

[130R]

Welcome to Norway

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

[essayer]

A bit odd that a town near here (within the M25) is still using satellite imagery which is about ten years old - and yet has streetview available.

[amir_j]

essayer said:

A bit odd that a town near here (within the M25) is still using satellite imagery which is about ten years old - and yet has streetview available.

Not really

Google don't own satellites, In order for them to get someone who does wont be cheap when you consider the amount of adjusting and moving around to capture the globe- will be into the tens/hundreds of billions? Just look at the disaster that is the EU's attempt to launch a GPS satellite for europe.

they do own cars and cameras to drive around in hence streetview- tens of millions you would imagine.

[amir_j]

Piglet said:

Nice Daily Wail use of capital letters in the thread title! I can hear the outrage...

[Parrot of Doom]

They're not satellite images, at least not when you can see individual houses. They're aerial photography.

[Shay HTFC]

130R said:

Welcome to Norway

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

Follow the road along and watch them chase the car

[Escort2dr]

[AJ] said:

I drove behind the google car for about 3/4 mile about 8 months ago. I was wondering when it would appear on the web.

We should start a thread for PHers on google street view!

I've passed it twice that I know of - once on the A1079 near Pocklington in a grey Passat estate, and once near to Topcliffe in North Yorks in the same car. I wait with baited breath to see if I have appeared in 2 places...

[ad551]

It's live now - and as far as I can tell it's seriously comprehensive...

[Bullett]

Looks like they have already started. My place is on there and I can reasonably say it was last summer when the pictures were taken on a Friday morning.