From Thursday, STREETVIEW to cover almost EVERY UK STREET

[amir_j]

Pictures of nearly every street in the country, from the Shetlands to Penzance, are to be made available via Google. From Thursday, the search giant’s Streetview technology will feature 360-degree images of more than 99 per cent of the United Kingdom’s roads, both rural and urban, covering a total of approximately 238,000 miles.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/74072...

[whitevanman88]

A streetview astra followed me for a good few miles the other day.

[Cara Van Man]

doubt it'll cover my street as i'm on a military base.

[Slinky]

Great stuff, all power to Google for doing it.. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to bemoan them for invasion of privacy, but you don't see those people running out to pedestrians and attempting to divert their gaze..

[sebhaque]

Good good... according to satellite view, where I live is still a field.

[amir_j]

Cara Van Man said:

doubt it'll cover my street as i'm on a military base.

what about when you retire?

[Cara Van Man]

amir_j said:

Cara Van Man said:

doubt it'll cover my street as i'm on a military base.

what about when you retire?

what about when i retire?

[ewenm]

Sounds good to me. I've found it useful to help checkup on Estate Agents particulars - lying by omission...

[Kit80]

sebhaque said:

Good good... according to satellite view, where I live is still a field.

Oh dont get me started the satellite views are so out of date it does my nut I rely on these for er hobbies. Streetview will at least be more up to date I guess.

Looking forward to it can't wait.

[BliarOut]

Cara Van Man said:

amir_j said:

Cara Van Man said:

doubt it'll cover my street as i'm on a military base.

what about when you retire?

what about when i retire?

3xx

[GTIR]

BliarOut said:

Cara Van Man said:

amir_j said:

Cara Van Man said:

doubt it'll cover my street as i'm on a military base.

what about when you retire?

what about when i retire?

3xx

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[Shay HTFC]

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.

[Piglet]

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

I think it's a great idea, it's useful to me at work to look at road layouts etc.

[PapaHett]

I wonder does that cover Northern Ireland? My Area doesn't even have satelite view yet..

[KierenGG]

fk all of the town I live in is covered

[carreauchompeur]

ewenm said:

Sounds good to me. I've found it useful to help checkup on Estate Agents particulars - lying by omission...

Entirely off topic, but I was amused to see some details on an Internet estate agent site showing a house in a reasonably lively area. Crime Scene Investigation parked outside, however the crafty beggars had digitally obscured the chevrons on the back

[hornetrider]

They won't have my house, fo' sho.

[ad551]

About time too!

[MiniMan64]

KierenGG said:

fk all of the town I live in is covered

Most peoples towns aren't covered...

...until Thursday which is kind of the point.

Can't wait, I think Streetview is bloody wicked fun!

[KierenGG]

MiniMan64 said:

KierenGG said:

fk all of the town I live in is covered

Most peoples towns aren't covered...

...until Thursday which is kind of the point.

Can't wait, I think Streetview is bloody wicked fun!

Good!
Next time read the original post properly...

Like I did...





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