How many Nobs on Google Street View?

[Dave2P]

Who was parked in Davies St?

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

Any more?

[hoyin]

How did you find that!!!

Nice M400 ... I love the viper grey ..

[Dave2P]

hoyin said:

How did you find that!!!

A Google News Alert from another site... Google knows everything.

...is it stuck behind one of those G-Wizz things??? Ok, so it is parked but it made me smile...

[NickyTwoHats]

There should be one of me when they get around to showing Ayot. I was standing my mine with a pint and a fag when a street view car drove past.
N2H

[nigelw]

Mine ! . but for security reasons dont wanna give out the position because thats where I keep it ! unusual for them to catch it outside !

[DissidentX]

Here's mine, hidden in a car park...

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

It also makes an appearance on Bing's satellite maps... but that's in a "secret" location too

[Adrian W]

I wasn't to impressed when someone sent me a link to mine parked outside my house.

[Dave2P]

Adrian W said:

I wasn't to impressed when someone sent me a link to mine parked outside my house.

Mmm. Maybe this thread's not such a good idea! Could a mod please remove it? TVM.

[nigelw]

I do wonder about the whole legality of google street view ! ..it's going to cause a lot of problems I reckon .

[S26VE P]

Adrian W said:

I wasn't to impressed when someone sent me a link to mine parked outside my house.

You can request it to be removed.

http://www.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/priva...

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

There's no problem with links to cars that are obviously not outside the owners house etc. Google data is over a year old in some cases so it's hardly a security risk.

Outside an owners house is a different matter, if nothing else to say I live here. Don't see any of those links in this thread.

[snuffy]

I can't understand all the caper and carry-on about Street View. Everyone is visible when they are outside, everyone's house is visible and everyone's car is visible. So unless you have a Klingon Cloaking Device it's impossible to stop people looking at you/your house/your car or anything else for that matter. And there are no laws ( thankfully, well, not yet )that prohibits taking pictures of you/your house/your car when you are in the public domain.

I have to say I think Street View is bloody fantastic.

[Adrian W]

snuffy said:

I can't understand all the caper and carry-on about Street View. Everyone is visible when they are outside, everyone's house is visible and everyone's car is visible. So unless you have a Klingon Cloaking Device it's impossible to stop people looking at you/your house/your car or anything else for that matter. And there are no laws ( thankfully, well, not yet )that prohibits taking pictures of you/your house/your car when you are in the public domain.

I have to say I think Street View is bloody fantastic.

Interseting take, go and take pictures of a goverment building and see how long it is before you get arrested

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

The pictures are irrelevant. It's people posting links on maps saying a Noble lives here that's the issue.

[snuffy]

Adrian W said:

snuffy said:

I can't understand all the caper and carry-on about Street View. Everyone is visible when they are outside, everyone's house is visible and everyone's car is visible. So unless you have a Klingon Cloaking Device it's impossible to stop people looking at you/your house/your car or anything else for that matter. And there are no laws ( thankfully, well, not yet )that prohibits taking pictures of you/your house/your car when you are in the public domain.

I have to say I think Street View is bloody fantastic.

Interseting take, go and take pictures of a goverment building and see how long it is before you get arrested

That's because the police are using anti-terrorist laws in an over zealous way, which is a totally different matter.

The fact ramains, someone could walk down the street where I live right now and take as many pictures as they like and no one can do anything about it - and quite rightly too.

[snuffy]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

The pictures are irrelevant. It's people posting links on maps saying a Noble lives here that's the issue.

But they could equally do that with or without Street View. They can take a picture of your car outside your house and send it to anyone they want to.

[nigelw]

Maybe , like all new techologies , it has it's great advantages , but I think that certain sections of the community will find a way to use it in a way we wont like too much ?

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

snuffy said:

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

The pictures are irrelevant. It's people posting links on maps saying a Noble lives here that's the issue.

But they could equally do that with or without Street View. They can take a picture of your car outside your house and send it to anyone they want to.

Yes, but this gives you a handy point on a map as well...that when posted here (for example) pops up in Google search. In fact this thread is on the first page right now of the search term "noble google street view" uk results.

[snuffy]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

snuffy said:

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

The pictures are irrelevant. It's people posting links on maps saying a Noble lives here that's the issue.

But they could equally do that with or without Street View. They can take a picture of your car outside your house and send it to anyone they want to.

Yes, but this gives you a handy point on a map as well...that when posted here (for example) pops up in Google search. In fact this thread is on the first page right now of the search term "noble google street view" uk results.

I agree, but you can do that with ease anyway. I could pin-point any car with my mobile and/or sat-nav, it gives me a GPS location. Or I can simply look at the street name where it's parked and then just go to the postoffice's website and get the full postal address, including the post code.

[snuffy]

nigelw said:

Maybe , like all new techologies , it has it's great advantages , but I think that certain sections of the community will find a way to use it in a way we wont like too much ?

Well, yes. But you can say that about almost everything.