Thursday, March 19, 2009
MAPS ARE GETTING A BIT TOO REAL!
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I went on Google maps new street view today. Firstly, I was impressed at how nice the weather in Glasgow seems to have been on the (I presume) numerous days these photos were taken. Secondly, I was more than gobsmacked to see Charlotte clearly standing in my back door on the view of my house. The photo seems to have been taken before our old garage was knocked down and replaced by something a bit less messy - can I apply to google for a newer photo, do you think? After that, I went wandering round a few neighbourhoods I know. I had to laugh when I found my dad sitting on a deck chair reading a magazine in the photo of his house!
These maps are definitely a bit more real than the old ordnance survey ones, don't you think?
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If you look at Paddy's house (Mitre Road) Amanda and Gordy are arriving for a visit!!
So I see: here
Wonder how many divorces google is going to cause when people discover what their partners get up to during the day!
That is weird - i looked at it last night and the photo i saw is from the back of them about 30 yards further down the road!
Also couldn't see dad - where is he?
I used the hand to drag the screen to see Amanda and Gordy.
Click on my dad sitting on a deck chair reading a magazine on my blog to see dad.
The weird thing is that if i go to Mitre road it always shows me the same view which is different to the one i get from the link here - ie it appears to be a few seconds later - Gordy and Amanda are in different positions not just at a different angle and equally if i look at Rankin Drive i only ever get a street view from about number 21 and not the one looking right up mum and dad's path.
I heartd on last night's news that Google are now in trouble with this .,., One guy is suing because he was seen visiting a sex shop when he should have been at work and another person was seen drunk & in the act of throwing up ,,, on camera ! Yuk, ,, forever being sick !!
Sure - but maybe the guy shouldn't have been at the sex shop instead of work!
Yeah I heard a whole load of loonies on the radio going mad - comments like - you can see on this I have a burglar alarm and where my door is, you can see from the bike in the garden a child lives in this house - emmm - and can't you see the same walking down the street???
Personally I just think it is nice. I'd love to look at NM 20 years back and see how it looked when I walked home from school on archives, my kids'll be able to do that. Also with visiting foreigners it is nice to say - here's my house - they find it much easier that way. Let the paranoid people lock up their kiddie bikes and the slackers think twice about throwing a sickie to go to the sex shop!
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