I can see your house from here... tags google streetview street view UK unitedGoogle's street view service sits in the hinterland between awesome and really, really creepy and is now coming to the UK next year. picked by pocksucket 11 months ago |
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Yes, there is one (perhaps more), obtaining views not accessible to the automobile. 0 comments edit related share plime.comThe Google Street View trike and all the equipment it carries weighs around 18 stone (252 pounds), but actually it's not as hard as you think to get moving. A flat surface helps, but it's really just a case of pushing off firmly, keeping straight for a few metres, and then you're away. picked by Bingo 3 months ago |
A man captured taking a huge snake for a walk in a city in amazing images on Google Street View has come forward. 1 comments edit related share plime.comThumbnail source. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago |
A Google Street View camera-car passed a house with a van on fire in the driveway. A young neighbour, not the Google crew, was the one to warn an on-site workman of the impending danger. The facts of this story are months old; the article's published now to coincide with the launch of Street View in Toronto. Classy. picked by jago 2 months ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Two years ago, Google sent out an army of hybrid electric automobiles, each one bearing nine cameras on a single pole. Armed with a GPS and three laser range scanners, this fleet of cars began an endless quest to photograph every highway and byway in the free world. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago 4 comments edit related share world |
A figure dressed in Victorian outfit has been spotted on pictures from Google Maps Street View in Bute Place, Cardiff - a location famous to most as being heavily featured in time travel drama Torchwood, the third series of which was recently filmed. 5 comments edit related share plime.comOh well. I've hooked out screen grabs for you and put them in the comments. picked by pocksucket 8 months ago |
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With Big Brother -- er, Google watching, no crime is hidden from view. Here are just a few instances of crime and punishment caught on its Street View feature. picked by bingo 7 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Knowing that the Google Street View team would be coming through their part of town, the residents of Pittsburgh Northside staged a series of bizarre tableaux to be immortalized forever on the World Wide Web. picked by tvirus 10 months ago 9 comments edit related share plime.com |
Nine mystery silver discs can be seen above a bookmaker's shop in an image of Bethnal Green, east London, taken last year. 4 comments edit related share plime.comThey appear to be flying in neat formation in three rows, attracting the attention of several passers-by, in the photograph of Wolverley Street. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago |
Google Inc. is introducing street-level map views of various U.S. cities, giving Web users a panoramic, 360-degree images as well as the overhead views Google Maps has offered. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Google sparked an internet giggle this week when the Street View shots of Bradford revealed a police car pouncing on the Google vehicle outside the Alhambra.* 0 comments edit related share plime.comThe distinctive Google car, with a roof-mounted camera network, had strayed into a bus-only lane and received the attention of the law. *put Bradford+UK in Google street view and you can see the police car stopping it. picked by bingo 8 months ago |
A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
A privacy watchdog has banned Google Inc from gathering detailed, street-level images in Greece for a planned expansion of its panoramic Street View mapping service until the company provides additional privacy safeguards. picked by bingo 6 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
"don't you take pictures of me" 4 comments edit related share plime.comThis is about 15 miles from me, woot, Google Street View is coming!! picked by topofall 8 months ago |
1935. Two boys are busy clearing East 123rd Street of February snowfall by shovelling it down an open manhole. Next thing, they spot something large and reptilian lurking in the icy waters below. With much effort and no little rope, they manage to lasso and heave up a seven-foot alligator. Once at street level, the alligator begins snapping its sizable set of jaws, so the boys, being boys, proceed... read full post picked by bornbad 5 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Google has removed dozens of photos from its new UK Street View service. 1 comments edit related share plime.comThe street-mapping facility launched amid a fanfare of publicity but now the firm has been forced to pull some of the images after complaints. It is thought the pictures removed contained revealing images of homes, a man entering a London sex shop, people being arrested and a man being sick. picked by bingo 8 months ago |
Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists over the centuries, but never quite like this. God’s Eye View portrays four key Biblical events as if captured by Google Earth. 4 really amazing images and a very cool sculpture, must see! picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 18 comments edit related share arts |
The Google street view van ran over a deer. Or the deer ran into the van. 0 comments edit related share plime.comKind of graphic picked by TheAuoja 10 months ago |
Google Maps' latest feature, creatively codenamed Google LRV during production and early testing, takes its year-old Street View right into the home, allowing users a virtual tour inside people's houses. 1 comments edit related share entertainmentBe sure to also read Hillary Proposes Tobacco Tax Holiday and Typo Leads To Microsoft Purchase Of Yoo-Hoo picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago |
Google's Street View technology carries a small risk of privacy invasion but should not be stopped. picked by topofall 7 months ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
A woman and child walking along the Golden Gate Bridge were captured by Google's Street View cameras twice! Or they have freakish stalkers. picked by TheStep 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |