Google Streetview has arrived in the UK

[Tony.London Suburbs]

That Girl has a fine ass, one must say.

Her Boat ain't bad, eitherB)

[Jeremy]

Atila Reincarnate Wrote:

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> Google streetview,who cares?

I do. I think it's good.

[Lotty]

Wow! It's amazing. I was bothered by privacyu to begin with, but, thinking about it, it really is no different to walking around neighbourhoods. I am busily googling my own memory lane :-)

[red devil]

I've just checked out a holiday apartment I'd already booked in France, great for sussing out amenities e.g. boulangerie and bars!..

[Tony.London Suburbs]

red devil Wrote:

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> I've just checked out a holiday apartment I'd

> already booked in France, great for sussing out

> amenities e.g. boulangerie and bars!..

As long as the millions of Man United fans can find their way to Old Trafford from Winchester, Guildford, The Isle Of Wight, Mablethorpe.........:))

[woodie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7954596.stm

lol

[macroban]

What has been blacked-out in SE22?

[mockney piers]

well weirdly I think I recognise the girl at the CPT, who's face is clear, but those clever people at google have blurred out the welcome on the welcome sign.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=se229ea&sll=51.525727,-0.140011&sspn=0.002403,0.016501&ie=UTF8&ll=51.454796,-0.071647&spn=0.006619,0.016501&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.45482,-0.071794&panoid=HA1IPAPwiGcrIqiMgkbccQ&cbp=12,356.26193519717003,,1,5.351105331599431

[Brendan]

Can you work out who is sitting at the bar?

[mockney piers]

It looks a bit like my mate Roy, though balding sexagenarians in blue t-shirts are two-a-penny in the CPT, so I wouldn't stake money on it.

[Cassius]

though balding sexagenarians in blue t-shirts are two-a-penny in the CPT

You make it sound so tempting!!

[mockney piers]

That's what makes that pub so great, they'll be rubbing shoulders with students, hip young thirty somethings (well, keef) builders, commuters having one before getting home.

Proper community pub, at least it was before it got flock wallpaper.

[brum]

OMG! I'm photographed on this. My face hasn't been blurred out either. I'm pictured getting out of my car and looking straight at the camera - at least my number plate has been blurred out.

[Mikecg]

I'm on it too with my mistress if my misses sees it I'm dead meat......

[sophiesofa]

I think it is blloming brilliant!

I'm in the process of buying a flat on Lordship lane and I keep going on google maps to have a virtual tour around the area. I am so jealous of the people who can find themslves, my colleague appears in two different locations wearing the same clothes. It's also a great too for small businesses because quite often you can't remeber the name of a florist you might have walked past, this way you can just take a virtual walk to find out the name. The blurring of faces and numberplates is automated so I think it's fair enough that a few have been missed - i'd love my face on there anyway. Although, before people start quoting me as an idiot about individuals privacy I do agree that they should have checked all images (billions of them) because of the cases that have come up such as the woman who is recognisable and was filmed moving into a new safe house to escape her violent partner.

I don't live is east dulwich yet so I feel I am allowed to ask without shame what does CPT stand for, I asume it's something tavern and gets mentioned a lot on this forum?

[Moos]

welcome sophiesofa, nice moniker too.

The CPT is the Crystal Palace Tavern on Crystal Palace Road and has its own thread if you would like to check out the varying opinions on it...

[Brendan]

Crystal Palace Tavern.

It's not in Crystal Palace though but on Crystal Palace Road in East Dulwich.

Crystal Palace Road doesn't actually go to Crystal Palace.

It's all very misleading I know but it's a nice pub.

[Michael Palaeologus]

How odd, a picture of my balcony from early summer 08 - the great wall of beans is still in its infancy.

[sophiesofa]

Thankyou for the CPT definition!! Will definitely go once I've moved

[bigbadwolf]

Did you guys read in the Metro a couple of days ago about the Goggle street van filming streets in upstate Newyork. It knocked over and killed a deer and if you look on the street it happened on you can see the dead animal.

http://www.streetviewfun.com/2009/google-streetview-kills-bambi/

[AllforNun]

look at the goose green fence....you can just make out some of the liberal executive handing over some money in a brown envelope to the company that built the dome....bloody outrage

[bignumber5]

Twas claimed in one of the free train-rags yesterday that a woman fleeing domestic violence was located by her abuser with the aid of streetview. No idea if it's true or not, but if it is then to say that google owe a recently beaten woman an apology doesn't quite cover it...

[SeanMacGabhann]

sounds like Metro were playing loose with the facts

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10202817-83.html

How would it work anyway? Would the guy have a rough idea where she lived and did a search? Would he not be as or more likely to do that in real life to greater effect?

[mockney piers]

he he, exactly my thought, sounded rather contrived to me.

[Brendan]

Can I just make a point here?

If we have the technology to do something someone is going to do it so surely it is preferable to have this kind of thing out there in the public domain and freely available than the preserve of some corporation or government.