Google Street View UK

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:56

Google Street View is now enabled for London, Birmingham, Manchester and a few other smaller cities.

Discuss!

LaceSensor · **Joined:** 2nd Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 3137

I dont even know what it is

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:57

Here's The Barrowboy and Banker

And the Travelodge that Shin, Joans and I stayed for Shunt.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Cardiff is live too.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:03

How are you getting the direct link? I've found my house (with my car in the drive!), but it's in Flash.

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:04

On the top right you just right-click "Link" and "Copy Link Location".

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10173

Liverpool is too. My Octy is on the car park at the old flat, number plate clearly visible. OMGHAX! The other car isn't though, despite having been behind a Google car for 100 yards, and work being on there (apparently at a weekend). Bah.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

My house is on here. :'(

myp · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:13

Awesome.

My house is on there!

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:15

I've found my car, but not me.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38660

Bit, risky, linking to your exact address?

You tell how old the images are by the price of petrol on the stations. 119p for diesel? Those were the days

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

Myp: You have a red car??

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Our last house in central london.

Short walk to Shunt from there.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:25

My place. My Mazda is parked outside.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 3,,0,-16.5

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38660

Grim... wrote:

My place. My Mazda is parked outside.

Link?

edit: disregard

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:28

I prefer Grim...'s thread. There's swearing in that.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:31

Holy fuck, you should see it on my G1. It has 'compass mode', so as you turn around or tip the phone up and down or walk about, the images move with you. I CAN SEE EXACTLY WHAT I COULD BE LOOKING AT IF MY PHONE WASN'T IN THE WAY!

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:31

DavPaz wrote:

Grim... wrote:

My place. My Mazda is parked outside.

Link?

Yeah, whoops. It's there now.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:32

Grim... wrote:

I CAN SEE EXACTLY WHAT I COULD BE LOOKING AT IF MY PHONE WASN'T IN THE WAY!

Must be great for fog then.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10173

Grim... wrote:

Holy fuck, you should see it on my G1. It has 'compass mode', so as you turn around or tip the phone up and down or walk about, the images move with you. I CAN SEE EXACTLY WHAT I COULD BE LOOKING AT IF MY PHONE WASN'T IN THE WAY!

Quick, find a place where there are roadworks now, but weren't 6 months ago!

myp · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:35

DavPaz wrote:

Bit, risky, linking to your exact address?

My exact address isn't on there. I chose a different house number.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

Grim... wrote:

Holy fuck, you should see it on my G1. It has 'compass mode', so as you turn around or tip the phone up and down or walk about, the images move with you. I CAN SEE EXACTLY WHAT I COULD BE LOOKING AT IF MY PHONE WASN'T IN THE WAY!

How do I make this work, I've gone to street view, but all it's done is draw some blue lines around the streets (yes, I'm somewhere that street view should work)?

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:37

Joans wrote:

How do I make this work, I've gone to street view, but all it's done is draw some blue lines around the streets (yes, I'm somewhere that street view should work)?

Click on the map, then it should give you a pop-up window to click on. Once in, hit the menu key, and go for Compass mode.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38660

myp wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

Bit, risky, linking to your exact address?

My exact address isn't on there. I chose a different house number.

I can see your car man. It doesn't take Basil the Great Mouse detective...

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

Grim... wrote:

Joans wrote:

How do I make this work, I've gone to street view, but all it's done is draw some blue lines around the streets (yes, I'm somewhere that street view should work)?

Click on the map, then it should give you a pop-up window to click on. Once in, hit the menu key, and go for Compass mode.

Ooh, ta.
It seems to be ridiculously oversensitive though, I can look at the floor and the sky easy enough, but whizz past anything inbetween.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:41

Joans wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Joans wrote:

How do I make this work, I've gone to street view, but all it's done is draw some blue lines around the streets (yes, I'm somewhere that street view should work)?

Click on the map, then it should give you a pop-up window to click on. Once in, hit the menu key, and go for Compass mode.

Ooh, ta.
It seems to be ridiculously oversensitive though, I can look at the floor and the sky easy enough, but whizz past anything inbetween.

Shut the phone.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

Grim... wrote:

Joans wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Joans wrote:

How do I make this work, I've gone to street view, but all it's done is draw some blue lines around the streets (yes, I'm somewhere that street view should work)?

Click on the map, then it should give you a pop-up window to click on. Once in, hit the menu key, and go for Compass mode.

Ooh, ta.
It seems to be ridiculously oversensitive though, I can look at the floor and the sky easy enough, but whizz past anything inbetween.

Shut the phone.

Heh. Thanks again.
Now can you just tell me how t-*dies*

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:45

Joans wrote:

Now can you just tell me how t-*dies*

It's the high tannin levels. Use a whitening toothpaste.

Plissken · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:55

Grim...'s weekend retreat.

It is the one on the left.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:57

Downing Street looks a bit naff. I was expecting it to be much nicer.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 13:13

My old house in Bristol (2003-2007) does appear to have been mildly scaffolded.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 13:18

Also my old place of work appears to have been scaffolded, what is going on?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Do you have acidic breath which rots ferroconcrete, Mr Dave?

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 13:23

Not that I'm aware.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Apparently, somewhere in the 20,000 miles of road is a 'Wally'

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

And, rather predictably, piled up outside our flats are a load of rubbish bags.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 13:43

Not a car on the lawn outside your window, then?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Riles wrote:

And, rather predictably, piled up outside our flats are a load of body bags.

FTFY.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 13:48

I didn't know you knew he lives in Lewisham.

The Egg · **Joined:** 16th Aug, 2008 **Posts:** 412

My car is parked illegally. I win.

As you are the internets and therefore all murderers and deviants I'm not linking to it. I'm too busy to have you all turning up at once.

Also, number plates seem to be blurred out in some but not all of the streets I've looked at.

Bit disappointed I missed the google car, I could have got my kit off and followed them round for the afternoon.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Could be worse, my mate's car has been squished totally under a BLURRY DEATH WAGON

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

The Egg wrote:

My car is parked illegally. I win.

Hah, I just found it. Caught red handed!

Quote:

As you are the internets and therefore all murderers and deviants I'm not linking to it. I'm too busy to have you all turning up at once.

Rubbish, we're all imaginary people.

Plissken · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 14:33

I wish I was on the internet in my dressing gown

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 14:37

Is this a little odd for anyone else?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Mr Dave wrote:

Is this a little odd for anyone else?

WTF? It's somehow ended up on the Welsh Tourist Tat shop in Cardiff, opposite the castle. That's only a hundred yards away from where I met you when we had the Cardiff meet, Dave.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 14:53

I'm getting a picture of a road. As in, what you would see if you looked straight down while standing on a road, but where the shops are.

And it's no coincidence; I was trying to find where I parked, just to make sure my mind hadn't invented the sex shop I spotted on the return to my car.

(And then to get a picture, and photoshop you into it.)

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... iwloc=addr

myp · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 15:04

Kebab shop in Nottingham which is only open October-June due to being near Trent Uni campus (still funny though). It's right next to the Orange Tree, which is a very nice pub, despite being lacking in ale choices.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

myp wrote:

Kebab shop in Nottingham which is only open October-June due to being near Trent Uni campus (still funny though). It's right next to the Orange Tree, which is a very nice pub, despite being lacking in ale choices.

I expected this to be the one near your house.
Can anyone find a taxi in Nottingham?

myp · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 15:24

Not yet, but I did find the Google car waiting at some traffic lights in the city centre.

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