Google Street View Incident

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Since many of us use Google Street View on this site, I thought this Google Street View car incident may interest you. You can either click through the links here, or move the map yourself. This takes place in Norway and proves it is not just American's who are odd. BTW, when done take a tour of Norway and see what you think of it.

http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p...cbll=60.360882,5.369247&cbp=12,23.34,,0,21.41

http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p...bll=60.360884,5.369468&cbp=12,297.83,,0,16.34

http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p...bll=60.360884,5.369468&cbp=12,297.83,,0,16.34

http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p...bll=60.360884,5.369468&cbp=12,297.83,,0,16.34

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Guy, what do you mean take a tour of Norway? Did you mean just get on google maps and browse the country, or does that program guide you though it? It looks like a lot of ice, fresh water, and great country.

I was looking at Scotland a few days ago, great places to trek up there.
 
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bobpbx said:
Guy, what do you mean take a tour of Norway? Did you mean just get on google maps and browse the country, or does that program guide you though it? It looks like a lot of ice, fresh water, and great country.
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I just clicked ahead on the road and traveled around. If you look in the windows of the stores along the route you can see a reflection of the Google car. Or just use Google Earth to look around.

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Chrisr

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Those pics are great!!! My son was telling me about that yesterday. I wonder how those guys knew the Google car was going to be in their neighborhood??
 
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Well.

I find this all very fascinating. Having spent the past couple of hours basically walking alongside a beautiful fjord in Norway, I'm thinking this is the coolest thing I've seen on the Internet.

Back to my virtual road walk.
 
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Haha, that's hilarious. Street view is cool... and disturbing. The new Bing maps beta with smooth zoom from orbit integrates it all pretty well too. I still get frustrated trying to narrow down exactly what I want to see, though. Google Earth and Bing Maps have different strengths, but neither one makes it really intuitive to isolate, say, names of rivers and streams, or mountain ranges and peaks, or oceans and bays, etc. Bing in particular gets too cluttered with thousands of place names. And GE just has spotty information and makes some strange choices on what to display at various altitudes.
 
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The EU is not so happy about Google Street View: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aZ7q8QOX_blM

Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s Street View may break European Union privacy laws, according to data-protection regulators who say the mapping service stores images for too long.

The EU’s privacy watchdog said in a Feb. 11 letter to Google obtained by Bloomberg News that “it is disproportionate to retain unblurred copies of the images for one year,” and urged the company to cut the period to six months.
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Switzerland’s data-protection agency in November sued Google for allegedly failing to comply with proposals to make it harder to identify people and cars on Street View.
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http://facet-tech.com/images/Jabba-August2007.jpg

I saw of fleet of these vehicles putt-putting around Cape May County yesterday. I'm guessing they were acquiring street-view images for Bing.com? The trucks I saw were flashing strobe lights and had an interesting array of camera lenses on top. What else might they be doing?

Philly, from Bing:

http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5...lon=-75.165122&alt=-21.71&z=30&h=101&pid=5082

One wonders if the day may come when a person will be able to put on a pair of sight-containing goggles (google goggles?) that cyberly connect and click his way around a virtual-reality world.
 
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Keep a watch out and you may see yourself in the photo's they took. If you saw them they saw you :)

We should have them ride the pines and the members here who can't get out there can drive around right from their house. :pigfly:

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TeeGate said:
We should have them ride the pines and the members here who can't get out there can drive around right from their house. :pigfly:
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A cool "job" that would be. And not such a bad idea.

I've been enjoying a google streetview virtual drive down the Dalton Highway in Alaska. Click by click. Started way up at Prudhoe Bay and will keep clicking to Fairbanks. At mile 140 now :), where things start getting interesting and quite beautiful. How else would I get to see this?
 
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The street view on Google Maps is a very cool thing.

I had a friend from Arizona send me a puzzle cache that required you to drive places to solve it and a team of us here on the east cost solved it with Google Maps. It required information from statues , speed signs, and roadside attractions and we got all the info from Google Street View!
 
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