Hmmm, something I did not know about Street View

[Conquest10]

They blur people's faces out. I was looking and saw a person. The face is blurred. Did they just start doing that?

[Conquest10]

Now some weirdness. Looks like they piece these together. This is the exact same spot in both images.



Here it is when I click once to the east.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

It's magic!

[rallynavvie]

I'm sure they acquiesced to some of the privacy concerns and added the face blurring.

As to the piecing together that only makes sense. The "Google Streets Car" is only going to come through occasionally and may come back through to pick up some missing spots in their coverage and get some overlap like you pointed out. This is why I think it's laughable that people feel their privacy violated by this service. I'd rather someone scope out my place on the internet from a distance than have them scoping it out in person. It isn't like they're showing you a live feed of your front yard from the street.

[thecoalman]

Apparently your house burning to the ground doesn't qualify for blurring:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/08/12/dlgoogle112.xml

This is why I think it's laughable that people feel their privacy violated by this service. I'd rather someone scope out my place on the internet from a distance than have them scoping it out in person. It isn't like they're showing you a live feed of your front yard from the street.

Most of the people screaming the loudest have very legitiamte reasons, the two major ones I'm aware of is where the house was on a very lengthy private drive and another in private but ungated community. Both marked as private property.

As far the public streets it's buurglars dream come true when you combine it with the sattelite imagery, no need to scope the house out for real when you can just do it on Google.

[rallynavvie]

Oh I'm aware of the private community. One of those was an entire township in Minnesota whose roads are private except for the people who live there. Private property is private but whatever is visible from public property is not and that's the law here.

As to the whole burglary scenario the view from the street is static and it is something they could do themselves in person by driving by and nobody is going to care. I don't buy it that this is a violation of my privacy. The static view isn't going to show when or if I'm home at any given time of the day or if my neighbor is home during the day. The photos could be taken on a weekend or weekday or late evening. Google could even be logging IP addresses of computers that go back and forth between specific areas a lot and could possibly act as a tool to deter crime. Besides, a burglar who has access to Google Streets is going to do more homework than just looking at a house online

[thecoalman]

Driving by doesn't tell you what's behind the fence. It also doesn't give you all the possible ways to get to or leave a place etc... It's a lot more information than they could ever get by simply driving by. The street view is not that bad but it's when you combine ittwith the satellite imagery where you're really give them all the information they need.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

it also doesn't tell you if there is a big mean ************ with a loaded .44 inside &/or a nasty ass dog.

[rallynavvie]

Driving by doesn't tell you what's behind the fence. It also doesn't give you all the possible ways to get to or leave a place etc... It's a lot more information than they could ever get by simply driving by. The street view is not that bad but it's when you combine ittwith the satellite imagery where you're really give them all the information they need.

But that isn't Google Streets, that's Google Maps Satellite or Microsoft Live BirdsEye view. And of course there isn't great satellite imagery of everywhere.

Those that are worried about the overhead information should be worried about the MS Live birds-eye view. Those shots get in pretty close and are sometimes taken at an angle. Keep in mind that the sky is also public property so I, as a pilot, can fly over your property to scope it out as a burglar

[gadgetguy]

Those that are worried about the overhead information should be worried about the MS Live birds-eye view. Those shots get in pretty close and are sometimes taken at an angle. Keep in mind that the sky is also public property so I, as a pilot, can fly over your property to scope it out as a burglar

Isn't that what they invented ultralights for?