View Full Version : Google Streetmap UK has gone live!
Google Streetmap has gone live, a large camera attached to Google cars travelled through the streets of 25 cities in the UK and scanned photos as it went.
The cities are: England - Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Derby, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Oxford, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Southampton, York
Scotland - Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow
Northern Ireland - Belfast
Wales - Cardiff, Swansea
You may be famous on Google! Can you find yourself? Any interesting landmarks you would like to share? Go to http://maps.google.co.uk, enter a postcode or an address and click and drag the orange 'man' to the street you want to view in 'real time' and go from there...
Click link and copy/paste here and share it with us :)
Please be cautious if you want to post images of your home, workplace etc When you provide a direct link to an image, when it's hovered over you can see the full address. At the end of the day you don't know what guests are viewing these boards. Please use screenshots if you want to show your house, workplace etc. Otherwise the link will be removed from your post for your safety.
Here's the Millenium Stadium, Cardiff: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=cardiff+millenium+stadium&sll=51.479672,-3.181229&sspn=0.237767,0.617981&ie=UTF8&ll=51.476371,-3.182044&spn=0,359.980688&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=51.476308,-3.182182&panoid=5xVTcZvzz1dDOLN-Kneq9Q&cbp=12,315.1535886463504,,0,7.2
Someone doing a survey on Railway Street, Splott, Cardiff: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Splott&sll=51.477521,-3.178418&sspn=0.007431,0.019312&ie=UTF8&ll=51.482024,-3.156166&spn=0.059439,0.154495&z=13&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.481951,-3.156314&panoid=PrPYqAWb0JYwOxbEOknuTQ&cbp=12,36.75971357422214,,0,5
Can't find anything else interesting at the moment, except for a lot of passers by looking at the camera!
Lynniebin
20-03-2009, 17:41
Brilliant!
My Mum & Dad's house!
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/1518119/220/1518119.jpg (http://www.picturepush.com/public/1518119)
I was just reading an article on how Google have already had to remove some images from this (like someone getting arrested) :lol:
It's fun to see the streets like that, it's more interesting than a normal map. :) I've heard there are plans to do this in Belgium too, but there could be some problems with the privacy laws we have here... I hope they do give streetviews from Belgium too soon. :)
Oh my God, I just spotted a council warden looking at my car at my Mum house :-o unless it an old picture, but this is really amazing, I can see my Dad car so nice and clear, one of the neighbours children standing across the road :-D
The pictures are so clear :blink:
Lynniebin
20-03-2009, 17:48
They have only one of my brother's houses mapped, the other one hasn't been yet. It's SO cool! I wonder when they took those.
I was just reading an article on how Google have already had to remove some images from this (like someone getting arrested) :lol:
It's fun to see the streets like that, it's more interesting than a normal map. :) I've heard there are plans to do this in Belgium too, but there could be some problems with the privacy laws we have here... I hope they do give streetviews from Belgium too soon. :)
yesterday they were driving through Brussels, I saw it on the news
That is so cool :)
Looked at my work, my parents house and the first house I moved into :)
The pics must be from last year though as cabot circus is in the middle of being built ;)
I just been speaking to my sister, she quite concern, that on some roads, you can zoom up very close to people windows, she think it very nosey, I also view my brother road, I can see his jeep, his house all very clear.
I love the streetview option, I have already checked out the hotel and the street I'll be staying at in NY. :-D
I guess it will take a while before Google does my hometown...
I just been speaking to my sister, she quite concern, that on some roads, you can zoom up very close to people windows, she think it very nosey, I also view my brother road, I can see his jeep, his house all very clear.Google is aware there may be images that people are concerned with about privacy, they've included a link at the bottom left corner of the picture saying 'report a concern', you can have the image removed or the contents blurred out. :)
Google is aware there may be images that people are concerned with about privacy, they've included a link at the bottom left corner of the picture saying 'report a concern', you can have the image removed or the contents blurred out. :)
On my brother road, there are 3 kids standing on the corner, 2 of them have their faces blured out, apart from one,which you can see quite clearly, it ok Google saying if there a imaged they are concern about,they will removed it, but it doesn't help if you haven't got access to a computer. I personally think this is Big Brother watching you.
Michelle
20-03-2009, 18:41
Its fantastic , but I am a little worried about privacy too, I mean I hang my washing out on the line, people could have a look at my smalls :rolleyes:
Just looked up my street (I'm in Leeds) and its still a very old shot, at least 3 years old.
Lynniebin
20-03-2009, 19:01
The shot of my folks home is old because my brother hasn't had that van in a while.
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/1518215/220/1518215.jpg (http://www.picturepush.com/public/1518215)
My road is not on there yet
forbiddendonut
22-03-2009, 14:06
My road is not on there, but my office is :)
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=chapel+st,+salford,+england&sll=53.484088,-2.252455&sspn=0.010061,0.037937&ie=UTF8&ll=53.484011,-2.252669&spn=0.010061,0.037937&z=15&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=53.484081,-2.252442&panoid=LDF3xveDiBSl7Gr8JnuDxQ&cbp=12,157.83908197402184,,0,5.000000000000001
My home is on there and here it is :)
http://www.friendscircle.co.uk/picture.php?albumid=9&pictureid=2201
My home is on there and here it is :)
http://www.friendscircle.co.uk/picture.php?albumid=9&pictureid=2201
I like your house Dan, it looks nice. :)
I like your house Dan, it looks nice. :)
Thanks hun :) It's been the family home for around 24 years :)
Oh, and I also found my work place ;)
http://www.friendscircle.co.uk/picture.php?albumid=9&pictureid=2202
My workplace isn't on there either..does that mean I don't have to go to work :-p
My workplace isn't on there either..does that mean I don't have to go to work :-p
No.
HTH :-p
My road is not on there yet
My workplace isn't on there either..does that mean I don't have to go to work :-p
So you live in a location that's not on the map, and work in a place that's not on the map... Are you a spy or something? :-p :lol:
lol, maybe I'm a being from another planet..that would explain a lot :lol:
forbiddendonut
29-06-2010, 16:07
We've had a story around here today of someones three year old son being pictured playing in the garden...naked. He's been pixelated now but if I was his mother I'd be mortified...you never know who is watching...
click here for full story (http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1279455_mums_outrage_over_picture_of_naked_son_on_ google_street_view)
My nephew and his grandma are on it outside my nephews house :lol: it's totally annoyed my nephew as yes he's cool being on Google Street View...but not with his grandma :lol: He's 13 and his coolness is fading...
We've had a story around here today of someones three year old son being pictured playing in the garden...naked. He's been pixelated now but if I was his mother I'd be mortified...you never know who is watching...
click here for full story (http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1279455_mums_outrage_over_picture_of_naked_son_on_ google_street_view)
My nephew and his grandma are on it outside my nephews house :lol: it's totally annoyed my nephew as yes he's cool being on Google Street View...but not with his grandma :lol: He's 13 and his coolness is fading...
Omg, that's shocking. :-o Good thing his mother noticed and it was taken off... that's the problem with the Street View, I bet Google has spent a hell of a lot of time editing and pixelating images that are inappropriate.
On another note.... Cardiff is in Street View, yet Newport isn't yet!
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