Hi Anne,

It could also mean that they have not fully mapped your street yet with the street view cameras. They actually mount them on a truck and drive around neighborhoods. Must have taken them forever. The guys at google said the founder wanted someone to be able to see the route when mapping directions so they could actually see landmarks.

A friend of mine had a fire in his house. The exterior was pretty destroyed. They went to Google maps street view and downloaded the view and were able to reconstruct it.

I believe that if you are a business that you can block out the google maps feature if you want.

Anne,

One of my IT friends told me that Google is only 30% into the project. Many places have not yet been photographed. Additionally, Google has had difficulty in accessing gated communities and private property.

-Vic

I entered my address last week, and it came up 4 houses down. Actually, I was glad to see that they were off on their addressing as anyone with my address could identify my house, even from Tasmania :D LOL!!!

The technical world we live in gets more amazing every day. They took the picture of my house just after a rain storm last fall and the sky is pink and beautiful and I'm glad I had mowed :p

I tried it with google earth but it's not the same Erin, at least not in Anchorage yet.

Just go to google search and enter your address. Thats it. Your house, or one close to it will show up :)

Yeah - creepy...

Obviously somebody stood at the entrance to our driveway and did a 360 degree panoramic shot...

I can almost make out the license plate number on my truck in the driveway...

I don't know if I like this yet

Tom

I think that is the one Google is getting sued over. THey had it on the news the other night. Talking about being able to see people in their yards, vehicle license #'s. If you had a pool in the backyard, you could see the people in the pool.

Major invasion of privacy.

Googles response was "gee, we can take you off it"
Guess it wasn't the right response, because they are being sued over it.

DAY

Your DW and my DH must be working together Tom~ :D

He showed me our house on that site before.

*I think AMN is working for them and taking the pics* :D

Google link to flag/request removal of inappropriate or person privacy concerns-
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/a...85&topic=11640

Is the imagery real-time?

Street View imagery is not real-time. Most of the images were taken in the past year by specialized vehicles driving on public streets.

street view info page
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=11640

Oh and here's a Microsoft version of a similar thing- still in the beginning stages
http://preview.local.live.com/

Come to think of it AMN did have a camera on her scooter. Are all the pics scooter height? :rolleyes::rolleyes:

We checked this out a few months ago, but the pic of our house was pretty old. We couldn't tell exactly, but it was before the new fence at least - and we put that up in 2000. This could be the same pic the realtor's used to list the house for all we can tell, lol.

If it were a better shot we'd know, because we painted shortly after we moved in.

What I found most peculiar was there were no cars in the driveway - I can't recall the last time that happened.