Oh yeah whatever dude. Like nooooo - ughhhhhh! Talk to the hand!

We have enough words for the filth in this country - please refrain from importing yet more shite here (i.e. bagels, starbucks, Kevin Spacey etc.)

that the Mars image didn't have a shadow on the Google-bot as the sun appears to be in the correct direction to match the shadow on the real bot

Nearly drove into it, but didn't get a picture (to busy taking evasive action!)

Yep, I can confirm Aberdeen has been Googled. Monday 21st July. Passed my local Nick as I was driving the Panda back there. Gave them a nice friendly grin. Looking forward to the Street View of all the local worthies out and about behaving themselves.

Seriously?

In the land of CCTV on every corner what's the big deal with Google mapping stuff? Besides the fact that for each foot of street visually mapped ten children and three hamsters die....this is bad why?

child in the video waved at the wrong camera...

Definate proof of Google taking pictures of children, where's the police when you need them?

Better yet, everyone hold large plackards reading "maps.live.com" and "Scamps, get on yahoo. I need to talk to you about Stu"

Yeah, cos taking snapshots in public is so, well, evil (if you're a can't think for yourself, Daily Wail reader). /sarcasm off.

I for one object to people exercising their rights being described as Orwellian. If you want to stir up some aggression, direct it at the spy cameras that really do monitor peoples lives in an instrusive way. They're the ones that should be destroyed if we are ever to return to the Britain our grandparents died for, rather than continuing the march towards the police states of Russia/China/Amerika.

Voting for Cameron won't make any difference on this subject either.

Channel Islands can't even get a decent image from the satelites. And I bet Google won't stump up the rip off costs to boat their car here.

"Stop the Internet, I want to get off..."

Getting off is what the internet is all about!

..to Adam Ranshaw I mean, managing to take a photo of a bobby without having your cameraphone confiscated and ran into jail for breach of the peace, I mean you are clearly a terrorist on an information gathering mission...

...no wait, thats Google.

The photo is actually of the spy car being confiscated by some PCSOs, who are about to delete its memory before returning it to the driver.

Damn. I was just thinking they seemed to have missed our part of the land.

Where abouts was it?

Given that Google's close-up-and-personal shots could be used by terrorists without raising a sweat, why do the police harass amateur photographers, and professional photographers, while allowing these spycams from Google to roam freely, unless they park illegally?

Actually, I don't worry about terrorists using Google's stuff, but it's the double-standard that irritates.

could the person who got the picture of the cop ticketing the car sign up with panoramio and add their photo to the google map at that location please?

i been Oggled by Google!!! in norwich!!!

i hope im not on it, or thier'll be a shit load of complaints in pretty short order!

who's the lucky bugger with the UK roadtrip...

i wanted that pukka job (driving the entire UK (with the stereo on 11)) :(

Couldn't councils impose a Google tax on this sort of thing? I mean lots of what they're filming is paid for by local councils (roads, traffic signs, parks, public buildings, etc.) and I'm sure local taxpayers wouldn't mind a small reduction in their council tax by way of payment for having themselves and their property feature in a money-making scheme for Google.

Since Goooogle has oooodles of cash, I'm sure councils would be instantly attracted to the idea (they usually have a mafia-like nose for other people's money, so I'm a little surprised they haven't thought of it already). With luck they might then be able to stop milking the rest of the motoring public as much as they do.

Not sure what the legal basis might be, but maybe you need a licence from someone for conducting a survey? Or perhaps a special parking rate could be introduced for cars with cameras attached? Or a congestion charge of some sort? Councils have lots of powers these days, so I'm sure they could come up with something. I'd have thought that ten grand a day per car would be a reasonable fee.

"Google is:

- not a state

- not monitoring individuals"

-Irrelevant.

-False.

In that order.

Are you sure they're not monitoring individuals?

If you have signed up for the service(s), they have access to your mail, IM chats, search history, private documents and goodness knows what else....

You use one or many of their services multiple times a day, so stop being hypocritical and enjoy the services they provide. They are doing so much more than so many other companies combined and they don't want to charge you a million dollars for it.

"police states of Russia/China/Amerika"

Sad as this faded republic has become we still have civil liberties modern day England cannot dream of.

And I don't know if thats a greater insult to you or us.

Look out Stu, Scamps is talking about you... on Yahoo!

I shopped a copper the other day for parking on double yellow lines while he nipped into a convenience store.

After speaking to the assistant chief constable I was assured that all officers would be reminded of the importance of them being seen to obey the rules they are so keen to enforce.

I know of at least one instance of this being done... although the virtual world is not exactly public (yet).

The project involves the true duplication of some real life structures into a virtual world, and the street view pictures are being used as a quick and dirty method of modeling the nearby structures (to provide a visually effective backdrop - and it is very effective).

The effort needed to implement this is also quite minimal.

"Definate proof of Google taking pictures of children, where's the police when you need them?"

contery to popular belief, it is NOT against the law to take photographs in a public place, even if that picture does contain children.

it is also not against the law to take photos of gov. buildings, so long as you are on public property.

mines the one that's not been spotted yet

WTF! The handicapped parking here in the US is already bad enough but you guys have sunk to a new low with that one.

At least it gives those cameras on every street corning something to watch. "Hey, you there! Yeah, the bloke who just got out of the car parked in the DOCTOR spot. Hold up your General Practitioner license to the camera! What, no license!?!? Stand there and wait while we send someone to write you up."