Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 12:51 GMT
You didn't blur the number plate / drivers face?!? Ban this sick filth. Think of the children. And some other Daily Mailesque stuff.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 12:51 GMT
I particularly like the blurred out roadworks sign man - clearly the 'person detection algorithm' is very advanced.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 12:51 GMT
None of the pictures shown here didn't include
1) A Policeman
2) A member of the Armed Forces
3) A member of the Security Services (MI5 etc)
Then the operators of google would no doubt be taken hotfoot to the UK version of Guantanamo Bay (aka Belmarsh, SE London)
as they would have clearly taken pictures that could be of benefit to Terrorists and such pictures have been made illegal by our esteemed NuLab Governement with El Gordo firmly at the helm.
Mines the one with the one way ticket to someplace very far away from this police state we now live in
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 12:51 GMT
Here's a better reflective self-shot of one of the cars. Disappointing to see no-one coming out of the knocking shop...
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.45291,-2.59861&spn=0,359.977169&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.453239,-2.59943&panoid=bCsQh3d74Cm04wbbncaKBA&cbp=12,18.381746290605605,,0,16.334586466165412
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 12:51 GMT
Because the images are blurred, they don't know who the snappers are.
What? They keep unblurred originals? they would be sneaky and un-British!
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 12:51 GMT
Bressenden Place London has some car on car action, two street view cars take it in turns photographing each other.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 12:51 GMT
I'm suprised that here in the States that no one has started a hunting club to go after the google street view cars. On the other hand, we are a very civil society. We have the world's largest financial system meltdown with no real public response, as contrast to, say, the French. They riot in the streets every time a croissant gets burned.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 13:49 GMT
I love the way the Googlemobile's Google logo has been blurred out
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 13:49 GMT
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Portland+House,+Bressenden+Pl,+Westminster,+London+SW1E,+UK&sll=51.497736,-0.1419&sspn=0,359.98881&ie=UTF8&ll=51.497362,-0.141964&spn=0,359.910479&z=14&layer=c&cbll=51.497226,-0.141956&panoid=cgCcQesh3KTxQNKBtiifZA&cbp=12,10.763777649760888,,0,10.695110258868633
This is from outside our office which is the skyscraper to the right. Again the google car taking photos of itself a second earlier? Surely this breach of the space time continuum can have worse impacts to the universe than the LHC?!
Chimp
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 13:49 GMT
I love the way the Google logo has been blurred out on the last photo. Does the Google consciousness recognise this as a face?
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 13:49 GMT
You saved us all!
Now if you could just sort out IE standards compliance
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 13:50 GMT
I'll get my coat.
Anonymous for safety
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 13:50 GMT
We need a website with a pic of each unique google streetview car and where it has been spotted.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 13:58 GMT
>"Does the Google consciousness recognise this as a face?"
Nope, a number plate.
Round my way, the facial-recognition algorithm has been busy blurring out hubcaps on people's cars!
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 14:05 GMT
The blurring of the Google logo has clearly occurred because the Google datacentre considers itself a person - it has become self-aware people!! Head for the hills!!
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 14:05 GMT
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.91664,-1.299992&spn=0,359.980688&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=52.914515,-1.299777&panoid=IvUwxANfQ70EhYG09-5lPA&cbp=12,174.2469200928474,,2,3.9250000000000043
The spycar's wingman appears to have left the lens cap on
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 14:05 GMT
Join us again next week when we very much hope you'll be watching us, watching you, watching us, watching you - goodnight !
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 14:18 GMT
"We need a website with a pic of each unique google streetview car and where it has been spotted."
What we really need is for someone to create a web-page with copies of the paired pictures with Google Earth kml links to where each pair of photos was taken; then when you click on the link, it opens Google Earth with a custom layer with a link back to the web-site showing the two photos, which takes you back ...
You could bring the whole internet down in a nano-second!
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 14:40 GMT
interesting, the quality of the pictures taken of the cars is quite high, whilst the ones of the people taken by the car is quite low.
Most of the people seem to be using mobile phones, maybe the cars should be equiped with mobile phones to take better quality pictures.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 14:40 GMT
Got snapped at my 5th floor flats balcony when stepped out to show my wife that there goes the google streetview car. Only souls visible on the 11 floor highrise.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 15:32 GMT
Aha, more proof of my Google Blackmail (tm) 0.1 (Beta) theory as I previously outlined in the Rickmansworth story comments section.
Obviously Google don't pay themselves to advertise themselves* and the algorithm needs an "except Google of course, you daft bloody machine" tweak.
*Because such link sponsorship recursion would cause spacetime to fold in on itself and the Universe to be reborn as one very long Ocean Finance advertisement.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 17:02 GMT
Is also an example of the face recognition blurring failing to work...
I know that the guy has covered a quarter of his own face with a camera, but still seems quite recognisable.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 20:35 GMT
You remember that very stereotypical yank holding a bottle and a gun in streetview, well here's my submission for the UK equivalent -
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=52.434953,-1.433072&spn=0,359.954896&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.434818,-1.433204&panoid=JQokEJVO393yYuAms4tweA&cbp=12,86.79216327551691,,3,3.8929178924053844
Not for the faint of heart. A chav would have been too easy to find. At least this guys face is blurred.
*shudder*
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 20:35 GMT
They've already found Waldo now I've found Pop-Eye's girlfriend Olyve Oyl
@ 110 cheltenham rd, bristol, england, united kingdom
1st Street View pic in the story, scroll left
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 22:12 GMT
http://maps.google.com/local/add/flagStreetView?hl=en-GB&cbp=1,156.9761284279469,,2,15.424059340591093&cb_client=maps_sv&sig=00e23e96eed6ab764c44c8deac925d4fc48cbc3c0a505cd155f2f3238796fe1c39c07a9b2715f1353dcbe6dea11a76b96612f1176f5e19e81e3617a5754863ba216c95bdc19b4e3194&gl=GB
Sometimes you just got to scratch . . . . . .
Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 05:14 GMT
They said that they blur faces and number plates check the silver mondeo infront of the G-mobile then look to the rear left at the asda sighn for some reason its been blured...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=52.434953,-1.433072&spn=0,359.954896&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.434818,-1.433204&panoid=JQokEJVO393yYuAms4tweA&cbp=12,86.79216327551691,,3,3.8929178924053844
Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 13:08 GMT
What about police men or members of the armed forces and security services in plain clothes? Wouldn't that be banned as well?
"UK version of Guantanamo Bay (aka Belmarsh, SE London)" I thought that was Guernsey. Or, for boredom's sake, Sark.
EA
Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 15:53 GMT
...about the fuel wasted by these vehicles?
Paris, wasted fuel.
Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 15:53 GMT
I find the general reaction of the tabloids very amusing. Invasion of privacy? That's our job!
Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 15:53 GMT
Am I recognizing correctly that they're using RHD Opel Cars? I didn't know those exist.. Why aren't they Vauxhall (or Holden) badged?
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 14:02 GMT
ok, slightly off topic here, but have you noticed the way the lovely face blurring technique works on statues.... what about posters etc?
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 20:23 GMT
Saw a google-mobile in Blyth Northumberland today around the port area. Wish I'd had my phone on me at the time to take a snap :(
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 20:23 GMT
Here is a streetcar following a streetcar in Edinburgh
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?cbp=11,321.9628614403103,,0,20.89673913043478&cbll=55.947989,-3.198032&layer=c&hl=en&ie=UTF8&panoid=gtSkea_9mj7jJNqo_XPrCw&source=embed&ll=55.947986,-3.19803&spn=0.00122,0.006909&t=h&z=17
Also some idiot who lost his balance in Aberdeen wearing stupid bouncing shoes
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=aberdeen&sourceid=ie7&oe=utf8&ie=UTF8&split=0&ei=R5PLSfyZNObRjAey1NH2CQ&layer=c&cbll=57.171667,-2.078679&panoid=xhjhcQ6unmFE5ywCFXXDnw&cbp=11,70.33462378485204,,1,10.590062111801238&ll=57.171666,-2.078691&spn=0.004467,0.027637&t=h&z=15&iwloc=addr
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 20:23 GMT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/5047649/Oasis-frontman-Liam-Gallagher-captured-in-pub-on-Google-Street-View.html.
Fantastic video of someone using Street View. The best bit is not the possible rock stat but that they keep centering the screen and then pressing the + button in the top left. Clearly no-one's told them about the double click to centre and zoom.
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 11:57 GMT
Quite surprised to see the street view car in a rural market town this morning.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=oakfield+road,+market+drayton&sll=53.427001,-2.957663&sspn=0.009052,0.019312&g=oakfield+road&ie=UTF8&ll=52.902625,-2.497008&spn=0.009163,0.019312&z=16
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 12:59 GMT
"........what about posters etc?"
Good grief! I posted here yesterday. This morning I looked at my reflection in the steamed-up bathroom mirror and my face was blurred!
Curse you Google.
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 13:02 GMT
So why where both cars in lane 3 when 1 and 2 were clear hence causing a tailback :)
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 13:11 GMT
Bressenden Place, Victoria, outside the Department for Communities and Local Government's Eland House HQ is definitely smack in the middle of the 'twilight zone' - clearly there are two streetview cars following each other up the street, or perhaps there is some weird time-travel, dimension-shifting event going on...
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 13:30 GMT
He saw the sneaky f*****s coming all right:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=141+sunny+gardens+road+nw4&sll=51.51925,-0.315728&sspn=0.00693,0.017231&ie=UTF8&ll=51.596641,-0.225434&spn=0.006918,0.017231&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.596728,-0.225402&panoid=SMPdtdqr4VpAo2OjVUnX9A&cbp=12,288.8374171264795,,1,9.931506849315069
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 18:23 GMT
"as contrast to, say, the French. They riot in the streets every time a croissant gets burned."
Please delete "a croissant" and insert "lamb".
It's a tradition you know.
Posted Monday 30th March 2009 11:23 GMT
Googles streetview car was in Warrington on Sunday (29/3), driving at what I'd call excessive speeds. Do you think google would give out the GPS data to see if any camera car has been driven over the speed limit?
Didn't think so, I did try to get a photo, but the car was going to fast
Posted Monday 30th March 2009 11:53 GMT
The RHD Opels are from Ireland, we get Opel badges instead of Vauxhall for some reason.
Posted Thursday 2nd April 2009 12:40 GMT
Here's my entry, Tottenham sunbather...
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=141+sunny+gardens+road+nw4&sll=51.51925,-0.315728&sspn=0.00693,0.017231&ie=UTF8&ll=51.596641,-0.225434&spn=0.006918,0.017231&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.596728,-0.225402&panoid=SMPdtdqr4VpAo2OjVUnX9A&cbp=12,288.8374171264795,,1,9.931506849315069
Posted Monday 6th April 2009 09:12 GMT
for me and some work buddies on the way back to work.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pets+wood&sll=51.423042,-0.12954&sspn=0,359.972534&g=sw16+6jx&ie=UTF8&ll=60.930432,0&spn=0,174.375&z=0&layer=c&cbll=51.385778,0.075994&panoid=ZKicUa3GzlSnFdK451w_oQ&cbp=12,326.4748588909591,,2,9.049223900273766
pity they dident use the photo later when i caught up with it at the roundabout.
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