Google indoor Streetview images go live Google's cameras on sticks will be peering inside buildings starting from now as they start to incorporate the inside of shops and commercial properties onto Google Streetview. Business Photos by Google are accepting applications from shops and businesses from today. Restaurants, gyms and shops from around the world can apply …
...the PERFECT way to "case a joint" in preparation for a robbery. Sure is going to make life a lot easier for some folks.
And the time saved NOT having to personally go to these shops to check out the floor plans, will help to increase the number of shops one can burglarize.
THANKS GOOGLE!!
Quite a long time given that they would have to let a photographer take 360 degree pictures of the inside of their homes. Not to mention that the photographer would have to be quite short sighted not to be able to tell the difference between a home and a business. Maybe if said photographer was on his way to a small furniture store?
I came in here and was thinking of doing an absurd parody of hand-wringing technophobes, but VW - er, AudiGuy and Cam2A beat me to it. Except they exaggerated my planned parody, and apparently were even serious!
Please, Audi and Cam - tell me I got trolled. Say I was a fool and should have known. I'll trade a little less respect for myself for a bit more hope for the world.
Was for the local university that I attended, we had to take the photos manually, process them into a panorama and put the hotspots in via HTML. I still have it on CD somewhere. At the time it was a lot of photos to deal with but I can now take that many in a few hours if it involves girls taking their clothes off for entertainment purposes (also know as burlesque.)
My area in Australia has recently been updated. The resolution is far higher than the first time around, and the cameras can see over fences that I cant see over when I walk down the road. I am 6" tall.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?ll=-34.898462,138.57841&spn=0.028405,0.066047&sll=-31.952854,115.857339&sspn=0.117541,0.264187&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=-34.898504,138.578504&panoid=s3eHExAfewhlDLZmJVfalQ&cbp=12,192.3,,0,8.71
A random house.. So now whos the evil one? Me for posting a random this link? or google for making it public for anyone who looks? Or nobody - should we not expect fences this high to keep the view off the internet?
Maybe some or most people dont care, but we should be very careful about our privacy being eroded.
Google will keep pushing the limits until they are stopped. But they are eroding our expectation of privacy and then keep moving the line.
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