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It’s one of those wonderful discrepancies that happens when a site has to wait a year or so between visits from the Google StreetView photo-harvesters. An office tower in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, plays “now you see it, now you don’t” on StreetView, depending on your viewing location. At a distance, the Irdeto tower looks …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Windows

    Not "defending" Google BUT...

    Still 'recovering' from the (IMO:) educational thread about Windows tools I had some programs still open and wondered how this would look with Bing. As said in the title; not my intention to "defend" Google or anything, but merely showing that they're not the only ones who keep loose knots around.

    See: http://binged.it/zsFTrS

    You're looking at the 'Aerial view' of the same terrain which El Reg (Google) pointed us to. Now go to the 'Aerial' menu and change the view to "Bird's eye". Presto; everything changes.

    You're right, its friday (1am at the time of writing, so no freedom yet, but still....). I bet Google got "binged" :-) (lame joke, I know)

  2. Graham Marsden

    Not bad, but google also does weather control!

    Visit Street View here: http://tinyurl.com/75r9bkt then go one arrow forward, bingo from rain to sunshine in one move!

    (I would have made the link clickable, but I don't know how to on here...)

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    2. Anonymous Coward
      Trollface

      Portsdown Hill...

      ...is a strange place where many a strange thing happens.

      Greetings from Portsmouth :)

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Not just weather control...

      ...it's a whole different season!

  3. pPPPP

    Same thing happens here http://g.co/maps/jfprx a bit closer to home. Move South and half of Kingsland High Street Disappears.

  4. southern skies
    Alert

    Where I live streetview is like an archive of all the demolished buildings after the #EQNZ

    Icon coz there's a lot of that sort of thing needed here right now!

    1. TeeCee Gold badge
      WTF?

      WTF is a "#EQNZ"?????

      1. DaveyDaveDave
        FAIL

        http://lmgtfy.com/?q=eqnz

        Or - you don't even need Google, just think for 2 seconds - some kind of event that has destroyed lots of buildings, possibly something to do with the letters N-Z. Any closer?

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Was the hashtag really neccesary, though?

      2. JDC

        At a guess, Earthquake New Zealand?

        1. TeeCee Gold badge
          Thumb Up

          Thank you. Nice to see that someone had the good grace to just provide a sensible answer.

          I don't object to the usual acronyms, but I do like to be able to read stuff without having to rush off and look up some stupidity the Tw@s have dreamed up every few minutes.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    Man, you do a street level, high resolution, visual map of almost the entire US and a good chunk of the rest of the world, and when it takes a year to do everything AGAIN, people bitch?

    Sheez.

  6. Robert E A Harvey

    (C) Marcus Brigstoke

    But David Blane is a gitwizard

    1. Matthew 3

      RE: gitwizard

      I saw Marcus discussing this on TV the other night. He said it's one of his proudest achievements that a Google search for Gitwizard links to David Blaine's website.

  7. Velv

    Google stole my car!!!!!!

    Streetview up my road and my car is nicely parked in a line of parallel parked cars. Turn your view as you go past and the car is there. Go a little further, looking back, and there's an EMPTY SPACE. (an no, it's not because I moved it that day)

    There are loads of anomolies like this

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Google stole my face!

      I looked at the street view car passing by, but on the pictures, all you can see is an ugly blur!!1!

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      @Velv

      They teleported mine.

      It's been caught outside the office in Madrid and at my parents house in West Yorkshire.

  8. AceRimmer

    There are others!

    Try doing a street view drive by of Tesco's on Huddersfield Road, Oldham

    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=tesco+oldham&hl=en&ll=53.54609,-2.092059&spn=0.002907,0.007575&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=11.852959,31.025391&hq=tesco&hnear=Oldham,+United+Kingdom&t=m&fll=53.545586,-2.090567&fspn=0.002907,0.007575&z=17

  9. Nigel Brown

    @Robert E Harvey

    No no, the correct term is twatdangler.

    1. The Original Cactus
      Headmaster

      I think you'll find he's a...

      ...twatdangling gitwizard.

  10. Nick 10

    Metadata

    Google could really do with easy to find metadata about their streetview and sattelite imagery. I can only judge this locally based on what cars my neighbours own, when the builders spilt that paint on the road etc.

    Knowing when a streetview photo was taken would make it a lot easier for businesses to judge what the site conditions are like without having to drag ourselves out of the office for a site visit. Don't google know how useful this free resource is to some of us?

    I had to google the EQNZ as well. It wouldn't have hurt to write "New Zealand Earthquake" would it? Just so the rest of the world could understand.

    1. Steve Foster
      FAIL

      Look at the very bottom left of the Street View panel, and you'll find that Google helpfully puts the Month and Year that the image was taken (after the Copyright notice and "Report a problem" link).

  11. Michael Hutchinson
    Meh

    And here's an example of the extreme weather conditions in the North East:

    Now you see it

    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=dl3+0ph&hl=en&ll=54.550313,-1.588297&spn=0.021381,0.066047&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.598104,135.263672&hnear=Darlington+DL3+0PH,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=54.550259,-1.58811&panoid=1k3TMU29OmkIAfKNuwImfA&cbp=12,108.3,,0,14.5

    Now you don't

    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=dl3+0ph&hl=en&ll=54.550263,-1.588125&spn=0.021281,0.066047&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.598104,135.263672&hnear=Darlington+DL3+0PH,+United+Kingdom&t=h&layer=c&cbll=54.550253,-1.587893&panoid=tNSD9rMIwrDV-Cu-0xgYwQ&cbp=12,108.3,,0,14.5&z=15

  12. Christoph

    It happens in the heart of the City. If you look here you can see the part-built One New Change, opposite St Paul's:

    https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.514562,-0.096796&spn=0.002494,0.005112&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.514539,-0.096679&panoid=53qs--l7YLuTNXEzXPerBg&cbp=12,133.47,,0,14.47

    Back away one click and it vanishes.

    1. Dotter
      Thumb Up

      ...and it vanishes

      If only we could do that outside of StreetView.

  13. Owen Carter
    Happy

    Hoofddorp..

    I used to work in Hoofddorp, It's Holland's Slough, right next to the airport and built up since the 50's to be 'a great place for business' etc. It's sole attraction is it's proximity to Amsterdam and the train line between them.

    The edges of it are a permanent building site, most of the locals would not notice this even if it happened in real life.

    1. TeeCee Gold badge
      Unhappy

      Holland's Slough

      Actually worse than that, at least Slough doesn't have a "Golden Tulip" hotel. Some of us only worked there occasionally and were almost invariably forced to stay in the ruddy Tulip when doing so.

      You can easily judge an hotel near an airport by which airlines' aircrew stay there. The Tulip was one of the ones where all the badges and uniforms seen were from the Ryanair end of the airline spectrum.

  14. hamsterjam
    Coat

    It's not that Irdeto disappeared...

    ...they just changed the codes on us again.

    Mine's the one with the moody smartcard in the pocket.

  15. Simon Harris

    The Winchester

    Here's a couple from Shaun of the Dead land...

    The Winchester...

    http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.477895,-0.047625&spn=0.004838,0.009763&sll=51.478888,-0.047660&layer=c&cid=17968113403682745607&cbp=13,4.66,,0,11.82&cbll=51.477915,-0.047609&t=h&panoid=HLZahQjUu2w08ypUvLxkaw&z=17

    Obviously it's seen better days as it's boarded up after the zombie attacks... but take one step backwards and... it's been converted into posh houses (unlike zombies, property developers can't be stopped by removing the head or destroying the brain)

    and just down the road...

    http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.479926,-0.047754&spn=0.004838,0.009763&sll=51.478888,-0.047660&layer=c&cid=17968113403682745607&cbp=13,141.68,,0,26.31&cbll=51.47988,-0.04756&t=h&z=17&panoid=C2ZatjzNIohS7xqUe-7x8A

    A pavement full of schoolchildren... but take one step back and what happened to the kids? - did the zombies eat them? ... spooky!

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      "(unlike zombies, property developers can't be stopped by removing the head or destroying the brain)"

      How can you tell the difference?

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    For anyone interested in the decline of Kodak.

    http://binged.it/zY6IfJ

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