Google Maps Street View I MADE IT ON!!!

MikieTaps · Last edited by MikieTaps on Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:02 pm; edited 2 times in total

My buddy and I might be on Google Maps Street View!!!

I was sitting at a red light in seattle, and a car turns and drives past with this 6-7 foot tall "mast" sticking off the roof of it with about 16 cameras pointing every direction. On the side of the car was a logo that said "Google Maps Street View"

If you have no idea what I am talking about, go to www.maps.google.com and zoom in on Chicago, or some other big city until you are able to see blue highlighted streets... You can actually go all the way down to street view, and its like you are at street level looking around on that spot! If I do show up on there, ill post a link to it! Very Happy

EDIT!!! I MADE IT ON STREETVIEW!!!!!

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=47.619583,-122.345805&spn=0.001793,0.004801&z=18&layer=c&cbll=47.618685,-122.346293&panoid=u4f5bAjxX0p7PL-tOLe58A&cbp=1,0,,0,5

CHECK IT OUT!!!

ryder1 · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject:

Not when I tried it..is there some box to check to view what you are talking about?

MikieTaps · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject:

not every city has it yet... I know Chicago does... If you zoom in on downtown chicago you should be able to do it. There is a button on the upper right hand corner of the map you need to click on...

ericalm · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: Re: Google Maps Street View

MikieTaps · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject:

I was at Taylor Ave N. and Denny Way in Seattle, WA. It isnt posted yet... I am so excited to see if I make it on! Laughing

ericalm · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject:

ryder1 · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject:

Ok, thanks...I tried Chicago but nothing came up.

I do see it in Beverly Hills..thanks for the link!

Kinda like a mini google earth.

bjj4287 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 92 **2008 Buddy 150 Pomplona**

ya that is soo cool!.. when it updates and u see yourself make sure to tell us!

addictionriot · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:49 am Post subject:

Thats awesome!

Street view serves no real purpose but it sure is awesome Wink

I was able to see my old apartment in Detriot and then realized that they built an IKEA 2 miles away. Evil or Very Mad

now I have to drive 5 hours to get to one Crying or Very sad

MAJensen · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:10 am Post subject:

I use it all the time when planning a route to check the speed limits on the streets i dont know. kinda takes awile just clicking down the road though

maribell · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:21 am Post subject:

should have done that earlier. i wound up in uncharted territory on a "farm road" with a 65 MPH speed limit. Shocked

MikieTaps · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject:

it looks like seattle might be getting closer, spokane WA and portland OR now have it, unless I totally overlooked them last time I checked... Shocked

kazoo · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject:

Huh. All this time I thought it was big government had a super duper satelite or some other high tech device.

MikieTaps · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject:

HAHAHAHA nope, just a car with some cameras

ericalm · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:05 am Post subject:

My wife's car is visible, in our driveway, in street view. Smile

Racenut · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:26 am Post subject:

Looks like they've cut way back on the resolution. When it first came out you could easily read car license plate numbers.

docutech · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:41 am Post subject:

There was a story (CNN I believe) about a couple who sued Google Maps for invasion of their privacy. They won the suit and Google has removed the images of their home which was indeed on a private street.

Story here.

Elm Creek Smith · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:00 am Post subject:

The truck had to have driven down our street on Monday morning about two or three months ago. The trash cans are out but not emptied yet, my daughter's car is in the driveway, and my next door neighbor's police car is parked in the street. I hadn't pruned the maple tree in the front yard, but I had replaced the dead fir tree with a small blue spruce.

I wish they'd come back now that the maple looks more like a tree and the grass has turned green.

ECS

kuruku · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:

louie · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 808 **orange buddy 125**

my mate's van and motorcycle are shown in front of his mom's house in houston during a trip to visit his sick dad last november.

can you imagine the porn shops that show people coming and going.

iinigma7 · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

The Google mappers hit Greenville, SC pretty hard recently. I just noticed that the entire area in which I live is now on streetview, including the place where I work, (no cars in the parking lot) and my house. My Border Collie happened to be chillin' in front of the house and you can see her watching the google guys as they drove by. I love this tech.

Hopefully you're on there. I saw the Google car drive by me twice when they were here. I was pretty excited that I would be on the streetview, but I don't show up in either of the places I saw them drive by. I guess they don't have the camera on all the time.

BeachBuzz · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

my daughter, her husband, two kids and dog are plainly visable walking across the street in front of their house. the view is from the side street if you look back up their street. they are not visable in the views from their street. it's pretty crazy to know they are on the web for the world to see - they never noticed the camera van passing, or dont remember it.

alienmeatsack · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject:

They blanketed my area pretty heavily as well.

I hoped on there to see if the scooter store had lots of scoots out front but it didnt. Oh well.

SScooterG · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

from what I hear they do a couple of drive bys, and then take the best shots with the least people and cars...or dogs Smile

But cool, that'd be neat if you were there.

Threegoofs · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject:

All I know is that they will change views every once in a while. Lou Piniella (Chicago Cubs Manager) was on streetview out on Clark St. just south of Wrigley Field apparently walking to his car (a chevy SUV parked on the street - I dont think Lou has a Buddy). They changed it a day or two after it became public knowledge.

The invasion of privacy thing is a bit odd - after all - anyone can walk down the street and see stuff....

Sunil · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject:

Theres a street view of NoHo scooters

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=noho+scooters&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=61.153041,108.28125&ie=UTF8&ll=34.195759,-118.364468&spn=0.063467,0.105743&z=13&layer=c&cbll=34.163918,-118.37029&panoid=0_dsLQE1B05nwxR-DBgo6w&cbp=1,94.92692505060188,,0,6.878572673997273

alienmeatsack · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject:

That's funny, Tulsa Scooters looks very similar in regards to the canopys.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=tulsa+scooters&ie=UTF8&cd=1&layer=c&ll=36.171833,-95.938969&spn=0.083699,0.12291&z=13&cbll=36.14055,-95.94482&panoid=QsQxyxLDDpJbDXqJMSYyIA&cbp=1,225.32773791956413,,0,5

MikieTaps · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

thats awesome! scooters!!!

Racenut · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject:

A few months ago, they still hadn't done my city. Now I see they have.

My car wasn't home, so I went to my office and it's sitting there in the parking lot. But it's the only one there so that means it was taken between 5PM and 6PM as I tend to stay late. Sun was still up so it was later in the year. The pic of my house which is 2 miles away the tree had no leaves on it so it was more like winter time.

I also found the house I lived in when I was a kid in So. Cal. I hardly recognize the old neighborhood. it was new when we moved in. Now all the trees are huge.

Cool stuff

MikieTaps · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject:

The car passed by me again!!!! This time on Broad St. by the waterfront... seattle street view is coming... and I BETTER to be on it!!! Very Happy

Quo Vadimus · Joined: 20 Mar 2008 Posts: 143 **Sunset Buddy 50**

This is super-valuable to us 50cc riders to check out speed limits and lane widths in trying to get to new locations!

ericalm · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject:

MikieTaps · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject:

people would think there were 500 red buddies in seattle! they see them on every corner on street view!!! hahaha i like it Twisted Evil

ericalm · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

Well, someone in Santa Monica got their scooter on Streetview. This is at the Cock & Bull Pub, a frequent scooterist meeting place and where we're meeting for this weekend's rally.

rickko · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject:

My brother was captured walking around the back of his car while it was in his garage w/garage door open at his home.

My girlfriend's son was talking to a neighbor in front of her house so he's in their picture too!

Unreal.

..rickko..

buddyinblack · Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 26 **Buddy**

7eregrine · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject:

Just amazes me they did Cleveland before other much larger cities...

MikieTaps · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject:

So I just checked maps.google.com and...

Did Portland have streetview just a little while ago? Because it does now, and so does a bunch of stuff almost up to Centralia Washington along the 5. I think Seattle is coming soon!