Google street view!

[madtuna (Steve)]

The tattoo on my bum would be a dead giveaway lol my kids would spot me and dissown me.

I was working up in either the Southern Highlands or near Braidwood a few months back and drove passed the google car 3 times in the same day, and I am sure they were all on hillbilly dirt roads.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by madtuna

shame they don't give you prior warning so you could mow your lawn, put your bins away or press your bum up to your lounge room window

[Dujon]

I suspect that some in our community at large are being somewhat paranoiac about this innovation. What burglar worth his or her salt is going to rely on, or even consider using, images which are months old in order to plan an invasion? One would be better off using real estate advertisements if one was that lazy.

I will rest peacefully in my bed at night secure in the knowledge that Google's 'Street View' will in no way impinge on my general security. I might even dismantle the machine gun and fill in the emplacement, remove the bars from the windows and cut the power to my electric fence. The baseball bat behind the front door and the .38 Smith and Wesson under the pillow I will keep.

[avandonk]

I have got a little device that can receive four video inputs by radio link and it can monitor all channels for movement. When any movement is detected the images are then automatically uploaded to the net for later retrieval.
This all happens before the equipment can be interfered with. At least then the police know who they are looking for. For their sake they should hope the police find them first.

Bert

[bloodhound31]

Originally Posted by Dujon

I suspect that some in our community at large are being somewhat paranoiac about this innovation. What burglar worth his or her salt is going to rely on, or even consider using, images which are months old in order to plan an invasion? One would be better off using real estate advertisements if one was that lazy.

I will rest peacefully in my bed at night secure in the knowledge that Google's 'Street View' will in no way impinge on my general security. I might even dismantle the machine gun and fill in the emplacement, remove the bars from the windows and cut the power to my electric fence. The baseball bat behind the front door and the .38 Smith and Wesson under the pillow I will keep.

Who's paranoid?

Is that Tasco 2" refractor (circa 1960) with table-top alt-az tripod mounted to your machine gun, the 10" Newtonian (GSO optics) & Dobsonian mount mounted to your 38?

Man! That's some hardware. Give me you address so I can Google street view it and come get 'em.

[kinetic (Steve)]

The street view doesn't make me paranoid. The latest sat view of Google
does that. The pic of my place has just been replaced / updated after having the same low res shot for maybe 2 years or so.

As I have said in a previous post, basically a nosey neighbour can peruse the detail of your backyard from the comfort of his/her lounge chair.
He doesn't have to wait till you're asleep and put a chair up to your
fence. He doesn't even have to share a fence!

He could, for example, see that you collect vintage cars...or are building
a boat (or an ark )) maybe.

He could see that you are building an air raid shelter and panic that
maybe he won't get an invite at armaggeddon

Councils used to have to purchase satellite pics to compare to building applications and catch people out building stuff not approved.
They had to sign disclaimers before getting pictures.
Now they can get it for nothing.
The general public can now get it for nothing!

I'd like to plant a row of small shrubs to spell out:
F... Off MSN and Google, but with the water restrictions I'd
probably spell out : U K an Ogle

Steve

[RobF (Rob)]

Holey hole in a dougnut Batman!

I'd just got used to the extra high res google maps pics of our neighbourhood from the air, and now you can drive around it as well!

BTW, you can actually load Google maps/earth scenery into flight simulator these days and fly around your house/city quite happily. Looks like you'll even be able to have a look at the front door of the house you crash outside now as well.....