That's amazing - so someone drove around Australian streets with a video camera! Edit: OK, it's a series of still images. Find a road with moving traffic and you can see the other vehicles passing the imaging vehicle.
In fact, we remember a strange looking van coming through a few weeks ago - looking all the world like a UK TV detector van! But with an obvious camera.
I've wasted a few hours with this today, looking up all the places I can remember living.
It would be interesting to work out when the pictures were taken.
Google Maps has today officially unveiled Street View for Australia, a feature which enables computer users to view and navigate 360 degree imagery of public roads around the country.
The new web feature can be used to take virtual walks, explore cityscapes and search for local places of interest.
Google says it consulted privacy and community groups throughout the development of the feature in order to ensure privacy safeguards.
Google says Street View only contains imagery that is already visible to people from public roads and none of the imagery is in real time.
Street View also blurs any identifiable faces and vehicle number plates.
Maybe for the bigger cities, but the shot of my place was taken between the 24/3/08 and the 10/5/08. I would guess sometime around the end of may as the pine profiles look yellowed and weathered. It shows the profiles I built for my observatory, but the posts and pier haven't been put in yet.
They haven't tackled rural addresses yet (at least not near my place) but my old place is in there... probably taken during November last year: only 1 for sale sign up, and my truck is in the drive-way so most likely while I was in Canada. It's interesting how much you can determine just from a photo. It's not surprizing to me if there are privacy issues that come out of it.
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. It's not surprizing to me if there are privacy issues that come out of it.
