<p>My H was telling me that Google has street level view of our neighborhood and the last time I looked it was some time ago- however after he told me, I looked up our house and it is fairly recent- which kinda feels creepy to me.</p>
<p>( when googling my address, I also found that our house is under consideration for a historic site- cause we have never remodeled it! lol)</p>
<p>I’ve seen the trucks come around but I didn’t know what they were doing. I’ve seen google street views of my house and sent some friends the same. Some of them got mighty angry at me thinking I was to blame. They still don’t understand and remain mad at me </p>
<p>I think it’s both invasive and creepy and don’t I like it.</p>
<p>that was my first thought teriwitt- but it isn’t a satelite photo- my H says, he has seen a van running through the neighborhood taking pictures.
it is regular google- you don’t have to download anything.</p>
<p>yeah they drive on all the roads with a 360 degree camera. i find it helpful, especially for figuring out how to get somewhere that you’ve never been/don’t know exactly where it is.</p>
<p>Arrgh! It is creepy! I can see my boss’ car parked by the company’s building - and judging by the greenery, bright sunshine and absence of other cars in the parking lot, the pictures were taken on a summer weekend! It is officially confirmed: my boss is a workaholic.</p>
<p>I “discovered” the Street View feature on Google about a year ago. It is kind of creepy. Our house is set back from the street; a longish curving driveway with woods on either side – so Street View hardly shows the house at all. Our mailbox at the street is about all you see. Fine with me.</p>
<p>I am amazed at some of the views for Virtual Earth. There is nothing special about the view of our house, in fact it is 2D. I did “visit” my D’s college apartment and that was amazing. I dropped down to street level and then looked up counted the 5 stories up and found her rooms. The shot had to be at least a couple of years old, since her window A/C was not there. I could go up, turn around, and see her view - sort of. When I planned a vacation to southern Utah, I used VE to plan part of the trip. I previsited some of the areas and even scouted out some great photo-op locations.</p>
<p>I’ve used it several times to see what the building looks like when driving to an unknown address. It’s a great moment when you spot your destination and can turn in confidently.</p>
<p>My neighbor rarely leaves her garage door open and she was bummed to discover it was open on the day we were filmed. The whole world can look at her junk.</p>
<p>Happy to report they do not have a picture of my (very obscure – last to be plowed) neighborhood.</p>
<p>I found it interesting that they do not have photos of the address where I stayed in Charleston recently, even though it is on the well beaten tourist trail.</p>
<p>I use it all the time. As an architect I’m often traveling to see new clients and it helps me see what their house looks like. I’ve occasionally used it after the fact if I forgot to photograph something. I’ve also used the aerial views in various zoning presentations.</p>
<p>I recently used it because I couldn’t find a pizza place in the phone book or on line, but I knew where it was. I went to street view - read the name of the place off the awning and then gave them a call!</p>
<p>funny, my husband just was looking at the maps on msn
we looked at our house ( which was much more detailed than google version )
we realized that the pics were taken when we were in the process of moving , or around March 2007. We could see our cars at the old house, and could also see a few back yards in our neighborhood that you cannot see from the street. A little creepy , but cool at the same time</p>
<p>I have friends across the country and it has enabled me to have a peek at their houses. But sometimes it doesn’t line up correctly, and you end up wondering if you’re looking at the right house.</p>
<p>Dino here - I end up wondering about people who (long ago) exaggerated about their homes. Now they can be outed ;)</p>
<p>SIL & her two young daughters are out playing in the yard in the picture of their house. Creepy! And did you read a while back about the guy in Australia who’s passed out on the front lawn of his house? He’d had a “bad day”–too much to drink after a friend’s funeral. I think Google has since taken it down.</p>
<p>There have been some benefits to this. I believe it was a Google photo that helped identify the car of the missing Rice student found in Berkeley this summer. But, that said… maybe I’ll close my shades more often!!!</p>
<p>I was able to tell exactly what day the photo of our house was taken. When someone showed me our house on this site, I couldn’t figure out why two cars that didn’t belong to us were in our driveway (we always park in the garage). I realized the picture was taken on a day that we had company and realized exactly what day it was. I think it’s kind of creepy, too.</p>
<p>Creepy, definitely creepy. I can see the minor conveniences mentioned above, but is smacks too much of Big Brother/Hal and the computer knowing too much about us. Luckily, I seek the smaller places, no where i have lived since 1988 is on the street view.</p>
<p>My street pics aren’t out there (except for a satellite image; I was home when it was taken, apparently, since my car is in the driveway).</p>
<p>I Googled my address, and found a couple of pages of listings… for a business that I used to own, listed as doing a variety of things, include things I never did (web page design?! hahahahahahaha!!), and which I disbanded well over 10 years ago.</p>
<p>But I guess this is why I got toothpaste delivered to my house for years after the dentists who’d owned it, several owners ago, moved out.</p>
<p>I also found out how much my neighbor across the street donated for political purposes, and where the donation went…!</p>