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Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1612
Hard News: They can see your house from here
It was a Tuesday Wednesday when Google came to our street, and we were not home. Yes, Google Street View has launched in New Zealand and they can see your house from here. And yes, it is a bit spooky. For addresses all over New Zealand (and not just the main centres) you can bring up Street View via Google Maps. Just now, I'm looking at the house we lived when I was six years old.
Grant McDougall
From: Dunedin
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 302
Also there: a member of the judging panel that gave them the Rheineck Rock Award in the 1990s
Incorrect. They won the award in 1987 and Stunt Clown came out in '88. Either way, a superb band. Whatever happened to original backing singer Rupert E Taylor, by the way ?
robbery
From: new zealand
Since: May 2007
Posts: 1882
the chch google map is well out of date.
the corner of deans and moorhouse ave has been a new intersection for a couple of years now and the blenheim road roundabout closed off
andrew llewellyn
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2061
I'm a little disappointed, they don't go past my place, they veer off down Glasgow Street towards the uni. Poo.
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 8828
Moderator
Incorrect. They won the award in 1987 and Stunt Clown came out in '88.
Duh. Of course. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I typed that.
Either way, a superb band. Whatever happened to original backing singer Rupert E Taylor, by the way ?
He was invited -- but there were ... differences. Which is a shame.
Jean Hughes
From: Mangere
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 11
When did Google take these images, how does that work? I wanted to show my mates overseas the magnificent pohutakawas in bloom down the road, but hey - the trees are still only green. And the tide is out, but it is sunny.
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 8828
Moderator
I'm a little disappointed, they don't go past my place, they veer off down Glasgow Street towards the uni. Poo.
They wimped out on my friends' steep-assed street in Wellington too.
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 8828
Moderator
When did Google take these images, how does that work?
I recall the news that they were starting on it, but I'm damned if I can recall when. Basically, they have to drive down every street in a camera-mounted vehicle.
A Christchurch blogger photographed the Google car in January.
I've corrected the original wording of the post -- that car really got around. Winton, even!
giovanni tiso
From: Wellington
Since: Jun 2007
Posts: 4074
Basically, they have to drive down every street in a camera-mounted vehicle.
My daughter and I should be in it - we were at the playground in Chilka street when they came through, I'll have to check it out.
Jake Pollock
From: Itinerant
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 363
A couple of months ago I was walking through a pedestrian courtyard on campus when a guy on an enormous tricycle with a bunch of google stickers and a 360 camera on a pole sticking out the back of it cycle past and did a few circles. To my continuing disappointment, I'm not on google maps yet.
Sam F
From: Morningside, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1127
Heh. My parents' house made it, as did their car parked kerbside. Unfortunately we're right up a ROW, so will definitely miss out...
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 8828
Moderator
My daughter and I should be in it - we were at the playground in Chilka street when they came through, I'll have to check it out.
Chilka St is definitely there. Where's the playground?
Jake Pollock
From: Itinerant
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 363
andrew llewellyn
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2061
I'm a little disappointed, they don't go past my place, they veer off down Glasgow Street towards the uni. Poo.
They wimped out on my friends' steep-assed street in Wellington too.
Ditto with my first house, they needed one of those cameras mounted on a skateboard for the more alpine suburbs.
I see the place I spent my formative years in out the hutt has been subdivided.
And SunnyO's there, so the've done the rural parts. ALthough it just looks like a hedge.
Mark Easterbrook
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 205
Mt Albert was (judging by the crap weather, mid-works new kerbing, lack of foliage on my cherry tree, and my overflowing rubbish bin) done on a Thursday morning about 3 months ago.
wendyf
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 24
I know this doesn't belong here. Forgive me. Please. But I *have* to tell someone this.
I googled for a biography of Amos Bronson (yes yes, father of Louisa May and an interesting character) I found this:
http://www.biography-center.com/biographies/6352-Alcott_Amos_Bronson.html
with John Key's bloody IQ on it!! What's it doing there? Is nothing bloody secret any more?
I'm feeling enraged, invaded and faintly afraid.
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 8828
Moderator
Chilka Street did not take well to photography.
That would be the small nuclear device that detonated there earlier this year.
Gareth Ward
From: Auckland, NZ
Since: Mar 2007
Posts: 1377
Grey Lynn/Ponse is probably about four months old, and photographed real early on a weekend morning by my guess...
Jake Pollock
From: Itinerant
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 363
They went through Devonport after it rained. And this view of Symonds Street says so much about that New Zealand light. Simultaneously washed out and blinding.
Danielle
From: PAS Women's XV Strategic Headquarters
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2178
Lionel Richie's 'All Night Long'
Weirdly, I too listened to that song ironically on Saturday night! (Erm. Well, perhaps it wasn't being *played* ironically, but I certainly heard it that way.)
Paul Campbell
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1147
Apparently they still haven't collected my garbage yet, and some kind person has fixed our letter box that was trashed by hoons a few weeks back .....
Seriously though looks like the Dunedin pics were taken about 11 months ago - possibly between Xmas and New Year
Geoff Lealand
From: Univ of Waikato
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 745
Yes, Google--and the Web generally--is wonderful but my enthusiasm was dampened a little by a story in today's Media Guardian viz;
"So what is the biggest story of the year? Ross and Brand in Sachsgate? The collapse of the financial system? The devastation in Mumbai? Or the US election perhaps. According to Yahoo, the most searched for subject on the internet in Britain this year is Britney Spears. Depressing! The remaining top five were Big Brother, The X Factor, Oasis and High School Musical 3. Only the US election made the Top 10, at No 6."
James Green
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 575
They weren't that pussy. They made it up Baldwin St, and all the adjacent, almost as steep streets (although amusingly, they have all the paper roads mapped out, despite them being un-navigable, except in all-terrain jandals).
Gareth Ward
From: Auckland, NZ
Since: Mar 2007
Posts: 1377
Wellington is really really short on satellite imagery though huh? Even at quite wide shots there's "no imagery at this zoom level". Why's that?
andrew llewellyn
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2061
They weren't that pussy. They made it up Baldwin St,
Awright, how'd you get a link that takes us straight there? I have tired of trying.
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 8828
Moderator
Awright, how'd you get a link that takes us straight there? I have tired of trying.
Just search for the address and click the Street View option. If it doesn't display the option, there's no view.
Lyndon Hood
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 849
They were spotted in Warrington in January. Sure enough, there it is. The terrain mapping's new too innit?
JackElder
From: Wellington
Since: Mar 2008
Posts: 417
I have no idea when the picture of our house was taken, but I have a good idea of what I was doing when it happened - I was coming down the drive in our car. Action shot!
Paul Campbell
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1147
So I just found myself out in the street with my nice new G1 phone checking out the streetview view (you can hold it up and the compass/orientation/gps allows you to move around in the streetview image) and suddenly thought "what am I doing? I'm looking at my street through my phone when the real thing is right there" suddenly it all seemed quite pointless.
The planetarium program that does the same thing is decidedly cool though
James Green
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 575
Awright, how'd you get a link that takes us straight there? I have tired of trying.
The linky thing is at the top right. Beware, however, if you have your home address set as your default location, as it will end up in your link!!
andrew llewellyn
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2061
Awright, how'd you get a link that takes us straight there? I have tired of trying.
Just search for the address and click the Street View option. If it doesn't display the option, there's no view.
Thanks - what I meant though, was how do I get a link that I can cut & paste to take you straight to the street view of a certain property?
It's probably obvious, but.
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