I Just Had My Picture Took (Google Streetview)

 

by a Google camera. I was outside weed-whipping, when he drove by. I had my back to him, so no privacy issues. By the way, they must have some high speed cameras, cause he was driving fast. Now, how long before I am immortalized on Google.

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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend." - James Russell Lowell Garmin StreetPilot C330, Garmin NUVI 765T, Garmin DriveSmart 60LMT

alleghany wrote: by a Google

alleghany wrote:

by a Google camera. I was outside weed-whipping, when he drove by. I had my back to him, so no privacy issues. By the way, they must have some high speed cameras, cause he was driving fast. Now, how long before I am immortalized on Google.

I was looking at some yesterday that were dated 4/2022. So might not be too long.

Was the date

tcreek wrote:
alleghany wrote:

by a Google camera. I was outside weed-whipping, when he drove by. I had my back to him, so no privacy issues. By the way, they must have some high speed cameras, cause he was driving fast. Now, how long before I am immortalized on Google.

I was looking at some yesterday that were dated 4/2022. So might not be too long.

4/2022 or was it b4 2022? wink

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Faces

They normally fuzz out faces taken with mapping cameras, automatically. Still after we moved away from our last neighborhood, I enjoyed going to the map of our old street in Street View and seeing my next door neighbor working on his yard, still recognizable (to me) in spite of his fuzzed-out face because of the suspenders he usually wore. Then he died, and the next update Google shot of that street, he wasn't in the image at all, of course, and there was a "for sale" sign in front of his house. Kinda sad.

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fuzzy signs

Lost Anyway wrote:

They normally fuzz out faces taken with mapping cameras, automatically.

I'm mildly puzzled by what the software chooses to fuzz on any given picture. Sometimes it is the particular sign I need to read to satisfy my current purpose.

Complaints aside, I consider Google Streetview to be a fabulous service. While I trust my Garmin (or my Tesla Y) to get me close to the destination, I try to take the time to get a look on Google Streetview back home before I set out. Often this helps clarify things. Where is the driveway for the house I want? Where in the strip mall is the business?

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I agree

archae86 wrote:

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Complaints aside, I consider Google Streetview to be a fabulous service. While I trust my Garmin (or my Tesla Y) to get me close to the destination, I try to take the time to get a look on Google Streetview back home before I set out. Often this helps clarify things. Where is the driveway for the house I want? Where in the strip mall is the business?

I love streetview, for the same reasons you point out, plus I can look at intersections and see if the allow lefts turns, have a dedicated lane for it, a signal, etc. This is especially helpful when traveling in New Jersey where a left turn might be via a jug handle on the right OR a left turn lane, helps to know ahead of time so you're in the correct lane.

When bored, I also use streetview to travel, so to speak, to places I'll probably never see in person, take a ride down an Irish highway or an African road, etc.

This Irish town is very colorful as you "drive" down the street:

https://www.google.com/maps/...

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I too like Google Earth Pro

But my Garmin Drive Smart tells me for example to turn right at the Stop sign. Or it may say to turn where there is a prominent store. It also gives me ample warning to be in a certain lane for making a turn etc. and it is in my car, Google Earth is not.

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Google Earth

Melaqueman wrote:

But my Garmin Drive Smart tells me for example to turn right at the Stop sign. Or it may say to turn where there is a prominent store. It also gives me ample warning to be in a certain lane for making a turn etc. and it is in my car, Google Earth is not.

I also like Google Earth and use it every time I work with my personal POI files; but instead of getting the lon/lat of my destination by using the search function I use the Get Directions function just in case there might be multiple entrances to where I'm going. I'll let GE show me the one that's appropriate for me.

Phil

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Always use Garmin

Melaqueman wrote:

But my Garmin Drive Smart tells me for example to turn right at the Stop sign. Or it may say to turn where there is a prominent store. It also gives me ample warning to be in a certain lane for making a turn etc. and it is in my car, Google Earth is not.

Oh, I always use Garmin for the actual driving, however, Google can give me an actual pre trip look at things via street view so I have an idea of what I'm to expect. I like to know if there will be left turn signals at intersections or is no left turn allowed. My example of driving in New Jersey is prime, sometimes there is a left turn allowed, and sometimes there is a jug-handle type road on the right that helps you accomplish getting onto that street on the left. I like to be prepared, especially at complicated intersections. Is there more than one way into a shopping center, etc.

My Garmin Drive Smart 61 gives me the turn at Happy Harry's type directions, occasionally, too, however, it can't tell me if Happy Harry's is now a Doughnut shop.

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funny

with pics. Don't we all assume our pics are constantly taken...just last week detectives found a shooter who shot someone for driving too slowly. They pieced together cams from businesses until they could find some possibility of the shooter's car (driven by his mom go figure) and get a plate number.

Just watched a video when Toyota did the final test drives of the new Lexus LS400, "luckily" nobody took pictures because it was to be launched shortly. Imagine test driving cars and literally nobody took pics of the new car (until this point it was always disguised--the part I don't get is it was the LS400 but in a Cressida body prior. This was a 1990 model). Likely because it was all film back then and nobody happened to have a camera handy when they saw the car on the road.

Unfortunately, it is not you

Unfortunately, you are not "Immortalized" as the pictures do change, so it will be a "flash in the pan" event.

Ruggb is absolutely right.

Ruggb is absolutely right. My daughter was washing her car and they came by. It did stay on there for quite some time but I just checked it and all that is showing is her husband's truck.

Hava a picture

from about 6 years ago where I passed the Google car on a two land road.

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Here’s my pic

Years ago I was driving my bus and the Google car crossed in front of me. 3 months later my picture is there

April 2015

Google maps - https://bit.ly/3z2ybhf

Picture - https://i.postimg.cc/hGzMZ4yC/5-EBE1-F8-E-13-DB-42-BA-B245-E...

Google Earth

Updated my picture to their maps. Look at 2838 Radnor St., St. Charles, MO to see me blowing the driveway off after mowing. Kinda cool.

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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend." - James Russell Lowell Garmin StreetPilot C330, Garmin NUVI 765T, Garmin DriveSmart 60LMT

In Hust A Little

over 3 weeks.

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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend." - James Russell Lowell Garmin StreetPilot C330, Garmin NUVI 765T, Garmin DriveSmart 60LMT

Best Side

alleghany wrote:

Updated my picture to their maps. Look at 2838 Radnor St., St. Charles, MO to see me blowing the driveway off after mowing. Kinda cool.

Got your best side, huh? smile

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I did you one better

alleghany wrote:

by a Google camera. I was outside weed-whipping, when he drove by. I had my back to him, so no privacy issues. By the way, they must have some high speed cameras, cause he was driving fast. Now, how long before I am immortalized on Google.

Hah, alleghany, I scoff at you - I did you one better. grin I looked up my house on Google EARTH (!) back in 2016 and there I was, clear as day (well as clear as I could be from 40,000 feet) in my yard cutting my lawn.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/45991

Phil

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"No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse."

I had a similar experience.

My prior home has a photo of me cutting the lawn.

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Very cool

Very cool, Alleghany!

I am sitting outside waiting for its coming.

Me

abin wrote:

Very cool, Alleghany!

I am sitting outside waiting for its coming.

too. smile

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Nice

Congratulations

old picture

I don't think they have updated my block in a few years. The picture shows an old car (with license plate blurred out) that I haven't had in for quite a few years now.

Interesting

bsp131 wrote:

I don't think they have updated my block in a few years. The picture shows an old car (with license plate blurred out) that I haven't had in for quite a few years now.

My wife and I have lived in our house for almost 50 years on a very unchanging street but the Google Earth view changes fairly often. At this moment the view is dated as of this past April 27th.

Phil

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"No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse."

year and a half

The street view image for my house is dated February 2021. The shadow of the camera tower on the Google car is visible.

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personal GPS user since 1992

streetview, june 2019 ...

Shows my current vehicles, plus a camper I got rid of about a year and a half ago. Also shows my back yard (I live on a corner) where my dog is standing on the back porch, staring inside the back door, waiting to be let in.

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it's the dog's fault.

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House there, then gone, then there

I was using Google street view to look a house in my home town and if you viewed from in front of it, it was a parking lot. If you viewed from the side street it was there.

I crossed the main street and looked from the side street back across the main street, and it was there and you could see the front from that angle.

Mission accomplished. Kinda cool.

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Google car?

archae86 wrote:

The street view image for my house is dated February 2021. The shadow of the camera tower on the Google car is visible.

My image is not from street level, it's from on high. Does anyone know how Google Earth gets the sky images? Planes? Satellites?

Phi

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combo

plunder wrote:
archae86 wrote:

The street view image for my house is dated February 2021. The shadow of the camera tower on the Google car is visible.

My image is not from street level, it's from on high. Does anyone know how Google Earth gets the sky images? Planes? Satellites?

Phi

The satellite and aerial images in Google Earth are taken by cameras on satellites and aircraft, which collect each image at a specific date and time.Those images can be used in Google Earth as a single image with the specific collection date, but sometimes:

The images are combined into a mosaic of images taken over multiple days or months. These images are displayed as one seamless image and the date may change as you move your cursor around the map.

There is limited information about the image collection and the date displayed reflects the start of a date range when the image was most likely collected.
When the "3D Buildings" layer is turned on, the detailed terrain and buildings images are derived from aerial images collected over multiple dates, so Google Earth does not display a collection date.

The collection date information is lost or inaccurate due to human error or other issues.

https://support.google.com/earth/answer/6327779

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