Street View now covers 95% of the UK. Is there any reason to go out for a spin nowadays, rather than sit at home and admire the views from the warmth of your own home? As discussed elsewhere, my favourite UK road:
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Biggles
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Dead handy. So far this year I've been to Montmartre, Florence, Nice, Venice and several European Capitals.
Not having a Sat Nav, I 'streetviewed ' an address I was due to visit in Bradford to pick some spares up and it showed next door. I knew what to look out for on the road.
Ted
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>> As discussed elsewhere my favourite UK road:
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>> tinyurl.com/yc6mpgy
Mind the sheep!!!
tinyurl.com/ygjatjl
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Haven't looked at street view much since the early days when there was limited coverage.
Bit shocked to notice our place (on a rural road) is now there for all to see. Thank goodness it was a nice sunny day and I'd mowed the front lawn/verges.
Looking at Scotland its even found the remote estate we've stayed on a few times... a place otherwise you'd only find if badly lost.
maps.google.de/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=55.925869,-5.614805&panoid=Hx1hRs27Um3OpNowyEgLTA&cbp=12,217.83,,0,-1.98&ll=55.925836,-5.614958&spn=0,359.954638&z=15
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>> Haven't looked at street view much since the early days when there was limited coverage.
Me neither - they hadn't done Reading last time I looked, but even our house down a small estate cul-de-sac is now nicely photographed.
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Bit shocked to notice our place (on a rural road) is now there for all to see.
Bit shocked that my car was there for all to see. Luckily it was clean. And the number plate was blurred over!
The really spooky thing was seeing some of my neighbours.
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My road and home has just appeared on streetview. No-one is at home.
Tho I find google earth and streetview invaluable. Used to locate my spots for severn bore watching, and today to locate the best spot to catch 70013 Oliver cromwell, as it powered its boiler off up the hill out of Ely on its way to Norwich. Fabulous it was really working hard.
Last edited by: Zero on Thu 11 Mar 10 at 15:03
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My house is on it as well and the photo was taken whilst we were out the house after the fire. No works had commenced so that puts it at sometime between Apr 08 - Oct 08.
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Well my car is seen on the drive of the house we sold. I can guess the period it must have been taken because I only put it on the drive normally when I am out of the country on holiday.
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Ours was taken on a Wednesday. Cos the bins are out. And after 8:30 am cos they're not where I leave them, but where the dustmen leave them. Oh - at ten past 11, cos we're opposite the church and you can see the clock I now discover.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Thu 11 Mar 10 at 15:18
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Ours was a wednesday too because of the bins:)
We were at work and there were no cats about either!
Pat
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>> As discussed elsewhere my favourite UK road:
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>> tinyurl.com/yc6mpgy
Brings back memories of cycling up that as a teenager. Mind you the view of the Cullins from the top and the glide down the other side was brilliant!
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Our area was done in May (the state of the foliage on trees) on a morning (position of the sun, and the fact that the playgroup is in session) on a weekday (playgroup) but not Friday (no bins). It is either 2008 or 2009 (trees cut down in late 2007 are not present.) A close study of our home indicates from paraphernalia visible that I was working in the garden that day.
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Mine was a weekday, during the school holiday.
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Ours was 'done' on a weekday, when I'd nipped home from work in my old firm's 16-seater. It was 'done' after May 2008 but before July 2009 as Mrs B-to-Be's old Ford Ka is in the drive. But that's if you type in our street name. If you type in the name of the street across the road and look back across at our house, the drive is empty and the 16-seater is nowhere to be seen. That's a bit odd.
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I think the cars must have made a few passes of our town, as I remember distinctly seeing two of their Astras in particular places on two separate days, from my driving seat.
However, I can not see my car passing by in either of those places on the live images. Which means that they must have done it at least twice.
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Ah, right. That would make sense.
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Not only is our house on it,I'm on it-I remember looking at that car with a pole sticking out of the roof and there I am,looking at the car as it went past.
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My friend's road in Wimbledon was missing from the original launch of Streetview. I looked today and found him standing on his doorstep looking straight at the camera.
I rang him to discuss this and he said he had seen the camera car approaching and went out with his grumpy face on to register a protest. Since they had blurred his face he looks more like he was posing for the camera. Although he was impressed at how shiney his old and neglected car looked.
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I was on the original but now am off, thanks to my paranoid fool of a next door neighbour !
The red escort outside went in Nov 08. I can still see the house but from 50 yds down the road. I would like it put back on.
Round the corner my Son and SIL are working at a house and are in the drive grimacing at the camera !
Ted
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>> I was on the original but now am off thanks to my paranoid fool of
>> a next door neighbour !
I regard myself as extremely "un"paranoid, but it does feel a little bit weird seeing such good quality snaps of your, and your families, houses.
One of my colleagues uses his house as our company registered address and the picture of his house comes out with it looking a bit too flash!
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My house was on it - my parking area hidden by trees - It was a Friday in Summer (Bins) My bin wasn't out - blinds on the downstairs windows suggest it was before I splashed out in new curtains !
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HAHA they've fuzzed out the faces of everyone in the village caught on camera - but I know who they are !
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Ifithelps Towers now on Steetview, but privacy maintained at the caravan in leafy North Yorkshire.
The entrance to the site from the main road is on, but not the caravans in the meadow.
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"Ifithelps Towers now on Steetview"
what about your leafy North Yorkshire holiday home... did that make it on? Are you all relaxing in deckchairs or playing swingball?!!
Edit: Sorry, clearly didn't even bother reading the end of your post. Duh. Still, I've done 12 hours non-stop...
Last edited by: BiggerBadderDave on Thu 11 Mar 10 at 20:09
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>> Still I've done 12 hours non-stop...
Er...what?
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15 mins work, 5 mins porn, 15 mins work, 5 mins porn, cup of coffee, etc etc...
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A whole five minutes Dave ?
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Three times an hour for 12 hours. Gungadin springs to mind.....
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Had to cut down since wife came on board full time in the business, some things aren't easy to disguise...
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>> Had to cut down since wife came on board full time in the business some
>> things aren't easy to disguise...
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Baggy trousers.
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Can you do a 'drive-through' in Streetview ?
We met a streetview car on the road out to Elgol on sky last year which is pretty remote - I want to see if I can see myself coming the other way !
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Can't see our shack at all on Streetview - its surrounded on all 4 sides by high hedges :)
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Wow, full-frontal view of my house and all of my family's places around the country.
Strangely enough my car isn't outside my house, where it sits 99% of the time. My house was "visited" in autumn half term week, but not on the Friday. Kids running around outside, no bins out, roadside poster for local jumble sale on Tuesday 27th Oct visible in photo.
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I saw the streetview car in Windsor. I really fancy a job driving it, there nust be gazzilions of streets left to do
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bit shocked to see the photos above the matrimonial bed at bellboy rustics
glad we dont live at the last house if this is the detail as the previous owner had pulleys coming of the ceiling for (things) wife couldnt believe it when i explained about apples and other uses because oranges arent the only fruit
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>> Can you do a 'drive-through' in Streetview ?
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>> We met a streetview car on the road out to Elgol on sky last year
>> which is pretty remote - I want to see if I can see myself coming
>> the other way !
Kind of. If you click on the image, you can then use the arrow keys to move along the road. Bit slow though. To speed it up you can just point at a part of the road and double click to jump there (you just need to not jump too far, and miss what you are looking for).
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Click on the image and hold. You can then move the picture round 360 degrees or look at the sky or the road. Use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Just been looking at the rot on the bottom of a friend's garden gate near Appleby...it's that good !
Use the arrows to move up and down the road or take a side turn.
Ted
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We've been looking at a few houses to buy today and this is useful. It might be 12 months old but you can get a fair idea. As I say above the images for my 'old house' is not that old because (a) the car I had/have and (b) the car is on the drive so probably May 2009.
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Ours was taken about this time last year, early or mid afternoon mid week. Non resident's car (black Xantia) in neighbours drive narrows date down. It was parked for a week or so while it's owner and householder were on holiday together. Most other drives emtpy except for No21's "fun" car, a Merc convertible with it's hood down.
Lovely display of daffs etc in our front border. My Xantia is on drive but on "wrong" side so possibly SWMBO's 'lingo was in dock and we'd swapped for the day. Several troughs & plantpots out of place suggest she may have been bimbling around re-arranging the front display.
Somebody mentioned Skye. The holiday cottage on Lewis we've used a few times is also there. Taken on a day with a lovely view across the Minch.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Fri 12 Mar 10 at 14:12
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Great for checking up on parking restrictions, double yellow lines, etc.
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>>>Great for checking up on parking restrictions, double yellow lines, etc.
Yes it is. Been looking last night at the streets surrounding our may bank holiday appartment (no designated space) wondering if I'm happy trusting the new car to a week of door bumping!
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Good gracious. They bothered to do the Isle of Barra. Outstanding dedication.
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"Good gracious. They bothered to do the Isle of Barra."
Great. That will save me the effort of going there, and I quite fancied seeing what it is like. It may be time consuming, but it is a remarkably cheap and convenient way of doing some sight-seeing on a scenic road.
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It's beautiful, tyro. I don't think streetview will do it justice. You just won't get the perfect white sand and crytal clear blue waters.
I spent a fortnight there once doing next to nothing all day. Paradise.
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>>It's beautiful, tyro. I don't think streetview will do it justice. You just won't get the perfect white sand and crystal clear blue waters.
It's actually the only one of the Western Isles I've never been to. I've stayed with friends on Lewis, Harris and Benbecula, and from the latter, popped over to North and South Uist. I even saw Bernera, though I didn't get off of the ferry. The problem is that if one lives in the Highlands, the Western Isles are just a bit too similar to home. Believe me, if you look at heather clad hills and sandy beaches and machair all the time, you want to see something a little bit different.
As for streetview doing it justice, I clicked through a few highland roads yesterday, and I was impressed. Places I know well looked very attractive, thanks to the super weather when they filmed.
I spent a fortnight there once doing next to nothing all day.
Don't tell my wife. That's the kind of holiday she fancies, but I'm afraid I'd die of boredom!
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Google Street View - Ted
