The After Hours Everything Google Street View Is Now Live In Ireland....I see ya.

Dublin: If you happen to spot a black car with the Google logo cruising past you next week, give a wave. This is the famous Google car, used to capture panoramic images for Google Maps’ Street View, and following its mapping of cities around the US and Europe, it has finally arrived on Irish shores.

Street View is Google’s online, interactive, panoramic street-level photographic mapping system that is integrated into Google Maps and aims to give us an up-close-and-personal look at public streets and their environs.

The Google car – equipped with GPS and camera equipment – will be out on the beat next week, snapping images of Irish streets in a training exercise ahead of its task to map the five major Irish cities: Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford.

While Google is getting in gear with a test-drive next week, to be followed by the initial phase of mapping, its geospatial technologist Ed Parsons said that the process from gathering data to the final Street View will take any time from 3-4 months up to a year.

The city centres will be covered, and so too will suburban and outlying areas, depending on population density and business activity.

Although Street View is a series of images captured from the Google car, pedestrian zones such as Grafton Street will also be covered, said Parsons. However, he was not able to divulge how this will happen.

To get a taste of what to expect from Street View Ireland, take a look at the panoramic view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Full Street View is also viewable on the mobile phone, currently limited to Google’s G1 Android device, which has not been given an official timeline for release here in Ireland.

As for privacy issues surrounding Street View, Iarla Flynn, European policy manager for Google, stated that advanced technology blurs out both faces and registration plates to protect identities and preserve privacy.

Individuals can also report further details captured by Street View that they feel is inappropriate.

By Marie Boran

Source: Silicon republic

It's about time this came to Ireland. Can't wait for them to come to Galway. We should try and get as many boardsie's to appear on there holding up signs with "I can see Yore Ma".

Sea Sharp

So are they gonna be driving into all housing estates? That's gonna take ages. You'll see in places like Tallagh little kids throwins stones at them

Ricky91t

Car goes into Ballymun,Occupants leave estate on foot

timmywex

Thats lovely, we get to see all the dirt on the streets on the internet now

c - 13

Someone should try paint the side of their house white with the broken image symbol in the top corner, see how many people google get pointing it out as an error.

Creamy Goodness

surprised they haven't done this sooner considering the EU HQ is in Dublin.

Holsten

Cool, hope I manage to catch it outside my house.

AckwelFoley

I will insure to have my bits out pushed up against the bay window so they capture that for the world to see.

Id imagine google will even give it its own grid reference

gurramok

From the IT http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0314/1224242851121.html?via=mr

Why black cars? Are they trying to be some sort of state security agency or something?

banshee_bones

sounds cool! il keep an eye out!

WoollyRedHat

Hey, was just wondering, my house is kinda hidden away, you can't get in unless you know the magic word, it's enchanted you know, sort of like the house in Harry Potter.

Was wondering will people be able to see my house or not? I just spent a lot of money on it.

Mark200

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

surprised they haven't done this sooner considering the EU HQ is in Dublin.

I read somewhere that all the cars that they've been using around Europe were all bought in Ireland, so I guess they started in the rest of Europe and slowly made their way back to Ireland.


But they're starting next week?! Worst week ever to take pictures of Dublin. Lets hope they edit out the pictures of the huge amount of 12 year old drunks they'll come across.

Linku

Full Street View is also viewable on the mobile phone, currently limited to Google’s G1 Android device, which has not been given an official timeline for release here in Ireland.

It's been available on the iPhone since software version 2.2

reggiethefirst

c - 13 wrote: »

Someone should try paint the side of their house white with the broken image symbol in the top corner, see how many people google get pointing it out as an error.

Give this man a prize. He has just won.

Professey Chin

Dammit.Now I need times its gonna be in waterford, its route and a couple of giant pins so I can mark out important places

challengemaster

There's still not even decent sat images on google of Ireland...You'd think they'd sort that out first..

Ah well... The car won't make it out of tallaght in one piece.

thebigcheese22

One question - why is this worth a sticky?!

Brown.Eyed.Girl

Never mind Tallaght. I doubt the car will make it out of Town in one piece. I bet someone tries to steal the camara off the car within the first 5 minutes.

Creamy Goodness

challengemaster wrote: »

There's still not even decent sat images on google of Ireland...You'd think they'd sort that out first..

Ah well... The car won't make it out of tallaght in one piece.

they don't use their own satellites for that, they use NASA's, and NASA are more concerned about other things than what paddy joe john murphy is doing in a field in laois.

GLaDOS

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

One question - why is this worth a sticky?!

It's the random thread of the day

banquo

It's also awesome.

I'm gonna paint my house to look like the 'Home' button in Chrome. And change my street sign to a url.

Tom65

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

they don't use their own satellites for that, they use NASA's, and NASA are more concerned about other things than what paddy joe john murphy is doing in a field in laois.

Ah, but that's assuming they don't know about Paddy Joe John Murphy's nuclear weapons program.

L1011

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

they don't use their own satellites for that, they use NASA's, and NASA are more concerned about other things than what paddy joe john murphy is doing in a field in laois.

And to add to that, the high resolution photos are aerial photography not satellite....

Valmont

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

surprised they haven't done this sooner considering the EU HQ is in Dublin.

I'm pretty sure it's in Brussels....

Professey Chin

Valmont wrote: »

I'm pretty sure it's in Brussels....

Google dont have a Brussels office
Dublin is the european HQ (according to job adverts anyway(

Skyuser

Valmont wrote: »

I'm pretty sure it's in Brussels....

I can't believe there are people out there that don't know whats in their own country.

Mark200

Skyuser wrote: »

I can't believe there are people out there that don't know whats in their own country.

I presumed he was just joking at how the post was phrased....

andrew

Anyone have any suggestions on what to do if you see one coming down the road? Mooning comes to mind, thats bout it.

Valmont

Skyuser wrote: »

I can't believe there are people out there that don't know whats in their own country.

CreamyGoodness wrote:

surprised they haven't done this sooner considering the EU HQ is in Dublin.

God forbid someone doesn't know that google have their European headquarters in Dublin. I did know that, I pass it five days a week on the dart. Don't be ridiculous.

I bet you didn't know that there is a small hardware shop near the old cinema in Greystones.

I mistakenly thought creamygoodness was referring to the European Union HQ as his post implied.

RandolphEsq

I for one welcome our Google overlords

Dennis the Stone

Hey go to 8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania 15212 and switch to street view and rotate around

antodeco

Tago Mago wrote: »

Hey go to 8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania 15212 and switch to street view and rotate around

Ninja and gladiator fighting! I likes it!

antodeco

snyper wrote: »

I will insure to have my bits out pushed up against the bay window so they capture that for the world to see.

Id imagine google will even give it its own grid reference

Im pretty sure their cameras cant zoom in to something that small...

The Master

Pic of the above

mukki

hope their gps will tell them we drive on the left

AlmightyCushion

Skyuser wrote: »

I can't believe there are people out there that don't know whats in their own country.

So you know every little thing that is in the country off the top of your head?

lostexpectation

mooning time

stovelid

They managed to do South Central L.A, so I'd say Ballymun and Tallaght won't pose a problem, folks.

Mr.Lizard

Here's a pix of the googlemobile

Mark200

A Google car just went past my house like 20 minutes ago!! yay

My brother saw it go up the road (there's a dead end up there) so I got my camera out

Check it out:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b392/mark200/moto_0472.jpg

Elessar

Mark200 wrote: »

A Google car just went past my house like 20 minutes ago!! yay

My brother saw it go up the road (there's a dead end up there) so I got my camera out

Check it out:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b392/mark200/moto_0472.jpg

Saw it today too, it was in Malahide earlier! Didn't get time to egg it in protest at my privacy intrusion!

Holsten

My mate was suck behind it in traffic eariler on today in Portmarnock.

Mark200

Holsten wrote: »

My mate was suck behind it in traffic eariler on today in Portmarnock.

That's where I live :cool:

iDontReallyCare

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

So you know every little thing that is in the country off the top of your head?

Don't be an ass. The world changesvery quickly!

Mark200

Holsten wrote: »

My mate was suck behind it in traffic eariler on today in Portmarnock.

Just thinking...was it going slowly or at normal speed??

I only saw it on my road and it seemed to be going normal speed, but then again it's just a little road around an estate...you wouldn't be going fast anyway

Skyuser

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

So you know every little thing that is in the country off the top of your head?

Google EU HQ is not a "little thing".

lostexpectation

did you see people complaining aobut it not blurring everyones faces but in belfast it blurred the face of bobby sands mural

DJ Hafez

Saw the picture posted in this thread on RTE news! lol

Mark200

DJ Hafez wrote: »

Saw the picture posted in this thread on RTE news! lol

haha yeah the reporter saw when I posted it in this thread and e-mailed me asking if she could use it

DJ Hafez

Ugggghhhh, we're always being monitored!! HI RTE!!

Agamemnon

Mark200 wrote: »

haha yeah the reporter saw when I posted it in this thread and e-mailed me asking if she could use it

You should demand an apology like Biffo got.