Google Cars spotted in Waterford

Heathen

According to Beat today the cars have been spotted...

any reports? is their a timetable? as in when certain areas are due for coverage?

id love to get my mush on google streetview (even though they blur it)

Professey Chin

Ah feck. And I wanted to be a drunken predator

KingLoser

I think I saw it.

I was just standin there on John Street, mindin me own business, havin a piss...

Heathen

KingLoser wrote: »

I think I saw it.

I was just standin there on John Street, mindin me own business, havin a piss...

good man Jim!! i knew we could count on you to play the town drunk

anplaya

saw em around the town last friday and saturday

Sully

Google Cars? :S

KingLoser

They're doin StreetView in all the Irish cities.

They still don't even have us in high res.. so I dunno what they're doin here.

anplaya

Sully wrote: »

Google Cars? :S

google cars are cars used to capture photographic images for google maps street views.they are equiped with camera equipment and gps,taking pics of strrets in 5 cities in ireland,waterford,dublin cork,galway and limerick

JPA

So they're jumping from blurry maps straight into street view?

Okey doke. What's the time frame for getting this up and running?
Probably at least 6 months.

Adyx

There's one of them around the corner from me in Cherrymount. Its camera has been folded down until today though so I presume they've just started. Anyone know how many they are using? Google Maps use images from NASA satellites afaik so it's not their fault the resolution is low.

JPA

Adyx wrote: »

There's one of them around the corner from me in Cherrymount. Its camera has been folded down until today though so I presume they've just started. Anyone know how many they are using? Google Maps use images from NASA satellites afaik so it's not their fault the resolution is low.

Yes but Waterford is blurryy while a lot of other places are not. That's the point I'm making. They seem to be missing a step.

BIG-SLICK-POKER

Saw this think it was a red opel astra in Tramore big 360 Camera on roof car looked ridiculous ... Passed it just at the first roundabout drivin towards Waterford in Tramore at Pickardstown

Heathen

JPA wrote: »

Yes but Waterford is blurryy while a lot of other places are not. That's the point I'm making. They seem to be missing a step.

they had a rep from google on the radio the other day and asked him the same question... his answer was very simple.. everytime they have tried to get higher res pics of irish citys there is cloud cover... nothing they can do about it

maybe ireland will get a summer this year and we can get better res pics

nkay1985

I really hope I spot them when they're by the house.

I'll be sure to be bollock naked in the bedroom window. Let's see will they blur that out!

robtri

Heathen wrote: »

According to Beat today the cars have been spotted...

any reports? is their a timetable? as in when certain areas are due for coverage?

id love to get my mush on google streetview (even though they blur it)

Dude, you beat me to opening this thread...............
anybody have any info on the timetable....

wellbutty

If ye havent seen one of these cars before, here's a picture of one I caught on camera in France last summer

JPA

I look forward to this being completed but are they allowed do this no questions asked? Has there been many complaints against it in the US and other countries its in?
For example I'm sure plenty of people have a problem with their house being shown around the world.

trishw78

they've removed some images some man was coming out of a porn shop he asked for that image to be removed. I think it was some people in the UK have asked for images to be removed and they were sucessful.

Cabaal

JPA wrote: »

I look forward to this being completed but are they allowed do this no questions asked? Has there been many complaints against it in the US and other countries its in?
For example I'm sure plenty of people have a problem with their house being shown around the world.

These people should also know that I can take a photo of their house and post it on the net, nothing illegal about doing this

anybody can do the same

JPA

trishw78 wrote: »

they've removed some images some man was coming out of a porn shop he asked for that image to be removed. I think it was some people in the UK have asked for images to be removed and they were sucessful.

I thought something like that happened alright. It's great virtually walking down the streets of cities around the world but when you're looking at your front door it's a bit, ya know, creepy, big brother style.

KingLoser

Why is it any different from someone walking down the road and seeing your front door?

Google have been fairly good about removing things on request, but there's no legal requirement for them to do this. (or at least, the law is shady)

JPA

KingLoser wrote: »

Why is it any different from someone walking down the road and seeing your front door?

Google have been fairly good about removing things on request, but there's no legal requirement for them to do this. (or at least, the law is shady)

Well I suppose it's no different but it's just an amazing thing to be able to do.
As I said, I don't have a problem with it, just wondering.

Cabaal

I find it amusing that most of the complaints about google are coming from the UK, the UK has more CCTV cameras then any country in the world which means people can be monitored in real time using them....yet they bitch and moan about a photo of them on a street which anyone with any camera or phone can take anyway.

Priority's eh?

Sully

This may be of interest:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7959362.stm

xFROSTY Gx

Saw one this morning. It passed me just outside viewmount

magick

i remember ages ago, it passed our here (not ire but us) and ran to the window with a mask and a knife, but it passed me by

sunnysoutheast

The Register are putting together a sequence of photos of people who've taken a photograph of a Google car, and have then found a picture of themselves taking the photograph on Google Streetview:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/surveillance_feedback_loop/

SSE

Cabaal

saw the google car this morning at the top of john's hill, can't miss it in fairness

WMT

i know the guy driving the Google car, he told me it's a nine month contract, but it can only take photo's when it's not too cloudy or raining,

So i'm guessing in this rainy land of ours it could take a couple of years to get waterford alone done

robtri

WMT wrote: »

i know the guy driving the Google car, he told me it's a nine month contract, but it can only take photo's when it's not too cloudy or raining,

So i'm guessing in this rainy land of ours it could take a couple of years to get waterford alone done

any chance you can get his schedule..... would like to get my and heathens mug on the street view.

Heathen

robtri wrote: »

any chance you can get his schedule..... would like to get my and heathens mug on the street view.

bigtime!! its been our dream to have our blurry faces on street view ever since we heard it was coming to waterford

please give us a schedule

Spocker

The cars are still around anyways, I passed one this morning on the Old Kilmeaden Road, just before the Manor Hotel

Heathen

Dang it i gotta get my pic taken by one of these bad boys

miss deise

wellbutty wrote: »

If ye havent seen one of these cars before, here's a picture of one I caught on camera in France last summer

Ahhh, ok right... Saw it this morning on Thomas Street, just outside Downes pub and didn't have a notion what it was... Thanks for that!

Asmodean

Any ideas on how long it takes for the images to be uploaded, quite a while I'd imagine?
And also will it have the whole city done or just the main streets? From the places where it's been spotted it looks like it'll be pretty extensive coverage!

south

one of the cars passed me heading into the summerville estate in tramore today

Aquos76

Google car around ferrybank now, Just came out of the Fairways and Castle Oaks estates on Rockshire Road. A red opel astra with a big camera strapped to the roof of it.

Cabaal

Feckin crazy english people

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/02/1731231

"A Google Street View car has been chased out of a British village by angry residents [CC] [MD] [GC]. The car was taking photographs of Broughton in Buckinghamshire for Google's when it was spotted by a local resident who warned the car not to enter the village then roused his neighbors, who surrounded the vehicle until the driver performed a U-turn and left. 'This is an affluent area,' protester Paul Jacobs said. 'We've already had three burglaries locally in the past six weeks. If our houses are plastered all over Google it's an invitation for more criminals to strike. I was determined to make a stand, so I called the police.'"

Peiking Duck

That's fairly mad. Burlglars wont be using Google Street View to check out houses to rob. Silly fools

Professey Chin

Cabaal wrote: »

Feckin crazy english people

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/02/1731231

Itd be great if as a consequence nobody in that area could use google anymore :pac:

Sully

*runs to put up big advertisement*

Amtmann

Heathen wrote: »

they had a rep from google on the radio the other day and asked him the same question... his answer was very simple.. everytime they have tried to get higher res pics of irish citys there is cloud cover... nothing they can do about it

maybe ireland will get a summer this year and we can get better res pics

But many other countries have shared their OS aerial photographic maps with Google Earth. Look at Wales and England, for example. No reason why we can't do likewise: http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx?id=&utype=&ecom=S1&user= (zoom in close et voila)

Kastro

Peiking Duck wrote: »

That's fairly mad. Burlglars wont be using Google Street View to check out houses to rob. Silly fools

also jim.. you said you don't know what they are doing here because we aint even in hi res plain old google satellite maps.. i agree but i do think it will be fin to walk down roads via the internet and every surface saying "we are sorry we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region, try zooming out for a broader look"

gscully

Peiking Duck wrote: »

That's fairly mad. Burlglars wont be using Google Street View to check out houses to rob. Silly fools

Care to place a wager on that?

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/128405

Kastro

jsut spotted in hillview

Peiking Duck

gscully wrote: »

Care to place a wager on that?

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/128405

Who knew our friendly criminals would be so tech savy

Kastro

sure... by any means possible ehh? :P

gscully

The cars are still going around anyway. They're in the various estates in the Williamstown area this morning. Just spotted one driving up and down all the cul-de-sacs in my estate.

Stokolan

Seems to be over around the Ferrybank way at the moment. Just passed the house here in Blackthorn hills. He dosnt wast any time getting around. Barely gopt time to get the camera out to get a picture of it.

Sully

I thought I drove past this the other night. It seemed like a very old car, but I spotted what looked like an odd looking roof rack but when I looked in my mirrors you couldn't make out what it was.

Stokolan

Here not the best of pics. I'm was too slow with the manual seetings to keep up with the fecker.