Google Street View in Ireland when is it coming?

RobitTV

Well we have been waiting over year now still no sign an now im getting tired of playing the "waiting" game there supposed to do cork,waterford,dublin,galway and Rural areas aswell But i just want to have a look around the place im getting tired Appearntly google said there delaying it because of something is going wrong england is covered and so is all of northern ireland still no Republic of ireland and im getting annoyed and.. so is everybody else i bet so Just anybody know when it is coming any release dates??? please tell me!

MaybeLogic

I think they just decided they were going to do the important parts of ireland only.

thetonynator

theyve done kilkenny . . .but its not worth it, it looks fairly crap . . .

dcmu

Life's tough RobitTv, it's unfortunate you have to learn that the hard way. hug?

dcmu

MaybeLogic wrote: »

I think they just decided they were going to do the important parts of ireland only.

The English bits?

RobitTV

MaybeLogic wrote: »

I think they just decided they were going to do the important parts of ireland only.

yeh thats what i heard to even if they done important areas i would be still happy!

MaybeLogic

I thought they did some already, no?

SV

thetonynator wrote: »

theyve done kilkenny . . .but its not worth it, it looks fairly crap . . .

no they haven't?

thetonynator

SV wrote: »

no they haven't?

they had the last time i looked at it . . .just high street and the castle though . . .

phasers

If I want to see Ireland I just look out the window

thetonynator

thetonynator wrote: »

they had the last time i looked at it . . .just high street and the castle though . . .

yeah it is done, quite a few streets too . . .

Mark200

thetonynator wrote: »

yeah it is done, quite a few streets too . . .

No it's not.

bonerm

They were all ready to go as early as last month .... but then that head-shop on capel st exploded .... making the images out of date.

So they have to go round and photograph everything all over again just in case.

El Weirdo

EDIT: Never mind... Bad mood.

InTheTrees

thetonynator wrote: »

theyve done kilkenny . . .but its not worth it, it looks fairly crap . . .

No, there's no Kilkenny.

bonzodog2

InTheTrees wrote: »

No, there's no Kilkenny.

Did they kill Kenny ? :eek: OMG/WTF etc. Google basterds......coming here, killin our cities......

RayM

phasers wrote: »

If I want to see Ireland I just look out the window

That's all well and good, but when you look out the window, are the faces and car registrations blurred out? I think not.

I convinced myself that it would be launched on St Patrick's Day (for no reason other than the fact that it seems like the kind of thing Google would do), but a recent article in the Tribune claims that it'll be 2011 before we see it.

thetonynator

I'm confused . . . .

Im not confused!!!

Strret view is done for kilkenny if you go through google earth, but not through google maps!!!!!

My tiny little brain took a while to work it out . . .;)

WindSock

Is Dublin up? I'm not arsed downloading it to my craptop.

Theta

They said from the start it would take 18 months to two years didnt they? I knwo the car has been driving around town and a bike went up grafton street or so im told!

brummytom

Street View's amazing, coincidentally, we were on it today in DT; searching for everyone's houses.. yeah, a bit pointless but ahh well.


Searched one girls' house, this came up.. God she was embarrassed

Mark200

Theta wrote: »

They said from the start it would take 18 months to two years didnt they? I knwo the car has been driving around town and a bike went up grafton street or so im told!

Nah I don't think they said it'd be that long. I thought they said around 6 - 8 months. I believe they started the day after Paddy's day last year... so it's just coming up to a year now.

Edit - Actually, I just looked up Google's addition for the UK which they released yesterday I believe - it really does cover pretty much everywhere!! That is the kind of coverage they were planning to give Ireland - they said they they wanted to cover every single tarmac road. However, they did start taking the pictures of the UK about 2 years ago - and had a release of the major cities about a year ago.

However, this shows that the tribune article was seriously wrong. They claimed that Google wasn't coming out with any more releases because of the recent EU decision - however their latest UK release came out today or yesterday.

Theta

The EU decision is pretty stupid if you ask me. Who gives a toss what a street looked like now or a year ago!

InTheTrees

Theta wrote: »

The EU decision is pretty stupid if you ask me. Who gives a toss what a street looked like now or a year ago!

Yeah, Considering the orwellian number of cctv's in europe, its strange they'd give a toss whether someone takes a few pics of their street, even if they are out in rollers bringing in the milk.

Mark200

RayM wrote: »

That's all well and good, but when you look out the window, are the faces and car registrations blurred out? I think not.

I convinced myself that it would be launched on St Patrick's Day (for no reason other than the fact that it seems like the kind of thing Google would do), but a recent article in the Tribune claims that it'll be 2011 before we see it.

Now that I think of it, I think St. Patrick's day might be a good day to look out for, in terms of a Google Street View release. They usually make several releases together - and after having a big release for the UK yesterday, it may be a sign! (Actually, if you look back... the day the week the UK's first street view pictures wer released was the same week Google started taking pictures here). Also, you're right when you say that it would be a thing Google would do. After all, the day they started taking pictures was the week of St Patricks day last year.

And anyway as I said, that Tribune article (if we're talking about the same one) was just BS

source

Has anybody noticed on Google Earth that Dublin is almost completely modeled in 3D. Kind of poor mans street view.

Mark200

foinse wrote: »

Kind of poor mans street view.

:pac:

Takes feckin ages to load though

Super-Rush

One thread about this is enough.