Google Streetview Going Live today ( 2 day thread)

Sponge Bob

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/18002-google-to-launch-street/

Not there as of time of thread start.

+1 for spotting your house on it.
+1 for spotting your wheels on it anywhere except at your house
+1 for spotting yourself on it

Practice using it here ( London)

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/maps/streetview/

watty

+100 to get them fined $100M for logging people's private wifi points
+100 to get them fined $100M for doing this without EU and National debate and approval.

Google Chairman, CEO Eric Schmidt, thinks you should just get a new Identity when the old one is used up

My Brother's House is on it. But I won't say where

Sponge Bob

watty wrote: »

+100 to get them fined $100M for logging people's private wifi points
+100 to get them fined $100M for doing this without EU and National debate and approval.

Ah right Watty, and +1000 Bonusage for getting ANY Irish regulator to do their job properly , eg Comreg Data Protection National Consumer Dog Not today they won't so we count in increments of 1 only.

homer911

Sponge Bob wrote: »

+1 for spotting your wheels on it anywhere except at your house

I can see my car parked outside my parents house already (without street view)

(On Google Maps Satellite view that is, I dont have binoculars!)

patrickmooney

Launched today, live tomorrow according to the irish times.

passingthrough

they could do with updating the satellite view of the country first maybe other than the cities before releasing streetview.

Sponge Bob

In Galway City anyway. Get scoring people !!!!

bealtine

Sponge Bob wrote: »

eg Comreg Data Protection National Consumer Dog only.

You mean the telecoms poodle?

illingworth22

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=&layer=c&cbll=53.391568,-6.219791&cbp=11,251.57,,2,1.64&ie=UTF8&om=1&panoid=xR_UybEwYOMkvDp0LBlPCA&t=h&ll=53.391567,-6.219791&spn=0.000656,0.003449&z=18

My Car at work in Beaumont Hospital Car Park +1

Found my house, but nothing else!

Sponge Bob

Found house and found car elsewhere but they scrubbed me

This link is tested in the latest IE8 and Firefox 3.6

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.346432,-6.263623&spn=0.000754,0.002411&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.346535,-6.263598&panoid=1vfXWWtskIs-fCjf3Hep9A&cbp=12,87.71,,0,5


If you have a problem with it then install the latest Adove Flash ( 10) and Firefox and IE plugins for flash.

powerstar

It's working now

muffinhead

I found my house on it - didn't even realise the Streetview car was in Westport !

John mac

what about this house

should be worth 10 points.

Zapp Brannigan

Found my house with my car in the drive.


This technology scares me

Hogzy

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

Found my house with my car in the drive.


This technology scares me

Its only a camera

Zapp Brannigan

Hogzy wrote: »

Its only a camera

Cameras scare me.

mike65

Thank Gawk for nets!

watty

Hogzy wrote: »

Its only a camera

That publishes to the world in HD, and connected to GPS, plus loads of gear to slurp all the MAC addresses, IPs, SSIDs and traffic on the WiFi.

Only they know what other information gathered also. And cross reference from other sources.

Kev.

Can somebody please tell me

1.How do Google make money from this...

and

2.What use is it after looking at your house and a few other bits and bobs?

Isaac702

Kev. wrote: »

How do Google make money from this...

Google doesn't really make money directly off of Google Streetview however by the street view project they can create proper maps for their gooogle maps project which they would have to license off others had they not created them themselves.

Google Streetmap's cars are also maping wifi access points which allow them to improve their geo-location services which they can license to other companies.

watty

They can do much more.
In many cases the WiFi slurping lets them identify the exact location of "users" already in their database. For more targeted adverts on your web page and gmail.

partyatmygaff

watty wrote: »

They can do much more.
In many cases the WiFi slurping lets them identify the exact location of "users" already in their database. For more targeted adverts on your web page and gmail.

How terrible...

watty

watty wrote: »

They can do much more.
In many cases the WiFi slurping lets them identify the exact location of "users" already in their database. For more targeted adverts on your web page and gmail.

Can they still do it if the WiFi is WPA protected?

Jehuty42

Deleted User wrote: »

Can they still do it if the WiFi is WPA protected?

Highly doubt it. Though they would log the SSID and any other information they can get, but not any packet payloads.

Jehuty42

Jehuty42 wrote: »

Highly doubt it. Though they would log the SSID and any other information they can get, but not any packet payloads.

Yeah thought that, just wanted to make sure. Thanks!!

z0oT

I'm quite surprized that they've essentially covered the whole country. I was initially under the impression that they were just going to do the cities.