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

10-10-20 · 14-04-2009 09:34AM

The Google car is in Leopardstown/Stepaside this morning.
Spotted it turning into the estate beside Dunnes Stores, Leopardstown at 09:10.

tagoona · 16-04-2009 09:10AM

Spotted the red astra google car this morning, on the enistymon road, leaving ennis at 8.30.
It looked like the cameras were all taped up in black plastic bags. Not sure it was even recording, or if there was a hole for the lenses.

Thefirestarter · 21-04-2009 03:16PM

Was walking down the north road in finglas yesterday towards the village and i noticed the Red Astra with all the cameras on top, So i gave it a wave:cool:

zefer · 22-04-2009 05:15PM

red astra google car was on the Dual Carriageway in Swords this morning

PirateShampoo · 22-04-2009 05:19PM

seen it heading down the m50 this evening also.

Mark200 · 22-04-2009 05:52PM

merlie wrote: »

I do think this is an invasion of the privacy and I wonder how far will Google go. We have Google Earth, Google Ocean, Google Space and now Google Street View. What is next on the agenda?

Yeah I'm sure the fish and alien population are up in arms over the invasion of their privacy that Google Ocean and Space brings...

January · 22-04-2009 07:16PM

Saw it on Monday on Ballygal Road in Finglas. Took pictures...

banquo · 22-04-2009 09:17PM

I'm from Santry, so this is awesome.

bren2002 · 22-04-2009 09:28PM

banquo wrote: »

I'm from Santry, so this is awesome.

Why? If you live there you know what it looks like, if you're in lands foreign then fair enough

R0C · 25-04-2009 08:53PM

It spent last Tuesday in Ballinrobe, County Mayo. I snapped a picture of it as it cruised around some of Ballinrobe's housing estates.

It seemed to be around the town for most of the day.

galwayrush · 25-04-2009 09:34PM

R0C wrote: »

It spent last Tuesday in Ballinrobe, County Mayo. I snapped a picture of it as it cruised around some of Ballinrobe's housing estates.

It seemed to be around the town for most of the day.

Did it get a pic of the Bull ?.:D

R0C · 25-04-2009 09:38PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Did it get a pic of the Bull ?.:D

I doubt it!
The bull incident actually happened a month ago. But I guess it took the following four weeks for Cummins' (SuperValue) to hire the people necessary to buy the attention of the entire media forum.

bobbbb · 25-04-2009 10:01PM

merlie wrote: »

Ok honestly I do not think Street View is a good idea it is an invasion into normal lives. People can be seen in various places at various times of the day. Lord knows one could be in nightwear or doing something, when you don't expect your picture to be taken and display on the internet without your permission. This is where I think the whole idea is wrong. People have mentioned the fact you can walk down a street and strand outside a house and theres nothing wrong with that, but think of this. A person can sit in front of their computer and look at someones house for as long as they want too. Now what is right about that.

I know this is coming to Dublin but I really think it should not be in Housing Estates or Residential area's after all its not a tourist attraction. And who needs to have this anyways for directions, we have sat navs and maps to do that.

I do think this is an invasion of the privacy and I wonder how far will Google go. We have Google Earth, Google Ocean, Google Space and now Google Street View. What is next on the agenda? Google Home View? An exploration of individuals homes in different areas, where they would come into your home and photograph all your rooms??? I should hope not!

We live in a day and age where we are gradually becoming more and more like living our lives in a goldfish bowl. How much further are we going to go with all of this?

I am going to write to Google to take my house off the Street View before it is even up on the net.

Be careful. There is a group getting organized on the net now where they are searching for places removed from street view. When they find them they post and ask anyone who is around there to take as many photos of the house as they can a post them on their own site.

The Ritz · 26-04-2009 12:34AM

The privacy arguments are boderline bunkum, I found streetview very handy for planning visiting particular locations etc on a visit to the States last year, puts gps in the shade when you can actually check out the surroundings of a place in advance.

As for

Also, it's very unlikely that you'll be in your nightwear:

a) outside
b) in the middle of the day

People are caught in embarrassing situations every day.

The above obviously excludes the daytime pyjama-wearing denizens of environs city-wide, whose only likely embarassment at the eventuality would be that they were, ahem, overdressed for an appearance on the internet.....

Ritz.

vangoz · 16-06-2009 01:32PM

The Black Google street car just passed me 20 mins ago on camden street:D

WithCheesePlease · 16-06-2009 01:57PM

class - is it sad that I'm jealous?!

brianthebard · 16-06-2009 02:00PM

Saw it in my estate in Galway earlier in the week or last week (I forget).

Diddy Kong · 16-06-2009 02:08PM

It was wandering around Clane about 2 weeks ago

vangoz · 16-06-2009 02:15PM

gearoid_healy wrote: »

class - is it sad that I'm jealous?!

Depends on what your jealous of

mobius42 · 16-06-2009 02:17PM

I saw it on an overpass on the M8 this morning. I didn't think they'd be mapping motorways so maybe they're doing Kilkenny as well?

one2one · 16-06-2009 02:20PM

It was in Aylesbury in Tallaght, last week.

redout · 16-06-2009 02:28PM

Hopefully it wont be to long until they get this up and running. They put up one of the area I live in Spain around the turn of the year but all the pics were over 18 months old at the time which was easily noticable due to construction work.

Micilin Muc · 23-06-2009 03:02PM

Spotted the car in Ranelagh today. It's like seeing a celebrity!

mobius42 · 23-06-2009 03:04PM

I think that Google might be doing a large update to Google Maps in Ireland. I've noticed that Google now gives local search results for Ireland and that Google Maps on the iPhone has a lot more information than before.

Pop's Diner · 23-06-2009 03:15PM

Anyone (insiders maybe?) know when the streetview for Ireland will actually be up and running?

turgon · 23-06-2009 03:25PM

The google streetview car passed my house about 3 weeks ago. I was digging earth with my shirt off looking uber sexy. PM for autographs.

selekta · 24-06-2009 03:11AM

Are they still on it? They passed by me in Howth a couple of months ago, I thought it would be published by now.

gerrycollins · 24-06-2009 07:10AM

a google car was parked up in my car park the other day. Spoke to the driver took photos of it myself. He said there is 12 cars doing the whole country but it will take them about 5 months more to complete.

I asked whats roads are been covered and he described a map (road map but forget the name) and he basically said any road on that map was been mapped by their cars.

AlkalineAcid · 24-06-2009 08:22AM

The car I saw in Whitehall was red...

Mec-a-nic · 25-06-2009 04:03PM

AlkalineAcid wrote: »

The car I saw in Whitehall was red...

The one in Walkinstown today was black, with Spanish numberplates.

flickr.com/.../GoogleCar

I believe it takes several months to capture and process all the photos before they are actually visible in Street View.

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

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