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Google Street View Car

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  • #32
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    po0k wrote: »
    watch

    Gettin an ole 403 error thar buddy boy.
    Skyuser wrote: »
    They should wait until there is a bit of decent weather in may/june....not to make us look bad.

    We might be waiting til next March :eek: Google Earth only seems to use imagery without (much) cloud cover, I wonder how many times they had to wait for the satellite to pass over Galway before they could get some clear images :D


  • #33
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    Google car seen going about it's business in Spiddal and Carraroe.

    Also, there was short item about it on RnaG, repeating the above info.


  • #34
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    This morning, on my way into school, we were caught in traffic outside the side entrance to NUIG on the Newcastle Road. I spotted a car with a huge black mast sticking out of its roof with some covered equipment on the top. The mast was at least 10ft tall, meaning that the total height of the apparatus (including the car) was nearly 20ft tall.

    The car in question was a surprisingly unsuspicious bright red Opel Astra with the words "Google Maps" on the side. If you see a bright red car with a 10ft tall pole sticking out of it make sure to wave!


  • #35
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Did you see Marty Mcflys Delorean as well?


  • #36
    3fullback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭3fullback


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    This morning, on my way into school, we were caught in traffic outside the side entrance to NUIG on the Newcastle Road. I spotted a car with a huge black mast sticking out of its roof with some covered equipment on the top. The mast was at least 10ft tall, meaning that the total height of the apparatus (including the car) was nearly 20ft tall.

    The car in question was a surprisingly unsuspicious bright red Opel Astra with the words "Google Maps" on the side. If you see a bright red car with a 10ft tall pole sticking out of it make sure to wave!

    no shít surelock ...

    like 2 weeks ago..........


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  • #37
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055517964


  • #38
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Merged


  • #39
    EJLL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭EJLL


    There is a guy I work with that spends a lot of his time on the phone to his girlfriend during work hours. He used to go outside and ring her from behind the trees in an attempt to hide what he was doing. Everyone knew as he would disappear for abot 20 minutes at a time. Clearly people are not impressed with his routine.
    Anyway, this image popped up on Google Street Maps of the road outside my work building (see attahed). It's genius…… but at the same time you can see how it can be annoying if you're caught on camera.
    We all had a laugh about it in the office and sent it around.


  • #40
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Red google car seen at St. Vincents Avenue at approx 3pm today, headed out the N59


  • #41
    dmcg90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭dmcg90


    Seen it in claregalway today at half 10 randomly with shutters over the cameras due to it p****** rain.


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  • #42
    joeKel73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭joeKel73


    The Google Street View car drove past NUIG a few minutes ago...


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Catching an average working day in Galway - people parking illegally to go to mass.


  • #44
    pointofnoreturn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭pointofnoreturn


    Saw it too on Monday (8th) driving towards town on the road to Clifden just passed corrib village. But I don't think this is Google Street View, didn't they drive around already?
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  • #45
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Maybe some of their snaps didn't come out and they had to come back to get some nice ones for Mammy Google. I saw the car in late June last year in Renmore


  • #46
    Original Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 181 ✭✭Original Steyr


    Passed by me in Leisureland Gym like over 3 months ago, either that or something extremely simliar.


  • #47
    Michifuz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭Michifuz


    The whole sequence is hilarious, they did plan well:

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rugdeveien+39+bergen&sll=59.913801,10.73882&sspn=0.000449,0.001635&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rugdeveien+39,+5097+Bergen,+Hordaland,+Norway&t=h&layer=c&ll=60.360883,5.369267&spn=0.001032,0.001996&z=19&cbll=60.360884,5.369468&panoid=vIlVwLm8kDoxekaRJ0MwdQ&cbp=12,284.43,,1,14.19


  • #48
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,233 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Michifuz wrote: »
    The whole sequence is hilarious, they did plan well:

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rugdeveien+39+bergen&sll=59.913801,10.73882&sspn=0.000449,0.001635&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rugdeveien+39,+5097+Bergen,+Hordaland,+Norway&t=h&layer=c&ll=60.360883,5.369267&spn=0.001032,0.001996&z=19&cbll=60.360884,5.369468&panoid=vIlVwLm8kDoxekaRJ0MwdQ&cbp=12,284.43,,1,14.19

    LOL. Some TG4 heads are getting Google to refilm the Quiet Man out in Connemara, they are in Oughterard with an ass and cart right now.


  • #49
    Melty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭Melty


    Google car drove past me in mervue industrial estate half an hour ago. Didnt they do galway already?


  • #50
    unJustMary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭unJustMary


    Reportedly.

    However we've not seen any evidence of Street View Galway yet, so probably only Google knows (and not their search engine either! ;) )

    I saw the car outside NUIG the same day that ... umm, someone a few posts back. It occurred to me to wonder how we know the car is actually Google.


  • #51
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    unJustMary wrote: »
    Reportedly.

    However we've not seen any evidence of Street View Galway yet, so probably only Google knows (and not their search engine either! ;) )

    I saw the car outside NUIG the same day that ... umm, someone a few posts back. It occurred to me to wonder how we know the car is actually Google.

    Impostors ? :eek:


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  • #52
    DRakE
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    3fullback wrote: »
    no shít surelock ...

    like 2 weeks ago..........

    good god


  • #53
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,233 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    it is an 09 D opel astra with a feckin enormous camera stuck to the roof and a google sticker on the door


  • #54
    KevR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭KevR


    Think they may have removed the sticker. Someone mentioned to me that Google had done so and said the reason why but I can't remember, it was ages ago..


  • #55
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    JohnCleary wrote: »
    They're doing Connemara? That's nuts... any idea what routes they're doing? Thought they'd only do cities
    I'd say they're do connemara just because it's such a well known tourist destination.
    Melty wrote: »
    Google car drove past me in mervue industrial estate half an hour ago. Didnt they do galway already?
    Probably need to get multiple passes to get good photos. It would be chancing it to hope to get good photos on jut one pass.


  • #56
    KevR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭KevR


    As far as I know, they're doing every road in the country, not just towns and cities.

    They only record images when the weather is good (i.e. - not raining or not badly overcast). So if someone sees them at one particular location more than once, it could be that the weather wasn't good enough the first time they were there.


  • #57
    Tomebagel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭Tomebagel


    seen it the last day going down the newcastle road!


  • #58
    unJustMary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭unJustMary


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    it is an 09 D opel astra with a feckin enormous camera stuck to the roof and a google sticker on the door

    definitely no branding on the passenger doors of the car I saw.


  • #59
    Tomebagel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭Tomebagel


    unJustMary wrote: »
    definitely no branding on the passenger doors of the car I saw.


    non on the one i saw either,

    it was a red astra


  • #60
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Google has been known to use a red Astra.


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  • #61
    ErnieBert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭ErnieBert


    I saw it in Salthill at around 8.15 this morning as i was getting a coffee on Cocos.


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