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Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 11:35 am
by EFFalcon
already been mentioned on fordmods... but woah

not sure what areas its available in.
BUT
goto maps.google.com
type in ur street address

it'll come up with 'Street View'
you can see ur house from ur street...
insane.

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 11:38 am
by Kyle the ED4LTR
****, SCARY SHIT, AHHHHHHHHHHBH!

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 11:51 am
by Kyle the ED4LTR
i heard that the images are from the end of last year so i thought i would try and see if the place i got my car from would come up and what do ya know.

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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 11:57 am
by glenneaux
holy fuk thats awesome

even my place in coongulla comes up

looks like shit with the trans am out the front haha

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 11:59 am
by glenneaux
wow you can even look at the lake etc!

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:02 pm
by EFFalcon
ahaha yeha. the detail is incredible.
i remember the hype when google earth came out.
this is a whole new level.

good bye privacy :P

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:11 pm
by Wave_Man
I didn't know it used ur IP or something to Come straight to your house on your road.

I put in the road name, and it's picture was on my driveway.... Its a fairly long road and yeah

Fucking nuts

*goes to check ex girlfriends houses and common sexy time look out spots...*

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:13 pm
by Gunns
This is cool. I can see the black lines I have left up and down the street :P

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:22 pm
by Bipolar
Saw this on telly this morning. The pics around Brizzy look about 6 months old. If they were 8 months old you'd be able to see blackies out the front of my place :)

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:23 pm
by Dansedgli
My work.

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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:23 pm
by FTE146
Thats awesome,

struggling to view my house though, always comes up as the street behind :oops:
ah well, still awesome :)

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:23 pm
by fordbaby
do you ever do any work :roll: :P

i can see my car at work and the ugly wagon at home :P

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:35 pm
by nommic
WTF it covers some weird areas, then leaves big gaps in other spots? For instance the only part of Geelong covered is the freeway. I guess they didn't want to stay around for long in case they got mugged :)

Heh, can see my gf's brother's VN at his house. Shitbox :P

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:36 pm
by glenneaux
EL2XR8 wrote:Thats awesome,

struggling to view my house though, always comes up as the street behind :oops:
ah well, still awesome :)



the streets in blue are the ones with streetview, argyle way isnt :(

however, ryans road coongulla is ! :P

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:43 pm
by G3R3N
Woow, how the hell do they do that? Some of the detail is incredible

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 12:58 pm
by glenneaux
gerendasi wrote:Woow, how the hell do they do that? Some of the detail is incredible


they get satellites that take photos on angles

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 1:05 pm
by Commando
AWESOME, I rarely parked the EB out the front, but it happened to be on the lawn the day my old address was photographed :D

120 Helen St Morwell (old address, comes up as "129 Helen St" in the actual search)

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 1:23 pm
by Kyle the ED4LTR
my street isnt available for it yet :x

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 1:32 pm
by 4LEDboy
http://www.conversionrate.com.au/158/th ... melbourne/

holly shit, I have seen that same car in my area!! :o

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 2:33 pm
by Robertsbrock
Awsome site , i didnt know this one exsisted till now , i new their was google earth and shit but yeah ,

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 2:38 pm
by Sunboost
Yeah they had heaps of those cars drive through all the streets that are available.

One of them was on the news once because the Police had gotten photos from one of the Google cars for investigating a murder in Springvale where the body was dumped in a front yard. Anyone remember that?

Only the VX in the driveway for my house :'(

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 2:41 pm
by Dansedgli
So how does this junk work?

What do the google map cars do?

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 2:43 pm
by krisisdog
I would guess that take a mazillion happy snaps and record them in conjunction with a gps location?

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 2:45 pm
by EFFalcon
yeh, wide angle shots or using multiple cameras to take photos that can be spanned around.
the car would likely just be on a timer or trigger of sorts to take one every few metres.

would have been a massive effort.

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 2:47 pm
by t1MMy
Sundeep wrote:Yeah they had heaps of those cars drive through all the streets that are available.

One of them was on the news once because the Police had gotten photos from one of the Google cars for investigating a murder in Springvale where the body was dumped in a front yard. Anyone remember that?

Only the VX in the driveway for my house :'(

Yeah I remember that, they found a body in the front yard behind the wall.

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 2:50 pm
by LTDHO
I think it's awesome. The pic's are a few months old though. At first I thought it was live due to the position of my car! Really freaked me out

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 2:58 pm
by EFFalcon
yeah, the photos of our joint show the Wagon in the backyard
house not painted
few trees have gone missing since then
no 4th car
shattered i didnt have a car sitting on the nature strip, woulda got a good photo of it :P

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 3:23 pm
by ned
How do you guys get the angled pics happening?

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 3:25 pm
by EFFalcon
click and drag?

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 3:30 pm
by TICKFORD_XR6
fark that is insane. i can see my car in peices in the yard and my mates car at my house lol

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 3:38 pm
by t1MMy
LOL i can see my neighbour hopping in her car out the front.

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 3:45 pm
by krisisdog
ned wrote:How do you guys get the angled pics happening?


you gotta put in a certain address n if they have the pics for it it will come up with a thumbnail size version. click it.
if not then they may not have done that area yet.

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 5:18 pm
by wicksy
i got a good pic of my car haha

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 5:19 pm
by fordbaby
EFFalcon wrote:yeah, the photos of our joint show the Wagon in the backyard
house not painted
few trees have gone missing since then
no 4th car
shattered i didnt have a car sitting on the nature strip, woulda got a good photo of it :P


you will never get a decent pic of that car :P

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 5:51 pm
by Rollin
Holy crap that must have cost them an absolute mint to do!

My housemates busted-ass VN stars on my street, and you can see a bit of my smashed EB in a visitors car park...the ED must have been in the garage or at work :(

I found some skids which may or may not be mine, viewable from space, woot :P

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 6:05 pm
by BLCKED
HOLY SHIT THIS IS CRAZY

you can see my eb up the drive way,

green gt rear bar and rear wing

wonder when they took the photos,

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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 6:20 pm
by Rollin
How funny is this - I tried to google-stalk an ex, got an adress in france by accident, and Paris doesn't have any street views! LOL that Brisbane is so well covered, but they give no fark for one of the more famous capital cities in the world!

EDIT: Unsurprisingly, no street views in Venice either haha.

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 6:25 pm
by serial_fool
No images for me.

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 6:36 pm
by Steady
LOL they got an image of my fukken house!!
That will be surprising to anyone whose been to my joint.

Another LOL.
Out the front of my work...
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Proof of how old those pictures are, cause the sprint left those marks.

Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 6:42 pm
by Dezza
This is awesome. Unfortunately nobody were home when the photo of my place was taken :(

And my computer is being a virus infected bitch that won't let me upload photos. It looks like it's about time to format it :(