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Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby EFFalcon » August 5th, 2008, 11:35 am

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...
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Kyle the ED4LTR » August 5th, 2008, 11:38 am

****, SCARY SHIT, AHHHHHHHHHHBH!
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Kyle the ED4LTR » August 5th, 2008, 11:51 am

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

Postby glenneaux » August 5th, 2008, 11:57 am

holy fuk thats awesome

even my place in coongulla comes up

looks like shit with the trans am out the front haha
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby glenneaux » August 5th, 2008, 11:59 am

wow you can even look at the lake etc!
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby EFFalcon » August 5th, 2008, 12:02 pm

ahaha yeha. the detail is incredible.
i remember the hype when google earth came out.
this is a whole new level.

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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Wave_Man » August 5th, 2008, 12:11 pm

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

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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Gunns » August 5th, 2008, 12:13 pm

This is cool. I can see the black lines I have left up and down the street :P
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Bipolar » August 5th, 2008, 12:22 pm

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 :)
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Dansedgli » August 5th, 2008, 12:23 pm

My work.

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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby FTE146 » August 5th, 2008, 12:23 pm

Thats awesome,

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

Postby fordbaby » August 5th, 2008, 12:23 pm

do you ever do any work :roll: :P

i can see my car at work and the ugly wagon at home :P
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby nommic » August 5th, 2008, 12:35 pm

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
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby glenneaux » August 5th, 2008, 12:36 pm

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
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby G3R3N » August 5th, 2008, 12:43 pm

Woow, how the hell do they do that? Some of the detail is incredible
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby glenneaux » August 5th, 2008, 12:58 pm

gerendasi wrote:Woow, how the hell do they do that? Some of the detail is incredible


they get satellites that take photos on angles
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Commando » August 5th, 2008, 1:05 pm

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

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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Kyle the ED4LTR » August 5th, 2008, 1:23 pm

my street isnt available for it yet :x
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby 4LEDboy » August 5th, 2008, 1:32 pm

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holly shit, I have seen that same car in my area!! :o
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Robertsbrock » August 5th, 2008, 2:33 pm

Awsome site , i didnt know this one exsisted till now , i new their was google earth and shit but yeah ,
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Sunboost » August 5th, 2008, 2:38 pm

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 :'(
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Dansedgli » August 5th, 2008, 2:41 pm

So how does this junk work?

What do the google map cars do?
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby krisisdog » August 5th, 2008, 2:43 pm

I would guess that take a mazillion happy snaps and record them in conjunction with a gps location?
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby EFFalcon » August 5th, 2008, 2:45 pm

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.
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby t1MMy » August 5th, 2008, 2:47 pm

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.
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Postby LTDHO » August 5th, 2008, 2:50 pm

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
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Postby EFFalcon » August 5th, 2008, 2:58 pm

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
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby ned » August 5th, 2008, 3:23 pm

How do you guys get the angled pics happening?
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Postby EFFalcon » August 5th, 2008, 3:25 pm

click and drag?
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Postby TICKFORD_XR6 » August 5th, 2008, 3:30 pm

fark that is insane. i can see my car in peices in the yard and my mates car at my house lol
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Postby t1MMy » August 5th, 2008, 3:38 pm

LOL i can see my neighbour hopping in her car out the front.
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Postby krisisdog » August 5th, 2008, 3:45 pm

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.
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Postby wicksy » August 5th, 2008, 5:18 pm

i got a good pic of my car haha
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Postby fordbaby » August 5th, 2008, 5:19 pm

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
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Rollin » August 5th, 2008, 5:51 pm

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
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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby BLCKED » August 5th, 2008, 6:05 pm

HOLY SHIT THIS IS CRAZY

you can see my eb up the drive way,

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Re: Google Maps VERY IMPRESSIVE

Postby Rollin » August 5th, 2008, 6:20 pm

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.
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Postby serial_fool » August 5th, 2008, 6:25 pm

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Postby Steady » August 5th, 2008, 6:36 pm

LOL they got an image of my fukken house!!
That will be surprising to anyone whose been to my joint.

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Postby Dezza » August 5th, 2008, 6:42 pm

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 :(
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