GoogleStreetView UK:It'sEverywhereNow!
mercsport
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Have just discovered Google has extended it's Street View UK coverage from out of the main cities and into most every street and road in Britain. It's really rather remarkable. Very enjoyable too.
For a starter, here's a view from my favourite local ride: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie= ... 2,235,,0,5
Now, if you click and drag the little yellow fella from above the + / - zoom slider, and place it anywhere on the map, it'll take you there. And so on. Fool about with it all. Y'know, your up / down, left / right keys etc..
Quite addictive.
Oh yes, don't forget to stick your post code in the search box !
For a starter, here's a view from my favourite local ride: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie= ... 2,235,,0,5
Now, if you click and drag the little yellow fella from above the + / - zoom slider, and place it anywhere on the map, it'll take you there. And so on. Fool about with it all. Y'know, your up / down, left / right keys etc..
Quite addictive.
Oh yes, don't forget to stick your post code in the search box !
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Google StreetView, the scallies' tool of choice for determining the best neighbourhoods for burgling...0
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It doesn’t quite capture the essence of my regular hill climb up Ivinghoe Beacon. Not only is that bit of road missing, what is there on the approach looks flat!0
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Cressers wrote:Google StreetView, the scallies' tool of choice for determining the best neighbourhoods for burgling...
im dying to know how?'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'0 -
fast as fupp wrote:Cressers wrote:Google StreetView, the scallies' tool of choice for determining the best neighbourhoods for burgling...
im dying to know how?
Wasn't this some tosh peddled by the Daily Mail at some point?
Burglars round here have been pretty succesful without google street view anyway."A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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just had a look - my house and car are on it- id better get my trusty old blunderbuss ready!'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'0
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Just went up Carlton Bank and Rosedale Chimney. It's a lot less painful this way."A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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I think it involves vaseline. Imagine you'd need a very big tub tho'.ratherbeintobago wrote:I think there is a way of getting your house blurred out.0 -
My road isn't on it and the view form the road it joins is a good 10 months old
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Some great scenery from the bikeradar spring fling ride!0
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ratherbeintobago wrote:I think there is a way of getting your house blurred out.
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no i looked again-its still there'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'0 -
Look at the black car in the distance - veering over the line. Press the back arrow ( to make the Google car drive forward). Look at the car now. Wrong side of the road! :roll:mercsport wrote:Have just discovered Google has extended it's Street View UK coverage from out of the main cities and into most every street and road in Britain. It's really rather remarkable. Very enjoyable too.
For a starter, here's a view from my favourite local ride: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie= ... 2,235,,0,5
Now, if you click and drag the little yellow fella from above the + / - zoom slider, and place it anywhere on the map, it'll take you there. And so on. Fool about with it all. Y'know, your up / down, left / right keys etc..
Quite addictive.
Oh yes, don't forget to stick your post code in the search box !0 -
They have done the same for Eindhoven in the Netherlands. It's a good reference for anyone who hasn't seen a cycle path networked designed from the point of view that bicycles are traffic not pedestrians.0
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They just look for open windows and away they go.fast as fupp wrote:Cressers wrote:Google StreetView, the scallies' tool of choice for determining the best neighbourhoods for burgling...
im dying to know how?Smarter than the average bear.0 -
Looks like a good line to me.White Line wrote:
Look at the black car in the distance - veering over the line. Press the back arrow ( to make the Google car drive forward). Look at the car now. Wrong side of the road! :roll:mercsport wrote:Have just discovered Google has extended it's Street View UK coverage from out of the main cities and into most every street and road in Britain. It's really rather remarkable. Very enjoyable too.
For a starter, here's a view from my favourite local ride: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie= ... 2,235,,0,5
Now, if you click and drag the little yellow fella from above the + / - zoom slider, and place it anywhere on the map, it'll take you there. And so on. Fool about with it all. Y'know, your up / down, left / right keys etc..
Quite addictive.
Oh yes, don't forget to stick your post code in the search box !0 -
This is great news. I can now check dodgy roads before I ride them. There's one road willhub took me down which progressively turns into a lake. :? Looks like the Google car decided not to record that one! :roll:mercsport wrote:For a starter, here's a view from my favourite local ride: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie= ... 2,235,,0,5
That road is AWESOME. My favourite descent ever.
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The picture of my cul-de-sac must be at least the Summer before last. Next door neighbour moved then and her car is still in her driveway.
Looks like the leaves in my drive need sweeping too
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Is it possible to do a fly-through of a plotted route in streetview? I've got a few plotted and it would be cool to have a look before doing them.A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0
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Too slow loading to be able to fly through, you'd be stop start, it'd be like sitting there for the full time you'd actually be riding it lol.
It's awesome though, no need to take pictures anymore, just look on street view
Damn that's one of the hardest climbs in the uk I rekon.0 -
I found out today, I'm on, AND cycling
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 98.24,,2,5
4 of us went out last summer and in the middle of nowwhere came across a fire engine doing a 63 point turn which was holding up the traffic. In the traffic queue on the other side of the rode, the google camera.
I'm the one at the back (I must have dropped back to get instructions from the team car, honest :oops: )Wind. Cold. Rain. Pick two.0 -
Pity. You used to be able to do a fly through in Terrain view - was like being in a jet fighter.freehub wrote:Too slow loading to be able to fly through, you'd be stop start, it'd be like sitting there for the full time you'd actually be riding it lol. ....A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0 -
I discovered last night that my mum's on street view, standing outside the driveway. She thought it was hilarious.
At least she wasn't caught in the act of snogging the postman or something! 0 -
My neighbourhood was done in mid March 2009.0
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My wife is a planning officer - they love it. Means they can do site visits to anywhere in leeds without leaving the office0
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antfly wrote:
They just look for open windows and away they go.fast as fupp wrote:Cressers wrote:Google StreetView, the scallies' tool of choice for determining the best neighbourhoods for burgling...
im dying to know how?
*nails windows shut*
can they tell if youre in?'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'0 -
The picture of my parents house I'm on it, well, not literally, I'm right behind the blinds, I just remember the car coming down, some crappy little smart car it was.0
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yeah they were with a big spinning thing on the roof0
