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Postby Greji » Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:23 am

Trayu wrote:It would be an invasion of privacy


Bloody hell, that would never happen, but then again I haven't checked my girl friends house yet. That could be a problem. I may have to go to Central America with you!
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Re: Privacy

Postby Taro Toporific » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:51 pm

Via Google Sightseeing: Here's a cool photo of an airplane (Boeing 737?) and it's shadow landing at Haneda Airport I certainly didn't see the first time I went to Google Earth.

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Postby amdg » Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:22 pm

Trayu wrote:Go here for the GoogleEarth program http://earth.google.com/. download the free version, its a very neato program that allows you to get very detailed(albeit somewhat dated) satellite photos of the entire planet. Sadly I think it only works in english prompts, but you can overlay road, buildings and railways over the map like photochop layers. Just type in any address and see what you get!

If this is a re-post of already posted info, my apologies.


GoogleEarth is very cool indeed. From a ground level perspective Kobe never looked like that for me - the mountains seem much higher when you're walking around beneath them. But it's interesting to see another perspective.

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Postby emperor » Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:38 am

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Someone carved their name in BIG LETTERS on the outskirts of Lima, Peru :D
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Postby GuyJean » Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:46 am

emperor wrote:Image

Someone carved their name in BIG LETTERS on the outskirts of Lima, Peru :D
:lol: Nice one, Beltran.. I foresee a new form of advertising..

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Postby Buraku » Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:54 pm

AssKissinger wrote:Necro, you live in a very ugly neighborhood.

It seems there's not a single plant in that entire picture. Nasty.


here are some good ones

WTC jihad attack during 911 from Space
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Kobe shot of Japanese running around like headless Chickens while their cities burn from Earthquakes
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Postby GuyJean » Wed May 17, 2006 7:23 pm

emperor wrote:Image

Someone carved their name in BIG LETTERS on the outskirts of Lima, Peru :D
GuyJean wrote::lol: Nice one, Beltran.. I foresee a new form of advertising..

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Postby IkemenTommy » Thu May 18, 2006 10:00 pm

GuyJean wrote:I KNEW it! :p
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Postby Greji » Fri May 19, 2006 10:38 am

GuyJean wrote:I KNEW it! :p
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Great advertising. It really works. I'll buy her!
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Postby Blah Pete » Fri May 19, 2006 11:44 am

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gboothe wrote:Great advertising. It really works. I'll buy her!
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Postby Yorik » Fri May 19, 2006 6:40 pm

If you go looking at the crazy google earth pics, there is a flying car in Perth, Western Australia that was pictured. It must be off the ground a fair way as the shadow is a distance off..
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Postby Charles » Fri May 19, 2006 10:51 pm

I just ran across a rather interesting site based on Google Maps, WeatherBonk. It overlays GoogleMaps with local weather station reports and webcams. It also has a nice weather radar overlay but that only works in the US, sorry, no coverage for the zainichi FGs.
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Postby GuyJean » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:44 am

I just noticed they added 'Street View' to Google Maps:

- Do a search in Google. For example 'fucked gaijin'
- Choose Maps for 'fucked gaijin'
- Click on 'Street View' and little camera icons appear
- Click on a camera icon, and you can choose what street to view in that city..

Cool, but I'm not sure I want anyone on the Internet knowing what my front door looks like.. Hhhhmm

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Postby IkemenTommy » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:12 pm

GuyJean wrote:I just noticed they added 'Street View' to Google Maps:

- Do a search in Google. For example 'fucked gaijin'
- Choose Maps for 'fucked gaijin'
- Click on 'Street View' and little camera icons appear
- Click on a camera icon, and you can choose what street to view in that city..

Cool, but I'm not sure I want anyone on the Internet knowing what my front door looks like.. Hhhhmm

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Supposedly, they got guys in unmarked black vans going around snapping pictures. Fortunately or unfortunately, Japan has not caught up with this, yet.
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Postby GuyJean » Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:32 pm

IkemenTommy wrote:Supposedly, they got guys in unmarked black vans going around snapping pictures. Fortunately or unfortunately, Japan has not caught up with this, yet.
Yeah, it's only available now for a few cities in the US..

I'm not sure if I like this technology; where any Take-a-poop on the Net has access to people's front doors. Seems like a few good lawyers could get rich suing Google for 'aiding and abedding' a stalking murder..

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Postby IkemenTommy » Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:12 pm

[quote="GuyJean"]Yeah, it's only available now for a few cities in the US..

I'm not sure if I like this technology]
Technically, anyone can snap pictures of public streets and houses. It's when google or anyone starts entering people's homes and evade privacy.. :shakeh:
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Postby GomiGirl » Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:28 pm

It is interesting technology though. How did they do it? Send out an army of photographers with spherical cameras and then join them all up?
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Postby Kuang_Grade » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:12 am

Here are some pics of the vehicles used (and one of trucks that Microsoft is using for a similar project)

http://www.engadget.com/tag/street%20view/
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Postby GuyJean » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:04 am

I guess people aren't paranoid about shit like this anymore. My dad, and many of his friends, would've been shooting their hippie-ass shotguns at any black cars driving around with cameras sticking out of the roof.

"Hey! What the fuck you think you're doin' in front of my home?"
"Who? Me? Oh, we're just taking pictures of your street so we can post them on the Internet."
"Oh no you're not.."

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Postby IkemenTommy » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:27 pm

GuyJean wrote:I guess people aren't paranoid about shit like this anymore. My dad, and many of his friends, would've been shooting their hippie-ass shotguns at any black cars driving around with cameras sticking out of the roof.

"Hey! What the fuck you think you're doin' in front of my home?"
"Who? Me? Oh, we're just taking pictures of your street so we can post them on the Internet."
"Oh no you're not.."

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I thought peace-loving hippies were against guns. :rolleyes:
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Postby joshuaism » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:40 pm

GuyJean wrote:I guess people aren't paranoid about shit like this anymore. My dad, and many of his friends, would've been shooting their hippie-ass shotguns at any black cars driving around with cameras sticking out of the roof.

"Hey! What the fuck you think you're doin' in front of my home?"
"Who? Me? Oh, we're just taking pictures of your street so we can post them on the Internet."
"Oh no you're not.."

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Actually some people are raising a fuss about the privacy concerns raised by Google Street View. Here's an interesting article about it.
Kalin-Casey expressed her privacy concerns to the site BoingBoing, and she was joined by a gaggle of commenters who felt that Google had crossed a line by photographing people's homes, cars, and garbage cans. The race was on to find the most alarming and actionable image. Promising candidates included the two men entering a cannabis club in San Francisco, the interior shot of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (a no-no since 9/11), and the guy standing outside a strip joint.
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Postby GuyJean » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:42 pm

IkemenTommy wrote:I thought peace-loving hippies were against guns. :rolleyes:
Not the real kind.. Marijuana patches need protecting.. and there are a lot of hungry animals in the woods.

Actually, my dad hated guns but had one for awhile]with[/I] guns where I grew up.

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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:19 am

Street View now also available for parts of Japan. It looks like my old place in Tokyo is (was?) up for sale. I tried finding a bar called Araku in Golden Gai but the Google mappers didn't seem to go down the right side streets.
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Postby omae mona » Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:35 am

Mulboyne wrote:Street Maps now also available.

Wow. It's strange seeing your own front door, bicycle, car, and so forth on somebody else's web page. They even got a very clean picture of my wife's umbrella (left outside to dry), which was subsequently stolen when she went shopping. "Natsukashii", says Mrs. Omae Mona. Maybe I can use this photo for an insurance claim or something.
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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:29 am

It wasn't long before I started to cruise the love hotel districts and well-known streetwalker hang-outs to see if I could spot anyone caught in the act. There are a few pictures available but Street View seems a little chaste and didn't offer me the chance to look down certain streets no matter from which direction I tried to approach them.
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Postby GuyJean » Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:52 pm

Mulboyne wrote:It wasn't long before I started to cruise the love hotel districts and well-known streetwalker hang-outs to see if I could spot anyone caught in the act..
You summed up my work day perfectly. :p

Looks like they're using some sort of Prius looking thing..

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Postby ichigo partygirl » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:32 pm

i couldn't see hardly any of the streets around where i live in Yokohama (kind of red-light area) Perhaps they have left out the dodgy streets on purpose. Pity. Good fun though!
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Postby Caustic Saint » Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:01 pm

Anybody know where the law/right to privacy falls with this sort of thing? I know if you catch somebody on a public street, they have no expectation of privacy, but what about open windows and that sort of thing?

If you'd caught somebody walking down your street snapping pics through open windows, that would probably get people up in arms, but since the mapping cars are here and gone so quickly, they don't get noticed much.

If a person's photo is up on Street View and they want it taken down, do they have any recourse?

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Postby Maths Dude » Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:02 pm

Wow this google tool is going to make it easier for thieves to scope out easier targets to hit. I just went past my house. Now I feel like putting up some razor wire.
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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:24 pm

It would have been perfect if this cyclist had been a white foreigner. There's been a sighting of a love hotel couple in Osaka here.
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