| Google StreetView launches in UK
 Google have launched their 3D Virtual Map, StreetView in the UK.
Despite the protests from privacy campaigners the service is now available via Google Maps with coverage of many major cities including London, Oxford, Birmingham, Cardiff and Scunthorpe (eh?).
The service allows you to see streets in a virtual 3D environment, pan around 360 degrees and travel along the roads.
To access Street View, fire up Google Maps and drag the street view 'man' icon onto a street. Areas covered by StreetView images will be shown outlined in blue.
Pan around with your mouse, the small map at bottom right indicates your position and direction of view
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 Posted by MaFt on Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:17 pm |
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not happy  i DID see one of the vans in bradford but i'm not on the view where i saw it...
MaFt
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| Posted by PeteT on Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:06 pm |
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| MaFt Wrote: | not happy i DID see one of the vans in bradford but i'm not on the view where i saw it...
MaFt |
Me too, i saw it in shipley, but the images don't quite go down to where i saw the van. (an orange one with lots of cameras on it)
TT720T
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| Posted by Darren on Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:21 pm |
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Ok, plenty of speed cameras in the Street View images, who will be the first t find a Speed Camera Van?
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| Posted by GerryC on Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:28 pm |
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I doubt I'll be shown now as the car was on the other side of the road when it passed me with the cameras up. 
There's lots of gaps so I guess it will get filled in and joined up in time.
Now, did anyone have a car follow them when you had a PGPSW sticker in the window?
Gerry
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| Posted by Andy_P on Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:06 pm |
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Street View captures traditional British Christmas:
Shoreditch, antlers and vomit
I'm sure there will be many more! 
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| Posted by Darren on Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:16 pm |
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Oh yes, check out this site devoted to such things:
GoogleSighsteeing.com
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| Posted by GerryC on Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:18 pm |
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Well, they've already deleted one view.
Go with me on this... you have a choice - left for New St station, right for "All other traffic" and straight on for "No motor vehicles except for buses, taxis, cycles and access to off street premises". Guess where they decided to go.
Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham. Look north and read the sign. The next photo is missing and you have to "drag" the man across the junction as it isn't linked up.
Gerry
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| Posted by PaulB2005 on Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:28 pm |
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Saw one round the corner from me 6 months ago, but i'm not there....
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| Posted by adamf on Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:57 am |
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a black astra has been driving around wolverhampton loads of cameras on roof and google stickers on the side of it
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| Posted by pcaouolte on Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:29 am |
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Should we have a prize for the best parking?
Like this
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| Posted by JockTamsonsBairn on Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:39 pm |
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| News Team Wrote: | | Areas covered by StreetView images will be shown outlined in blue. |
Do you know how long it takes them to "develop the film"? Is there an easy way to see what areas they have covered, when? I drove behind one of these cars this week without knowing what it was! I do remember thinking "If I was moving one of those, I wouldn't have put it upright on the roof rack!", but I can't remember where I was at the time. Liverpool or The Wirral?
Jock
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