Google Street View gone?

Google Maps | 6/26/2008 | na

[prisoner6]

Sorry for the vanity. I was doing some research this morning, went to Google Maps and noticed the "street view" option isn't on the menu. Has it been deleted?

I know there have been some privacy issues and some communities have asked that street view not be used but has google caved and scrapped the whole thing?

FWIW I think the privacy issues are mostly unfounded. If it's a public street and anyone can take a picture then google should be able to make street view available.

If Google has pulled it, there could be wide ranging effects. What about live webcams, security cams and traffic cams? If I take pictures of my community and post them on the web is that going to be a problem?

Hopefull it's just a glitch or I just can't find the menu option.

prisoner6

[dubie]

street view is not available for every city or map. try a different city...

[Oklahoma]

Something is going on at Google. Last night and this morning someone has hacked either Google or The American Spectator. When I try to go to the Spectator website I get a warning message (seemingly from Google) saying it is a “known attack site.” This has never happened to me before.

[prisoner6]

Yuppers I know, but it's been available for most of Pittsburgh and it's suburbs including mine. I did see a news story about a private community in Wisonsin and one or two in the carolinas senind leter to google threatenin legal action if street view was used there. I think something is up.

prisoner6

[prisoner6]

Yeah, You're correct. Same thing happening when I go to spectator.org.

prisoner6

[HAL9000]

Google Maps Street View is working okay here.

[prisoner6]

Okay...looks like it's me. They used to have a street view box on the map. Now it looks like you have to click on "layers" to get the street view option.

Thanks to all who helped me through my moment of incompetence...sigh.

prisoenr6

[wolfcreek]

Seems they were filming street scenes with kids playing basketball and such. Parents got upset. Google claimed they would delete people but,.....

[dawn53]

I just google mapped my house and I still can see it through Street View. Maybe some communities asked it to be taken down, but ours is still viewable.

[dawn53]

We got a laugh out of our google street view. We keep our boat in the backyard (city code says you have to store it “out of sight” so we have a large gate at the side of our yard and back the trailer into our backyard), but we must have been just back from fishing, or cleaning the boat because on google street view all you can see in our driveway is a boat...no cars. Looks like we’re preparing for a flood, LOL.

[wolfcreek]

You'd think with all the money Google has, they'd spend more on editing.

Some of their photographers were in town recently and were approached by police wondering why they were in neighborhoods taking pics.

[Maceman]

I think the privacy issues are mostly unfounded. If it's a public street and anyone can take a picture then google should be able to make street view available.

I basically agree with you as far as a view of my house from the street goes. But I think we have a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to what goes on in our back yards, our porches, and anywhere behind a fence, and thus cannot be viewed from the street. The idea that a satellite can take a view of my back porch from 23,000 miles up and publish those pictures is, I think, an inherent violation of my privacy.

[aqueousss]

I figured out street view.

map something and look to the left where the Zoom In and Zoom out thing is.. you will see an Orange guy at the top of it.. and you just drag him to your specified location, and it will make the full screen street view.. it’s pretty cool you can go wide-screen now and if you hold down the N on the compass at the top you can rotate 360 instantaneously.

[MrArcadian]

Then you better hide those Marijuana plants you're growing in the back yard. You have nothing to be afraid of of you ave nothing to hide, i hate it when people cry out PRIVACY!!! what privacy?? are you doing something you shouldn't be doing?? like building an illegal patios?? growing some plants you shouldn't have been doing?? burying something you shouldn't be burying?? dumping toxic in your back yard?? i mean really. they only ones that cries privacy are the one doing something illegal?? Oh?? you say you want to walk around your backyard naked?? OIC. Yeah privacy you say. you'll be happy if they use this to catch some criminal in your area wouldn't you?? I say leave the street view and the over head satellite shots, big deal its all old picture anyways mostly a year or 2 old. you people should stop worry about little things like this.
If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about.

[jusduat]

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