Google Street View Comes to Worcester
Wow!
Google Maps rolled out their street view feature for Boston today, I took it upon myself to see if they decided to take their googlemobile 50 miles west to our fair city.
Lo and behold it seems that goggle has totally canvassed The Wo' with their 12 camera mobile and covered the whole city. It appears they travelled on nearly every street.
Big Google IS watching:
Just go to www.maps.google.com eneter your home address or any Worcester address for that matter. Click the street view icon, and explore!!
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Re: Google Street View Comes to Worcester
Via Street View, here are my housemates Tom and Snow Ghost standing next to the house, having apparently been bagging yard waste.
Any guesses as to when the Google van came through? I am betting I was out of town when this was done :(
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That's pretty crazy.
I was hoping some people will fins some interesting stuff, I'll certainly be playing with it a bit.
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Looks like they didn't do the South Side of Westborough yet. I can see my intersection but not my house. Pretty cool stuff.
It's a boy Mrs. Walker, it's a boy...
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this is fucking awesome...
not only can i see my houses. at one of them, i can see my girlfriends car outside and shes in the FUCKING CAR. they blurred her face though
crazy
def september... this was taken like the day before i had paving done. that was like 9/15.
"what?"
Re: Google Street View Comes to Worcester
Why can't I figure this out? Google doesn't work for me! This sucks :)
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Ok, that was my temper tantrum for the day.
"To use street view, you need Adobe Flash Player version 9 or newer."
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Great, and I thought I was going to get stuff done at work today. The picture on our street looks like it was taken in September, because the for sale sign is gone from our yard, and the bushes aren't taking over the front porch.
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You can totally see Gabe's car in front of the Continental. I'm having way too much fun with this.
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The library's closed. Maybe this is a Sunday or Monday?
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my house isn't there, which only makes me feel a little bit better about how creepy this is.
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Centerfolds=busy
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and I just found a reflection of the Google car:
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Kudos to Scott Zoback for noticing Gary Rosen is in Kelley Sq:
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And here's a better view of Tom Lewis and Bruce "Snow Ghost" Russell:
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Jacob points out you can synch the drive-by time on Main Street by looking at the big clocks.
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Good finds!
I was hoping Rosen would be out there somewhere.
I played around with it for a while at work today, I'll probably do some more hunting in the evening hours.
This has made a great Woo' blog topic for today!
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I think it's creepy. I also feel like it is an invasion of my privacy. I don't want a photo of me on the internet. Even if my face is blurred out.
I just don't get how common decency has gone out the window like it has. Wait a minute, yes I do. Our celebrity obsessed culture who thinks it's ok to take pics of people while they're going to their OBgyn appointment thinks it's cool when they reach the same "celebrity" of finding their image on the world wide web.
Hi! :-)
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Is this what you mean by celebrity obsessed? The service is about finding places visualy, where is the invasion of privacy?
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Just showed Bruce the Street View of him. He says that was a Saturday morning. "That's the day we went to the dump." Is he sure? "Yeah, I'm sure!"
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Paxton, please don't do that.
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Actually feel free to do that. And you can pay me for the usage.
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That's a pic from the Lucky Dog website, you'll have to talk to Erick about royalties.