Google Streetmaps

[Mike Covell]

Some of the images are quite bizarre as the journey is made up of thousands of photo's. At one point I was driving along and spotted a man about to cross the road, on the next image he had only a torso and no legs, then the following image was just his legs!

[Mike Covell]

Caught out on Google,

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2330238.ece

The slideshow has some fantastic images.

Man caught smoking next to No Smoking sign!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2333104.ece

Where's Wally/Waldo?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/03/21/google-street-view-fury-at-snapshots-of-street-life-115875-21214838/

Slideshow also features, "the Stig", Mary Poppins, and a rather fetching lady Beefeater!

[Celesta]

Hi Mike,

I had a high old time with this last night. Like you, I found places where the photo splices were kind of strange! I cruised right down Gunthorpe and came out next to Princess Alice. What an atmospheric alley that is! Here, not all the little side streets will have Street View on them yet, so I was a bit surprised that so many of the narrow lanes in London actually have it. On Hanbury street, I saw an open doorway and zoomed in and saw a portion of a courtyard with a pink sofa sitting there! How cool to cruise by the London Hospital, too.

London is different from what I imagined. The streets seem to change from "one way" going in one direction to "one way" going the opposite direction, when you reach an intersection! So then you have to make a turn. Is it really like that? It would take me two years to learn to navigate in that town. Since I grew up in a town, whose streets were laid out by a drunken cow wandering around at midnight, I ought to used to this sort of thing!

[Gene Lewis]

What a pity the Google camera car was not driving through Buck's Row on Aug, 31 !