[slackline]

Google's Street-view is now live for cities in the UK.

Just go to Google Maps and above the slider that allows you to zoom in and out there should be a little orange man that you can drag to a location on the map that is covered , release and you jump to the street view.  Just checked out my crib 

[Bubba]

That's fucking mad - chez Bubba. It's pretty dodgy really, you can zoom right in and check security, etc. It'll be a thief's playground - there was a guy busted the other day who'd tracked down leaded roofs via google earth.

[magpie]

Is that your actual house Bubba?  It's a well cool shape; quite Art Deco-ish.

I have just discovered the new Google stuff, I love it!  You can zoom right in and see my cats scratching post through the window. 

Now, who wants to tell me their postcode so I can try and look in their window!! 

[dave]

luckly i'd done a tidy parking job the day they came round ours.

[Bubba]

Is that your actual house Bubba?  It's a well cool shape; quite Art Deco-ish.

Yeah, that is my house/millstone.

Art-deco stylee, built in '36. There's quite a few of them on the street - the flat roof is great in summer for sunbathing/barbies.

I say millstone coz paying for the thing leaves me with £20 cash per week after bills and food 

At least they've had the decency to obfuscate registration numbers.

[robertostallioni]

Love that white place behind yours bubs.....

[Bubba]

[slackline]

Nice place you got there Bubba, my first impression was it was designed by a sailor as it looks like a house you'd get around a port  

They didn't drive past my front door so theives will have to stake my house out to get the low-down on access.

@Bubba : How'd you embed that, I can't get the [ html ] BBcode tags to work...

[SA Chris]

Now, who wants to tell me their postcode so I can try and look in their window!! 

Sadly nothing like that up here yet. Muchalls doesn't even have a decent overhead resolution yet.

[magpie]

Art-deco stylee, built in '36. There's quite a few of them on the street - the flat roof is great in summer for sunbathing/barbies.

I say millstone coz paying for the thing leaves me with £20 cash per week after bills and food 

It's so pretty though!  And a flat roof you can get out on!  Definitely worth eating beans on toast a lot 

Why can't I see the imbedded pictures anymore?  I want to peer in Slacker's windows, but neither of the linky picture things are showing up now, just white boxes. 

I would show you my beautiful home in the ghetto but I don't know how [/technodunce]  I bet you're all gutted at that 

[Jaspersharpe]

Can't snoop into my house (the white one). The most amazing thing is how much space there is to park on my road. It's never like that when I'm there!

[slackline]

Why can't I see the imbedded pictures anymore?  I want to peer in Slacker's windows, but neither of the linky picture things are showing up now, just white boxes.  

Could be that Google Maps thinks your a non-legit user (i.e. an automated bot) to check just go to http://maps.google.co.uk/ and you may be asked to enter a passcode.  Do that and you should be able to see things again (I only know this because I have exactly the same problem here at work!).

I would show you my beautiful home in the ghetto but I don't know how [/technodunce]  I bet you're all gutted at that  

Only Bubba can use the [ html ] BBcode you need to use to embed it properly.

Can't snoop into my house (the white one). The most amazing thing is how much space there is to park on my road. It's never like that when I'm there!

I had a suspicion you didn't live that far away from me Jasper, but its <5 minutes, we should go out for a beer somewhen, shame all the pubs thereabouts are shite 

[Jaspersharpe]

Indeed Slackers. The few opportunities I get to go out are never spent any where near where I live!

[magpie]

Can't snoop into my house (the white one).

How sweet is your road!?  It's so pretty.

I am far too impressed with this; I am such a nosy, nosy loser.   

[slackline]

I am far too impressed with this; I am such a nosy, nosy loser.    

Careful, BB will be peeking through your windows to see if you've got leggings on 

[magpie]

   I nearly posted the same thing myself, but then decided he's had enough of a roasting over that already.

I'm assuming you're all far enough away to make actual window peering unlikely, that and the fact you'd need a very big ladder. 

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Gutted, they traipsed every measly dead end cul-de-sac around here but missed out our road completely!

[Will Hunt]

Nice pads, folks. Sadly they don't compare to (number 20, black door). The upstairs window is my bedroom!

[robertostallioni]

Will, have you all got roof gardens? There's a shed on your neighbours roof.

[SA Chris]

There's a shed on your neighbours roof.

Funny.

[lagerstarfish]

 

[lagerstarfish]

Could you recognise loitering by the door to the needle exchange? I'd be pretty pissed off if I was trying to keep my IV drug habit a secret only to find myself pictured leaving the exchange.

[Palomides]

Well, as expected the google-privacy-apocalypse roadshow hasn't made it to our small village yet.

But I am extremely disappointed that the coverage for our nearest big city stops about 100m from where I sat and watched the google car drive past - only another 100m of coverage and there would be pictures of me waving!

(Hmm, maybe that's why they set the cutoff there?)

By the way, am I the only one to find it rather strange that so many carefully pseudonymed-up internet personas are posting up URLs that contain entire home addresses? Google probably already knows where we all live, but now so does everyone else!

[slackline]

Could you recognise loitering by the door to the needle exchange? I'd be pretty pissed off if I was trying to keep my IV drug habit a secret only to find myself pictured leaving the exchange.

Yeah and look at the alcoholic babies outside (pan left)

[lagerstarfish]

I thought they were going to blur ?