Streetview goes live, Irish Times
Pretty close coverage too. In combination with http://www.osi.ie there’s no secrets kept.
#15 Henrietta St., Dublin
I’m interested in seeing this thread get off the ground. Show me something really interesting. I’ve been to Dublin. Can you find the barge bar where my wife and I enjoyed lunch and a beer?
Does anyone else find Google streetview thoroughly objectionable? I, sincerely, think it should be banned.
On one level it’s amazing they can do it, on another it’s quite disconcerting anyone can sit behind a computer at home and have a close look up how and where someone else lives.
I don’t know how to post these pics (other than copying them and putting them on a server) but you can do a ‘look at 52°59’46.83"N - 9°23’32.41"W and you can have a close look at Micho and Gussie Russell’s house’. And global access to that sort of thing feels too much as a loss of privacy.
Mind you, the photos are at least 16 months old.
The photos of my house, and the level of detail you can zoom into, show exactly where my house is most vulnerable. You can now, thanks to the evil giant Google, ‘case the joint’ from the comfort of your own laptop. And, whilst, under constant protest from me, they removed one image of my house, they have ignored all further requests to remove the remaining images, and this decidedly damages the security of my home. If, as I now expect, I do get burgled I will be looking to them for compensation. Mind you, they can afford ‘better’ (ie more evil) lawyers than me.
Google has moved a long long way from the days when their motto was ‘Do no evil’.
I have found streetview beneficial on too many occasions for good that I would be disappointed to see it banned for evil applications.
Amazingly, streetview must have done my neighborhood and my house on the day we all mowed our lawns and when my porch was cleared of clutter. I think they even cleaned up the siding for me. I don’t think I’ve ever seen my house look that good.
Perhaps you don’t have so much trouble with burglaries and general crime where you are mutepointe.
the downwards view on Google is very current for our neighborhood - within the past 4 months. But the street view is 3 years old (there’s a political sign in our yard so it’s easy to tell).
my street doesn’t have “street view”
the cross street, east of me, is labeled 6 blocks off
yes, I believe the county is aware that they bollixed it years ago when they renamed everything.
West Virginia has a low crime rate in general and as folks in my neighborhood like to point out, “What robber in his right mind would come to our neighborhood to steal?” We’re decidedly downscale with upscale well-to-do neighborhoods within a mile of our neighborhood. The extra drive is worth it.
Perhaps living on the earthquake prone left coast is affecting my thinking, but if I lived near this house, I’d spend all my time waiting for that top corner to slide off and crush cars in the street. You can see the fault line!
Fault lines are usually thought of as being in the ground. When earth faults jump up that high on a building, I would worry too.
makes me wonder if they’re stitching it on the fly
…Every fly is numbered.
But only on the extra-high res version. Do you have to pay extra for that? I can’t see any flies at all, let alone the stuff stitched upon them. Or do I need a new monitor?
yer one o’dem foreigners, ain’t ya?
I wouldn’t worry about the fractured brickwork. There’s a lot of that in Dublin. It’s the disjointed streetlight that worries me.
Worse yet the downspout will dump water on me when I try to pick the lock on the front door. I hate tracking water into other peoples homes, just not polite.
You do see a lot of brightly colored doors in Dublin, but doors that open inward are easy to kick in. Just a little bit of wood around the locks are all that is securing the door. I see how easy it is to do on the TV crime shows that I watch. I know that it is not as attractive and the neighborhood people would probably be up in arms, but I feel more secure in my home with additional steel security doors that open outward, making it next to impossible to kick in. Be very careful with the double-keyed deadbolt locks, though.
I like an AA-12 loaded with rock salt for protection, even smaller women can handle them with ease. Why waste all that money on preventive stuff. 
However flush bolts on exterior doors are a nice touch, top and bottom.