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01 Aug 2011, 8:26 am

I was in South Portland at a gas station and I saw one of those Google cars with all the cameras mounted on the roof. I waved to it so I'd be easy to spot. I'll post a pic when it gets updated.

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01 Aug 2011, 8:31 am

Ah yes, I was snapped by that darn Google car last Wednesday!

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01 Aug 2011, 8:32 am

Oh cool i saw one of those to... but i didnt realize until the car had passed... so im kinda just standing there like... "what?"...

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01 Aug 2011, 8:35 am

Strangely I think it came along the road I live but it hasn't yet appeared online. That was some months ago actually. :chin:

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01 Aug 2011, 8:36 am

^ They do take a while to appear.
I think on my street it took about half a year, but I'm not sure.

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01 Aug 2011, 8:41 am

^^Hmm. I'm glad I wasn't stood outside at the time! :oops: Although I was looking out the window at the strange contraption. :lol:

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01 Aug 2011, 9:00 am

I reported the image of my house on Google Maps and it's been blurred out now. FU big brother.

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01 Aug 2011, 9:32 am

^^ Seriously?
Have you asked Ordnance Survey to blur out your street from their maps too? :wink:

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01 Aug 2011, 10:31 am

TenPencePiece wrote:

Ah yes, I was snapped by that darn Google car last Wednesday!

I always notice tons of people walking around in Europe. I saw one guy in... Germany, I think?... and he just got hit by a car before the Google car drove by.

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01 Aug 2011, 11:44 am

I got snapped by the Google Earth car while drilling a flight at encampment in Camp Swift TX.

Also, you can see my family's van driving behind it for like 5 miles on the road leading up to my subdivision.

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01 Aug 2011, 11:50 am

Haven't came by our street yet. Both the satelite images and the street images need to be updated where I live. It still shows undeveloped land from four years ago. :roll:

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01 Aug 2011, 3:04 pm

MakaylaTheAspie wrote:

Haven't came by our street yet. Both the satelite images and the street images need to be updated where I live. It still shows undeveloped land from four years ago. :roll:

Surprisingly, they did mine. It's such an insignificant little maze of domesticity I'm surprised they bothered - or managed to get the car through it all. (small, twisty streets)
The updates are very variable though: some areas quite near me have been updated several times over the past 5 years, while others are extremely outdated - to the extent that the single buildings shown have long since vanished and been replaced by groups of houses.

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01 Aug 2011, 3:33 pm

I laughed when I looked at my house and it had christmas lights on it.....in the middle of summer. :lol:

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