Street View spycars need some TLC Our Street View spycar Google Maps Web 0.2 mashup has proved a spectacular success, with around 85 sightings to date submitted by sharp-eyed readers and 400,000 hits down there at the search monolith's cartographical tentacle... View the Map (opens in a new window) The two latest submissions in particular caught our eye, …
There's only one picture of England on that page, and it shows a Habitat shop, which is hardly a dump. I suspect you're referring to the top picture - in which case you might find it useful to look up Edinburgh on Google Maps to discover that is not in England.
And anyway, that's not a dump - it's just round the corner from my work, in the "eastern fringes of the New Town" as this is known...
A Google car was left in Chingford over the weekend.
It was parked in the car park of the council building next to the fire station on the Ridgeway (B169), just opposite Warren Road.
I was going to take a photo but that would've meant getting out of my car and being questioned by hoodies.
I'm actually quite surprised the local yoof's hadn't nicked the camera.
Additionally, I saw the Google car driving down Forest Rise (Walthamstow, just off the A104) a few months ago, so I may have been immortalised.
I've managed to bore myself with this post. God knows how must feel after reading it.
How do I get to be a Google street mapper? I would love to be paid to drive around in a pimped-up black Opel/GM/Vauxhall car with a huge camera stuck on roof.
Has anybody tried to follow the car in the hope they get onto google street view (when it finally comes out here in the UK) - Wonder if there Is a name for this type of behaviour? Google Stalking? maybe?
...I used to sit on its roof scoffing penny sweets with rebellious mates of mine, aged 12 3/4. Particularly good spot as you could escape in any one of 3 directions when spotted, you could hide behind the skylights on the garage roof and the black roofing felt warmed it up to a pleasant sunbathing temperature in even the lightest sun (a rare event in Edinburgh...)
Childhood innocence, ruined by Google. Now any old 2.0 hoods will find that spot.
Well i know where the norwich car lives cos i walked past it on the way home after dumping my car off for its regular weekly servicing.
Now i wonder o7,
who do i contact to get the job driving a a nice black Googly car around the southwest.
I've got 10 years NCB, a spotlessly clean licence, done a huge amount of driving (must be over 300,000 miles) across the south of england over the last 20 years and am willing to relocate to plymouth/exeter for 6 months.
The job center do also seem to be very keen to offload me after being on the dole for over 6 months, due to the current IT implosion.
Should i drop off my application under the wipers of the norwich googly car?
Mines the one on the backseat drapped over the skinny spare tyre. :)
Wrong again! it's the one near the junction with Liberton Road. The one in the centre of this map:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=55.920315,-3.168011&spn=0.002191,0.004651&t=h&z=18
IMHO, it looks pretty smart for a bodyshop. A touch of art deco in the architecture there!
You are not one of that female fashion dullard duo that are never off the TV are you? if so, for goodness sake, get off the TV, I like to watch mentally stimulating stuff when I'm not at work, not you and your mate banging on about what you think about clothes.
back to the story, perhaps they have been the target of the local yoof, welcome to the UK!
Can I appeal to these scumbags, if they must dsmage a vehicle to target these instead of those belonging to the rest of us tax paying, hard working and law abiding citizens.
After all, a new Opel to Google is pocket change.
> Is all of urbanized England such a dump?
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> ingerland is a massive pile of horse manure and dont let anyone tell you differently
Shropshire is quite nice around the edges :P
But yeah... when the average population density of the UK is nigh on 250 people per square kilometre (it's 31 in the US btw) and almost all of those people have the artistic sensibilities of a house brick it's hardly surprising.
Until recently there were only three schools of architecture in the UK, blocky, ugly and chruches (now we cah add gherkins... whoohoo).
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