Friday, March 20, 2009
Google Street View - A Considered Assessment
Well, I had a go on Google Street View. The pictures were taken last summer - we were so young so carefree! I looked at the houses of people I know - the squalor, the squalor! And then, after about two minutes, I did something else. What is this for? I suppose in years to come when somebody gives you their address a picture of their house generated by the Google chip embedded in your prefrontal cortex will appear before your eyes as well as that of the chiropodist they visited the week before to have that pesky corn removed. I can't wait.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
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ReplyDeleteWow I can see my house. . . . But then again I can do that every day I suppose.
ReplyDeleteTrust you picked up the piece the other day about the entrepreneurial genius who used the street view to locate the houses with lead on their roofs - they show up darker it seems - after which, naturally in these tough times, he popped around during the evening hours and relieved them of this burdensome metal. Don't you love it?
ReplyDeleteAs far as I can see it's only use is to check estate agents descriptions, In fact I've just done that - need to rent somewhere for a few months whilst the builders trash the house and invent ways to bump up my bill. Interesting that 'well positioned and lively location' actually means, 'between the off-licence and the Chines restaurant and you can't see the pavement for rubbish'.
ReplyDeleteApparently these maps often contain a mysterious character in a stripey jumper and with a stick of some kind. I thinking butterfly net. It's not Nige, is it? Using Google Street View to check for butterfly hotspots sounds a decent reason to use it. Hard to think of many other reasons.
ReplyDeleteCould be Nige, Mark, he can sometimes act a bit 'special'.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Google Street View should include special tags identifying the houses of well-known bankers.
ReplyDeleteNow that would be a fulfillment of a public-service ethos.
You urbanistas have my sympathy, CCTV, congestion charging, indigestion, loopy property prices, nobody speaks, having estate agents and lawyers for neighbours, wife swapping parties, look Brazilian and bang your dead, and now Google is goggling at you, shame, never mind, things can only get better.
ReplyDeleteI have used it to admire a house a good friend is buying and it was quite fun for that...
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