Google Street View Car

galwayfeen

http://www.galwaynews.ie/6867-smile-world
Anyone see it yet?.i'm expecting some legend images once its all done.

Robbo

I foresee the Party Van outside your place, soon to take you away.

JIZZLORD

party van ftw!

m83

Google car and CSI Galway van in head on colision ftw! The images from the google car allow the csi team to solve the case in record time!

Yeeeeaaaahh!!

/puts on sunglasses

biko

If we knew what time they passed by a certain pub we should have a beers there and wave

ethernet

Magnus wrote: »

If we knew what time they passed by a certain pub we should have a beers there and wave

Want to be like the guy in the first picture here? :pac:

Caliden

Did some of their photos get removed because it showed people getting arrested and others gettings sick on the streets?

JIZZLORD

behold madrids peeing woman

gd1987

Pics or didn't happen................................hold on

ethernet

Caught! This one could be a problem considering all the sex shops in this city :pac:

Skyuser

Be on the lookout for this

JohnCleary

I'm in 2 minds about this situation:

1) Hope I never see the fcuking thing (or it never sees me)
2) HELICOPTERRRRR!

Discodog

Now what would be funny would be to follow the crew of the Google car & get some images of them in the pub, in the jacks etc. They must be staying locally. Like when someone got a cherry picker & filmed though Kelvin McKensie's windows when he was editor of the Sun.

HoPpiE

It passed me today while I was sitting at a bus stop in Eyre Sq.

Was a red Astra.

JIZZLORD

note to self: stalk HoPpiE

KevR

Will be cool to have a Google street view of Galway. I'm not bothered if I'm in any of the images.

HoPpiE

JIZZLORD wrote: »

note to self: stalk HoPpiE

Note to self: Hide!

toiletduck

Mam told me that there's some "internet car" going around taking pictures of people. Asked what to look out for owing to the "internet, it's full of paedo's and psychos? God what would they do with the images?".

Damn you Goolge, terrifying our technological illiterate aul wans!

Sponge Bob

I seen it an it seen me, it is out in Connemara today

Bright red astra , google sticker on rear right passenger door .


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2459337905_1758501a6a.jpg?v=0

Rayne

AHHHH I just saw it!!

Was driving up to the shop (in Moycullen), live on a small 'one car only' road and he came flying toward me!!!

I look like this :eek: on it! I can't wait until it goes live!!!

It would be cool to follow him! Red Astra with big long pole coming out the top!

Soooo cool, I'm so excited!!

Sponge Bob

It is doing Connemara all week . Once it finishes it will do Galway and then it is off to Limerick

It will take until the autumn to process the pictures and fuzz up peoples faces before it releases the streetview walkthroughs

First time a search engine ever went looking for ole Sponge Bob and it found him lurking by the roadside out past Bushypark .

It feels very ****ing odd ...honest

JohnCleary

They're doing Connemara? That's nuts... any idea what routes they're doing? Thought they'd only do cities

cornbb

Damn, I know this sounds pathetic but I think it would be so much fun to catch that thing passing by and give it a big wave or give it the finger or something!

Here are a few snaps of people who were quick with their phone cameras when they saw the BigBrotherMobile passing by... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/surveillance_feedback_loop/page2.html

Rayne

I wish I had my camera out... He just came at me tooooo fast!!!

I'd like that job, driving around, all day, exploring new areas!

JIZZLORD

i wonder did they get a pic of the dude manhandling his man handle out by the castle

Sponge Bob

JohnCleary wrote: »

They're doing Connemara? That's nuts... any idea what routes they're doing? Thought they'd only do cities

I cannot say but I can confirm that boreens in Bushypark Barna Moycullen and Spiddal are of high importance in a super secret project and that cities will be done.

All of Connemara is certainly more important that Castle Park which is a 6.30am in June 'special project' as is Mulhuddart , Tallaght , Darndale , Most of Limerick , North Cork etc .

Google are sticking to safe and pleasant areas in daylight hours , for now . They will do the cities when it is safe to do so !

Sponge Bob

Spotted him again today , the google sticker has now been removed from the car for some reason. He was parked up at Furbo beach waiting for the rain to stop and with the camera covered.

mercuroman

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Spotted him again today , the google sticker has now been removed from the car for some reason. He was parked up at Furbo beach waiting for the rain to stop and with the camera covered.

Spotted it at about 8.45 in Spiddal - same as above - waiting for the rain to go - think he'll be doing that a lot today!

cornbb

Very unusual that they're covering Spiddal. There isn't even high-resolution of that place on Google Earth (not the last time I checked anyway).

po0k

watch

Skyuser

They should wait until there is a bit of decent weather in may/june....not to make us look bad.

cornbb

po0k wrote: »

watch

Gettin an ole 403 error thar buddy boy.

Skyuser wrote: »

They should wait until there is a bit of decent weather in may/june....not to make us look bad.

We might be waiting til next March :eek: Google Earth only seems to use imagery without (much) cloud cover, I wonder how many times they had to wait for the satellite to pass over Galway before they could get some clear images

civis_liberalis

Google car seen going about it's business in Spiddal and Carraroe.

Also, there was short item about it on RnaG, repeating the above info.

TheCosmicFrog

This morning, on my way into school, we were caught in traffic outside the side entrance to NUIG on the Newcastle Road. I spotted a car with a huge black mast sticking out of its roof with some covered equipment on the top. The mast was at least 10ft tall, meaning that the total height of the apparatus (including the car) was nearly 20ft tall.

The car in question was a surprisingly unsuspicious bright red Opel Astra with the words "Google Maps" on the side. If you see a bright red car with a 10ft tall pole sticking out of it make sure to wave!

mikom

Did you see Marty Mcflys Delorean as well?

3fullback

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

This morning, on my way into school, we were caught in traffic outside the side entrance to NUIG on the Newcastle Road. I spotted a car with a huge black mast sticking out of its roof with some covered equipment on the top. The mast was at least 10ft tall, meaning that the total height of the apparatus (including the car) was nearly 20ft tall.

The car in question was a surprisingly unsuspicious bright red Opel Astra with the words "Google Maps" on the side. If you see a bright red car with a 10ft tall pole sticking out of it make sure to wave!

no shít surelock ...

like 2 weeks ago..........

LadyMayBelle

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055517964

biko

Merged

EJLL

There is a guy I work with that spends a lot of his time on the phone to his girlfriend during work hours. He used to go outside and ring her from behind the trees in an attempt to hide what he was doing. Everyone knew as he would disappear for abot 20 minutes at a time. Clearly people are not impressed with his routine.
Anyway, this image popped up on Google Street Maps of the road outside my work building (see attahed). It's genius…… but at the same time you can see how it can be annoying if you're caught on camera.
We all had a laugh about it in the office and sent it around.

snubbleste

Red google car seen at St. Vincents Avenue at approx 3pm today, headed out the N59

dmcg90

Seen it in claregalway today at half 10 randomly with shutters over the cameras due to it p****** rain.

joeKel73

The Google Street View car drove past NUIG a few minutes ago...

Catching an average working day in Galway - people parking illegally to go to mass.

pointofnoreturn

Saw it too on Monday (8th) driving towards town on the road to Clifden just passed corrib village. But I don't think this is Google Street View, didn't they drive around already?

bonzodog2

Maybe some of their snaps didn't come out and they had to come back to get some nice ones for Mammy Google. I saw the car in late June last year in Renmore

Original Steyr

Passed by me in Leisureland Gym like over 3 months ago, either that or something extremely simliar.

Michifuz

The whole sequence is hilarious, they did plan well:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rugdeveien+39+bergen&sll=59.913801,10.73882&sspn=0.000449,0.001635&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rugdeveien+39,+5097+Bergen,+Hordaland,+Norway&t=h&layer=c&ll=60.360883,5.369267&spn=0.001032,0.001996&z=19&cbll=60.360884,5.369468&panoid=vIlVwLm8kDoxekaRJ0MwdQ&cbp=12,284.43,,1,14.19

Sponge Bob

Michifuz wrote: »

The whole sequence is hilarious, they did plan well:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rugdeveien+39+bergen&sll=59.913801,10.73882&sspn=0.000449,0.001635&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rugdeveien+39,+5097+Bergen,+Hordaland,+Norway&t=h&layer=c&ll=60.360883,5.369267&spn=0.001032,0.001996&z=19&cbll=60.360884,5.369468&panoid=vIlVwLm8kDoxekaRJ0MwdQ&cbp=12,284.43,,1,14.19

LOL. Some TG4 heads are getting Google to refilm the Quiet Man out in Connemara, they are in Oughterard with an ass and cart right now.

Melty

Google car drove past me in mervue industrial estate half an hour ago. Didnt they do galway already?

unJustMary

Reportedly.

However we've not seen any evidence of Street View Galway yet, so probably only Google knows (and not their search engine either! )

I saw the car outside NUIG the same day that ... umm, someone a few posts back. It occurred to me to wonder how we know the car is actually Google.

bonzodog2

unJustMary wrote: »

Reportedly.

However we've not seen any evidence of Street View Galway yet, so probably only Google knows (and not their search engine either! )

I saw the car outside NUIG the same day that ... umm, someone a few posts back. It occurred to me to wonder how we know the car is actually Google.

Impostors ? :eek: