Google Street View Car

DRakE · 11-02-2010 5:00pm

3fullback wrote: »

no shít surelock ...

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

good god

Sponge Bob · 11-02-2010 5:48pm

it is an 09 D opel astra with a feckin enormous camera stuck to the roof and a google sticker on the door

KevR · 11-02-2010 6:21pm

Think they may have removed the sticker. Someone mentioned to me that Google had done so and said the reason why but I can't remember, it was ages ago..

ScumLord · 11-02-2010 6:53pm

JohnCleary wrote: »

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

I'd say they're do connemara just because it's such a well known tourist destination.

Melty wrote: »

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

Probably need to get multiple passes to get good photos. It would be chancing it to hope to get good photos on jut one pass.

KevR · 11-02-2010 7:01pm

As far as I know, they're doing every road in the country, not just towns and cities.

They only record images when the weather is good (i.e. - not raining or not badly overcast). So if someone sees them at one particular location more than once, it could be that the weather wasn't good enough the first time they were there.

Tomebagel · 11-02-2010 7:15pm

seen it the last day going down the newcastle road!

unJustMary · 11-02-2010 8:24pm

Sponge Bob wrote: »

it is an 09 D opel astra with a feckin enormous camera stuck to the roof and a google sticker on the door

definitely no branding on the passenger doors of the car I saw.

Tomebagel · 11-02-2010 10:48pm

unJustMary wrote: »

definitely no branding on the passenger doors of the car I saw.

non on the one i saw either,

it was a red astra

biko · 11-02-2010 11:20pm

Google has been known to use a red Astra.

ErnieBert · 11-02-2010 11:31pm

I saw it in Salthill at around 8.15 this morning as i was getting a coffee on Cocos.

kleefarr · 11-02-2010 11:41pm

Don't get too excited just yet. We had the Red Astra one in Kilkenny City nearly three years ago. Not showing on the map yet.

Kix · 12-02-2010 10:17am

Red Google Opel Astra in Oranhill

unJustMary · 12-02-2010 10:22pm

Magnus wrote: »

Google has been known to use a red Astra.

Yeah, but I suspect a few other people might own one too. Just a hunch. (Granted that not so many will own the dalek-ish thing on top.)

ErnieBert · 09-08-2010 7:13pm

BUMP

I saw it on Sea Road at 7.45 this morning.

I nearly crashed trying to dig out my mobile to a take a photo of it.

f1dan · 09-08-2010 7:15pm

Saw it driving through the college yesterday past the civil engineering building heading towards the quad

TheCosmicFrog · 09-08-2010 7:16pm

ErnieBert wrote: »

BUMP

I saw it on Sea Road at 7.45 this morning.

I nearly crashed trying to dig out my mobile to a take a photo of it.

:rolleyes:

Head The Wall · 09-08-2010 8:12pm

ErnieBert wrote: »

BUMP

I saw it on Sea Road at 7.45 this morning.

I nearly crashed trying to dig out my mobile to a take a photo of it.

You in a car with a camera were going to take a picture of another car with a camera. Odd indeed

Dubhghaillix · 09-08-2010 8:37pm

I saw it heading towards Salthill along the Knocknacara rd. yesterday at around 4.

GerardKeating · 11-08-2010 11:23pm

Dubhghaillix wrote: »

I saw it heading towards Salthill along the Knocknacara rd. yesterday at around 4.

It was in Salthill this morning, about 10:15hrs. came from the direction of the Warwick hotel, went towards the waterfront hotel before i lost sight of it.

NauP · 12-08-2010 10:33am

Spotted it this morning at about 10:00am heading for Furbo

3-D Preacher · 30-08-2010 2:22pm

The Street View car is on the move again, was spotted passing Ballyloughane beach an hour or so ago.

central park · 30-08-2010 4:24pm

Saw it in Knocknacarra half an hour or so ago.

moikey · 14-09-2010 6:59pm

Anyone know when this will be up on Google maps, I spotted it in Cybaun and gave it a thumbs up a few weeks ago!:D

14-09-2010 9:26pm

3-D Preacher wrote: »

The Street View car is on the move again, was spotted passing Ballyloughane beach an hour or so ago.

... I hope it was there during the night. That would certainly be something to see - all the shocked faces and naked body parts!

lampsie · 30-09-2010 11:09am

Looks like Google's street maps are due to go live some time today (as of 11am not seeing any changes yet on maps.google.ie)

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/18002-google-to-launch-street/

Shinto · 30-09-2010 12:41pm

Still not live yet (12:40 Irish time).

honerbright · 30-09-2010 12:45pm

Read on After hours it's going live at 4pm or some such.

30-09-2010 3:25pm

Street view appears to be up for Galway

?Cee?view · 30-09-2010 3:33pm

Wish I'd killed the weeds out the front of the house that day

Have to say - pretty cool.

30-09-2010 3:35pm

Right now I'm in my bedroom looking into my bedroom to see if you can see me.

There's something weird about that.

_Whimsical_ · 30-09-2010 5:33pm

I can see my house:)

cisco27 · 30-09-2010 5:44pm

found myself twice on it, in Limerick and Galway...shame they block out the faces

cranky bollix · 30-09-2010 5:44pm

does anyone know what dates they did galway.i cant find my car anywhere, not at work, not at college, not at home, im determined to find it.:D

edit:cue smart arse showing croc at halting site in 5,4,3....

biko · 30-09-2010 6:02pm

I found my car at an address I had 2009 so I guess it was that summer sometime.

cranky bollix · 30-09-2010 6:02pm

i asked this in the other thread as well, maybe it should be merged.does anyone know what dates they were in galway, i can see that there was local election campaign posters up, so it was probably around may or june of last year, can anyone be a bit more exact

cranky bollix · 30-09-2010 6:10pm

there seems to be a black spot around blackrock in salthill, or maybe its just my computer

bonzodog2 · 30-09-2010 6:24pm

If I could search my posts further back than the most recent 500, I could locate the date I saw it on the Dublin Rd, by the post office. I made a shortcut to Google maps around then, to make it easy to check if it was live yet, the shortcut was created 24/6/09. However I'm nowhere to be seen on StreetView :-(( , maybe they went back after the works on Dublin Rd ?

muffinman · 30-09-2010 6:44pm

There are Ocean Race posters up around shop street if that's any help...

Also look at the docks.. if you go towards sheridan's and look over to the race village there's a marquee up but then when you go to the site itself it's just wasteland..

One more hint.. Just remembered the countdown clock on the aquarium and it says 0 days left to ocean race so it must have been sometime after the race

Edit again... The speakers are still up along the prom from the ocean race time so basically it was sometime in or around those dates

moikey · 30-09-2010 9:26pm

I can't see anything of streetview on google maps, has anybody else seen something?

LadyMayBelle · 30-09-2010 9:37pm

I found my house, and spotted my mum and the neighbour out in the garden yapping!! Hilarious!

It must have been before the schools closed, as there are tonnes of school age kids in the estate where I live, and not one is in the shot; one little lad who is only about three so not at school!

emanresu · 30-09-2010 9:42pm

moikey wrote: »

I can't see anything of streetview on google maps, has anybody else seen something?

You have to left click the orange man icon, and drag him over to a road on the map that you want to see.
Roads or streets that are covered will show up in blue when you drag the orange man over the map.

ArraMusha · 30-09-2010 9:43pm

ya cant see the google man on google maps...??:(

30-09-2010 9:45pm

ArraMusha wrote: »

ya cant see the google man on google maps...??:(

you need google earth afaik

ArraMusha · 30-09-2010 9:49pm

see attached...no streetview ??view man.JPG

any ideas?

ArraMusha · 30-09-2010 9:50pm

rarnes1 wrote: »

you need google earth afaik

"I doubt it says pauline" twas working a few weeks ago

emanresu · 30-09-2010 9:52pm

rarnes1 wrote: »

you need google earth afaik

Street View works in Google Maps and in Google Earth.

3fullback · 30-09-2010 9:58pm

ArraMusha wrote: »

see attached...no streetview ??view man.JPG

any ideas?

go to google.com not .ie , worked for me

emanresu · 30-09-2010 10:05pm

ArraMusha wrote: »

see attached...no streetview ??view man.JPG

any ideas?

It works for me.
Then I noticed that your attachment says "Google Maps Ireland Beta".
My screen just says "Google Maps".
I am using http://maps.google.com (it's just what came up when i searched for Google Maps),
and you seem to be using http://maps.google.ie.
That must be the reason.

ArraMusha · 30-09-2010 10:06pm

3fullback wrote: »

go to google.com not .ie , worked for me

tried that, but it points back to .ie when i chick on maps.

might be a technical thing...will watch prime time and go for a snooze...:o

ArraMusha · 30-09-2010 10:09pm

emanresu wrote: »

It works for me.
Then I noticed that your attachment says "Google Maps Ireland Beta".
My screen just says "Google Maps".
I am using http://maps.google.com (it's just what came up when i searched for Google Maps),
and you seem to be using http://maps.google.ie.
That must be the reason.

Good man emanresu...you were spot on!! Thanks

Google Street View Car

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