Google Cars spotted in Waterford

Spocker

The cars are still around anyways, I passed one this morning on the Old Kilmeaden Road, just before the Manor Hotel

Heathen

Dang it i gotta get my pic taken by one of these bad boys

miss deise

wellbutty wrote: »

If ye havent seen one of these cars before, here's a picture of one I caught on camera in France last summer

Ahhh, ok right... Saw it this morning on Thomas Street, just outside Downes pub and didn't have a notion what it was... Thanks for that!

Asmodean

Any ideas on how long it takes for the images to be uploaded, quite a while I'd imagine?
And also will it have the whole city done or just the main streets? From the places where it's been spotted it looks like it'll be pretty extensive coverage!

south

one of the cars passed me heading into the summerville estate in tramore today

Aquos76

Google car around ferrybank now, Just came out of the Fairways and Castle Oaks estates on Rockshire Road. A red opel astra with a big camera strapped to the roof of it.

Cabaal

Feckin crazy english people

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/02/1731231

"A Google Street View car has been chased out of a British village by angry residents [CC] [MD] [GC]. The car was taking photographs of Broughton in Buckinghamshire for Google's when it was spotted by a local resident who warned the car not to enter the village then roused his neighbors, who surrounded the vehicle until the driver performed a U-turn and left. 'This is an affluent area,' protester Paul Jacobs said. 'We've already had three burglaries locally in the past six weeks. If our houses are plastered all over Google it's an invitation for more criminals to strike. I was determined to make a stand, so I called the police.'"

Peiking Duck

That's fairly mad. Burlglars wont be using Google Street View to check out houses to rob. Silly fools

Professey Chin

Cabaal wrote: »

Feckin crazy english people

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/02/1731231

Itd be great if as a consequence nobody in that area could use google anymore :pac:

Sully

*runs to put up big advertisement*

Amtmann

Heathen wrote: »

they had a rep from google on the radio the other day and asked him the same question... his answer was very simple.. everytime they have tried to get higher res pics of irish citys there is cloud cover... nothing they can do about it

maybe ireland will get a summer this year and we can get better res pics

But many other countries have shared their OS aerial photographic maps with Google Earth. Look at Wales and England, for example. No reason why we can't do likewise: http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx?id=&utype=&ecom=S1&user= (zoom in close et voila)

Kastro

Peiking Duck wrote: »

That's fairly mad. Burlglars wont be using Google Street View to check out houses to rob. Silly fools

also jim.. you said you don't know what they are doing here because we aint even in hi res plain old google satellite maps.. i agree but i do think it will be fin to walk down roads via the internet and every surface saying "we are sorry we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region, try zooming out for a broader look"

gscully

Peiking Duck wrote: »

That's fairly mad. Burlglars wont be using Google Street View to check out houses to rob. Silly fools

Care to place a wager on that?

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/128405

Kastro

jsut spotted in hillview

Peiking Duck

gscully wrote: »

Care to place a wager on that?

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/128405

Who knew our friendly criminals would be so tech savy

Kastro

sure... by any means possible ehh? :P

gscully

The cars are still going around anyway. They're in the various estates in the Williamstown area this morning. Just spotted one driving up and down all the cul-de-sacs in my estate.

Stokolan

Seems to be over around the Ferrybank way at the moment. Just passed the house here in Blackthorn hills. He dosnt wast any time getting around. Barely gopt time to get the camera out to get a picture of it.

Sully

I thought I drove past this the other night. It seemed like a very old car, but I spotted what looked like an odd looking roof rack but when I looked in my mirrors you couldn't make out what it was.

Stokolan

Here not the best of pics. I'm was too slow with the manual seetings to keep up with the fecker.