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Google Earth - Street View

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    #122
    salonfire
    Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭salonfire


    What the hell was he going up to the mountains for in that snow! :eek:
    Hope it was the Google tractor he was driving!


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    #123
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,383 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    noticed they went up the lanagh more, the unsurfaced bog road over from lough eske, bet he got a shock when it sent him over that

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #124
    salonfire
    Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭salonfire


    ednwireland wrote: »
    noticed they went up the lanagh more, the unsurfaced bog road over from lough eske, bet he got a shock when it sent him over that


    Linky??


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    #125
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,383 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    salonfire wrote: »
    Linky??

    sorry on the phone earlier

    http://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=54.730667,-8.087654&spn=0.049263,0.154324&z=13&layer=c&cbll=54.731767,-8.077925&panoid=UMJD52rZ5MLIISp6M6xY7g&cbp=12,347.93,,0,5

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #126
    irish1967
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭irish1967


    PattheMetaller wrote: »
    I was standing outside A&E at Letterkenny General Hospital on Saturday evening when I saw what I thought was the Google Earth Street View car driving down towards the Hospital roundabout.

    Anyone else see it or was I hallucinating?

    Well OP were you in the pic of that first post over a year ago ??


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    #127
    PattheMetaller
    Registered Users Posts: 459 ✭✭PattheMetaller


    Don't think so, but the wee smokers hut outside A&E is a bit from the camera and hard to make out who's about. There's someone there with a black top on though. Guess I'm not as close to the car as yer man who mooned it in Dublin :eek:


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    #128
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,098 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    PattheMetaller wrote: »
    Guess I'm not as close to the car as yer man who mooned it in Dublin :eek:
    Thank God (for someone here) that car/camera wasn't around the Diamond in Donegal Town some years ago ;)


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    #129
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,098 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    I see highland motors have taken over St Conals :D


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    #130
    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Just came across this outside Letterkenny!

    http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=54.983506,-7.727712&spn=0.003657,0.01545&z=17&layer=c&cbll=54.983341,-7.727988&panoid=GXEQ5wN6OAUEffxzuSjMmw&cbp=12,355.82,,0,3.06


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    #131
    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    will the bits that aren't up online ever go up? around Rathmullen is blank...


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    #132
    inode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭inode


    He told me he is still going about fixing bits he missed!


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    #133
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,121 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    There must be serious mileage (kilometerage?) on that car!


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    #134
    PattheMetaller
    Registered Users Posts: 459 ✭✭PattheMetaller


    So when every street is covered, do they go back to the very start to capture development, new roads etc.?


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    #135
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,121 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    PattheMetaller wrote: »
    So when every street is covered, do they go back to the very start to capture development, new roads etc.?
    Something I had wondered also.


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    #136
    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    byte wrote: »
    There must be serious mileage (kilometerage?) on that car!

    can imagine the ad in dealer after car for sale one carfuul owner, never over 40 mph


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    #137
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,383 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    danniemcq wrote: »
    will the bits that aren't up online ever go up? around Rathmullen is blank...

    thats just how it is :D
    sorry shouldnt say that seeing as we were up there yesterday blocking the roads cycling

    danniemcq wrote: »
    can imagine the ad in dealer after car for sale one carfuul owner, never over 40 mph

    think it goes over 40mph it overtook me and i followed it all the way from ballybofey to donegal town yesterday and it was definitely doing over 40 mph

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #138
    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    ednwireland wrote: »
    thats just how it is :D
    sorry shouldnt say that seeing as we were up there yesterday blocking the roads cycling

    hey wait a minute there is ummmmmmm a ..... yeah never mind

    think it goes over 40mph it overtook me and i followed it all the way from ballybofey to donegal town yesterday and it was definitely doing over 40 mph

    explains why some of the shots are a bit blurred at the edges!


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    #139
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,518 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    It goes plenty fast...
    http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/29/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-it-all


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    #140
    Essexboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Essexboy


    Saw the Google car again yesterday, about 3-4 miles South of Letterkenny.
    Fine tuning Street View?


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    #141
    irish1967
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭irish1967


    Maybe it will do the main road to Lifford in daylight this time.


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    #142
    inode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭inode


    he was filling in places missed etc but as far as i know the google guy is finished up now


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    #143
    Carrickman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭Carrickman


    I see they went all the way to Port which is a hell of a drive, but not to Slaibh Liag:confused:


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    #144
    irish1967
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭irish1967


    Passed him in barnesmore gap at 9.30 am this morning.


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    #145
    Pique
    Registered Users Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭Pique


    Apologies for bumping an old thread but I just noticed this:

    Who's watching the watchers ?

    Click


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    #146
    inode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭inode


    The black google car that was out to help out i would say ;)


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    #147
    jmark
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭jmark


    I see they still havent fixed the whole Gleencar/Glenoughty/Willowbrook/Solomons/Long Lane area of Letterkenny. I've tried to notify Google/TeleAtlas but to no avail. Until such times as they straighten them out they wont be able to match the photos with the maps.

    Anyone else tried to notify them about this?

    I was kind of hoping that an irate streetview driver would bang a few heads at the mapping centre!


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    #148
    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Pique wrote: »
    Apologies for bumping an old thread but I just noticed this:

    Who's watching the watchers ?

    Click

    Posted this a couple of pages back, I never saw any car other than the red one but it seems there must be two of them about

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68524578&postcount=130

    And yeah I reported a few of those problems but only got the generic "Thanks, we'll look into it" email reply and nothings been changed obviously


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    #149
    BikingChick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭BikingChick


    They obviously haven't done everywhere. Plenty of "main" roads into villages and towns are called "unknown road" and some places just don't have any street view options. Well, I spose for those who don't like Big Brother, it's nice to know that in Donegal you can still live quietly & secretly "off the map" :)


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    #150
    PattheMetaller
    Registered Users Posts: 459 ✭✭PattheMetaller


    Sorry for resurrecting an old thread but I had to tell you all what happened Friday.

    Was driving up the Rectory Road out of Ramelton, well inside the 50kph zone. The google earth car was parked at the side of the road. The car in front of me stood on the brakes!!! He must have thought it was one of the "mobile safety cameras". LOL!!!


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    #151
    Lahm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Lahm


    The New Line road area of Letterkenny is blank.

    Wonder why?

    Did the residents report it? It must have been done by the car. The whole surrounding area was, even roads which wouldn't be as used as the New Line Road. Strange indeed.

    Walk toward the red car in the link below. It turns to darkness a stretch beyond it...

    http://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=54.954049,-7.737679&spn=0,0.02105&z=16&layer=c&cbll=54.954163,-7.737976&panoid=JFvzVb_Bp_3hH__-jciaBA&cbp=12,252.07,,0,9.86


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