Thursday, March 19, 2009

StreetView in England

It looks like Google Street View finally came out in England!  It took a while, because things had to be worked out with the “Information Commissioner’s Office,” which required blurring of faces and license plates (which Google software appears to be doing automatically).  Blurring wasn’t initially done in the US (although it is now).  I find it interesting that the UK, capital of CCTV, was one of the stroppiest countries about Street View.

Some images!:

Cambridge

Malting House:


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Darwin:


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Cambridge Market:


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World's Most Crowded Grocery Store (Sainsbury's in Cambridge):


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Oxford

WEPO Compound:


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Exeter:


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Magdalen (where we stayed for the OUMC Ball on Saturday):


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University Parks:


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Iffley and the four minute mile track:


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London

Nick's Flat in Orpington (above "Andrew Reeves"):


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Mile End (as close as you can get; blue building through the trees):


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Westway Entrance:


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Westway's climbing wall is in the puffy white marshmellow tent in the middle of the roundabout (with a fake outdoor woodie visible outside):


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Highly exciting! I'm sure if you're interested you can poke around and find all sorts of famous stuff in there yourself.

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