Comments on: UK Street View Has Arrived

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:23:26 +0000

Just a little bit of useful info. in reference to your “Leicester being mapped for Street View” comment.

If you go on to Google Earth, in the bottom left corner of the screen, you have options like “3D Buildings, Street View, Gallery” etc.
Well, if you click on the “+” button in Gallery, it comes up with many options.
When you tick the box “360Cities”, you get Street View, just from a different sort-of company.
It’s fine, as if Google didn’t approve of it, they wouldn’t allow it on their software.
When you are looking around Leicester, you will get red bubbles containing “360″ and when you double-click on them, it will take you into a Street View mode, in good quality. There is about 10+ in Leicester.
Hope this helped.
(If you don’t have the “360Cites” option, try updating your Google Earth.)

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:36:55 +0000

I notice certain roads in London have been left out due to certain circumstances, fo example, the bottom of Northborough road in Norbury clearly shows a Police car and something is clearly happening, the streetview car seem to have avoided that road completely.

Also to note, parts of Sicily have been given streetview too.

By: James Turnbull

James Turnbull — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:46:38 +0000

Road works in front on the giant steel gates with armed guards.

Like this, but with a couple of extra workies: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianapa/2219254359/

By: mike

mike — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:28:29 +0000

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

a mural that’s near me also with blurry faces…

By: JL

JL — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:18:15 +0000

The Downing Street link doesn’t work any more, what was there exactly?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:46:02 +0000

Why are other smaller non-touristy cities covered and Leicester is not ?
We have more sites of interest and more visitors than some of the other cities that are covered.
Strange…

By: rob

rob — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:25:58 +0000

Any info out there on when leicester was mapped for streetview ? Thanks.

By: 433

433 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:29:59 +0000

Huh, now the Bobby Sands link has been removed. If you turn down the road, though, you can see an even better shot, with no image blur.

By: Trumple

Trumple — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:13:54 +0000

433 says:
Thursday, 19th March 2009 at 3:04 pm

An almost naked woman clearly visible in the window without blurring with really, really big…

toes *cough*

By: Dave Wintle

Dave Wintle — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:09:59 +0000

In Edinburgh, the google car was behind… another google car. Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth