# I might be on Google Maps Street View. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230 "2011-08-18T21:51:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/21 "2011-08-19T16:50:27Z")
huh, street view shows my brothers suburban and travel trailer in the driveway, overhead does not (i stored his stuff for a while and the overhead used to show the trailer) it does however show the back fence in mid-repair last year ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/22 "2011-08-19T17:01:13Z")
My cul-de-sac isn’t on street view, but the aerial view has me, in the backyard, setting up the Intex pop up pool at the beginning of last summer. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/23 "2011-08-19T19:08:09Z")
Old story: [Murder Captured By Google Street View Car](http://gizmodo.com/5656497/murder-captured-by-google-street-view-car) Any new ones still visible? ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/24 "2011-08-19T19:47:12Z")
They haven’t updated for my street in at least three years. The shot of my place shows my old cadillac parked in the lot. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/25 "2011-08-19T20:38:38Z")
A friend of mine moved back to Japan recently and I to check out her apartment on GSV and I amazed at the resolution. It was much better than anything I had seen in the United States and pretty recent to boot. The streets are so narrow, I could move along the street reading the prices in the store windows. I noticed they blurred the faces on posters as well as people. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/26 "2011-08-19T21:35:44Z")
Barely any streets in my podunk suburb are on street view, least of all mine, which is so narrow you’re not even allowed to park cars along it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![NoiseBomb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/49beb7/32.png) [@NoiseBomb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoiseBomb)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/27 "2011-08-20T05:37:14Z")
I have to drive about 2 miles before I get to a road that’s even on Street View. Yay being rural! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/28 "2011-08-20T07:47:14Z")
They only just recently updated the images for Melbourne (higher resolution, some newer streets included). But they were apparently taken over 18 months ago, it looks to be sometime around January 2010 or so; you see a tree in my yard that isn’t there anymore, and the new houses in my friend’s street aren’t shown as being built yet, just empty blocks. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/29 "2011-08-21T02:29:59Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > “A friend of mine heard about a guy” who saw the G-Mobile doing the slow cruise in a small downtown area near San Francisco, ran like hell to get a block ahead of it and then stopped while it passed, repeated the maneuver half a dozen times. His goal was to supernaturally appear again and again in the eventual online streetview. > > I trust my friend but wonder if it’s a true story. Kind of funny is it is. I guess. > > . > > . A friend and I did the same kind of thing in high school. It was class photo day and they lined up the entire 900+ senior class on some portable multi tiered viewing stands. We made sure we were right on the far left edge of the stands. They used one of those slow moving sweeping type of cameras to capture the whole class in a still photo. As soon as we felt the camera was past us, we jumped down, ran behind the stands and jumped up on the far right side. When the class photo came out, we were both in it twice at either end of the picture. The bad news was that someone saw it and told the Principal and we got suspended. Even worse was the fact that my mom threw out just about all my HS stuff (including the photo) when I left the country for awhile and my dad and her moved to a new home. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/30 "2011-08-21T04:14:28Z")
All I have to offer is that just down the street from my house there’s a guy riding a unicycle. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/31 "2022-09-10T13:33:15Z")
Yesterday I went out for a jog. We live in a rural area, and there’s no street view for it on Google Maps. One of those street view camera cars drove by as I was running. So I might show up on Google Maps. I’ll keep checking. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/32 "2022-09-11T01:19:58Z")
As for the dates of GSV pix, they are shown in the date bar at the upper left corner of the photo. If the same route was shot at different times, the dates (and views) are typically visible by clicking on the horizontal bar for successive or earlier exposures when a clock icon is visible. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/33 "2022-09-11T02:19:38Z")
I’m in GSV twice. Once walking on sidewalk in 2013 or 2014, and in 2021 riding my bicycle. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/34 "2022-09-11T05:42:17Z")
I’ve never been in GSV but I saw the camera car drive by me once in Portland, OR. I kept checking for a good couple of years after that day but I never appeared so they must not have used the footage. My wife – or rather, my wife’s car with her driving it – was caught by the GSV camera car but looking just now that image is longer being used. The last house we were in we were only there for about 13 months and the GSV shows my car in the drive so it was taken no more than 2 years ago. That’s the closest I think I’ve come to being in GSV. We’ve been in this house just shy of a year and the GSV image is probably 5 or 6 years old, judging from the growth of some the bushes in the yard. A former Google Earth satellite view of a house we used to live in I know within a 12-hour window of when the pic was taken. My kids were very young and one night we decided to have a “campout” in the backyard. We rolled out our sleeping bags on a blanket, slept the night, and then returned everything back inside the house the next morning. The GE image shows that blanket/sleeping bag setup. The current GSV image was taken when we lived there, and we left in 2013. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/35 "2022-09-11T05:57:29Z")
I was on GSV about a decade ago, when the camera truck drove past the building in downtown Chicago where I was working, and several of my colleagues and myself were walking back to the office from lunch. The GSV photos of my parents’ house show my father walking down the driveway, about to get into their car. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230/36 "2022-09-11T13:30:26Z")
None of the roads in my subdivision are on Google Maps Street View. We are kind of remote. But not bad. My Wife calls it “The illusion of seclusion” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-be-on-google-maps-street-view/593230.md?page=1)