# Street View for the whole UK! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122 "2010-03-11T16:45:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/21 "2010-03-12T03:46:23Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > They’ve done a bang up of this. I just assumed that it would just be towns and villages but no, it’s 96% of all roads. > > [Here’s a very minor road on Skye, for example.](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kyleakin&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.113693,43.022461&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Kyleakin,+Isle+Of+Skye,+United+Kingdom&ll=57.309712,-6.048875&spn=0.001362,0.005252&t=h&z=18) > > You’ll need to drop the little orange man onto the road as I can’t get direct linking to Street View to work,but it’s worth having a look around. Thanks. I didn’t know the orange man moved. Bob ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/22 "2010-03-12T03:49:12Z")
Cool! [Esplanade hotel](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hotels&sll=51.788962,1.157523&sspn=0.001278,0.004823&ie=UTF8&split=1&rq=1&ev=zi&radius=0.1&hq=hotels&hnear=&ll=51.788504,1.157566&spn=0,359.995177&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.788448,1.157455&panoid=Md7DhKIbLjLyhG8t8aSG4w&cbp=12,334.79,,0,5.4) in Clacton-on-sea, where my Mom and I stayed in January 2009 when we went over to visit Granny in the nursing home. [Walden way in Frinton-on-sea](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=46+walden+way,+frinton-on-sea&sll=51.788454,1.157454&sspn=0.001278,0.004823&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=46+Walden+Way,+Frinton-on-Sea,+Essex+CO13+0,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.838529,1.250837&spn=0.00034,0.001206&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=51.838575,1.250987&panoid=knFiXLc6TtnhkdGEA7JUAw&cbp=12,337.17,,0,-0.11), where Granny lived for many, many years. I’m not sure if I’ve got the right house, it’s hard to tell them apart without being able to see the street numbers. I tried to find Quartette, the rental house where my family stayed in August-September of 2008, but apparently it’s on a little stretch of Second avenue that doesn’t have street view coverage, between the Close and Holmbrook way. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/23 "2010-03-12T07:25:50Z")
I have just taken a look at the house where we used to live until 2004. I notice my former next-door neighbour now seems to have six semi-derelict cars parked on his front garden. There were only two when we lived there. I’m glad we moved away from that idiot! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/24 "2010-03-12T09:41:43Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] What’s up with those cows? Civic art project? [/QUOTE] Yup, Milton Keynes is famous\*\*\*\*\* for its hundreds of roundabouts and the [Concrete Cows](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Cows). You can find your own link for the roundabouts 🙂 \*\*\*\*\*in Britain Milton Keynes is well known as a sort of joke location, there’s a little section in Good Omens about it. Bill Bryson says he got lost here. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/25 "2010-03-12T10:14:39Z")
Finally! I checked this only 2 days ago and it wasn’t there. I have been waiting for this, as I was walking down the street when a google car went past. If I’m lucky, and that was an image they used, maybe I can find myself. Anyone found themselves walking down the road yet? ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/26 "2010-03-12T10:31:18Z")
Damn, the images for the street I was on seem to have been taken by a car travelling in the opposite direction to the one I saw. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/27 "2010-03-12T10:37:36Z")
I wonder when they’re going to do South Africa. I wanna see Johannesburg. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/28 "2010-03-12T11:07:51Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > Holy crap! I don’t think I’d be driving 100k/hr on _that_ road! I barely do that on our highway here (Trans-Canada out to Langford). As my mother said to me (from the passenger seat) when I was learning to drive, it’s a limit, not a target 😉 (In the UK, the national speed limit on most roads is 60mph, or 96.56km/h, so the Irish can speed up a bit as they cross the border into the Republic…) ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/29 "2010-03-12T13:16:22Z")
The Register has a story they call the [Surveillance feedback loop](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/surveillance_feedback_loop/) showing pictures people have taken of the Google cars along with the Street View images of them taking the pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/30 "2010-03-12T13:42:35Z")
I’ve just spent the morning walking around the Devon village of [Butterleigh](http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=bed+and+breakfast&fb=1&gl=us&ei=mUKaS5OhH8H78AbdsOCHDg&ved=0CBMQtgMwAA&radius=0.15&sll=50.862121,-3.458633&sspn=0.004246,0.006684&split=1&rq=1&ev=zi&hq=bed+and+breakfast&hnear=&ll=50.864139,-3.458397&spn=0,359.993316&z=17&layer=c&cbll=50.864213,-3.458306&panoid=W69mkPrF4h4xqzQPAby6wg&cbp=12,29.7,,0,5). If that link works, you’re standing in front of the inn where I spent a few days a couple of years ago; when I was really there, I would get up before breakfast and walk around the narrow little hedgerowed lanes or to the top of the hill overlooking the village. And I can do just the same here! Very cool–I suspect I will spend a lot of time now revisiting places like this I have fond memories of. ---
**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/31 "2010-03-12T14:56:47Z")
I made the mistake of looking at the house that I grew up in. We moved out in 1986 and it’s changed a huge amount - not in a bad way, just changed. It’s true - you can’t go back. I’m kind of sad now. ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/32 "2010-03-12T15:03:36Z")
Old [post office](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Tintagel,+Cornwall,+United+Kingdom&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.042343,38.100586&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FS4QBQMdIKK3_w&split=0&hq=&hnear=Tintagel,+Cornwall,+United+Kingdom&ll=50.663486,-4.751673&spn=0.009426,0.018604&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=50.66344,-4.751554&panoid=tGqSccMJ42VrXKI-cn9jew&cbp=12,233.8,,0,13.08)at Tintagel (Cornwall). ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/33 "2010-03-12T15:14:27Z")
…and a Cornish [tin mine](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=st+austell&sll=50.66369,-4.751029&sspn=0.018852,0.037208&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Saint+Austell,+Cornwall,+United+Kingdom&ll=50.171401,-5.612941&spn=0.019048,0.037208&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=50.171297,-5.613037&panoid=tcNo5COO8vp9pdFuVMeMcg&cbp=12,336.55,,0,-2.79). ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/34 "2010-03-12T15:25:05Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > Finally! > > I checked this only 2 days ago and it wasn’t there. I have been waiting for this, as I was walking down the street when a google car went past. If I’m lucky, and that was an image they used, maybe I can find myself. > > Anyone found themselves walking down the road yet? I’ve found my mum and sister walking down a side road in Wigan. My mum’s staring at the car wondering what’s going on. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/35 "2010-03-12T15:32:48Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > I’ve found my mum and sister walking down a side road in Wigan. My mum’s staring at the car wondering what’s going on. That’s great. I’m drawing a blank on finding anyone I know. Bonus points if u find someone in a compromising position! What were you doing coming out of that bookies! etc etc. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/36 "2010-03-12T15:53:03Z")
I found a neighbour just round the corner from our house staring at the camera. I have presented a copy of the image to him! ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/37 "2010-03-12T16:10:12Z")
> [@SunSandSuffering](#): > > Old [post office](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Tintagel,+Cornwall,+United+Kingdom&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.042343,38.100586&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FS4QBQMdIKK3_w&split=0&hq=&hnear=Tintagel,+Cornwall,+United+Kingdom&ll=50.663486,-4.751673&spn=0.009426,0.018604&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=50.66344,-4.751554&panoid=tGqSccMJ42VrXKI-cn9jew&cbp=12,233.8,,0,13.08)at Tintagel (Cornwall). Amusing - I looked that up and thought that the picture was corrupted because the building looked all wonky, but then looking at it more closely I realised it was just the building. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/38 "2010-03-12T17:06:05Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Amusing - I looked that up and thought that the picture was corrupted because the building looked all wonky, but then looking at it more closely I realised it was just the building. 🙂 Actually there _is_ a visible “join” in the middle of the left-hand section of the roof, but yes the building is pretty wonky. In vaguely related news, over in Holland here’s a man disguised as an [ATM](http://gss.st/AR). Planning on cloning the cards of the local partially sighted community, perhaps? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/39 "2010-03-12T17:25:26Z")
I was poking around Manchester a bit, looking for spots of _Shameless_. Realized that all the council flats look pretty much the same 🙂 It was surprising to see all of the cops milling about, tho, in their day-glo yellow vests! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-view-for-the-whole-uk/532122/40 "2010-03-12T18:24:43Z")
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