I see your house, and yours, and yours....

[plumtreeblossom]

Google Street Level is wicked fun if I blot out all those pesky thoughts about privacy and other tiny details like that. *considers an early drink*

They photgraphed our house on an uncommonly good day. No trash cans out, no crap on the porch except what looks like an Amazon package, my little granny fence neatly surrounding the yard (must bring that inside for the winter). I'm having too much fun with this new intarwebz toy.

An added benefit for me is that it lets me "drive." Just now I "drove" out to the Mystic River, which is kewl for a carfree nutjob like me. Now I don't have to take the T or buses all the way out to various neighborhoods to see what's there. Now I can just sit here in my desk chair FOREVER!

Um, or something. But I'm enjoying investigating the cheerful Orwellian potential of this thing.

Comments

[library-sexy.livejournal.com]

They do fuzz out license plates, and if you zoom in the photo's of people don't show much detail. What other privacy stuff are you thinking of? Knowing what a house looks like at address X I could go find out myself by driving down the street.

I had not through about using it for finding/picking places to eat/go. Great idea.

[ron_newman]

I don't think they deliberately blur license plates. Sometimes the camera is close enough for the plate to be seen clearly, sometimes it isn't.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yep, often I'm interested in a neighborhood but don't really know what's there. This tool is good for scouting out restaurants and stores that I'd like to go to.

[komos.livejournal.com]

I am strangely disappointed that my car isn't parked on my street.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Don't be. Over in the davis_square community, someone looked up her house and saw in the photo an unfamiliar person hovering over the driver's side window of her car. Probably best if people cyber-cruising the neighborhood don't know that your nice car lives there.

[tcb.livejournal.com]

Hee! goat's weathered SUV is parked in front of our house!