[identity profile] shana-lyons.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
Google's Street Level View team has apparently done a really thorough job mapping the Somerville area over the last few months. Street Level view went live for the Boston area today. I looked at our house and I can see our pizza takeout boxes in our recycling. It's REALLY detailed. you guys might want to take a look at your home to see what the world can now see.

Date: 2007-12-11 07:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ifotismeni
I can see my car in my parking spot and everything. I love it! :)

Date: 2007-12-11 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
Here's the Somerville Theatre marquee. From this, you can tell the picture was taken around the third week of September 2007.

Date: 2007-12-11 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] billharnois.livejournal.com
funny, I spent 20 minutes or so today trying to determine when these pictures took place based on all of the housing/business renovations. Never thought to look at the date on the theatre display.

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Date: 2007-12-11 08:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-reserve.livejournal.com
I KNOW! I checked out my house only to find SOMEONE I DON'T KNOW, in my driveway, hovering over the drivers' side of my car door.

Date: 2007-12-11 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com
Whoa! I knew sightings of that nature were going to start springing up. Glad they didn't actually make off with anything (or so I'm deducing).

Date: 2007-12-11 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elements.livejournal.com
Are you sure it's not you? I just looked and it seemed like they had the right height and haircut... just a little too blurry to tell for sure. Do you have any shirts with patches on the left arms? Otherwise the patches at first made me think of a mail carrier.

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Date: 2007-12-11 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sekala.livejournal.com
this is awesome

Date: 2007-12-11 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lonelyholiday.livejournal.com
Fun! No people I recognize on my street, but my roommate's car is there. And my coworker's car outside our office. Shame I don't have my own car to get all excited about. heh.

Date: 2007-12-11 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mraudet.livejournal.com
i live in the square and my photograph was definitely taken over labor day weekend.

Date: 2007-12-11 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretlyironic.livejournal.com
Sadly, they didn't catch anybody going into the porno shop over on Mystic Ave...

Date: 2007-12-11 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
I didn't even know we had one. Somerville or Medford?

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Date: 2007-12-11 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com
Our house must have been shot on a rare day that the porch wasn't full of crap. Sweet!

Date: 2007-12-11 09:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] theodosia.livejournal.com
Definitely it was shot over two days at the least -- I can tell because a) all the moving trucks which must have been the Labor Day session, and b) there are two separate shots of my house, one from the cross street, where you can see masons working on my neighbors stoop, which I know took about three weeks for the concrete to cure, and the porch railing is back up and the project is finished from the regular street view.

Still, I'm all, 'whee you can see my house!'

Date: 2007-12-11 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] surrealestate.livejournal.com
Sadly, I can date the pictures because there was construction on the corner, so the camera trucks didn't come down my street. :(

Date: 2007-12-11 09:39 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
Wow -- every single street in your neighborhood, except yours, has a street view.

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Date: 2007-12-11 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elements.livejournal.com
Ok, I can see some benefit to this now that I've looked at it (checking out a neighborhood's feel before traipsing over for an apartment appointment, for example), but I can't be the only one who's creeped out, too, can I?

Here's the Boston.com article (http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/12/11/get_ready_for_your_close_up/?page=full) on StreetView coming to Boston.

I think I'd find it less creepy if we were told in advance when they'd be doing their recording. That way we'd know to be wary of not doing anything in public that we might not want recorded and distributed, interpreted /misinterpreted by the entire world.

Date: 2007-12-11 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretlyironic.livejournal.com
If it's in public, it's in public.

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Date: 2007-12-11 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rethcir.livejournal.com
I think this will be REALLY useful around these parts. So much of driving in Boston is done by landmarks. Having some visual cues will be really nice next time I have to go somewhere random in the area.

Date: 2007-12-11 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
Anyone remember when Amazon's "A9.com" search engine had this feature? They called it Block View. I think it was only for major commercial streets like Boylston.

zomg!

Date: 2007-12-11 11:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] veda815.livejournal.com
I* am famous!!

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/veda815/2103794761/)

*or some other person riding a motorcycle near my work.

Re: zomg!

Date: 2007-12-12 06:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bikergeek.livejournal.com
I can be seen in MSN Local Live getting into my car near a former residence. I'd rather they'd gotten me on my bike tho'.

Date: 2007-12-12 12:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bobobb.livejournal.com
It's sort of creepy to me. I can see my house, my car and my recycling. Does the www really need to know what my house looks like?

Date: 2007-12-12 02:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] josephineave.livejournal.com
My was probably done on a Tuesday, cause that's trash day and all the junk is on the curb.

Date: 2007-12-12 02:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] an-art-worker.livejournal.com
I can see my car. I guess I was home or out on the bike. Odd. Where are all the people?

Date: 2007-12-12 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
Sunday morning, maybe? If i wanted to drive a car very slowly down lots of streets during daylight, that's when I'd try to do it.

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Date: 2007-12-12 06:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aki.livejournal.com
Dammit. I really should have put HELLO GOOGLE! in my front window as I contemplated. I might have even had the right timing too...during they great I CAN SEE MY CAT! controversy when Street View was first going up. Oh well, no guts, no glory.

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