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<font face="Calibri">Yes Mark - Strapping the cameras to rubbish trucks
sounds like a great way to get photos of every street!! Or everyone's
rubbish, depending on the angle of the lens.<br>
But perhaps it just happened that the bins were out that day ? A shame
really - you would think they would defer taking shots of those
neighbourhoods if the bins are out. Perhaps a facebook group "get the
big bins out of our google maps street view" might cause a minor ruffle
in the google feathers!!! lol<br>
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Makes me wonder how often the street view will be updated - our street
has already changed with the completion of new townhouses - the
building site and porta loo are in the street view!<br>
<br>
When I looked at my house I can tell the pics were taken before the
onset of Autumn - and thank heavens my nature strips (I live on a
corner) had been recently mowed and not in their usual overgrown
state!! My next door neighbour must have been collecting her mail as
she is in the shot!! <br>
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Cheers<br>
Ros<br>
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Mark Kelly wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:489A76A1.2050809@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au"
type="cite">I noticed many of the Google street shots featured
recycling bins, and was wondering if they had strapped the cameras to
rubbish trucks.
<br>
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To me, it seemed like a good idea to use tall vehicles that covered
every street of every suburb and stopped at each house...
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<br>
Then I found the Google car, the Google camera at
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/31/google-maps-zoom-her.html">http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/31/google-maps-zoom-her.html</a>
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I preferred my idea, actually :-)
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