$5 to the first person to find somebody in an incriminating position on Google Maps
By adamg - Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:57am.
Google Maps now has "street views" for Boston - Click there for a boring view of 921 Boylston St. (naturally, the system is not complete - no street-level view of my house in a remote part of Roslindale). Anyway, find some naked Boston butt or just somebody doing something particularly weird. First person gets a crisp fiver.
Steve Garfield is using the new feature to concentrate on something almost as important as regressing to fifth grade: Looking at the front of a Dunkin' Donuts.
Earlier:
Only took 30 minutes to find a nudie guy in a giant photo mosaic of the Back Bay.
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I've seen the Windows Live
I've seen the Windows Live street view trucks driving around in Lexington for whatever reason.
Wonder how they decided what streets to view
They've only got a few main streets in the 'outer boroughs' of Rozzie, Westie, Hyde Park, and rather spotty coverage of Dorchester, mostly east of Dot Ave. But they've got all of Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Somerville, Arlington, Watertown. Most of Brookline, but very little of Newton. Most of Medford, but they completely omitted one especially hilly neighborhood.
They got the major roads of Dedham
And I am offering $10 to anyone who can find incriminating photos in my hometown.
myDedham.org - a community since 1636 and online since 2007!
Dating the photos
You mentioned zooming in on a theatre marquee, so here's the Somerville Theatre's marquee, which shows the photo was taken the third week in September, this year.
I went to look at my old
I went to look at my old first-floor apartment, and found that my air conditioner was still in the window, which dates the pictures from the Chiswick Rd. area of Brighton at some date prior to August 31st.
Funny, because...
...right across Monastery on LaRose Place, my apartment has my new roommate's car in the driveway (post September 6th or so). He didn't start renting with my until 9/1 and even then he was out of town for the first week or so until 9/6ish. Maybe the person who took the apartment after you put a new AC up?
funny thing is...
the google maps satellite view still shows the old central artery before it was torn down.
But other points were
But other points were recently updated. Kenmore square has the bus station at around September progress.
Trees
That icon is in the Fells from what I can see, but for some reason I can't get the pic up.
I wanna know if I can see my house in the view. I can date the recently updated satellite photo from the presence of a tree in my yard - a diseased one that we had removed last summer.
Pay up
A myDedham reader found a Medfield police cruiser parked in a tow zone next to the courthouse in Dedham Square.
myDedham.org - a community since 1636 and online since 2007!
Its cool that places that
Its cool that places that need to be pixelated in satellite photos are cool for streetview. It save us getting hassled by security if we were to photograph ourselves
Confusion
Why does the left side say "Hanover Street, Boston" when this is actually Virginia Road in Lexington (or maybe Bedford or Lincoln)?
I think thats because I
I think thats because I typed that first to look for myself, before roaming around manually
Faster than a speeding bullet!
Start here (intersection of Poplar and Washington streets in Roslindale Square, basically) and then follow Washington northeast and watch the GoogleMapsMobile catch up to a yellow tincan so fast the car seems to just disappear. Then, suddenly, it reappears - maybe the Googlers noticed a cop right there and dropped out of hyperspeed.
Earthquake in Rozzie Square?
How else to explain this?
However, it is most cool, if somewhat disconcerting, to be able to "drive" the wrong way up Corinth Street. Ahh, watch out for those cars!
Earthquake in Arlington, too
Seems to have seriously damaged the Capitol Theatre, or at least its marquee.
Kids at Play
One son is at the local park playing, the other is biking home.
Frozen forever of a hot summer's day, they are but child sims in a simworld.
Oh, poop
Yes, it's a dog going on Comm. Ave. (via).
I'm heartbroken!
I was walking my girlfriend's dog when the Google car passed us. I was hoping I'd be in it, but I guess not. Maybe they saw that I noticed the car and made sure I was cropped out. so they didn't have someone staring creepily at the camera.
For whatever its worth, the area of Mission Hill near JP was photographed in early September. Even if I didn't see the car, there is a condo that was painted on my street just after Sept. 1 that is the new color here.
Valleywag says Boston Doesn't Matter
I just responded to Valleywag's Silicon-centric story... Check it out here
Amazon did it first
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.
X rated? More like G rated
Aaron Weber reports nobody spotted entering or exiting the porno shop on Mystic Avenue in Somerville. Amy Derjue comes up similarly empty at Centerfolds (although she does spot somebody somewhere else who might just be Whitey Bulger). I take a virtual drive down to the Amazing store in Dedham and also come up empty.
Amazing store in Dedham
Ha! I just did the same thing. I noticed that you could read the license plate of one of the cars in the lot...
Of course ...
They could be parked there for the Verizon store ...
They are all Waiting for
They are all Waiting for Godot.
It's a very empty Boston Google photographed
Just "drove by" an empty parking lot on LaGrange Street in
the Combat ZoneChinatown. OK, so Sunday, but lots of places where you'd expect to see lots of people, even Harvard Square, are oddly depopulated.depopulated Boston
Except for the senior citizens -- I've noticed a lot of them in these shots. And man, are they spry! They practically leap across the streets in a single bound.
Late Summer
Everybody's on vacation. Nobody is home.
Perhaps that is why they brought the camera trucks out at that time? Who knows.
Before August 21 in Medford
There is a house at the corner of Main and Harvard streets that lost it's top floors in a fire. In the Googleview, it is still intact.
Looks like Worcester,
Looks like Worcester, Providence, and even Westford are covered as well.
Empty City
It does seem strangely depopulated- Harvard SQ is usually busy all day- same with Boylston/Newbury- which seem surprisingly quiet. I'm guessing they drove around the morning after a late Sox game...
They photographed parts of
They photographed parts of Somerville on a Tuesday which is trash day.
Cigarette break
Cigarette break, Public Alley 437.