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Have you spotted yourself on Google maps street view?

55 replies

DrMadelineMaxwell · 24/10/2021 10:39

Or someone you know?

We have spotted my car parked up at work and also friends walking out of school with their kids (faces obscured obv but definitely them) on there.

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MrsLargeEmbodied · 24/10/2021 10:40

i spotted an ex neighbour and i am sure i spotted dh Grin

MrsLargeEmbodied · 24/10/2021 10:40

oh and i also spotted my car at work

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 24/10/2021 10:40

Yes, I’m driving out of our driveway in the street view.

dudsville · 24/10/2021 10:45

Just checked. Ours is about 7 years out of date!

EvilRingahBitch · 24/10/2021 10:45

Yes. I never wore that dress again.

pussycatlickinglollyices · 24/10/2021 10:47

Yes.
And my late parents, and my late Aunty.

Seeline · 24/10/2021 10:48

We passed the Google car going the other way when driving locally once. For a couple of years we could see us coming towards the screen, then as a blur and then going away from the screen. It helped as it was quite a steep hill so the Canara was looking down towards us as it approached. It's been updated now, as has our car 😁

Daisy829 · 24/10/2021 10:49

When you look at our garden on Google maps you can see someone (me) in the hot tub

EscapeTheCastle · 24/10/2021 10:49

I've been on there for 12 plus years in a remote spot on the Thames path. I've just checked and I'm still there! I'm with my DH and my DS in a pram. We are there with my MIL and her father. We are all grinning at the google man. Nice memories as my grandfather in law has passed away since.

Darceyhemingway · 24/10/2021 10:50

My little sister walking home from school

TheGirlInTheGreenDress · 24/10/2021 10:50

Yep, you can see me in my dining room working from home!

Threewheeler1 · 24/10/2021 10:50

No, but there's a lovely view of loads of crap in our garden! Think we were prepping for a tip run but it just looks like a bunch of absolute clampits live here Grin

TroysMammy · 24/10/2021 10:52

My friend who lives in Italy sent me the Google Map Street View link as it's captured her on it. A very old one of my house showed my cat on the windowsill.

MrsPsmalls · 24/10/2021 10:57

Yes my brother's lovely deceased cat.

BearSoFair · 24/10/2021 11:00

DS1 on his way to school a few years ago!

NearLifeExperience · 24/10/2021 11:01

I'm getting into my car outside my old house on street view!

There's a white blob on the grass of my current house in satellite view... that's my dog!

StCharlotte · 24/10/2021 11:02

DH is currently on ours.

MilduraS · 24/10/2021 11:02

Yes and it was before I lost a lot of weight! If only they could have immortalised me a few months later. It's not a flattering photo at all Blush

Bigeggsinapackoften · 24/10/2021 11:03

My mum gardening. She’s dead and I’ll be upset when they update the picture.

Marelle · 24/10/2021 11:05

My mum is on Google Maps, being nosy and looking out of the window to see what the noise is! If you use a desktop computer you can “roll back” Google Maps to an earlier version and view the old photos, so once you’re on there you basically stay on there forever.

NearLifeExperience · 24/10/2021 11:06

Not what's asked, I know, but I was looking at the street view of a busy holiday place last year and there were inevitably lots of people with their faces blurred out. There was a dog with a group of them and its face had been blurred out, too! I love that Google protects the privacy of dogs!

AdaColeman · 24/10/2021 11:12

Yes, Ex is on it two or three times.

BarefootHippieChick · 24/10/2021 11:19

I once spotted an ex boyfriends dad putting the bins out 😆 I was getting directions for a route I hadn't been down for years, which took me past his house, and there he was!

Crackletranton · 24/10/2021 11:19

@Bigeggsinapackoften

My mum gardening. She’s dead and I’ll be upset when they update the picture.
You can see previous years' photos still if you click on the date in the box at the top left. I know it won't quite be the same x
Bigeggsinapackoften · 24/10/2021 11:20

Thanks to those who’ve said I can still see the old pic even if it changes. That’s so good to know. Thank you

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