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To be miffed that bloody Google street view have caught me

94 replies

PenisesAreNotPink · 11/09/2014 16:23

Shepherding the dog inside, carrying shopping - tried to hide my face but I hate that the camera got me coming in my house

Feel like my privacy is invaded

OP posts:
springlamb · 12/09/2014 21:56

I love looking at my house on google. If you zoom in there is a big splotch of white in the lawn. It's my golden retriever fast asleep, as he usually is. I love it.

surpriseitsme · 12/09/2014 23:42

Has anyone seen the man dragging a dead body on there? I dont know if its real or fake!

Pipbin · 13/09/2014 08:59

but weirdly you can go INSIDE the garage on the corner.

You can go inside my local!
There is a company you can get in as a business and pay them to photograph the inside and add it to street view.
It makes sense if you are a wedding venue or something like that I guess.

TaraRhode · 13/09/2014 11:54

Try www.bing.com/maps/ as well. They have a clearer view of my house.

borisgudanov · 13/09/2014 14:56

Streetview shows dfil and late dmil having a picnic in their front garden. He has no knowledge of the Internet and was completely oblivious. No one else can ask then to obfuscate the image because they aren't the data subject. Ludicrous.

Another case where the data protection law protects the business and not the private individual.

MokunMokun · 13/09/2014 15:08

They came up our street a few months ago but still haven't updated the photo yet. It was a bad time as the garden was messy and I was hanging out the washing in my pyjamas.

The camera isn't on a pole it's a kind of ball of cameras on top of the car.

SilverShadows · 13/09/2014 15:08

That's odd, I just checked street view and the pic is from within the last couple of years BUT the aerial view has gone back in time.
We've lived here 10 years, and 8 years ago completely revamped the garden. I'm sure I've seen the aerial view with the new garden but looking today it's the same as 2004!

HappyAgainOneDay · 13/09/2014 15:20

Another address to try: vPike.com. You get camera shots from the street with this one and you can twirl round.

limitedperiodonly · 13/09/2014 15:51

I didn't realise until this thread that Street View did updates. The last time they did it the front of my house was a state. I looked like one of those people that Channel 4 make documentaries about.

The answer to Through The Keyhole's: 'Who lives in a house like this?' would be: 'An anti-social bastard who doesn't own a broom.' Blush

It was so shaming that I renovated, spending actual money that I'd rather have spent on a holiday. But I was too ashamed to look again at Street View.

My house looks miles better now, though still not as good as the house next door.

But they're weird. And considerably richer than me. And slaves to convention and the tyranny of Farrow and Ball and tasteful chrome door furniture whereas I am bohemian with bonkers ivy in the back garden.

I locked myself out at 11am one Sunday in April while cleaning my downstairs windows - I can't remember what prompted that rarity - and wanted to climb over the wall in the back garden because I'd left the back door open, which is why the front door slammed in the first place.

For a start, they were out. When they returned about 30 minutes later from a deli, they weren't just dressed, they looked like a J Crew advert. Her hair wasn't just brushed, it was blow dried and she was wearing no make-up make up.

I was frantic, unwashed - complete with yesterday's make up, greasy hair scragged up into a bun, wearing rubber pool shoes, a dirty freebie t-shirt with a promotional logo and cat hair on it, and khaki jeans about two sizes too big and stained with hair dye. When I shinned over the 9ft wall they snagged, exposing my elderly pants.

They'd just moved in. They talked about inviting to their house-warming. I'm still waiting for the invitation. I sometimes hear laughter and clinking glasses from their roof terrace.

But because of this thread I've had the courage to look again. My house looks okay. And I've seen one of my other neighbours outside his house in his dressing gown looking like an escapee from a secure ward.

So thank you so much for bringing it to my attention, OP. Sorry that the experience hasn't been so great for you. If it's any consolation, they'll probably update again in a few years.

moolady1977 · 13/09/2014 16:42

My car is on the drive complete with L plates ive not had the car for years though

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 13/09/2014 16:45

limited, you actually made me feel better about myself reading that, thanks. Grin

FruVikingessOla · 13/09/2014 18:17

Grin limited Grin

annoyedofnorwich · 13/09/2014 18:54

You can look at previous pictures, I think it is called historic images or something. Might be interesting for people who want to see old images again :)

Passmethecrisps · 13/09/2014 21:18

limited wins the internet Grin

FruVikingessOla · 13/09/2014 21:22

limited is tres glamorous IRL

MrsOomBoomBoom · 14/09/2014 00:30

Does anyone remember this story about someone who faked a murder scene when the Google van drove past? Hilarious, what a brilliant idea! chuckles

limitedperiodonly · 14/09/2014 14:44

You're all too kind. Especially you fru. I'm not even sure I bought you a drink. I owe you one.

FruVikingessOla · 14/09/2014 15:05

I'm sure that we all bought 'like-for-like' that evening limited. I don't think anyone owed anyone else anything - IYSWIM?!

MammaTJ · 14/09/2014 15:39

My lovely posty is on street view in my street.

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