So what does Google get out of all this recorded/uploaded pictorial data?? Who buys such un-refined data? Needs very careful processing to allow Google, or their customers, to distil anything of value. How's your paranoia today?
Have just seen the Google car cruising round our area of Brum. Carries a strange football-sized green cage on its roof, mounted on small pylon.
Presume there are cameras on gimbals inside said football thingy.
So what does Google get out of all this recorded/uploaded pictorial data?? Who buys such un-refined data? Needs very careful processing to allow
Google, or their customers, to distil anything of value. How's your paranoia today?
Off the top of my head, apart from the advertsing revune google gets from being the destination search engine, companines like estate agencies (right
move etc) all use it. im sure there are lots more.
[Edited on 24-8-12 by loggyboy]
Mega web site hit numbers.
Name another other place that you can go to that will allow you to see any address and any location in the world. Be it Google maps, view or sky. They
have the lot.
+ the reason they have their own fleet of jets parked across the road from their headquarters (including a 767, if memory serves).... because they
have the money....
They were collecting WiFi details as part of it originally, to help find your location on mobiles, but they stopped doing that after a bit of an
uproar.....
Insurance companies use it to check the address you keep your car when quoting.
I saw one of the cars a few days ago, black astra ?
I saw one of the cars a few days ago, black astra ?
I must of seen it twice!
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I must of seen it twice!
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Originally posted by steve m
I must of seen it twice!
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Originally posted by Mr C
Insurance companies use it to check the address you keep your car when quoting.
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Originally posted by steve m
I saw one of the cars a few days ago, black astra ?
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Originally posted by Mr C
Insurance companies use it to check the address you keep your car when quoting.
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Originally posted by Ben_Copeland
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Originally posted by Mr C
Insurance companies use it to check the address you keep your car when quoting.
Unlikely....
Another option which I use at work a lot - is Bing maps.
It doesnt do the streetview, but also does a thing called birds eye view, handy for us as we can get views from the compass points around the
property. Puts an oblique angle on the view.