The official Google Street Scene thread

I received some feedback that some members do not know about Google Street Scene. Google has vehicles that are mapping all the streets with 360 cameras. To use it go to Google maps here http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl and enter the address you want or just zoom down to the street you want. When you get close grab the little man at the top of the zoom bar and drag it to the street. Once on the street you can move around and see things 360 around as well as move up and down the street. I’ve attached a clip of Hall Pantera (no Panteras in view) so you can get the idea of the view and here is the link to the view

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=...bp=12,246.55,,0,5.46

Grab the screen to move around. I tried PI Motorsports but the trees were blocking the view.

So let’s start finding those Panteras!

Mike

Those "little men" didn't come down my street...
But they might have seen something like this if they did.
One of the Audi TT forum guys found his TT on his way to work.
I will really be suprised if anyone actually finds a Pantera.

Well Street Scene was launched officially today. It looks like I got caught with my mess in the open.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q...bp=13,101.21,,0,2.02

Looks like the link didn’t copy.

Mike

And here is copy of the pic in case the corrected link doesn't work.

PanTTera, I can see my Goose and someone else's Cat. I'll let him post it if he wants. If there are 2 theres gotta be more.

Denis

Outstanding! The first Google de Tomaso! All that shows on my street is my Mustang.

Mike

Great screen resolution
I think we have the same 2 gal. air compressor Denis!

Looks like my garage door was open the day they came by, the car is under it's cover, but it's there none-the-less ...

Looks like Google caught my garage door open too. Denis sent me this, wondering if I knew who that guy was. Was my wife having an affair?

Well, moving the view around it seems he was there to fix my garage door.

Google has been scouring the US for years and Canada for barely a year and all the Detomasos seen so far are in Canada?

Nice!

Do you think I can post that pic of the BOSS outside on the trailer ? LOL

Ron

Pretty cool stuff. Just checked a few 'possible' hangouts and... nothing. No deTomasos in sight.

On one building, I had a fence being replaced during about 3 days in July. The photo there is on one of those days, so at least I know when the little men were lurking about!

Wow, and I thought I had a short driveway.

That is a trip. my car must be around back. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=...bp=12,229.78,,0,7.51

Well, it seems Google re-did my street sometime earlier this year. I was working on my son's car in the driveway, and had the garage door open. Sadly, even though I did have the garage lights on, the bright sunlight was too much contrast to my garage lights. So 2511, painted a dark metallic titanium silver, doesn't show up very much.

BUT, if you look closely, at the end of the arrow is the blue-white 'Isis" emblem that is in the center of my L-model bumper.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

(The light blue item is a Rubbermaid tub).

Larry

Looking in from the other side, the white lines in the garage are the florescent light tubes reflecting off the front hood and the windshield.

How do you post the pic ?

R

quote:

How do you post the pic ?

Not too damn easily.

I first did a full-screen capture of the entire Google view, all the headers and side info, after zooming in on the correct section.

Then I did a cropped screen capture of just the section I wanted to post.

On my Mac, full screen capture is shift-command-3.

To get the cropping tool, it is shift-command-4.

Of course, anything posted to the forum has to be 300kb or less.

Larry

On a PC you need to use the 'print screen' button then paste it in your paint or picture editor program, then just reduce it to fit on the forum.

Denis

Ok, Technically it isn't Google Street View, but I did find another Pantera using bing Maps "Bird's Eye View" feature. (zoom into the area you want, and if the "Bird's Eye" label is lit up, then you can click on it, zoom in and rotate around what you're interested in) ... http://www.bing.com/maps/

In this image, the Pantera is the lower of the 2 yellow cars - I couldn't zoom any closer ...

This car is presently for sale on Ebay. After noticing it had New Jersey plates, I did some sleuthing and found this image.


Driveway Pantera

I was out tooling in the MG one day and drove past a google street view car. I kept an eye out on street view. It took about a year and a half for it to show up:











I was trying to find a company on street view one time. I knew about it's location but was not sure. I was trying to read company signs, mailboxes etc. I was surprised how much work they go through to erase or blur such information.

Holy Crap I can't believe it !!... Would you believe they caught me w/my back shop open and you can actually see the back of my car!!..lol... Unbelievable.