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Google Earth: can rich people buy out?
Just for personal interest and satisfaction, i've just used Google Earth to track down a location where the BBC did some outdoors filming in the middle 1970's. Comparing the original film to the same street today, it really does appear to have gone socially upscale - big detached houses, leafy suburbia, et c.
I found i interesting that Google Earth marks where you can go with a thick grey line down the road. I had no bother locating much of the street where the BBC filmed thirty-odd years ago. But following it back, I get to a point where #i can turn left down a side-street and there is no way at all I can go forwards - half this street has not, seemingly, been mapped by Google Earth in street-view. It looks upscale, as if seriously rich people live there (in the Cotham suburb of Bristol, BS6). But I cannot "travel" along it and look at the houses.
Is it therefore possible for affluent or influential people to prevent Google from sending Street View camera down their street and buy out of a service the rest of us saw no objections to? (And even if we could have opposed it or wanted to - how would we have done so...) It does seem strange that Google Earth promises a 100% c0mprehensive coverage of British towns and cities , but on examination fails to do so!
There's nothing especially different from the air - I can go down quite low over the "barred" section and even count the number of houses in the street and how many cars are on the street, I just cannot come to land there. So I'm speculating on who lives there.... politician? Pop star? Footballer? (I've heard whispers concerning Alderley Edge in Manchester, which is like a dormitory village for pro footballers from Man U and City, demanding one particular country road with about twenty pro fotballers living on it be deleted from Google Earth as their lawyers thought it was infringing their privacy, as well as offering the more unhinged fans a new way to stalk (security issues?) And a politician might argue that a method of scouting the approaches to and from their house without leaving your own PC is not exactly good for security either. (A lot of people might want to say "Oi! You! You're doing bloody well for yourself in this recession!" on t
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- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
As far as I know one would have to be in a private gated community to prohibit the Google car. There are lots of countries that have judged the Google car to be an invasion of privacy and have restricted the program, Google's slip-up collecting too much WiFi data as they passed may actually be the larger cause of these restrictions.
I wonder if you can see a change in the road's satellite view appearance at the blanked out point,
- Anonymous5 years ago
You have access to google earth too, so do I. What is so privileged about it? Anybody else could have done the same if they had wanted too since Haitian land was pretty cheap. It's called a smart move and requires some thinking, which is not a privilege. The money went to people in Haiti, didn't it? So, what is your issue? A lot of that food also got to people and a lot of humanitarian groups have been distributing food to the needy. Perhaps you should go down there and lend a hand at giving out the food? Perhaps you could do a better job? What I am seeing here is a liberal rant of wanting somebody else to do something and complaining about people who are using their brains. If you have a solution, provide it. If you aren't helping to solve the problems, quit whining about it. Become part of the solution.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Hi there,
You can download Google Earth for free here http://bit.ly/1p6gi9k
Google Earth is a kind of 3D interactive atlas. You’ll be able to see what every corner of the world looks like.