This is WRONG
This should be fucking illegal! This is infringing on everyone's privacy!

So now the terrorists can just look at my house and figure out where we live and all of our windows and shit and then come and fucking kill us.

I'm flaming mother fucking psycho pissed about this
PISSED

everyone should be pissed- THIS IS FUCKING WRONG - MORALLY AND LEGALLY

No one should be able to go to google and look at someone's private property - vehicles and everything - and SEE how you live, where you live and even what you had in your fucking trash that day.

Like side views? Or just the roof?

Yeah - side views like you're driving down the street.
You can zoom in and look at everything!!

Your talkn about on Google Earth right?

how detailed do they get? the images that I've seen didn't show windows or anything like that. just wondering. I know my parents live in the boonies, but even then, the photo you see of the house is from like 2 years ago. It showed there was no grass and I know for a fact that there's grass there now, db and I had to help my dad lay it down! :lol

The images are old. They update every year or so in urban areas, less in rural ones. There was a stink made about it months ago, and google released a statement about it.

how detailed do they get? the images that I've seen didn't show windows or anything like that. just wondering. I know my parents live in the boonies, but even then, the photo you see of the house is from like 2 years ago. It showed there was no grass and I know for a fact that there's grass there now, db and I had to help my dad lay it down! :lol

I agree... I've never seen any closer than a car being the size of roughly a pencil eraser...

The images of my home are a year old, it seems, and we weren't home - you can see the remodeling work and everything. Clear, perfect picture.

:angrywife

I didn't give permission for this - I'm going to raise hell nd see if I can get my home removed from their prying eyes.

Google is no longer allowed in my house - they are now Big Brother and I don't like it one bit.

Couldn't someone drive by your house and see the same thing though? I guess I just don't think it's a big deal. :dunno

Couldn't someone drive by your house and see the same thing though? I guess I just don't think it's a big deal. :dunno

That's what I was kind of thinking, I'm on google earth now (the free one) and all I can see is a big fuzzy image of my roof. What's the difference from someone driving by your house and seeing?

Are you talking about Google Earth?

Funny timing... I was just on Google Earth, looking at the aerial view of my house, and the canal behind it to see how far I could go in a kayak.

My neighbor is trying to sell me the sliver of property he owns directly behind my house, and I am so thankful for Google Earth, because now I can see just how big his yard really is, and how much he is trying to rip me off!

www.google.com - map option.

I was sizing up the property we were going to sell - birdseye views of land is NO big deal to me and I think that's cool, actually .... but this detailed and upclose "drive through" really is so wrong!



Anyway - here's an example, a street in downtown little rock, ar - just so you can see what i'm talking about 'cause i don't think everyone's available - click on the image above where it says "street view" and you can navigate
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=11324+Arcade+Dr,+little+rock,+ar&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

Funny timing... I was just on Google Earth, looking at the aerial view of my house, and the canal behind it to see how far I could go in a kayak.

My neighbor is trying to sell me the sliver of property he owns directly behind my house, and I am so thankful for Google Earth, because now I can see just how big his yard really is, and how much he is trying to rip me off!

I love google earth! Its one of the ways we scoped out our current house prior to us buying it.

I agree... I've never seen any closer than a car being the size of roughly a pencil eraser...

I agree. Not to mention, all the views I've seen are way off.

thats kind of cool!

www.google.com - map option.

I was sizing up the property we were going to sell - birdseye views of land is NO big deal to me and I think that's cool, actually .... but this detailed and upclose "drive through" really is so wrong!



Anyway - here's an example, a street in downtown little rock, ar - just so you can see what i'm talking about 'cause i don't think everyone's available - click on the image above where it says "street view" and you can navigate
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=11324+Arcade+Dr,+little+rock,+ar&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

But if it's the same thing you see as you actually drive through, what's the difference? I used a street view to look at houses before we moved here, and found it very helpful since it was the same thing I would have seen if I could have physically been here.

I'm just not understanding what is making you upset. Am I missing it?

the images are old.

plus, you own your own, not the air above it :wink

I was messing w/ that the other day. I thought it was kinda cool. I drove down our old street lol

thats kind of cool!

I do too, I searched for my house, but not 3-d view exists for it. I still think it's cool to get a panorama of the area.

You can't put the genie back in the bottle of technology. I understand the fear though. But, if somone wants to to scope you out, they're going to do it if determined enough.

There's always the flip side, when Steve Fosse's plane presumably crashed, there were people at Google Earth frantically trying to seach the terrain to locate the downed plane.

It works both ways, but again, I sympathize with the concern you have.

*shake head* NOOO

I use to deal with a lot of ebay crap - way back when - and the idea that someone might show up at my door made me get a PO box with Mailboxes ETC

I'm here - alone - most of the time - I don't need it to be any easier for people to break in and rape me that it already is.

This settles it - I'm getting a shotgun

Are you serious? I think you are really blowing things out of proportion.

*shake head* NOOO

I use to deal with a lot of ebay crap - way back when - and the idea that someone might show up at my door made me get a PO box with Mailboxes ETC

I'm here - alone - most of the time - I don't need it to be any easier for people to break in and rape me that it already is.

This settles it - I'm getting a shotgun

LOL Aunt Sponge with a shotgun! Girl, now *that* is scary!!!!

You can even zoom into license plates!!

i dont see a problem with it...

If someone online seeing what is perfectly visible to anyone who wants to drive by makes you paranoid, you'd better get three shotguns.

I agree... I've never seen any closer than a car being the size of roughly a pencil eraser...

:yes

Someone can get better info by looking thru the white pages.
I found her address, phone number and complete directions to her house there
The government satellites are do the same, I worry more about them.

I guess to me, if you follow PERSEC, then it's not a big deal. If someone has your address, they could just as easily mapquest you, then drive over and stake you out.

Follow PERSEC, and you're safe either way, and you don't have to worry about Google. :yes

I find it disturbing that so many people are ok with this.
:no
Maybe I've been living inthe country for far tooo long, babe - but people being able to see my house and how we live is NOT OK with me.

True- we're just like anyone else in teh world, nothing to be ashamed of - but it's a serious invasion of privacy and completely disrespectful.

If someone wants to see where we live they should have to drive all the hell the way out here - not just flick on their computer and have a peekaroo.
:flamethrow

With all the sicko psychos in the world (like my ex husband) I'm shocked, in fact, that people think this is ok!

As you can see I've had quite a few very very bad experiences with people just coming over and inviting theirselves into my home. We moved out here to get away from crap like that.

:lol kinda neet but freaky cause now I have the License plate numbers of about 5 cars..

:roflmao

I just realized my comment probably came off snarky, which it wasn't meant to.

I'm not ok with invasion of privacy, but if you keep your full name and address to yourself, it's not going to be a big deal unless someone REALLY wants to rape and kill you, then face it...they'll find a way. Then the shotgun comes in handy :)

The images are old the ones of my house I still have two palm trees in the front yard.

LOL - I've been playing with the idea of getting another shotgun for quite sometime now, this might just make me really go for it.

Loretta - don't worry about snarkiness, I'm to wrilled up over this to notice it from anyone else but myself! :)

Ok - I know how to deal with this invasion issue...block them out!
We're already putting a fence in the backyard = great privacy! Hooah! And so for the front yard I'm just going to stick to our old plan of letting a hedgerow grow.
In the backyard it made for great privacy in a few areas - thickenough to where you can't see through it, so we'll just spread it to the front...along with a nice thick amble of stickerrods. We have those in the woods - took us a long time to clear them out for the fence...made a great, painfully impenetrable fortress.

I find it disturbing that so many people are ok with this.
:no
Maybe I've been living inthe country for far tooo long, babe - but people being able to see my house and how we live is NOT OK with me.

True- we're just like anyone else in teh world, nothing to be ashamed of - but it's a serious invasion of privacy and completely disrespectful.

If someone wants to see where we live they should have to drive all the hell the way out here - not just flick on their computer and have a peekaroo.
:flamethrow

With all the sicko psychos in the world (like my ex husband) I'm shocked, in fact, that people think this is ok!

As you can see I've had quite a few very very bad experiences with people just coming over and inviting theirselves into my home. We moved out here to get away from crap like that.

Everything you are saying makes sense to me. But keeping my details obscure makes sense to me too, so then I can enjoy the best of both worlds.

I can imagine though, that if you've had problems in the past, that it would be very unsettling, like you have no control over who can see you from anywhere in the world.

I find it disturbing that so many people are ok with this.
:no
Maybe I've been living inthe country for far tooo long, babe - but people being able to see my house and how we live is NOT OK with me.

True- we're just like anyone else in teh world, nothing to be ashamed of - but it's a serious invasion of privacy and completely disrespectful.

If someone wants to see where we live they should have to drive all the hell the way out here - not just flick on their computer and have a peekaroo.
:flamethrow

With all the sicko psychos in the world (like my ex husband) I'm shocked, in fact, that people think this is ok!

As you can see I've had quite a few very very bad experiences with people just coming over and inviting theirselves into my home. We moved out here to get away from crap like that.


That's exactly the way I feel about White Pages.

I was messing w/ that the other day. I thought it was kinda cool. I drove down our old street lol

ITA. They update them every 6 months... Honey are you sure you are not being paranoid. They are using satellite technology. I am sure the terrorist have acess to other satellites than just googles'. IMO. I do not care one way or another... it helps people findmy house. I can view apartments I want to move to etc. :biting

I am pretty sure google is not going to care if 1 million ppl complain they are still going to have the widget/acessory up and available

just do not sunbath naked

:dunno

Still doesn't bother me. I still don't see how someone 10,000 miles away can do anything just by looking at images at my house vs. someone driving be only a few hundred feet away.

I keep my house locked up like fort knox. I'm not worried about people too much. My granny would nag them to death anyway.

That's exactly the way I feel about White Pages.

Everything you are saying makes sense to me. But keeping my details obscure makes sense to me too, so then I can enjoy the best of both worlds.

I can imagine though, that if you've had problems in the past, that it would be very unsettling, like you have no control over who can see you from anywhere in the world.

Yeah, you get it...it's the lack of control. If someone has a picture of my house it should be BECAUSE I let them have it, you know...completely lack of control which is, ultimately, very very frustrating!

Fortunately I've learned from past mistakes and I no longer have any of my private info public in any way - like my ebay stuff I mentioned. And we don't have our name on our mailbox, etc...you get the idea.

But, man, this realy makes me want to make a foil hat!

Ladies, there is something to be concerned about on Google though.

Go to the search bar, type in your 10 digit phone number (land lines-cell phones don't really work on this) and it'll give you your name and address. If you click on it, you can get an aireal picture of your house (there's an arrow pointing right at it) and step by step directions.

At the bottom of the information it has a section where you can remove that information it just takes about 48 hours (max).

Ladies, there is something to be concerned about on Google though.

Go to the search bar, type in your 10 digit phone number (land lines-cell phones don't really work on this) and it'll give you your name and address. If you click on it, you can get an aireal picture of your house (there's an arrow pointing right at it) and step by step directions.

At the bottom of the information it has a section where you can remove that information it just takes about 48 hours (max).

Not everyone I can find my parents via their telephone number but mine doesn't show up.

Ladies, there is something to be concerned about on Google though.

Go to the search bar, type in your 10 digit phone number (land lines-cell phones don't really work on this) and it'll give you your name and address. If you click on it, you can get an aireal picture of your house (there's an arrow pointing right at it) and step by step directions.

At the bottom of the information it has a section where you can remove that information it just takes about 48 hours (max).

So hows that different from a phone book?

I still do not understand why it is a big deal...maybe I live in fantasy land.
U have the risk everyday freakin day or being attacked, shot at, crashed into, raped, stabbed, sexually assulted, etc... Does not stop me from getting off my ass and going to work, school, the store, or to work out... etc.
I hardly think someone is going to stalk you out on google earth/maps/ whatever and wait to harm you... then again they might and I will stick my foot in my mouth then.

Life is dangerous... to bad. Stupid Eve and Adam at the damn apple.

So hows that different from a phone book?

With a phone book, you have the option of being unlisted.

I love Google Earth, but hate White pages.

So hows that different from a phone book?

Ok THAT is troublesome. It's different than the phone book because I pay for an unlisted number, so people can't find me in the phonebook.

Hmm... need to do more thinking on this evidently.

I still do not understand why it is a big deal...maybe I live in fantasy land.
U have the risk everyday freakin day or being attacked, shot at, crashed into, raped, stabbed, sexually assulted, etc... Does not stop me from getting off my ass and going to work, school, the store, or to work out... etc.
I hardly think someone is going to stalk you out on google earth/maps/ whatever and wait to harm you... then again they might and I will stick my foot in my mouth then.

Life is dangerous... to bad. Stupid Eve and Adam at the damn apple.

i am right behind ya girl i dont understand :lol

Ok - now I'm really just creeped out.

They have people and kids, too, forever trapped online in these moments of their lives for perverts to just feast their eyes.

Sick...:puke

I'm serious sick ot my stomach...I'm going away, now, I'm digging a hole and wriging "FU google" on my front door.

'night all!
Don't forget to foil your windows and lock the doors.

Couldn't someone drive by your house and see the same thing though? I guess I just don't think it's a big deal. :dunno

Driving by is a little different than it being on the internet.

But she also gave information so that you could be removed from the online map as well.

But she also gave information so that you could be removed from the online map as well.

Whoops! Jumped the gun!
Whew! Ok, I'm back to being fine with it. :giggle

Meh... if that is how u wanna spend your time as a perve I thought they went to the YMCA.... lmao.
I work there I see the ppl that come in and am like "Really?!?! ... Gross. Don't talk to me... stop looking at me asshole!"

I knew about Google Earth a couple years ago and always thought that it was quite neat.

I just make sure that i keep my info private and not listed in the phone book.

If anyone want to come over and rape you they will figure out a way, because they have already had their eyes on you, KWIM? I wouldn't worry about anyone a millions of miles away, I rather worry about the people that see me everyday vs the ones that can see my home on the internet. Thats just me though.

Whoops! Jumped the gun!
Whew! Ok, I'm back to being fine with it. :giggle

If you're unlisted, you shouldn't be on their search but that doesn't mean you won't be. We have an unlisted phone number and we weren't on there but my grandparent's who have an unlisted number were.

The images of my home are a year old, it seems, and we weren't home - you can see the remodeling work and everything. Clear, perfect picture.

:angrywife

I didn't give permission for this - I'm going to raise hell nd see if I can get my home removed from their prying eyes.

Google is no longer allowed in my house - they are now Big Brother and I don't like it one bit.

I like google earth for looking at bird's eye view of cities as a whole but i didn't know you could get that detailed! That makes me feel uneasy.

www.google.com - map option.

I was sizing up the property we were going to sell - birdseye views of land is NO big deal to me and I think that's cool, actually .... but this detailed and upclose "drive through" really is so wrong!



Anyway - here's an example, a street in downtown little rock, ar - just so you can see what i'm talking about 'cause i don't think everyone's available - click on the image above where it says "street view" and you can navigate
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=11324+Arcade+Dr,+little+rock,+ar&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

The second link has a creepy little kid in it. Its freaking me out a bit...ha!

ETA- maybe its not a kid, it just looks like it....LOL

Google isn't the only thing on the net where you can get a persons personal info with a click of a button.

On Reverse Phone Detective you can get tons of info just from a phone number... there are tons of sites out there like this ladies... sad but there are.

As for it infringing on your privacy.. it is totally legal because we don't own the air space above our house just the acreage that the house sits on. Infact if anyone's house is like the one I live in there is a sidewalk and on the other side of the sidewalk is Goverment property, that they just want you to take care of but you don't own.

Sorry but it is all legal in a twisted way.

unnerving, though, to see just how redneck we've become..

YUP - we've got our burn pile there --> and our beer-trash stash ---> there and --->there and a pilobrick in the driveway.

Alls that's missin is me - preggers and barefoot!

ROFL

With a baby on my hip


LOL - ok, so I don't like it but here I am being a hypocrite and driving around my town and the guy in the google-map truck is head-to-head for quite some time with someone who's backing out of their driveway...Like a game of chicken all because this out-of-town google idiot doesn't know how to drive on a skinny country street.

You have to drive INTO the ditch pretty boy - INTO the ditch.

LOL - oh no - the google-guy BACKS up and pulls into a driveway so the other truck can pass.
LOL - I'm watching this frame by frame as if it's a freaking movie ... This is too funny - this is redneck for you. Only in my town!

Ladies, there is something to be concerned about on Google though.

Go to the search bar, type in your 10 digit phone number (land lines-cell phones don't really work on this) and it'll give you your name and address. If you click on it, you can get an aireal picture of your house (there's an arrow pointing right at it) and step by step directions.

At the bottom of the information it has a section where you can remove that information it just takes about 48 hours (max).

doesn't work for my number either

You want to hear something really scary?? My dad works for a power company and they have a satellite system that works in real time. He was bored one night and put in my address and called me to tell me that the dog wanted back in the house. That freaked me the fuck out!!!

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but I know in NC I can go to the property tax website, type in some simple info and pull up anyone's house, what they paid, how much it's worth and pictures taken of it. Scary huh?

i think it all boils down to someone needing to have your information in the first place. if they don't have the information then they can't find you whether it's in the white pages or reverse phone directory or google earth.

Yeah, that's true - you ahve to do some sleuthing to put all the pieces together ot figure out who people are.
Easier to just stalk some hot chick at the mall.

Yeah, that's true - you ahve to do some sleuthing to put all the pieces together ot figure out who people are.
Easier to just stalk some hot chick at the mall.

Probably more interesting too than looking at a roof.

Yeah, I learned a lot about people through tax maps and records through my job in Georgia.
And I had a friend who worked for a satellite imaging company. He could get anything real time.
It's all out there, that's for sure!

I can only look at my roof and see the three old junkers that have not been parked in my yard for over two years now so my area has not been updated for at least two years AND I can not figure out how to do anything except for look at the roof so yay I don't feel any less safe then I normally do on a daily basis i can not add to my anxiety or I will end up in a looney bin LOLZ

LOL! Me too - I'm checking to make sure my ugly but isn't at the gas station or walmart and then i'm off to bed.

Are you truly worried about terrorists using this to invade you at your home? I'm not trying to be rude, I just don't know if you're being serious or not. It was funny.


I have no problem with it. It's nothing you can't already see by driving by my home.

As for the white pages, I haven't had a landline phone number in years. We only use cell phones. No need to waste money.

Are you truly worried about terrorists using this to invade you at your home? I'm not trying to be rude, I just don't know if you're being serious or not. It was funny.

When I wrote it I sure meant it!
But now that I'm not upset over it I'm laughing at my own comments.

i actually think its really cool! and you cant see THAT much. come on. it doesnt tell you who lives in the houses or anything. im looking at houses in cali on line and i use it. i like it because i can tell what kind of neighborhoods the houses are in. i dont think its a problem at all. IMO

I used to use Google Earth to look at my house... I thought it was kinda neato...

With technology comes sacrifices I guess. :no

I don't like it either... but it kinda makes me wanna paint something dirty on my roof.... :P

oh my gosh guys... im not going to lie... i think this is awesome that i can see my house...

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc249/Treeoflife3/MAHHOUSE.jpg

taadaa!
it must be an old pic though because A) my car isnt in front and B) there are leaves on the trees still even though the grass looks dead... i think it is from last spring :D

With technology comes sacrifices I guess. :no


Along with things like the Freedom of Information Act and the Patriot Act. People wanted more safety, more security... They were willing to give up some freedoms to get it.

Well, this is what it looks like. Privacy goes bye bye! Everyone feel safer? :rofl

Am I the only one that cannot get any pictures of houses? I tried my old house and I tried my grandmothers and Moms. Oh well! Google earth doesn't really bother me, but the fact that you can see full views of houses is bothersome

oh my gosh guys... im not going to lie... i think this is awesome that i can see my house...

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc249/Treeoflife3/MAHHOUSE.jpg

taadaa!
it must be an old pic though because A) my car isnt in front and B) there are leaves on the trees still even though the grass looks dead... i think it is from last spring :D

How did you get that to come up? Every address I've put in has shown a completely different house to the one in the address, and I can't see any options for viewing anything but the roof! :nutts

I love google earth! Its one of the ways we scoped out our current house prior to us buying it.

:yes we are using it for houses we are interested in as well.

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but I know in NC I can go to the property tax website, type in some simple info and pull up anyone's house, what they paid, how much it's worth and pictures taken of it. Scary huh?

Yeah Jacksonville FL has it on there coj.net website. We use it to see how much houses we are inteerested in are worth.

After my husband and I bought our first house we were playing with the googleEarth thing and we figured out that the images on GoogleEarth are about 5-7 years old, they are not allowed to put up newer images. But I guess they update the images every year or so with 5-7 year old images

I Googled our place and all it shows is our rooftop.

I Googled our place and all it shows is our rooftop.

Yopu can pay like $20 or something for it to bring up your actual house and be able to tilt over and see your front door and stuff....

Couldn't someone drive by your house and see the same thing though? I guess I just don't think it's a big deal. :dunno

Ya that's what I was thinking too. And I seriously doubt a terrorist is going to be sitting on the computer searching for your address. Dunno I just see it as the farthest thing to worry about as far as terrorism goes.

I don't care if someone can see my house, it is in a neighborhood. The pictures are old, they don't even have pics of the community center up there. What I would be more worried about is that anyone who wants can have a satalite (sp?) img of Camp Allen, Joint Forces, Norfolk Naval, Oceania and all the other military bases around here

Yopu can pay like $20 or something for it to bring up your actual house and be able to tilt over and see your front door and stuff....

Wow. I'm too cheap to dish out a 20 :P

i just looked at the images and it doesnt even show my neon i have lived here for 2 yrs so if they update them it would have my car sitting out front and it doesnt.. so it is not recent images at all

Ladies, there is something to be concerned about on Google though.

Go to the search bar, type in your 10 digit phone number (land lines-cell phones don't really work on this) and it'll give you your name and address. If you click on it, you can get an aireal picture of your house (there's an arrow pointing right at it) and step by step directions.

At the bottom of the information it has a section where you can remove that information it just takes about 48 hours (max).

How does that work if you have an unlisted number? I pay extra every month to have mine unlisted.

How did you get that to come up? Every address I've put in has shown a completely different house to the one in the address, and I can't see any options for viewing anything but the roof! :nutts

not ALL addresses have pictures for some reason... plus.. to get to my house, i had to travel down my street a few clicks and then turn the screen (those curved arrow buttons over the slider that lets you zoom in and out) all i could see before i traveled was the house next to me.. and only a side view of it. anyone trying to find MY house would definitely not SEE my house unless they actually knew its exact location and what it looked like.

I don't care if someone can see my house, it is in a neighborhood. The pictures are old, they don't even have pics of the community center up there. What I would be more worried about is that anyone who wants can have a satalite (sp?) img of Camp Allen, Joint Forces, Norfolk Naval, Oceania and all the other military bases around here

yeah... im more worried about good views of military bases than i am that great pic of my house.
besides, like i said in the post i just posted here.... it didnt even take me to my house just typing in the address... i had to travel a bit... it only showed my neighbor haha. i dont feel like my safety is enfringed upon.... anyone looking for me could ONLY find me if they actually knew where and what my house looked like already. AND... the picture is old... it is before i had my car... more than a year.

This is WRONG
This should be fucking illegal! This is infringing on everyone's privacy!

So now the terrorists can just look at my house and figure out where we live and all of our windows and shit and then come and fucking kill us.
I'm flaming mother fucking psycho pissed about this
PISSED

everyone should be pissed- THIS IS FUCKING WRONG - MORALLY AND LEGALLY

No one should be able to go to google and look at someone's private property - vehicles and everything - and SEE how you live, where you live and even what you had in your fucking trash that day.


So, you have terrorists that want to kill you? I mean, I don't agree with it either, because maybe THEIVES might want to come and rob my house. But TERRORISTS? SERIOUSLY? :thinking

I was playing around more last night and I saw that the house way down the street from me was still in the lumber part of being built so yeah these images are REALLLLLLLY old

Yeah, there isn't a street view of any of the houses in my neighborhood either. Just a satellite photo of the tops of them. Apparently the neighborhood is too new? :dunno

The images are WAAAYYYY old, like almost 3 years because I googled my house on the satellite and it is not even built yet. :dunno

So hows that different from a phone book?

That is what I was thinking...

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but I know in NC I can go to the property tax website, type in some simple info and pull up anyone's house, what they paid, how much it's worth and pictures taken of it. Scary huh?

But information like the selling price of a house and how much it is worth is all public information. All the website does is mean that the city doesn't have to pay someone to pull the records when they are requested. It's not like they are posting something that is private or classified.

I find it funny. It's the same things people see when driving down the street. Our truck wasn't home in ours. But you can see how crappy my backyard is :hide

:edit it's old cause it has my OLD ass neighbor 's car and awning as my next door neighbor.

Guess I jsut don't see why to get pissed over it.

The only problem I have with stuff like that was I had a stalker a couple of years ago, and we purposely were completely unlisted in every way and so he found me by breaking into the school computer system for my phone number and finding where I live on google earth. I still have no idea how he did it, but he e-mailed a photo to me from some website that showed my exact location and was close enough that I could recognize people in it. THAT kind of crap weirds me out. But I don't really mind google earth because I've never really been able to identify anything, and like everyone has pointed out, the images are really freakin' old.

The only problem I have with stuff like that was I had a stalker a couple of years ago, and we purposely were completely unlisted in every way and so he found me by breaking into the school computer system for my phone number and finding where I live on google earth. I still have no idea how he did it, but he e-mailed a photo to me from some website that showed my exact location and was close enough that I could recognize people in it. THAT kind of crap weirds me out. But I don't really mind google earth because I've never really been able to identify anything, and like everyone has pointed out, the images are really freakin' old.

EXACTLY!!
I've had a stalker and we've been robbed.

And my images aren't old :( - they're less than a year old, apparently taken last year in September.

I was seriously creeped out by it.

I have a problem with the fact that someone just drove by and took pictures of my house without my knowledge...then put 'em on the internet. What if my kids had been outside playing or something? Some pedophile decides that my kids are too cute and they have to come take them or something.

It makes it really easy to 'case' a neighborhood without even having to drive by. A person could find out all sorts of information w/o even being in my neighborhood. It kinda takes the 'neighborhood watch' out of the equation. Say a house gets robbed in the neighborhood and the police come and ask you questions. "Did you see anyone suspicious?" No, but my house is available on google, so it could literally BE ANYONE IN THE WORLD.

I understand the feeling of violation.

:lol

I just googled my address, and clicked street view.. it's taken from one of the side streets, and the picture is mostly of the hill we live on.. there's one building shown, but it's not our house in particular. Doesn't really bother me.

I donno about all of you.. But I use it as an advantage... I get home sick all the time... and when I put my moms address in it shows the detailed picture of my moms house... and the cool part about it is that it looks the same way as when I lived in it... not as it is now...

I call my mom and I can say I see the house right now... I smile and then we talk. I love that I can do this... sometimes it makes me feel like no matter where i end up moving I can always be there in a strange kind of way.

So I'm uber tardy to this party,but unless people know your address it's not like they will know YOU live there and like others said it's no different then driving down the street or looking you up in a phone book. I treat my personal info like gold I don't want to share, sure lots of people know it, but I trust all of those people. Only a few people know my home telephone number ( not that it does good since I don't have a phone connected to it good luck trying to call. lol) I googled my address it's almost a year old, I know this because the fence isn't up between mine and my neighbors yards which got put up when we moved in. Even on the street view, it shows the front of my house. Which can be seen from the street. I guess I just don't see the big issue. :dunno

I was seriously creeped out by it.

I have a problem with the fact that someone just drove by and took pictures of my house without my knowledge...then put 'em on the internet. What if my kids had been outside playing or something? Some pedophile decides that my kids are too cute and they have to come take them or something.

It makes it really easy to 'case' a neighborhood without even having to drive by. A person could find out all sorts of information w/o even being in my neighborhood. It kinda takes the 'neighborhood watch' out of the equation. Say a house gets robbed in the neighborhood and the police come and ask you questions. "Did you see anyone suspicious?" No, but my house is available on google, so it could literally BE ANYONE IN THE WORLD.

I understand the feeling of violation.

They are mostly satellite pictures.
This article is interesting
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/02/about_google_earth_imagery.html

I've done my house and there's no 3D for my area. On top of that, they have my house in the wrong place anyway. They say it is located on my street where there is no house and not even close to where is should be. I can see my house but the view is not close at all. The Google Earth thing is pretty cool though.

it's the information age. People want information at their fingertips and this (privacy) is a sacrifice of that. Trust me, there are a lot more threatening sites and activities out there getting your private informaton than google earth.

it's the information age. People want information at their fingertips and this (privacy) is a sacrifice of that. Trust me, there are a lot more threatening sites and activities out there getting your private informaton than google earth.

:yes :yes :yes completely agree!

Sounds kinda paranoid to me, LOL, I don't see the big deal.

Just because you can zoom in on houses doesn't mean they KNOW who lives there. There are worst things out there, like the white pages where people can easily see your address and phone number.

is it really worth raising your blood pressure? this has been out for a long time. you house is about the size of chapstick. how much of your privacy is really invaded?

I actually zoomed into dh's installation when he was in Iraq.. or atleast- I think I did. LOL i was like- omg he's there!!! And imagined where the chow hall was lol.

Umm I think these are just pictures- not live images- because when I see my house on google earth---- it's the same picture as the one I looked at 2 years ago.

I don't see the big deal in it. It's not like they tell who actually lives in there, what age they are and how much is in their bank account.

just do not sunbath naked

Well see now that pisses me off!!! What if I do want to sunbath naked! :lol

Another website that does show good closeups of homes is zillow.com. It is a real estate site. Some addresses they will have a good satellite or aerial image, some they don't. Some you can get a 360 degree view. These are old as well though. It's been showing the same picture of my old house for about a year now at least and I haven't lived there for over 7 months.

when I look up my house I see a big ass tree in my way..lol