Has Google Street View Hit London?

September 28th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 16 Comments

[Photo from Dvorak.org, which broke the story]

These black Volkswagon Beetles with video cameras mounted on them have been seen patroling the streets of London, capturing footage of unsuspecting innocents. Is Google behind this?

Expect Google Street Views of London popping up sometime soon on Google UK.

Comments

16 responses so far ↓

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nXplorer on Oct 1, 2007 at 1:49 pm

I hope its Google. If been waiting for Google Streetview in Europe since it started in the US.
Virtcity on Oct 5, 2007 at 10:42 am

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Zagran on Apr 1, 2008 at 4:46 am

I hope its Google.
John on Apr 20, 2008 at 11:46 am

I would love to see Google Maps Street View in the UK as it would be very interesting and useful, but I am rather worried about the privacy issue!
Karen Eliot on Apr 23, 2008 at 4:26 pm

What a lot of horrible tacky ads on this blog!!! Just as well I’m using an adblocker - really works!
Svetik on May 8, 2008 at 12:15 pm

Thanks for very interesting article. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It?s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else?s point of view? makes you think more. So please keep up the great work.
All the best
antimaulnetizm on May 28, 2008 at 9:49 pm

Google had to cough up the IP. As they are required by law. And now suddenly Google is … Bold Is Good, I Hope It’s Better Than My Curve
biznes-kitay on Aug 25, 2008 at 1:31 pm

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Purzeki on Aug 27, 2008 at 7:12 pm

Yeh, this is google. I’m in Sydney Australia, we’ve got streetview setup already. But I’m coming to the UK in a while, hopefully it will be on. Its an awesome tool to find exactly where you need to go.
Adam on Oct 6, 2008 at 6:42 pm

No this isn’t the Google car. The Google car has the google logo pasted all over the side of it (it’s not a secret, they’re not trying to hide it) and the camera mount on the top is a rig with about 6 camera’s pointing in all directions that allow a 360 degree view to be stitched together.
alexx on Oct 7, 2008 at 8:22 am

ur right this isn’t google, but google are hittin uk seets. just last week they were dwn my north london street. some cars do and don’t have branding but the six cam periscope lookin type rig[I dubbed to make easier, peri-cam] makes it well known.
stick around n look out cos the uk will be hittin strert view very soon!
alexx
Brian Norman on Oct 17, 2008 at 11:17 am

Forget google we have london streetviews view now on our maps, read the blog:

http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/10/london-uk-street-level-views-now-live-but-not-from-google/
NovaLoca on Oct 21, 2008 at 4:30 am

Never mind Google, we have Street Level View already, check out….

http://www.novaloca.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/17/view-londons-commercial-property-in-street-level-view-with-novalocas-maps/
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