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Rather oddly, if I street view the street where I live, I get the service lane round the back rather than the actual road! There is no way of manually tracking around ot the front. Bit of an odd oddity there!

Now that they have the whole of the UK streetviewed, what is going to be done to keep it up to date? And if an area is redone, what happens to the old images?

Being that this is almost certainly the most in depth street photography which most of the UK has ever had, it seems a shame just to consign old material to the scrapheap when it would in all likelihood be the best documentation available of how things used to be.

e.g. In the Mount Wise part of Devonport there is currently a massive rebuilding project underway which is seeing most of the council flats demolished and replaced with new houses. By the time Google drove by, most of the demolition and some of the new building work had allready been done, but allready there are things preserved on streetview which have since been demolished, like almost all of the odd-numbered parts of Ker Street where only the very first block is still standing (if it hasn't been demolished since last week) but the whole depressing spectacle is still there on the streetview scene.

It would be nice to think that when things are updated, there are still links provided to older versions for historical interest.

The US has already had this problem and the old images vanish.

That said, that used to be the case when the Satellite imagery was updated - and now google earth has a time slider.

So my guess is the imagery is being kept somewhere and they might implement something similar when they get the chance.

I wish they'd release Street View into a proper program though, the flash player thing is horrid.

It wont be long before the street view will be an option on something like tomtom. that would be cool!

Spotted this fantastic article in the local newspaper: Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's a pair of pliers!

It starts off as a normal looking terraced house at the entrance to a one-way street in West Bromwich in the West Midlands as evidenced by the link below:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 00284&z=19

However drag the street view up to look at the sky above this house. Yes, it's a giant pair of pliers about to attack that poor chimney!
The oddity appears to be down to a mistake by a Google technician who was making adjustments to the car-mounted camera at the junction of Whitehall Road and Compton Road. The camera snapped the pliers and they ended up on the site.

Neil Jones wrote:Spotted this fantastic article in the local newspaper: Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's a pair of pliers!

It starts off as a normal looking terraced house at the entrance to a one-way street in West Bromwich in the West Midlands as evidenced by the link below:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 00284&z=19

However drag the street view up to look at the sky above this house. Yes, it's a giant pair of pliers about to attack that poor chimney!
The oddity appears to be down to a mistake by a Google technician who was making adjustments to the car-mounted camera at the junction of Whitehall Road and Compton Road. The camera snapped the pliers and they ended up on the site.

That is genius. They better leave it in.

If you follow the plies down until they disappear you'll find yourself outside the door of the hardware shop where he bought them

I know it's not the UK, but Google seem to have made a little boob by running over a deer.
Rather sad really. I wonder if they've taken it down by now or if it's still on there.

I saw that some time ago, it just went to 'picture not available' back then.

cwathen wrote:they have the whole of the UK streetviewed

Malpass calls bullsh*t. My street doesn't work. The van decided my street wasn't worth the right turn...

Or some idiot's complained about their human frigging rights and had it pulled...

TG wrote:Or some idiot's complained about their human frigging rights and had it pulled...

I hope not, but that wouldn't surprise me considering the people in the neighbourhood...