{"id":12500,"date":"2008-04-09T15:05:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/04\/09\/i-can-see-my-house-from-up-here.html"},"modified":"2008-04-09T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T22:05:33","slug":"i_can_see_my_house_from_u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/i_can_see_my_house_from_u.html","title":{"rendered":"“I can see my house from up here!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, I can see my house from the “Street View” here<\/a>, on Google Maps, once I enter in my home address. Not an overhead shot, but an actual from-the-street view, just like someone drove past and took a picture (which they did). <\/p>\n

I can also see my folks’ house (hi, Mom!). And Jim & Ginger’s house (looks like it was a KOA weekend when Google did the drive-by).<\/p>\n

Not quite as creepy as this<\/a> … yet … but still …<\/p>\n

I need to remember this next time I’m going over to someone’s house I’ve not been to. One thing to know the address, another thing to know what the house looks like. Though the precision of the address functionality seems to be limited — my folks’ addy is off by a house, and we’re down the street a bit from our picture, too.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard about this functionality, of course — and of amusing anecdotes about people being “caught” in the pictures who didn’t want it known they were ever at a particular location. But to see it for personal examples is a bit … interesting.<\/p>\n

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(via a co-worker who was a bit creeped out by it — esp. when a picture of her friend’s house showed her jeep on the driveway.)<\/p>\n

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