[Sussex] Google Maps Cars

[Tim Smith]

yup, I saw one in Ifield on Friday. I did wonder as I drove towards it with
the cameras on the top but did check the labels. Working in London you get
used to the congestion charge vans that drive around!
Tim

2009/6/8 john davis <johnsemailaccount at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Andrew Guard <andrew09 at andrewguard.com>wrote:
>
>> I thought would never see one but I did today a Google Maps car (12:29
>> 08/06/2009). It was in Asda Crawley car park, it had French licence
>> plate.  It was empty but it had I would say 15" LCD screen next to
>> driver. I couldn't hang around as I had apportionment else were.
>> Really it was rather basic car with fix camera on it top.
>>
>> The only way you would know it was Google car was stickers left and
>> right side saying Google Maps.
>>
>> What made it worse was fact the only camera I had on me at time was
>> old Nokia phone (640x480), as I had apportionment else were.
>>
>>
>> If you'd known to ask the LUG's token "Road Freight Haulage bod" i.e. erm,
> me ;-D
>
> I could have told you that they've been "wandering" round Sussex (East and
> West) for about the last fortnight.
>
> I only became aware of what they looked like when "Street View" was
> released in the wild and half of the nimby's in the country -
>
> and all of them in 1 village in the midlands or home counties, complained
> about privacy issues (without realising that they don't have a leg to stand
> on)
>
> and "kidnapped" one of them.
>
> Except, that the ones pictured then did have a google logo on the door, all
> the ones I've seen (at least half a dozen) have had the logo removed
>
> and are French registered (though I haven't bothered to see if they're
> actually "left hookers" or not, but presumably they are)....
>
> Personally, if you're actually worried about the privacy issue aspect then
> you've got to put your money where your mouth is and join/sign up
>
> to one of the pressure groups - either for a privacy law directly, or a
> written constitution that includes privacy as a right.......
>
> Hey ho!
>
> regards
>
> John D.
>
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