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!<br>Tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/6/8 john davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnsemailaccount@gmail.com">johnsemailaccount@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Andrew Guard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew09@andrewguard.com" target="_blank">andrew09@andrewguard.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I thought would never see one but I did today a Google Maps car (12:29<br>
08/06/2009). It was in Asda Crawley car park, it had French licence<br>
plate. It was empty but it had I would say 15" LCD screen next to<br>
driver. I couldn't hang around as I had apportionment else were.<br>
Really it was rather basic car with fix camera on it top.<br>
<br>
The only way you would know it was Google car was stickers left and<br>
right side saying Google Maps.<br>
<br>
What made it worse was fact the only camera I had on me at time was<br>
old Nokia phone (640x480), as I had apportionment else were.<br>
<br>
<br></blockquote></div><div>If you'd known to ask the LUG's token "Road Freight Haulage bod" i.e. erm, me ;-D<br><br>I could have told you that they've been "wandering" round Sussex (East and West) for about the last fortnight.<br>
<br>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 - <br><br>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)<br>
<br>and "kidnapped" one of them.<br><br>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<br><br>and are French registered (though I haven't bothered to see if they're actually "left hookers" or not, but presumably they are)....<br>
<br>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<br><br>to one of the pressure groups - either for a privacy law directly, or a written constitution that includes privacy as a right.......<br>
<br>Hey ho!<br><br>regards<br><br>John D. <br></div></div>
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