$5 to the first person to find somebody in an incriminating position on Google Maps

By adamg on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 8:57am

Google Maps now has "street views" for Boston - Click there for a boring view of 921 Boylston St. (naturally, the system is not complete - no street-level view of my house in a remote part of Roslindale). Anyway, find some naked Boston butt or just somebody doing something particularly weird. First person gets a crisp fiver.

Steve Garfield is using the new feature to concentrate on something almost as important as regressing to fifth grade: Looking at the front of a Dunkin' Donuts.

Earlier:
Only took 30 minutes to find a nudie guy in a giant photo mosaic of the Back Bay.

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I've seen the Windows Live

By stephencaldwell
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:32am

I've seen the Windows Live street view trucks driving around in Lexington for whatever reason.

Wonder how they decided what streets to view

By Ron Newman
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:38am

They've only got a few main streets in the 'outer boroughs' of Rozzie, Westie, Hyde Park, and rather spotty coverage of Dorchester, mostly east of Dot Ave. But they've got all of Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Somerville, Arlington, Watertown. Most of Brookline, but very little of Newton. Most of Medford, but they completely omitted one especially hilly neighborhood.

They got the major roads of Dedham

By Brian
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 10:58am

And I am offering $10 to anyone who can find incriminating photos in my hometown.

myDedham.org - a community since 1636 and online since 2007!

Dating the photos

By Ron Newman
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 11:08am

You mentioned zooming in on a theatre marquee, so here's [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&tim... Somerville Theatre's marquee[/url], which shows the photo was taken the third week in September, this year.

I went to look at my old

By Arborway
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 11:28am

I went to look at my old first-floor apartment, and found that my air conditioner was still in the window, which dates the pictures from the Chiswick Rd. area of Brighton at some date prior to August 31st.

Funny, because...

By Anonymous
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 4:37pm

...right across Monastery on LaRose Place, my apartment has my new roommate's car in the driveway (post September 6th or so). He didn't start renting with my until 9/1 and even then he was out of town for the first week or so until 9/6ish. Maybe the person who took the apartment after you put a new AC up?

funny thing is...

By seosmh
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 11:40am

the google maps satellite view still shows the old central artery before it was torn down.

But other points were

By J
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 12:04pm

But other points were recently updated. Kenmore square has the bus station at around September progress.

Trees

By SwirlyGrrl Not ...
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 2:25pm

That icon is in the Fells from what I can see, but for some reason I can't get the pic up.

I wanna know if I can see my house in the view. I can date the recently updated satellite photo from the presence of a tree in my yard - a diseased one that we had removed last summer.

Pay up

By Brian
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 12:08pm

A myDedham reader found a Medfield police cruiser parked in a tow zone next to the courthouse in Dedham Square.

myDedham.org - a community since 1636 and online since 2007!

Its cool that places that

By pierce
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 1:55pm

Its cool that places that need to be pixelated in satellite photos are cool for streetview. It save us getting hassled by security if we were to photograph ourselves

Confusion

By Ron Newman
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 2:11pm

Why does the left side say "Hanover Street, Boston" when this is actually Virginia Road in Lexington (or maybe Bedford or Lincoln)?

I think thats because I

By pierce
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 3:29pm

I think thats because I typed that first to look for myself, before roaming around manually

Faster than a speeding bullet!

By adamg
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 2:15pm

Start here (intersection of Poplar and Washington streets in Roslindale Square, basically) and then follow Washington northeast and watch the GoogleMapsMobile catch up to a yellow tincan so fast the car seems to just disappear. Then, suddenly, it reappears - maybe the Googlers noticed a cop right there and dropped out of hyperspeed.

Earthquake in Rozzie Square?

By adamg
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 2:22pm

How else to explain this?

Shakes the Photographer!

However, it is most cool, if somewhat disconcerting, to be able to "drive" the wrong way up Corinth Street. Ahh, watch out for those cars!

Earthquake in Arlington, too

By Ron Newman
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 10:34pm

Seems to have seriously damaged the Capitol Theatre, or at least its marquee.

Kids at Play

By SwirlyGrrl Not ...
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 2:42pm

One son is at the local park playing, the other is biking home.

Frozen forever of a hot summer's day, they are but child sims in a simworld.

Oh, poop

By adamg
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 4:02pm

Yes, it's a dog going on Comm. Ave. (via).

I'm heartbroken!

By BStu
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 4:23pm

I was walking my girlfriend's dog when the Google car passed us. I was hoping I'd be in it, but I guess not. Maybe they saw that I noticed the car and made sure I was cropped out. so they didn't have someone staring creepily at the camera.

For whatever its worth, the area of Mission Hill near JP was photographed in early September. Even if I didn't see the car, there is a condo that was painted on my street just after Sept. 1 that is the new color here.

Valleywag says Boston Doesn't Matter

By Zach
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 4:24pm

I just responded to Valleywag's Silicon-centric story... Check it out here

Amazon did it first

By Ron Newman
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 4:43pm

Anyone remember when Amazon's "A9.com" search engine had this feature? They called it Block View. I think it was only for major commercial streets like Boylston.

X rated? More like G rated

By adamg
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 5:17pm

Aaron Weber reports nobody spotted entering or exiting the porno shop on Mystic Avenue in Somerville. Amy Derjue comes up similarly empty at Centerfolds (although she does spot somebody somewhere else who might just be Whitey Bulger). I take a virtual drive down to the Amazing store in Dedham and also come up empty.

Amazing store in Dedham

By Josh Glenn
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:05pm

Ha! I just did the same thing. I noticed that you could read the license plate of one of the cars in the lot...

Of course ...

By adamg
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:07pm

They could be parked there for the Verizon store ...

They are all Waiting for

By SwirlyGrrl Not ...
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 5:22pm

They are all Waiting for Godot.

It's a very empty Boston Google photographed

By adamg
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 5:26pm

Just "drove by" an empty parking lot on LaGrange Street in ~~the Combat Zone~~ Chinatown. OK, so Sunday, but lots of places where you'd expect to see lots of people, even Harvard Square, are oddly depopulated.

depopulated Boston

By Josh Glenn
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:07pm

Except for the senior citizens -- I've noticed a lot of them in these shots. And man, are they spry! They practically leap across the streets in a single bound.

Late Summer

By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 12/11/2007 - 10:19pm

Everybody's on vacation. Nobody is home.

Perhaps that is why they brought the camera trucks out at that time? Who knows.