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[TheWinterSnow]

I have a friend that posts on Myspace weird pictures from Google street view maps. I had forgotten about this one until I opened Google Earth and the address was in the search bar and I instantly remembered what it was.

Now it seems that google censored the exact location now but you can still catch it in the nearby photos.

Search "19 Hardgate Aberdeen Scotland" on google maps and then go to street views, take a quick look of the surrounding area and prepare for a OMGWTFBBQ, its difficult to see as the original location of 16 Hardgate and 14 Hardgate were censored (which brought more lulz) but its still legendary.

All I have to ask, what the hell is up with you Scotsman? Do you guys really drink so much that you troll that hard?

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Yeah, walked up and down the street and didn't see what your talking about.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

you're not looking hard enough, look up the street, on the sidewalk to the right.

 

[Notuern]

Im not getting this at all.. what am i supposed to find? D;

Edit: Went all the way through both ways, looked both on the left and the right, and couldnt find anything even remotely out of place, what the fuck are you smoking man?

 

[Trevoire520]

if you paste in exactly as TWS typed you wont get the right street

try this:

19 Hardgate, Aberdeen, Aberdeen City AB10 7, United Kingdom

I can see something, some dude with a mask on maybe? Can't get close enough to make it out...

 

[Ashgarth]

I saw a guy with a weird head, nothing else.

 

[-Gavin-]

Horseman

 

[TheWinterSnow]

since you guys can't seem to find it, a quick google search can land you this image

if you paste in exactly as TWS typed you wont get the right street

try this:

19 Hardgate, Aberdeen, Aberdeen City AB10 7, United Kingdom

I can see something, some dude with a mask on maybe? Can't get close enough to make it out...

when I throw that address in Google earth, it takes me straight there, although it does add AB10 7.

 

[Notuern]

What you gave us put you on the opposite side of Hardgate, and i cant seem to find any way to even go through the street down to where the horseman is(Since there is an unmapped roundabout in the way.).. anyways, horseboy is a classic!

 

[drew_drummer]

Google stooge in a mask, to create some web based viral promo for Google Earth.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

as you can even see in the picture I posted it is labeled as 16 Hardgate. The directions that I copy and pasted were directly from the ones that I got from my friend and pasting that into Google chrome got me to the same location. I have heard of situations where the internet browser version of Google maps can be messed up and not display some things correctly. Seems to be LESS of an issue on Google Earth, but still happens. The roundabout is posted as 224 Hardgate and it also says that the area is AB10 6, not AB10 7. Again with Google you never know, their programming is about as solid as an old man's stool.

Google stooge in a mask, to create some web based viral promo for Google Earth.

Then why he hell would Google censor it out as soon as it caught media attention?

 

[TheWinterSnow]

thats how it used to be with satellite imagining, there would be no cars in the street, only parked cars, but in the higher resolution photos driving cars are very normal. In the older street view pictures you wouldn't see any people. I have been noticing though in the higher resolution photos of street view that you begin seeing a lot of people walking down the streets, though they go in and blur everyone's faces out after they had complaints of people saying their friends, family, bosses and coworkers caught them going into porn shops, hooking up with prostitutes and doing drug deals and the like when using the street view when it first came out.

 

[nialldoran]

Well, i found myself walking into the town center where i live and ages away from my house aswell, , brillaint

EDIT : i just realised im wearing the same shirt in both my avatar and in the google map, i need new clothes

 

[drew_drummer]

Then why he hell would Google censor it out as soon as it caught media attention?

Keeps it in the news.

 

[slashvanyoung]

Street View is about to go live in a few weeks here in Germany too and it's created a public, medial and political uproar. Apparently, a small majority is opposed to the service and the government is split over the issue and generally incapable of adequately dealing with it.

I've read that in other countries, i.e. the US or France, the implementation of Street View went over rather seamlessly. Is that true in your experience?

 

[drew_drummer]

There's always a minority bitching about invasion of privacy and all that bollocks. But they'll quite comfortably walk around with an iphone, will buy a brand new car, and will pay for a TV license.

 

[ratsapprentice]

Street View is about to go live in a few weeks here in Germany too and it's created a public, medial and political uproar. Apparently, a small majority is opposed to the service and the government is split over the issue and generally incapable of adequately dealing with it.

I've read that in other countries, i.e. the US or France, the implementation of Street View went over rather seamlessly. Is that true in your experience?

I think the controversy was to do with Google allegedly stealing info from peoples wifi, while they were taking the street view photos?

 

[amarshism]

Didn't anyone see the guys in Norway or Finland or something chasing the google st view car down the st in full scuba gear

 

[Line666]

I discovered recently that Streetview actually has my house on it, which was suprising because its in the middle of fucking nowhere.

 

[slashvanyoung]

yeah, i don't remember there being any fuss about it over here

It's probably got something to do with the German "Kleingarten" mentality. As you've lived here, you might know what I'm talking about.

There's always a minority bitching about invasion of privacy and all that bollocks. But they'll quite comfortably walk around with an iphone, will buy a brand new car, and will pay for a TV license.

While I can share or at least understand some issues people have with this service here, I agree, there's - as usual - lots of hypocrisy involved from all parties. Vastly amplified by the media.

I think the controversy was to do with Google allegedly stealing info from peoples wifi, while they were taking the street view photos?

That was another issue, or part of the issue if you will. Google stopped that after getting heavily pressured.

The current discussion involves Street View as a whole. There are initiatives about establishing laws to stop it's implementation (and that of comparable services) altogether, but it's just a mess as of now. Google kind of hit the government cold when they forced the issue while basically the whole parliament was on vacation.

Didn't anyone see the guys in Norway or Finland or something chasing the google st view car down the st in full scuba gear

But the issue takes up its own grotesque levels here. There are people who get together in online-communities to explicitly take and publicise photos of peoples' houses who force Google to blur out their houses.