I am stunned. Completely and utterly stunned.

[InigoMontoya]

BFE now shows up on Google's streetview.

Honestly, I am at a bit of a loss. I never expected BFE to show up. I damned near woke Agatha up when I discovered it just now but decided that I wanted to live (but I had to tell somebody so here I am posting).

It's a crazy world. What next?

[evizzle]

so YOU were the guy who google made famous!
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2009/01/custom_1233334087807_0130091harleybig1.jpg

:)

[aleajactaest]

BFE now shows up on Google's streetview.

Honestly, I am at a bit of a loss. I never expected BFE to show up. I damned near woke Agatha up when I discovered it just now but decided that I wanted to live (but I had to tell somebody so here I am posting).

It's a crazy world. What next?

And yet, Washington DC does not. At least not the last time I looked.

[mbklein]

That's because of security concerns.

[kaszeta]

And yet, Washington DC does not. At least not the last time I looked.

You should look again. It has pretty good coverage.

I'm always shocked by some of the places that do get coverage. My old house in Newark, DE has had street view for a long time.

[5thcrewman]

Acid-washed jeans! Out in public!! Scary!!! :D

[InigoMontoya]

Acid-washed jeans! Out in public!! Scary!!! :D

What makes you so sure those are acid-washed? If I remember the 80s, acid-washed resulted in a particular pattern with some areas darker than others. Those just look like plain ol' faded jeans to me.

(Or are my eyes THAT bad?)

[InigoMontoya]

I'm always shocked by some of the places that do get coverage. My old house in Newark, DE has had street view for a long time.

LOL. Yeah, actually I found it by....

...I was on Google and I was looking for the intersection of two highways. I knew how to drive the route, but I didn't know the highway number designations. So I'm looking for a spot in the middle of nowhere even by BFE standards and... Woah, streetview is there? WTF? Streetview covers this lonely intersection of two 2-lane highways (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.427636,-117.824936&spn=0.092126,0.153809&z=13) 50 miles from anywhere and it doesn't hit a (admittedly small) city of 25,000? WTF is up with that? So before I posted a tongue in cheek rant I checked BFE again just so that I wouldn't go off half cocked... And there was my house (and my car)!

[dobrien]

Hmmm, you guys might have to give up calling it BFE now. ;)

[eddyj]

Everything looks brown, dry and dead over there. What's up with that? :p

[Agatha]

Everything looks brown, dry and dead over there. What's up with that? :p
Cuz, you know, it's the desert. :D

We actually have grass in the backyard. We just do xeroscaping in the front.

[scooterboy]

Still no street view for me. :(

[eddyj]

Everything looks brown, dry and dead over there. What's up with that? :p
Cuz, you know, it's the desert. :D

We actually have grass in the backyard. We just do xeroscaping in the front.
I was just looking at the general area, not your house. I guess I should do that, and be a good stalker. ;)

edit: That green car yours? And there is open water across the street? What kind of desert is this anyway?

[d-dub]

BFE now shows up on Google's streetview.

Honestly, I am at a bit of a loss. I never expected BFE to show up. I damned near woke Agatha up when I discovered it just now but decided that I wanted to live (but I had to tell somebody so here I am posting).

It's a crazy world. What next?

And yet, Washington DC does not. At least not the last time I looked.

BFE, having only a single road, is a much simpler project than DC ;)

[mercurial]

BFE now shows up on Google's streetview.

Honestly, I am at a bit of a loss. I never expected BFE to show up. I damned near woke Agatha up when I discovered it just now but decided that I wanted to live (but I had to tell somebody so here I am posting).

It's a crazy world. What next?

And yet, Washington DC does not. At least not the last time I looked.

BFE, having only a single road, is a much simpler project than DC ;)

Yes, but the tumbleweeds, sandstorms, and cannibalistic, radioactive mutants living in the mountains around BFE tend to slow the project down a bit... ;)

[pdhenry]

Whoa.

Do you see what I see when you go one click NW on CA-136 from the intersection?

[Angie]

Our two major highways are shown, but nothing else.

I was equally as shocked when I saw that.

[Gus]

Whoa.

Do you see what I see when you go one click NW on CA-136 from the intersection?You mean this?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.430022,-117.824364&spn=0,359.845505&z=13&layer=c&cbll=36.430476,-117.824686&panoid=30SN8cFDh4Cxyc3fPAESfQ&cbp=12,38.0999999999995,,0,1.5999999999999774

I wonder what happened there.

[JustAllie]

Whoa.

Do you see what I see when you go one click NW on CA-136 from the intersection?You mean this?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.430022,-117.824364&spn=0,359.845505&z=13&layer=c&cbll=36.430476,-117.824686&panoid=30SN8cFDh4Cxyc3fPAESfQ&cbp=12,38.0999999999995,,0,1.5999999999999774

I wonder what happened there.
Holy crap! Who created a rift in the space-time continuum?!?

I'll bet the Google Street View Van is now driving around in some parallel universe, trying to figure out a way to get home.

[mercurial]

Whoa.

Do you see what I see when you go one click NW on CA-136 from the intersection?You mean this?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.430022,-117.824364&spn=0,359.845505&z=13&layer=c&cbll=36.430476,-117.824686&panoid=30SN8cFDh4Cxyc3fPAESfQ&cbp=12,38.0999999999995,,0,1.5999999999999774

I wonder what happened there.

That's where the mutants come from.

[aleajactaest]

And yet, Washington DC does not. At least not the last time I looked.

You should look again. It has pretty good coverage.

I'm always shocked by some of the places that do get coverage. My old house in Newark, DE has had street view for a long time.

Odd, when I use google maps for DC I get no street views..... Hmmmm

[Agatha]

Everything looks brown, dry and dead over there. What's up with that? :p
Cuz, you know, it's the desert. :D

We actually have grass in the backyard. We just do xeroscaping in the front.
I was just looking at the general area, not your house. I guess I should do that, and be a good stalker. ;)

edit: That green car yours? And there is open water across the street? What kind of desert is this anyway?
Yeah, the green car is ours. The open water is actually a rainwater drainage pond. We don't have underground drains, so rainwater just runs along the road. We have a few of these types of 'ponds' around town, to collect the runoff. One is across the street from our house. It had obviously rained recently, when the picture was taken, so it had water in the pond. It was before our 'flood' a few months back, though, since the steps in the yard are whole and complete. Part of the wood floated out during the flood and we haven't repaired it yet.

[Angie]

Wow. The town where I grew up, really in the middle of effing nowhere-60 miles from the nearest McDonalds or Wal Mart or Starbucks and hours and hours away from an airport-actually has two streets on street view.

I really am shocked.

[Otto]

Whoa.

Do you see what I see when you go one click NW on CA-136 from the intersection?You mean this?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.430022,-117.824364&spn=0,359.845505&z=13&layer=c&cbll=36.430476,-117.824686&panoid=30SN8cFDh4Cxyc3fPAESfQ&cbp=12,38.0999999999995,,0,1.5999999999999774

I wonder what happened there.
Holy crap! Who created a rift in the space-time continuum?!?

I'll bet the Google Street View Van is now driving around in some parallel universe, trying to figure out a way to get home.

Actually, that's part of their alignment images. Go over to the intersection and look straight down. In fact, look down at the "rift". Some of their images are just misaligned there, methinks.


BFE now shows up on Google's streetview.

Honestly, I am at a bit of a loss. I never expected BFE to show up. I damned near woke Agatha up when I discovered it just now but decided that I wanted to live (but I had to tell somebody so here I am posting).

It's a crazy world. What next?

Can you tell *when* the images were taken? It's odd, but on the day that they added Memphis, I took a look around my neighborhood and noticed that one local bar I frequent was still under construction, which places the time that the picture was taken at over a year and a half ago. For some reason, it took them over 1.5 years to get the images taken here onto Street View. No idea why.

[Angie]

Can you tell *when* the images were taken? It's odd, but on the day that they added Memphis, I took a look around my neighborhood and noticed that one local bar I frequent was still under construction, which places the time that the picture was taken at over a year and a half ago. For some reason, it took them over 1.5 years to get the images taken here onto Street View. No idea why.
The paper in the town just north of here did a story on when their street view photos were taken. They were also taken in October of 2007, a year and a half ago.

[JustAllie]

I just looked up the house I lived in when I was a little kid. There's a limousine parked across the street. I wonder who was getting married?!?

[InigoMontoya]

Part of the wood floated out during the flood and we haven't repaired it yet.
Someone hasn't been paying attention to the little things her hubby does. ;)

[JYoung]

I'm always shocked by some of the places that do get coverage. My old house in Newark, DE has had street view for a long time.

LOL. Yeah, actually I found it by....

...I was on Google and I was looking for the intersection of two highways. I knew how to drive the route, but I didn't know the highway number designations. So I'm looking for a spot in the middle of nowhere even by BFE standards and... Woah, streetview is there? WTF? Streetview covers this lonely intersection of two 2-lane highways (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.427636,-117.824936&spn=0.092126,0.153809&z=13) 50 miles from anywhere and it doesn't hit a (admittedly small) city of 25,000? WTF is up with that? So before I posted a tongue in cheek rant I checked BFE again just so that I wouldn't go off half cocked... And there was my house (and my car)!


I've driven through that junction.

[Cletus]

Well if you're worried about privacy you can always move to the Gobi desert. I have it from a reputable source that they don't plan on adding that one to streetview for at least another 3 or 4 years. ;)

[JustAllie]

I've driven through that junction.
If BFE is on the road between Google's headquarters and the Las Vegas Strip, I'm wondering if that can explain how it ended up on Google Street View. :D

[eddyj]

Cuz, you know, it's the desert. :D

We actually have grass in the backyard. We just do xeroscaping in the front.
I was just looking at the general area, not your house. I guess I should do that, and be a good stalker. ;)

edit: That green car yours? And there is open water across the street? What kind of desert is this anyway?
Yeah, the green car is ours. The open water is actually a rainwater drainage pond. We don't have underground drains, so rainwater just runs along the road. We have a few of these types of 'ponds' around town, to collect the runoff. One is across the street from our house. It had obviously rained recently, when the picture was taken, so it had water in the pond. It was before our 'flood' a few months back, though, since the steps in the yard are whole and complete. Part of the wood floated out during the flood and we haven't repaired it yet.
I figured it was a retention pond (we have them all over the place, here, and always with lots of water in them), I was just surprised to see water in it! :)

[Turtleboy]

Here is the house I grew up in (none of this have lived there for years). http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+1940+SW+74+ave,+plantation,+fl+33317&sll=37.09024,-95.712891&sspn=56.899383,135.351563&g=511+SE+5th+Ave,+Fort+Lauderdale,+FL+33301&ie=UTF8&ll=26.100041,-80.245675&spn=0.007987,0.016522&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=26.099961,-80.245672&panoid=XFp75eghWEqkc4lNfhGIEA&cbp=12,93.57661241786846,,0,-0.785714285714287

[Turtleboy]

And yet, Washington DC does not. At least not the last time I looked.

You should look again. It has pretty good coverage.

I'm always shocked by some of the places that do get coverage. My old house in Newark, DE has had street view for a long time.

Odd, when I use google maps for DC I get no street views..... Hmmmm

Your version of the internet is broken. DC has had street views for years.

[eddyj]

Still no street view in PR (at least not where I grew up).

[procrastinator]

Here is the house I grew up in (none of this have lived there for years). http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+1940+SW+74+ave,+plantation,+fl+33317&sll=37.09024,-95.712891&sspn=56.899383,135.351563&g=511+SE+5th+Ave,+Fort+Lauderdale,+FL+33301&ie=UTF8&ll=26.100041,-80.245675&spn=0.007987,0.016522&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=26.099961,-80.245672&panoid=XFp75eghWEqkc4lNfhGIEA&cbp=12,93.57661241786846,,0,-0.785714285714287
Huh. Looks like I grew up pretty close to you. (Tamarac, which is not on Street View, for good reason.)

--Debbie

[luckydriver]

That's because of security concerns.

Which is somewhat a joke when I can watch such shows as 'secrets of marine one and airforce one' where they show the path directly from Andrews to the Whitehouse. And other such 'secret' shows do reveal a lot more than that. Sure I'm assuming all they show is already in the public domain but they sure make it easier for the armchair terrorists and it probably gives them ideas.

[Marc]

In a similar vein, after reading Turtleboy's post, I thought I'd check my childhood home in a relatively small "city" (town would have been a better word) in Maine. Yup... street view (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=304+washington+street,+bath,+me&sll=26.100041,-80.245675&sspn=0.006369,0.006233&g=1940+SW+74+ave,+plantation,+fl+33317&ie=UTF8&ll=43.89591,-69.817107&spn=0.000639,0.001289&t=h&z=20&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=43.895998,-69.817089&panoid=T25ZUCF4-N-WSLpEeBKyXQ&cbp=12,305.90278431875544,,0,-4.646201873048905) is there, too.

[eddyj]

I checked all the places I have lived in, and no joy with Streetview.

House in PR - No
Duplex in Billerica, MA - No
Condo in Dracut, MA - No
House in Northrorough, MA - yes
Current house in FL - No

[mercurial]

Every place I lived in NC is in steet view. Even in my tiny home town. No place that I lived in while in NoVA is on street view.

[Angie]

Okay, you want to talk stunned.

I just looked up the teeny community I lived in for a while as a kid. 300 residents on a good day. About as far removed from civilization as you can get.

It's been mapped!

http://tinyurl.com/cw8hym

[d-dub]

Okay, you want to talk stunned.

I just looked up the teeny community I lived in for a while as a kid. 300 residents on a good day. About as far removed from civilization as you can get.

It's been mapped!

http://tinyurl.com/cw8hym

Nice place to grow up, Comrade!

[Agatha]

Part of the wood floated out during the flood and we haven't repaired it yet.
Someone hasn't been paying attention to the little things her hubby does. ;)
I hadn't been out in the front yard, yet. I noticed it yesterday before I even noticed your post. In actuality, I thought your post was someone else's post (didn't read the poster name) and read it that I had repeated something that you had said. Whoops. :D

[Angie]

Okay, you want to talk stunned.

I just looked up the teeny community I lived in for a while as a kid. 300 residents on a good day. About as far removed from civilization as you can get.

It's been mapped!

http://tinyurl.com/cw8hym

Nice place to grow up, Comrade!
We got a lot of that. :)

[Otto]

Most of the places I've lived have been mapped. I found that street view came in very handy a while back when I was getting driving directions, as it'll let you create your directions with the street view maps in them, showing what the place you need to turn looks like and such. Very clever, if you haven't tried it, give it a shot.

[5thcrewman]

Okay, you want to talk stunned.

I just looked up the teeny community I lived in for a while as a kid. 300 residents on a good day. About as far removed from civilization as you can get.

It's been mapped!

http://tinyurl.com/cw8hym

Heh- I see a Neighborhood Watch sign. Probably only takes one person to watch at any one time!