Google Street View likely coming to Munich soon

I saw it yesterday driving down Hüfelandstrasse (Near BMW FIZ).

Looked exactly like this one spotted in Seville recently...

Street View Opel Astra filmed in Sevilla



Anybody else here spotted it?

I´ve seen the Googlemobil at the Sonnenstraße near Stachus this midday. It was the same car as in the video above.

I saw it on Wednesday at Neuperlach Zentrum.

Did the Munich car have a short pole and small camera on top, or a tall pole with what looks like lots of gear?

The smaller pole'd cars only have a 360 camera, the newer "Big pole" setup also contain 3d Laser Scanners
So they can make the images 3D in Google maps.

Pics
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Big pole (Camera + Laser scanners)
Short Pole (Camera Only)

Neither...

I saw 4 cameras at 90deg angles and one above that.
Essentially the same as on the video from Seville.

According to BBC News the photographing of the UK is believed to have started this week: Google Street View in the UK

So I suppose it's likely that Google have now started their data collection across all of Europe.

There's a question mark, however, about whether Google's system will fall foul of European privacy laws. See the above BBC News link.

Who here would be happy to see their image show up in Google Street View?

What about if you were doing something embarassing at the time, like heading into a brothel?

Related earlier TT chat topic: Google Maps gets "Street View"

Do you do that Editor Bob head into brothels? no really I thought this was also banned because of the Privacy act and so on ?

It was the big pole camera I saw.

According to this article in the SZ, Google are photographing streets in Germany with the help of a camera mounted on an Opel Astra. Certain people aren't impressed because it contravenes data protection. Have you seen this car? I've seen it on Bayerstrasse and Hackerbrücke already recently.

I saw it last week twice - once on Ingolstadterstrasse and once somewhere else that I can't remember.

Saw something with camera's on the roof like that out at Ottobrunn an hour ago.

Did you pull a moony?

waste of time. they said they'd be blanking all the faces out

I'd want my face on there so I could sue them. Not sure my arse is so easy to identify.

Edit: Beaten by a few seconds there...

I think that Rottenneighbor.com originally allowed German posts, but appear to have gotten into some trouble.

Either that, or they've just read TT and correctly concuded that "rotten" is the default setting for all German neighbors

Probably complains about EB's arse?

I was only in Munich for 3 days and I saw it...Leopoldstrasse

Saw it on Wednesday near Trudering.

I saw it two weeks ago at the deutsche museum.. it drove up the road to the museum but didnt go to the driveway.. and then turned around.. the camera and tripod were smaller and shorter though...

I saw it 2 times in Berlin a couple of weeks ago.

I just noticed today that they have released street view for Australia. I am absolutely amazed at how much they have done. I would say over 95% of roads in Australia have been done, including towns that must not contain more than 10 people in the middle of nowhere.

I typed in my sister's address in Sydney and was amazed! It was a shot of her house! The shot was so good that had she been standing at her window, I would have been able to see her!

saw it twice, once by schellingstrasse and the other time at the universitätsbrunnen - swung my arms wildly at the camera both times. People closeby didnt recognise the car and thought i was crazy. :-D

I can say that Google street view is a great idea. As for the invasion of privacy, here in Australia, you can contact Google if you see yourself in images and don't want it displayed and they can take whole sections away from the map or blur you, whatever you decide, to keep you happy. It is a great help as whenyou are travelling far away, for me, travelling to Sydney or Canberra etc, I can see the exact house and/or building I am looking for within a street when numbers aren't around, much like my street. On the Google maps and Google Earth, my town is blurred, yet on Google street view, clear as day;

I hope that it is released for Europe before I embark on my journey as to see what I am expecting rather then what photographers want me too see.

I spooted the beasty a couple of weeks ago, on the 96 Autobahn between Graefelfing and Wessling heading in direction Lindau

I saw it a couple of times in the early morning parked in front of the Augustiner Beergarden on Arnulfstrasse.

The car was parked nightly several times in Laim, Agnes Bernauer Str. and Friedheimerstr. Impossible to miss.
There is no stopping to Google's spying activities.