The internet is stalking me

[fluffymark]

Looks like Google streetmap has finally reached London.

And so the internet is STALKING ME. Go to Google Maps, search for Fillebrook Road in London, press the streetmap button, and go to number 37 Fillebrook Road. Find the white van, and zoom in on the person walking past it. That's ME.

EDIT: Direct link to stalking me here

So, to hide, I'm off out of here for a few days on a little adventure. First to the land of chocolate and beer and art nouveau pretties, and then onwards to the land of fairy-tale castles.

Behave yourselves while I'm away. ;)

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

If you search for Fillebrook Road London you get the wrong Fillebrook Road, leave out the London. It is you! On Google Maps! I am jealous.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I get the same one either way, the one in E11 - where's the right one?

[fluffymark]

It's the one in E11, but Google seems to think another road is also called Fillebrook Road, when it is not. You want the cul-de-sac near Leytonstone station.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Aha, got it!

I'm not on my street, which I think is probably good!

[fluffymark]

For some strange reason Google Maps has always thought a bit of nearby Grove Green Road is actually called Fillebrook road. I believe the street layout and names changed back in the early 90s when they built the A12 through the middle of Leytonstone, but while Google Maps have got the correct street layout, the names might still be the old ones. The correct bit that is Fillebrook Road now is indeed the cul-de-sac.

I saw the Google car last spring while I was walking down my road. It was turning around at the end of the road. It was just a normal car but with a large tower of cameras on the roof, and a little sign saying Google in the front window.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Google Maps has always thought a bit of nearby Grove Green Road is actually called Fillebrook road. I believe the street layout and names changed back in the early 90s when they built the A12 through the middle of Leytonstone

Yes - we lived on that bit of Grove Green Road when it was still Fillebrook.

[battlekitty.livejournal.com]

Heh - I have been looking up my old addresses - I've found my old flat in Australia, but my parent's place is outside the city.

Enjoy the trip - Belgium and Germany (Bavaria/Hohen Schwangau) maybe?

[fluffymark]

I should look up where I'm going for the weekend on there! That's not a bad plan, maybe I won't get lost finding the hotel!

Belgium (Brussels, and probably a daytrip to Bruges) and Luxembourg (Luxembourg city, and possibly Vianden). I'll be racing around like a mad thing. :)

[purplepiano.livejournal.com]

Eek! That's I guess it was too blurred already for them to apply more face blurring, but it's still scarily recognisable as you!

They've just turned on Street View in Cambridge as well, maybe I'll spot other people I know.

[purplepiano.livejournal.com]

Just showed this to my office-mate, who said "That's a bloke??" *sigh* :)

[fluffymark]

Nothing changes, does it? :)

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

I went looking for your car :) Possibly found it, but since it seems to be made of one half-car facing one way and another half-car facing the other way it's difficult to say...

[fluffymark]

There are some interesting ... artifacts on there ... half vanishing cars and people, and other glitches in the matrix.

[purplepiano.livejournal.com]

[pointed out on cam.misc] If you search for Kings Parade in Cambridge, and head south you'll see the Corpus Clock boarded over. But when you turn left into Bene't St, it magically becomes unveiled!

[timeplease.livejournal.com]

There's a skip of a few months between the Dalston Lane and Amhurst Road sides of the Pembury, too — viewed from the Dalston Lane side the building at the back is still there; from the Amhust Road side it's been demolished.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

There is a cyclist opposite my house with the wheels 2m further on than the rest of the bicycle!

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

And very nice you look too, me dear. I've just found my own flat (I don't remember leaving the living curtains like that?) and then had a look at D's shop to see what's in the display window this week. This is going to be very useful when I finally start looking for another flat. Rankeillor Street is behaving oddly, the tops of the buildings in particular. You can see the flat I fell in love with not long ago, 1 Bernard Terrace.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Behave yourselves while I'm away. ;)

I have no intention of that. ;)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

This is going to turn into a bottomless time-sink for an archetypal geek like yours truly...

Not that I'm jealous of your fame. Ohhh no. Me? Jealous?

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

I suppose now is the time to link this eerily appropriate comic (http://ifyouseesomething.net/2008/09/15/google-street-view/)!

You look good in that photo, by the way. I'm not being ironic or anything, you really do!

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Google are hastily applying blurring to faces and car registration plates as and when it's pointed out to them; your face is blurred now but it probably wasn't earlier!

Tom Reynolds (of Random Acts Of Reality (http://randomreality.blogware.com/)) earlier Tweeted about spotting an ambulance crew unloading a patient in the ambulance bay of Newnham Hospital on Google Street View, clearly enough for him to identifty which crew it was. And patient confidentiality? Gone out the window. Google has since yanked that location, but it was up long enough for anyone to take a screenshot if they so wanted - much like the people who grabbed screencaps for this Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/1088346@N22/pool/). I doubt this poor chap (http://www.flickr.com/photos/coneee/3368179712/in/pool-1088346@N22) knew he was going to be publically viewed throwing up for the whole world to see.

The Google camera car evidently went down the driveway to the church gates around the corner from St.Mary's, because from one of the camera points you can get a pretty clear view into the vicar's bedroom at the rectory - clearly enough to see he has tasteful magnolia walls and a landscape painting on the wall.

The privacy concerns are bloody scary.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Aaaaahhh! It is you! You've infiltrated googlemaps!

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

Have a jolly adventure...

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Coolness! When I looked up my old Edinburgh address, there was my ex-neighbour unlocking the door to next-door.

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