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.