What Happened to Google Street View?
Google Street View Map of Hyde Park. The streets without highlighting cannot be viewed.
I noticed recently that many of the streets in Hyde Park lost Google Street View, notably where my current apartment is. I also noticed that many of the streets had darkened. Is it really necessarily to remove the images? There used to be pictures taken inside the quads as well, which are now gone; I thought those might have been removed by request of the university, but I don’t really get why they removed the other ones. If they wanted to update them, fine, but there is no reason to remove images. I suppose it is a free service, so I have no right to complain, but I just think it is screwy when I can see my home in Oak Ridge, but not in Chicago. I did some quick googling, but nothing came up. Any ideas?
July 21st, 2008 at 2:29 am
You know why…
August 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I just discovered this too, trying to show off my 15 minutes of fame that is being captured in street view. I found that the image of me in Hyde Park was no longer accessible. So far, I have not come up with any real leads as to why, but cheney’s comment is ominous indeed…
August 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
it’s been removed at the request of the US secret service, to protect the location of obama’s house. no other area in the city has been so heavily edited.