What Happened to Google Street View?
Posted by knorby on July 20, 2008 under Chicago, google, internet, uchicago | 
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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?
Dick Cheney said,
You know why…
Charlie said,
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…
tom said,
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.
Diane said,
I’ve been wondering what happened. The view of the Flamingo disappeared—almost everything except a few bits of major streets disappeared. The Secret Service story makes sense.
knorby said,
Valleywag agreed with the Obama/Secret Service idea: http://valleywag.com/5045494/google-street-view-steers-clear-of-obamas-neighborhood
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