Getting Naked In The Car
There has been controversy surrounding Google’s street mapping right from the day it started. People were up in arms complaining that it infringed on their privacy and objected to it.
Personally I find it an excellent tool. You can now check out venues before you visit them which would have been impossible to do before. Yes there was always the option to check them out if they had a website but what could be better than being able to walk down the street taking in the surrounding area.
I find this particularly useful when booking a hotel, you can now see where exactly you are going and if it’s in a nice part of town.
Street Map has its amusing side too with several images have emerged of people in strange circumstances including the naked guy in his car boot. Lol
There was a street view of Copenhagen showing a guy in the act of falling off his bike: The Google car overtook him and he was so fascinated by it that he failed to notice a pot hole in the road and took a nosedive over the handlebars, just as the shutter clicked. When he found this out he was amused rather than offended and did not request the picture to be removed although it now seems to have been updated. see:http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/01/google-street-view-captures-toppling.html
omg that is so funny hahaha