OT: So it WAS the Google Van

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David L. Jones

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Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/62a995aaca552e52
Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on street
view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly what I saw.
http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.

Dave.
 
David L. Jones wrote:
Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/62a995aaca552e52
Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on
street view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly
what I saw. http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.
Click to expand...
If you'd been quicker you could have brown-eyed it !

geoff
 
"geoff" <geoff@nospam-paf.co.nz> wrote in message
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David L. Jones wrote:
Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/62a995aaca552e52
Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on
street view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly
what I saw. http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.

If you'd been quicker you could have brown-eyed it !
Click to expand...
Google almost certainly have automated brown-eye detection and masking
algorithms to go along with the face recognition :->

Dave.
 
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David L. Jones wrote:
Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/62a995aaca552e52
Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on
street view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly
what I saw. http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.

If you'd been quicker you could have brown-eyed it !

Google almost certainly have automated brown-eye detection and masking
algorithms to go along with the face recognition :-

Dave.
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one can always hope that the algorithm wouldnt be perfect and one would slip
through the crack.
 
"David L. Jones" wrote:
Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/62a995aaca552e52
Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on street
view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly what I saw.
http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.
Click to expand...

Good thing you weren't out in the yard naked. ;-)


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On Fri, 8 May 2009 12:13:21 +1000, "David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> wrote:

:Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.
:http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/62a995aaca552e52
:Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on street
:view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly what I saw.
:http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
:I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
:They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.
:
:Dave.
:

I just wanted to see if replying to your post on this new thread was still
causing the body of your post to disappear from my screen, and I can happily say
that it doesn't... it only happened on the 1kW solar pv thread for your posts
after May 7... strange.
 
David L. Jones wrote:
"geoff" <geoff@nospam-paf.co.nz> wrote in message
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David L. Jones wrote:
Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/62a995aaca552e52
Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on
street view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly
what I saw. http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.
If you'd been quicker you could have brown-eyed it !

Google almost certainly have automated brown-eye detection and masking
algorithms to go along with the face recognition :-

Dave.
Click to expand...

This guy at an office party tries to photocopy his arse,
the problem was that is was a moving glass platen copier
and he over balanced it off the table and onto the floor
where he smashed the glass platen, and the rest of the
copier.
 
David L. Jones wrote:
Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/62a995aaca552e52
Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on street
view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly what I saw.
http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.

Dave.
Click to expand...
So it WAS the Google Van
http://tinyurl.com/pucbc6

:)


more shadows:
http://blog.pengxiao.net/2009/01/google-van-hits-deer/



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On May 8, 12:13 pm, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote:
Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/6...
Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on street
view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly what I saw.http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.

Dave.
Click to expand...

You got off lightly.

When they did my house, it was

1>on rubbish collection day, so there were bins everywhere in the
street pics

2>house was being built across the road, and the builders had left
plastic pipes, cardboard crap on footpath outside MY house,

3>Concretors just happened to be there that day to put in a path for
me, and they were visible along with all their trucks, trailer and
gear.


At least the grass had just been mowed.
 
On May 10, 5:55 pm, Don McKenzie <5...@2.5A> wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
Back in August I posted about a mysterious GPS van outside my house.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.electronics/browse_frm/thread/6...
Turns out it WAS the GoogleVan after all. My house just popped up on street
view, and the shadow of the car on the ground macthes exactly what I saw.
http://www.alternatezone.com/images/GoogleVan.jpg
I must have peeked out the blinds a few seconds after this.
They just had to map it during ugly front yard construction too.

Dave.

So it WAS the Google Vanhttp://tinyurl.com/pucbc6

:)

more shadows:http://blog.pengxiao.net/2009/01/google-van-hits-deer/

--
Don McKenzie
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Thats what they get for driving on the wrong side of the road ;).

Terrible when it happens, late last year while doing 100 I hit a good
size kangaroo at night in the car.
It came out so fast, there wasnt even time to lift my foot from the
accelerator. Fortunately it was not going up in the air, but coming
down low when it hit, therefore going under the car and leaving bits
of hair and blood everywhere when I looked later.


Otherwise could have ended up through the windscreen.





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