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10-07-2009, 08:15 AM
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#1 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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| Google Street View goes live in vancouver and Canadian cities
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Google Street View, a feature of Google Maps that shows high-resolution street-level images on the internet, has gone live in several Canadian cities.
The service is now available in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Vancouver, Squamish, B.C., Whistler, B.C., Ottawa, Kitchener, Ont., and Waterloo, Ont.
The service, which is already available in cities in the U.S., the U.K., Spain, Australia, Japan and several other countries, provides close-up, 360-degree views of city streets as they would be seen by someone driving along them. The images are linked to the company's Google Maps and Google Earth applications.
Google has been filming Street View images in Canadian cities since 2007. In addition to the 11 cities where the service is now live, Google says its camera-cars have been filming in Edmonton, Saint John, N.B., Saskatoon and Winnipeg.
Google has tried to address the privacy concerns of Street View brought up by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada by adding privacy features to the service, including the automatic blurring of faces and licence plates to avoid identifying people or cars, and an easy method to request to have images removed.
A street view service provided by another company already exists in Canada. That service, which includes images of Vancouver, Whistler and Squamish, was launched by another company, Vancouver-based Canpages Inc., in March.
However, B.C. falls outside the jurisdiction of the federal privacy commissioner as its provincial laws are very similar to federal laws and take precedence within B.C.
If Canpages expands its imagery to other provinces, as it has said it intends to, then federal assistant privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham's office would have jurisdiction, she confirmed. However, so far, the company has not contacted the federal privacy commissioner.
Google Street View was launched in the U.S. in May 2007. Four months later, privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart warned the service might not comply with federal privacy legislation, as it included images of identifiable people that had been collected without their consent.
| images are very clear! check it out
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10-07-2009, 08:29 AM
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#2 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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this is so sweet
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10-07-2009, 08:39 AM
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#3 | | Da Vinci's real masterpiece: The Mona Diesel
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cool, I can see my house ! creepy
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10-07-2009, 08:45 AM
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#4 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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COOL!
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10-07-2009, 08:45 AM
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#5 | | I STILL don't get it
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shit.. knew it..
I am slacking off at work and smoking outside in the pic lol.
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10-07-2009, 08:51 AM
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#6 | | ninja edits your posts without your knowledge
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Must have done my area around the playoffs. I see my canucks flag on my car.
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10-07-2009, 08:57 AM
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#7 | | I STILL don't get it
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Must have done my area around the playoffs. I see my canucks flag on my car. | Yeah it was sometime around April/May. I saw the car and dodged behind a garbage can after. I wasn't fast enough
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10-07-2009, 08:58 AM
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#8 | | MOD
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shit..i see my house with my friends car in the driveway..lol
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10-07-2009, 09:33 AM
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#9 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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wow, I can see my house so clearly
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10-07-2009, 09:43 AM
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#10 | | I STILL don't get it
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ohh shit i see that weird looking guy that always walks up and down willingdon all day  | |
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10-07-2009, 09:45 AM
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#11 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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10-07-2009, 09:46 AM
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#12 | | Circle Stick Square Mod
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aw man i wasnt home when it came by my house
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10-07-2009, 09:47 AM
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#13 | | Wunder? Wonder?? Wander???
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sign outside GM place says Sat May 2nd
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10-07-2009, 09:49 AM
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#14 | | The RS Freebie guru
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Haha... sweet. Only interesting thing I found was my fiance's MR2 Spyder, which I guess I was driving that day...
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10-07-2009, 09:54 AM
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#15 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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crazy
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10-07-2009, 10:00 AM
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#16 | | My AFC gave me an ABS CEL code of LOL while at WOT!
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they even have a pic of my back alley
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10-07-2009, 10:11 AM
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#17 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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The abbotsford photos are from 6 weeks ago or less cuz they were building an enclosure for the garbage bins on my condo property and you can see the bins are in the parking lot lol. thats crazy!
also the street view works on my blackberry bold! sweet!
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10-07-2009, 10:29 AM
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#18 | | Ubereem Mod
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sweet that was cool!
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10-07-2009, 10:38 AM
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#19 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Man ... GoogleMaps was already pretty good. But now this shit is CRAZY good! Totally takes out the guesswork in where you need to go. Left lane, right lane, which building, etc etc.
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10-07-2009, 11:05 AM
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#20 | | Zombie Mod
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^^^
It's sweet. I like to get as much detail of the destination before I go, especially for downtown. Knowing what buildings are in the vicinity helps a lot in finding the place.
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10-07-2009, 11:13 AM
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#21 | | RS controls my life!
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holy crap I can see my cars, wonder how they did it.
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10-07-2009, 11:15 AM
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#22 | | RS controls my life!
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Originally Posted by idga-f The abbotsford photos are from 6 weeks ago or less cuz they were building an enclosure for the garbage bins on my condo property and you can see the bins are in the parking lot lol. thats crazy!
also the street view works on my blackberry bold! sweet! | The Crossing?
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10-07-2009, 11:24 AM
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#23 | | What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
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hopefully there should be alot more comming every major city was done across the country. Vancouver Island, Edmonton, Okanagan Valley, even the yukon up to inuvik NWT was all done
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10-07-2009, 11:35 AM
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#24 | | Douchebag Lover
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Crazy, I can see my old house...It's been 10 years and it looks the same.
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10-07-2009, 11:41 AM
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#25 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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There should be a function opposite of the "Thanks." I'm so easily distracted at work and shit like kills my productivity.  | |
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