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Google Street View arrives in the UK - is your house on it?

Google's Street View has been updated with panoramic views of all streets in 25 major cities in the UK. The cities now covered are:

Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Bradford, Scunthorpe, Bristol, London, Belfast, Cardiff, Swansea, Norwich, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Birmingham, Coventry, Liverpool, Southampton, York, Cambridge, Oxford

To find your house on street view, search for the postcode, then drag the little yellow person from the left hand side, onto your street.

More info (BBC article)

Link to Google UK Street View

Is your house/residence on it?

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Reply 1

happy-and-lost

Haha! It is indeed, but they hadn't quite finished building it when the picture was taken (so it was taken more than 9 months ago...)

Reply 2

Rian1988

It's launched! In more cities than I thought!

Reply 3

Rian1988

Face recognition blanks out statues! http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=queens+market+upton+park&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.805845,36.342773&ie=UTF8&ll=51.530239,0.03783&spn=0.010145,0.017745&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.530247,0.037967&panoid=TmfQAGJa_k_8q91Jteb-Ag&cbp=12,190.8216938249483,,2,-1.2500000000000004

Looks forward to the funny things they have found..

Reply 4

Moabubaker

yep my house is on it.

Reply 5

thetopnotch

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=848657

same thread exists anyway, but my house isn't oon it, methinks the primary school on our road maybe prevented them from taking the pics or something

Reply 6

xxmehzzixx

Nah, mine isn't.

Reply 7

Of the Standard of Taste

Wicked!

Reply 8

sweet-likkle-chick

haha
whoop i see my house!!!

Reply 9

A Stranger in Moscow

No, mine isn't. They don't even have Portsmouth on there?WTF.

Reply 10

lilangel890

Waheeey finally *looks* No it's not. There's only a few roads done <_<

For some reason Havering stops at Romford according to them :s-smilie:

Reply 11

Gypsy King

Nope, you have to zoom out as far as Machester. My Leeds house is though :smile:

Reply 12

harmonyy.

OMG! Shows my house perfectly.

Midlands

Nope, mine isn't on it. :frown:

Reply 15

βored

My uni accommodation is on there but there's nowhere near to my house lol (except Cardiff, but that isn't exactly close).

EDIT: I'm finding being able to see these streets really creepy btw :s-smilie:

Reply 16

Tinkerbee