Online

Peeing Frenchman Sues Google Over Embarrassing Street View Photo

Google Street View, long established as a source for photos of unaware naked people, is being sued by a man in France because one of its camera-mounted cars snapped a photo of him pissing into a courtyard on his property and, as any of us surely would, uploaded it to the internet.


November 3, 2011
Online

Google Street View Hangs Around In Parks

Google has once again added a stack of new Street View images to its amazing voyeur tool, bringing a selection of the world’s most popular city parks to its database.


October 29, 2011
Online

Google Street View Is Going Inside Buildings

Google Street View is a magical realm of accidental crimes in progress, fires and other assorted serendipitous fun. Now, you’ll be able to scroll around the inside of businesses! Which is cool — but here’s how it could be cooler.


October 21, 2011
Geek Out

How Google Street View Rides The Rails

As part of their partnership with UNESCO to provide virtual tours of the designated World Heritage Sites, Google sent one of their Street View trikes to ride the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland to capture its stunning views of the Swiss Alps.


September 12, 2011
Online

Confused Naked Lady Caught On Google Street View (Yeah, NSFW)

This looks heavily like a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. An unsuspecting Miami woman just walks out of her home — naked, of course — only to find Google leering right at her.


September 7, 2011
Online

Aussie Pranksters Vandalise Google Street View Camera

The New Zealand Google Maps penis vandals have been one-upped! Their phallic defacement was visible via satellite, yes, but these Australian pranksters drew a dick on a Street View camera lens, superimposing a penis over all of reality.


August 17, 2011
Science

Why Do We Judge Some Areas As Being Safer Than Others?

This interesting project, borne from MIT’s Media Labs, juxtaposes two images from Google Street View, and asks subjective questions such as “which place looks safer?” and “which place looks more upper class?” But why does MIT want to know?


July 30, 2011
Online

Book Of ‘Roadside Prostitutes’ Made Entirely With Google Street View

Mishka Henner went online to find out where men sought prostitutes, and then he visited — on Google Street View. The result is No Man’s Land, a self-published book of photography, showing women, mostly alone and often scantily clad, in Spain, Italy, and Romania.


May 25, 2011
Online

Google Street View’s The Only Proof This Tornado-Destroyed Block Ever Existed

The catastrophic tornado that’s shredded Joplin, Missouri, has left plenty of jarring imagery in its wake – in addition to bodies and wreckage. But when you look at a pile of ruin, it’s hard to imagine there was anything before.


May 12, 2011
Online

Google Will Shut Street View Down For The Swiss Over Anonymity

Google’s hitting Switzerland where it’ll hurt, by threatening to take away their googlez (well, Street View), if the Swiss courts don’t overturn a ruling which forces Google to ensure anonymity for anyone who happens to be snapped for Street View.