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Hard News: They can see your house from here

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  • Grant McDougall,

    Also there: a member of the judging panel that gave them the Rheineck Rock Award in the 1990s

    Incorrect. They won the award in 1987 and Stunt Clown came out in '88. Either way, a superb band. Whatever happened to original backing singer Rupert E Taylor, by the way ?

    Dunedin • Since Dec 2006 • 760 posts Report Reply

  • robbery,

    the chch google map is well out of date.
    the corner of deans and moorhouse ave has been a new intersection for a couple of years now and the blenheim road roundabout closed off

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    I'm a little disappointed, they don't go past my place, they veer off down Glasgow Street towards the uni. Poo.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    Incorrect. They won the award in 1987 and Stunt Clown came out in '88.

    Duh. Of course. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I typed that.

    Either way, a superb band. Whatever happened to original backing singer Rupert E Taylor, by the way ?

    He was invited -- but there were ... differences. Which is a shame.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Jean Hughes,

    When did Google take these images, how does that work? I wanted to show my mates overseas the magnificent pohutakawas in bloom down the road, but hey - the trees are still only green. And the tide is out, but it is sunny.

    Mangere • Since Nov 2006 • 89 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    I'm a little disappointed, they don't go past my place, they veer off down Glasgow Street towards the uni. Poo.

    They wimped out on my friends' steep-assed street in Wellington too.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    When did Google take these images, how does that work?

    I recall the news that they were starting on it, but I'm damned if I can recall when. Basically, they have to drive down every street in a camera-mounted vehicle.

    A Christchurch blogger photographed the Google car in January.

    I've corrected the original wording of the post -- that car really got around. Winton, even!

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Basically, they have to drive down every street in a camera-mounted vehicle.

    My daughter and I should be in it - we were at the playground in Chilka street when they came through, I'll have to check it out.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Jake Pollock,

    A couple of months ago I was walking through a pedestrian courtyard on campus when a guy on an enormous tricycle with a bunch of google stickers and a 360 camera on a pole sticking out the back of it cycle past and did a few circles. To my continuing disappointment, I'm not on google maps yet.

    Raumati South • Since Nov 2006 • 489 posts Report Reply

  • Sam F,

    Heh. My parents' house made it, as did their car parked kerbside. Unfortunately we're right up a ROW, so will definitely miss out...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1611 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    My daughter and I should be in it - we were at the playground in Chilka street when they came through, I'll have to check it out.

    Chilka St is definitely there. Where's the playground?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Jake Pollock,

    Chilka Street did not take well to photography.

    Raumati South • Since Nov 2006 • 489 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    I'm a little disappointed, they don't go past my place, they veer off down Glasgow Street towards the uni. Poo.

    They wimped out on my friends' steep-assed street in Wellington too.

    Ditto with my first house, they needed one of those cameras mounted on a skateboard for the more alpine suburbs.

    I see the place I spent my formative years in out the hutt has been subdivided.

    And SunnyO's there, so the've done the rural parts. ALthough it just looks like a hedge.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Mark Easterbrook,

    Mt Albert was (judging by the crap weather, mid-works new kerbing, lack of foliage on my cherry tree, and my overflowing rubbish bin) done on a Thursday morning about 3 months ago.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 265 posts Report Reply

  • wendyf,

    I know this doesn't belong here. Forgive me. Please. But I *have* to tell someone this.
    I googled for a biography of Amos Bronson (yes yes, father of Louisa May and an interesting character) I found this:
    http://www.biography-center.com/biographies/6352-Alcott_Amos_Bronson.html

    with John Key's bloody IQ on it!! What's it doing there? Is nothing bloody secret any more?

    I'm feeling enraged, invaded and faintly afraid.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 88 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    Chilka Street did not take well to photography.

    That would be the small nuclear device that detonated there earlier this year.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Gareth Ward,

    Grey Lynn/Ponse is probably about four months old, and photographed real early on a weekend morning by my guess...

    Auckland, NZ • Since Mar 2007 • 1727 posts Report Reply

  • Jake Pollock,

    They went through Devonport after it rained. And this view of Symonds Street says so much about that New Zealand light. Simultaneously washed out and blinding.

    Raumati South • Since Nov 2006 • 489 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    Lionel Richie's 'All Night Long'

    Weirdly, I too listened to that song ironically on Saturday night! (Erm. Well, perhaps it wasn't being *played* ironically, but I certainly heard it that way.)

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Campbell,

    Apparently they still haven't collected my garbage yet, and some kind person has fixed our letter box that was trashed by hoons a few weeks back .....

    Seriously though looks like the Dunedin pics were taken about 11 months ago - possibly between Xmas and New Year

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2623 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    Yes, Google--and the Web generally--is wonderful but my enthusiasm was dampened a little by a story in today's Media Guardian viz;

    "So what is the biggest story of the year? Ross and Brand in Sachsgate? The collapse of the financial system? The devastation in Mumbai? Or the US election perhaps. According to Yahoo, the most searched for subject on the internet in Britain this year is Britney Spears. Depressing! The remaining top five were Big Brother, The X Factor, Oasis and High School Musical 3. Only the US election made the Top 10, at No 6."

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • James Green,

    They weren't that pussy. They made it up Baldwin St, and all the adjacent, almost as steep streets (although amusingly, they have all the paper roads mapped out, despite them being un-navigable, except in all-terrain jandals).

    Limerick, Ireland • Since Nov 2006 • 703 posts Report Reply

  • Gareth Ward,

    Wellington is really really short on satellite imagery though huh? Even at quite wide shots there's "no imagery at this zoom level". Why's that?

    Auckland, NZ • Since Mar 2007 • 1727 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    They weren't that pussy. They made it up Baldwin St,

    Awright, how'd you get a link that takes us straight there? I have tired of trying.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    Awright, how'd you get a link that takes us straight there? I have tired of trying.

    Just search for the address and click the Street View option. If it doesn't display the option, there's no view.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

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