Results tagged “streetview”

Apparently, most of 11th Street (between Mission and Bryant Streets) was deleted from Google's Street View a few months ago, which was not fixed in yesterday's update. It also appears in the above graphic that 16th Street, between Folsom and Harrison, is not available either. Here's evidence from 2007 that Street View was in fact once available on 11th Street.

According to Nicholas Carlson at Valleywag, Google Street View captured a nifty shot of a burning home while riding through some place called Eagle Point Drive in some magical land called Sherwood, Arkansas. After coming across the blaze, the driver (allegedly) kept driving. The Google Prius (presumably) was "making the rounds in the neighborhood that day," but then drove "past the burning home, taking its assigned pictures." Aw. Then again, the fiery picture is most spectacular. Good job, photog.

Some pig-- you heard us, ! -- had the unmitigated gall to go against the express wishes of Google. The nerve! Driving a Prius (oh, of course it was a Prius), some poor Google Street View recording sap was busted by the fuzz for doing some illegal, doing something evil over in the Presidio. Wonder what it was?

LA-based comedy troupe The Vacationeers fears Google Maps Street View Big Brother-ness. And ever since we saw a shot of our bedroom window on it, featuring our awful interior decor, so do we.

Updated with picture from SFist reader Oscar. Thanks, Oscar. Here's the Google Street View picture of the house.

Submit your found photos, letters, objects, grocery lists, etc to found @ sfist.com, or tag them as sfist on Flickr! Tell us where and when you found them and any other helpful info. They must have been found in the Bay Area and their previous ownership unknown.

A photo of the gate in front of Presidio Terrace in San Francisco and a short discussion of the racial covenants affecting the history of the street.