Things you wish you could say

[notabitail]

Google gets street views from sending cars with cameras mounted on their roofs, at least they do that here. I've seen them.

Yep, that's how they do it. Google came around my area a couple years ago. We used to only have (I think it was) 2018 street views, whereas areas like LA have who knows how many street views.

 

[Nabiki]

I suspect that a lot of the street views are provided by realtors.

That's probably how they update these days.

Google gets street views from sending cars with cameras mounted on their roofs, at least they do that here. I've seen them.

It depends on where you are. In urban areas, that makes sense. One Google street view showed my old roommate's dad taking their dog for a walk!

In rural areas, that doesn't make as much sense. It costs a lot to hire someone to go driving around roads that may not be paved or in good shape to get street views of one house every mile or so.

 

[Nabiki]

Something like this?
"Your GPS is lying. This is not a road to anywhere. It is a private driveway."

And on the backside, so they see it when leaving:
"I told you not to trust that GPS!"

One of the places where the Amazon GPS regularly tries to take drivers through private land (and no roads) there is such a sign. Nothing on the back, though, since it's right up against a hill.

 

[tripletfeb]

Something like this?
"Your GPS is lying. This is not a road to anywhere. It is a private driveway."

And on the backside, so they see it when leaving:
"I told you not to trust that GPS!"

When we were looking at land in WV there was one place that had a sign that read that almost exactly.
We went camping to AEP land in southern Ohio once. The GPS wanted us to take a sharp left. That sharp left was down the side of a very steep hill, into a cattle field

 

[notabitail]

If you want to be trusted by more than those who trusted you, stop using AI images. The floating candle holder and disgusting toenails give it away. Yukky.

 

[kattabelly]

In rural areas, that doesn't make as much sense. It costs a lot to hire someone to go driving around roads that may not be paved or in good shape to get street views of one house every mile or so.

They just don't update it as often. Where I live was done in 2022, and before that not since 2009. And they have to put the streetview camera car on a boat to get to here.