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Wycombe features on Google Street View

7:00am Friday 22nd January 2010 in Where I Live By Oliver Evans

Wycombe features on Google Street View Wycombe features on Google Street View

WYCOMBE has featured in Google’s controversial street view programme, which takes high quality ground level photographs of streets.

Visitors can look at photographs of the A4010 Bradenham Road heading south onto the West Wycombe Road and then right into Chaple Lane and New Road.

A car fitted with a camera has then taken pictures turning left into Cressex Road and down to the M40 junction 4 roundabout at Handy Cross.

Number plates and faces are obscured – but browsers can zoom onto houses and into windows. The programme tells the user the house number being viewed.

This has concerned some who say the programme is a violation of privacy and could attract would-be burglars.

Villagers in Broughton in north Bucks infamously blocked a road so Google’s car could not pass through.

What do you think? Leave your comments below. Click the link to visit Google Street View. Drag the orange figure onto the road to view.

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Comments(28)

DeepThinker says...
7:31am Fri 22 Jan 10

What a waste of time and money.
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Welwyn Dowd says...
8:21am Fri 22 Jan 10

I expect the natives of Broughton thought their souls might be captured by the camera. Strange country folk in Bucks.

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inabetterplace says...
8:25am Fri 22 Jan 10

DeepThinker wrote:
What a waste of time and money.
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lol
no clue

Quote
" Google earned $1.97 billion, or $6.13 per share, in the final three months of 2009. "

Source:http://www.nz
herald.co.nz/economy
/news/article.cfm?c_
id=34&objectid=10621
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arewenearlythereyet? says...
9:52am Fri 22 Jan 10

Bet the uncollected buns and refuse have been obscured too!

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Hit me says...
9:58am Fri 22 Jan 10

I think its excellent. Now I dont even have to get off my rump to go on a tour of Wycombe which will save me hours of wasted time.

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featheredfriend says...
11:27am Fri 22 Jan 10

Hit me wrote:
I think its excellent. Now I dont even have to get off my rump to go on a tour of Wycombe which will save me hours of wasted time.
This could transform Ivor's life ......

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Plus ça change... says...
12:23pm Fri 22 Jan 10

So Wycombe really does exist.

Phew.

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Slimster says...
12:26pm Fri 22 Jan 10

Not much of Wycombe is covered yet though. It almost looks as if the Google camera car was trying to escape Wycombe and left the camera on by mistake :-) Only joking, I love Wycombe.
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I'm not worried about the privacy issues, you can only see what can be seen by driving/walking down the street. People shouldn't do rude things in front of their windows if they don't want neighbours/the whole Internet laughing at them.

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featheredfriend says...
12:43pm Fri 22 Jan 10

But not our fat friend... and you won't confirm who it is. You are just a tease. I think we should be told :-)
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I see he felt brave enough to get the camera out again this week.

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featheredfriend says...
12:48pm Fri 22 Jan 10

Sorry, that comment lost the quote again. It was in reponse to Plus ça change at 12.23pm

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TheT0nemeister says...
1:05pm Fri 22 Jan 10

I like the way the maps are kept nice and up to date. The beautiful Bridge Street car park is still there. And also the "I love Holywell Mead Pool Clan" can take a glimpse of the good old days of there beloved swimming pool.

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Red Fred says...
1:12pm Fri 22 Jan 10

Yeah FF, but he doesn't exist.

Ok, so it would be fairly amusing to see the bumbling oaf, feasting on 36 rounds of sandwiches, sporting a blazer, greasy comb-over with camera at the ready. But he and his latest attack dog really are just fictional characters dreamed up at bfp in Loudwater.

Only this time, some people are really turned off by the whole thing and waiting patiently for Rebecca's far superior blog.

Come on bfp, sort it out. Or can't you allow your in house blogging creation to be humiliated!!

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featheredfriend says...
1:25pm Fri 22 Jan 10

Red Fred wrote:
Yeah FF, but he doesn't exist. Ok, so it would be fairly amusing to see the bumbling oaf, feasting on 36 rounds of sandwiches, sporting a blazer, greasy comb-over with camera at the ready. But he and his latest attack dog really are just fictional characters dreamed up at bfp in Loudwater. Only this time, some people are really turned off by the whole thing and waiting patiently for Rebecca's far superior blog. Come on bfp, sort it out. Or can't you allow your in house blogging creation to be humiliated!!
Yeah Fred, I know! But that naughty little Plus ça change knows which journo is chiefly responsible... and he won't tell :-(
No, there will be no more comments from us on the in house blog unless there are some radical changes. A sincere apology to certain parties wouldn't go amiss either BFP but I long gave up waiting for that.
Do you think they will fix Rebecca's blog? Or do you think we will start disappearing one by one...... haven't heard from Priestly for a while?

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Plus ça change... says...
4:10pm Fri 22 Jan 10

TheT0nemeister wrote:
I like the way the maps are kept nice and up to date. The beautiful Bridge Street car park is still there. And also the "I love Holywell Mead Pool Clan" can take a glimpse of the good old days of there beloved swimming pool.
Amazing.

On 'Street' I'm sure I've just glimpsed the Roman villa on the Rye...

You know, where Maximus lived.

Was the special camera mounted on a chariot?

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You ain't seen me says...
4:43pm Fri 22 Jan 10

"This has concerned some who say the programme is a violation of privacy and could attract would-be burglars."
It's a good job you didn't post one of the images on the BFP web site... Oh, you did?

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Steve Totteridge Hill says...
4:55pm Fri 22 Jan 10

Buy a big dog and keep it sharp...by feeding it just enough!

Funny no tea leaves at my place since the dogs live outside!

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demoness says...
8:04pm Fri 22 Jan 10

I can tell you all now - no word of a lie... Ivor DOES exist and he is not a BFP reporter.

I kid you not.

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Red Fred says...
8:09pm Fri 22 Jan 10

Ok Smiley, how do you know?

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featheredfriend says...
8:14pm Fri 22 Jan 10

Well, come on ... you are going to have to do better than that! Tell all!

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Red Fred says...
9:19pm Fri 22 Jan 10

Well fair enough Demoness, if you don't feel you want to say, then that's up to you.

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demoness says...
9:29pm Fri 22 Jan 10

Sorry guys - have been floating round the site and just got back.
Okay - I have had a conversation with a very senior member of the team concerning some problems I had and I was assured then that he was real.
Please don't ask me anymore but trust what I say.
Whether "Ivor" is a character made up by a member of the public is something else... BUT he is nothing to do with the BFP!

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featheredfriend says...
9:40am Sat 23 Jan 10

Thanks for that D. I accept what you say but it does leave a lot of unanswered questions. I hope you got your problems sorted? I have a few myself ....

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featheredfriend says...
9:46am Sat 23 Jan 10

Plus ça change, so who did YOU see taking that photograph of the library, then?

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featheredfriend says...
11:35am Sat 23 Jan 10

featheredfriend wrote:
Plus ça change, so who did YOU see taking that photograph of the library, then?
It must have been someone fairly "senior" for you to have recognised him.... :-)

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demoness says...
12:15pm Sat 23 Jan 10

featheredfriend wrote:
Thanks for that D. I accept what you say but it does leave a lot of unanswered questions. I hope you got your problems sorted? I have a few myself ....
Mainly FF XX

I will be starting my blog again soon I hope!

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featheredfriend says...
2:21pm Sat 23 Jan 10

Thought you might - look forward to the blog! I expect it to be up and running when I get back from Outer Mongolia :-) XX

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demoness says...
2:31pm Sat 23 Jan 10

featheredfriend wrote:
Thought you might - look forward to the blog! I expect it to be up and running when I get back from Outer Mongolia :-) XX
LOL - have fun X

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J B Blackett says...
3:58pm Sun 24 Jan 10

demoness wrote:
featheredfriend wrote:
Thought you might - look forward to the blog! I expect it to be up and running when I get back from Outer Mongolia :-) XX
LOL - have fun X
Uzal zee U lanbator yurt ghengis yak. (Outer Mongolian talk - usually written in Cyrillic in the Mongol kel dialect).
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Meaning -" We'll see you when you get back"
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Please be careful how you use the your vowels while you're out there ; you have to be sensitive on using certain significant inflections.
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Regards

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