Street Views?

[davesl708]

I live in a PRIVATE community. We own and maintain the roads, dam and all other things in the community. Google Earth drives right past the Members Only signs and No Trespassing sign and films anyway.

We get people all the time think our pool and lake are public. Actually had an idiot tell me her attorney said she did have a right to be here. Our security spends all its time running out trespassers.

No amount of signs help because they are not smart enough to read them.

 

[ovrszd]

I'll soon be moving and also have that gate ... about 3000' to the house. The aerial view of the site was taken more than 5 years ago. Hopefully, it will update before I build - or not for a long long time.

As for census - the government has the obligation to tabulate its population every 10 years. Unfortunately, it has seen fit to use this process to invade and encroach upon private information that is NONE of its business. I answer "1", then tell them to get the H___ off my property.

I don't see this issue as having anything at all to do with government census. It simply fits the electronic world we live in. The vast majority of drivers in America today can't get to Wal-Mart without turning on their vehicle guidance system.

I think the person that visited the OP was very cordial to even take the time to stop and talk to him. My property faces a public road and no one stopped to talk to me, although the frontage of my property is clearly pictured in great detail.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

sometimes the street view pics are taken at different times. mine would show a vehicle in the driveway. click to the next view, vehicle not there. next view, vehicle is there....

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Forget about the government being big brother, keeps your eyes on Google...

 

[Pixguy]

Forget about the government being big brother, keeps your eyes on Google...

X2...

 

[MossRoad]

Didn't you ever hear about Googlezon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI

 

[3930dave]

A few years ago, when the county auditor hired a company to update property values, (now the rest is according to the paper,
so who knows the complete story) one of the company vehicles drove down the farm lane to check out a structure without
permission of the owner. The owner was not home at the time. The owner came home and stopped them and called the
sheriff. The deputy considered it trespassing and the auditor and the hired company said they would no longer go past
the homestead area without permission of the owner. Again, that is per the paper. Taking pictures on private property
without permission is trespassing. From the public road, it is fine. I think any TV camera person could tell you some
stories.

For additional tax harvesting, some jurisdictions have gone to aerial surveys for rural property. So long as the plane/chopper/drone obeys FAA rules, AFAIK those pics are legal.

Rgds, D.

 

[riptides]

My farmhouse (in NC) is located on a private drive that is about 1000' in length. I share the first 500' or so with a neighbor.

Late last fall, a car with a roof-top camera showed up at my farmhouse while I was working in the yard. The driver informed me that he was working for Bing and that street views of my homestead would show up on the Bing site in three months or so. However, he gave me the info that I would need to contact Bing in order to have the views deleted when they are posted. I plan to have the views deleted.

I suppose that I have been remiss in not posting a "Private Drive" sign, but I am not sure that would have deterred the driver.

I am curious about how others who live on private drives feel about having photos of their homesteads showing up on the Internet.

Steve

Not happy about it. My county uses ArcGIS which backends over GoogleMaps. They use it for tax purposes. Unfortunate it is not tied into the real data housed under their plat, deed and taxations databases. So, a map which draws boundaries and exposes things is subject to interpretation. Like sheet metal laying out in the field taxed as a structure. The street view would rectify that, but I am sure, expose additional issues with size, number and condition of things.

 

[tjcarguy]

We had a new electrical service added to my shop , this meant cutting down a big Maple by the road and adding a utility pole. Google came by and upgraded their pictures. Now it looks like summer on one side of the drive fall on the other. Wife's in the garden tending flowers I'm in the drive shoveling snow. ---Trevor

 

[oosik]

Huh - I've never seen Google out my way. Google Earth has good satellite pics of my place. I guessing Google isn't overly concerned about street views in my neck of the woods.

My driveway is a mile long and its been there since I had it built in '82. Doesn't matter what kind, type, color etc of sign I put up at the gate - there is alway going to be some people who open the gate and come down the driveway - just to see what's there.

And I've even had a couple folks argue with me that they have the right to be there. I just excuse myself and tell them I'm going back into the house to get the shotgun - they get the idea right away.

People - you gotta love them - they don't move quite as fast as a shotgun blast.