I've been worrying about streetview and how often they re-do their photos, because if somebody looks up the address of my guesthouse, they currently see it as it looked years ago before the restoration, and it just looks horrible.
Does anybody have any idea how often they re-visit rural towns? Once a century?.
Arkansawyer said:
I've been worrying about streetview and how often they re-do their photos, because if somebody looks up the address of my guesthouse, they currently see it as it looked years ago before the restoration, and it just looks horrible.
Does anybody have any idea how often they re-visit rural towns? Once a century?
Well like you, I can tell the exact time they took the image due to the construction status, etc. But I think on here 6 mo's ago we found the actual date of the image on the image. So for us (we are small town) this is like 5 years later for a retake. Unless they are only here filling in the gaps and NOT RETAKING, which could be a possibility. There is no street view out in the county here, so maybe they are doing that now.
Our place looks like death warmed over on streetview. I HATE for anyone to view it who is looking at staying here. It looks like a dump.
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Joey Bloggs said:
...But I think on here 6 mo's ago we found the actual date of the image on the image. So for us (we are small town) this is like 5 years later for a retake...
Yes, the image date is at the bottom of the streetview images, and the one of my place says image date February 2008! So if they ARE doing it every 5 years, maybe they'll get my finished project soon!
Eric had a good suggestion to post a GOOD photo of your place to Panoramio so at least it's there for those who will dig that deeply into things.
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Arkansawyer said:
Joey Bloggs said:
...But I think on here 6 mo's ago we found the actual date of the image on the image. So for us (we are small town) this is like 5 years later for a retake...
Yes, the image date is at the bottom of the streetview images, and the one of my place says image date February 2008! So if they ARE doing it every 5 years, maybe they'll get my finished project soon!
OH HAPPY DAY! (because JB loves bold italic lettering)
The Google Street View car has been driving every street of our town today!! 5 years and 4 months after they were last here. And we've had nothing but blue skies this week so the images should be bright and beautiful. Timing is just perfect, as I just got the hanging flower baskets in front of my newly finished building a couple of weeks ago, and soon Street View will show a nice place, instead of the ugly
disaster the building was in the 2008 photo.
Sometimes, just sometimes, things work out perfectly!
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