Google Street View launches in Finland

[Rob A.]

... But if you turn around, there’s an ad slogan for you, on the side of the white truck.

Ah yes, thanks...a new Finnish idiom for me...."More with Less"....Enemmän vähemmällä...literally something like: "More on lesser"...

....and I also noticed that rather dramatic looking Orthodox church (on Vuolteenkatu in Tampere)....what would its name be????... I guess I should really do my own google search and find out for myself....

Edit:...OK....well, that was a nice find....

"Tampere Orthodox Church was designed by T.U. Jazykov, and was built in 1896-1899. It is also known as St. Alexander Nevski and St. Nicolas Church. The church was severely damaged during the war in 1918. Tampere Orthodox Church is located in Tampere, it is the purest example of a Neo-Byzantine-style church in Scandinavia."

....Hmmmmm...not the best written article....I guess most of us would realize the "Tampere Orthodox Church" is going to be in "Tampere"....and it's the "purest example of ......in the Nordic countries."...

[Pursuivant]

I haven't taken anythin!
http://maps.google.fi/maps?hl=fi&client ... 52,,0,15.5

[silk]

There is also google street view snowmobile to view the olympic slopes.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/goog ... -the-olym/

[Jukka Aho]

Ah yes, thanks...a new Finnish idiom for me...."More with Less"....Enemmän vähemällä...literally something like: "More on lesser"...

In case you wonder, “Pirkka” is the private discount label of Kesko... the local retail giant which operates those “K” supermarkets.

[maxxfi]

Google Streetview launched also in Norway.
And there are some quite interesting streets there...






http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/10 ... w_frogmen/

[Rob A.]

I haven't taken anythin!
http://maps.google.fi/maps?hl=fi&client ... 52,,0,15.5

Tämä kuva ei ole enää satavana.......Read all about it in today's edition of Helsinki Sanomat....

....although they didn't get all the images....

[Bavarian]

I presume the HS article is more or less the same one that appeared on the Ilta-Sanomat site yesterday? IS has the photo from Mikkeli with the two drunks that Hank was apparently trying to link to....

IS have a new one up, although not with the actual picture: Housuton mies hämmentää Googlen katunäkymässä

[Pursuivant]

Millä mies hämmentää?

[Richard]

The kids and I

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

Google Streetview launched also in Norway.
And there are some quite interesting streets there...

Lunacy!!! Brilliant.

[Rob A.]

The kids and I

....and, last fall, I decided to use "Street View" to "snoop" on one of my friend's houses in Canada....and to my surprise, there he was standing in his driveway doing something to a golf club..... and they hadn't blanked out his face either... I told him about this and, at that point, he wasn't aware he had been "captured"...but he didn't seem to care....

....but I was a bit "irritated" when I looked at my own house....they had even gone down the back alley and had taken a clear shot of the back end of my car and the open entrance to my rather messy garage.... But I suppose for anyone else it's simply a matter of vahingonilo....

At least the licence plate numbers were nicely blanked out.....

[tuulen]

Finally!!.... ...I had read sometime ago that it would be coming to Finland in 2010.....and it looks to me like they haven't been fooling around....the coverage is excellent and very extensive.....

That same satellite technology apparently extends to virtually every place on all of planet Earth, everywhere, and perhaps those in control of that technology could also delete any pixillation. Indeed, just how fine of a resolution could such technology produce?

This could bring an end to pot farming!

[Jukka Aho]

This could bring an end to pot farming!

Just wait until the Google Automated Rover knocks on the front door and begins its regular scheduled tour in and around the house...

[richard berman]

Anyone know this guy?? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/11 ... w_finland/

[paulrenn]

Anyone know this guy?? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/11 ... w_finland/

Now that's simply classic!