My first today

Geo-TH,In

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I got a text message form Google maps this morning on my smart phone. It said I was 35 minutes from work and traffic was light. Well Google doesn't now I've been retired for 11 years. Google thinks my other place on the north end of the county is where I work. I do go there often.

And people are worried about Big Brother knowing too much. People should think about what Big Sister (Google) knows, right down to facial recognition.

The other day I saw a car with Google earth on the side and a 360 camera mounted 3-4 ft above car driving the streets of Terre Haute. I told someone what I saw, they too saw it driving around for the past 2 days.

Some are worried about drones and cameras, what about Google posting a pic of your house and address? When the car passed me, they only got my backside.

I just laughed at the text this morning, I don't care what anyone knows about me. None of it's true, I'll deny it all.
 

They(Google) and others or google is selling the info.
Are mapping every street.
Been in my area several times now over the last seven or eight years.

That's how they get "street view" when you use google maps.

No privacy at all anymore.
Tom
 
(quoted from post at 13:03:39 09/01/15) they only got your backside??? You mean you mooned them?

Or were you just presenting your best side :twisted: :shock: :lol: ????

Rick
 

I looked up our place on Google earth. When I did a street view I saw my wife out by the road cutting the yard. It looked like they took the picture in the fall. The leaves were already starting to fall, and my wife was wearing a jacket.
 
One of my wife's girlfriends was watering the flowers in front of her house when she saw the car go past. If you pull up the street view of their house there she is, watering her flowers.
 
When I first saw the Google Earth-type map of our place, I could pin the picture down to an exact day. The CIH Steiger had made one round in the filed in front of the house, and I noticed a flat tire on the field cultivator. We stopped tilling, and took the tire in first thing the next morning. On some of the overhead shots the tractor was parked in the corner of the field, then when you toggled north, the tractor disappeared as did the tilled swath around the field. Must have been taken the day before, then they started the next pass that morning while we were at the tire shop. On a later or different edition (Yellow Pages, maybe), I could see myself in the spring, working to fix broken posts in the grape vineyard. No moons visible.
 
A couple years back I drilled a small field to oats, then fertilized with a garden tractor. Satellite/maping photos on one of the mapping programs showed every track I laid down. Was a suprising uniform, even pattern. Viewers would have concluded I had measured every round. Actually, I followed one tire track from drill, then diagonals center to corners.
 
On my farm the aerial view caught me baling hay.It's very tiny,but you can see the tractor and baler and some rolls.The windrows are easier to see.On the street view as you pass the house you can see a neighbor driving his loader tractor on the road. Mark
 
I sometimes use the appointment reminder part of the calendar in my cell phone. Yesterday I was in a town 60 miles from home and an appointment popped up on the cell phone and it told me how many miles away it was and how long it would take to get to the appointment from where I was standing. It surprised and amazed me. I can disable the locating part of the phone if I want to but so far I don't feel I need to hide from anyone.
 
I haven't looked lately, but last I did I could pinpoint the exact day. I was still driving school bus and could see it parked in front of the shed. I never parked it there but needed to that day to move the combine. It's hard to miss a 40 foot long white rectangle.

I'm waiting for a contact from the aerial photographer. I saw them buzzing over a week or two ago. I'd buy another. The last one I have is from 99 and lots has changed around here.
 

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