Archive for the ‘london’ tag
Privacy and Google Street View
Google recently launched their Street View service in the UK, which is integrated with Google Maps, and allows you to view seamless 360 degree photo panoramas of a number of locations throughout the country. It’s just like a virtual tour of those locations.
The images were captured using a camera mounted on top of a car fitted with a GPS recording system. The images are stored with their GPS location, so finding the images surrounding a covered area is straightforward. Most of London is covered.
After 200m perform factory reset
Yesterday, just as we were starting out on a car journey into deepest, darkest London, my iPaq 2790 decided it would refuse to connect to my TomTom GPS receiver. Having worked perfectly less than 2 weeks ago, it was now complaining about lack of memory.
