{"id":387,"date":"2010-11-24T22:27:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/11\/24\/onlooker\/"},"modified":"2010-11-24T22:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:27:21","slug":"onlooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/11\/24\/onlooker\/","title":{"rendered":"Onlooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just not cool to simply photograph the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/rpg\/2009\/08\/06\/on-surveillance\">Google Street View car<\/a> any more. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/8152990\/Naked-man-spotted-in-car-boot-on-Google-Street-View.html\">finding yourself on Street View<\/a> is just so pass\u00e9. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe trick now is to photograph the Street View car and match it up with the photo it takes of you. <\/p>\n<p>\nYou may remember that last summer I was strolling along Cleveland Street in search of some lunch, when the fabled Google Street car passed me, and looped the block. Indeed, I offered a drink to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/rpg\/2009\/08\/06\/on-surveillance\">first person to spot me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt looks like I might have to buy myself that drink. Here&#8217;s a photo I took:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/3796315912\/\" title=\"IMG_0362 by Pommiebastards, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3545\/3796315912_9e45d5be80.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_0362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nand here is me, about three seconds after taking it:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/5205381128\/\" title=\"Googled by Pommiebastards, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4144\/5205381128_159f5b462b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" alt=\"Googled\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nCheck out <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=w1t+4lb&amp;sll=53.800651,-4.064941&amp;sspn=12.657515,35.024414&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=London+W1T+4LB,+United+Kingdom&amp;ll=51.521929,-0.139164&amp;spn=0.003251,0.012639&amp;t=h&amp;z=17&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=51.521801,-0.13895&amp;panoid=4_25xZxTR28xzHN1fxwKRQ&amp;cbp=12,315.01,,2,5.39\">Google itself<\/a> for the full picture. If you look to the right you&#8217;ll see that chap in the white shirt has passed the pale concrete slab, and on the left those two pigeons have taken off in the time between my shot, and the Street View.<\/p>\n<p>\nHah. Gotcha, Google.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just not cool to simply photograph the Google Street View car any more. And finding yourself on Street View is just so pass\u00e9. The trick now is to photograph the Street View car and match it up with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/11\/24\/onlooker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}