Google Street View for New Zealand
December 2, 2008 – 11:54 am
Finally, it's New Zealand's turn. I don't know whether Google didn't say they'll do New Zealand soon or I didn't notice the news, but if I knew Google was coming, I would definitely erect a huge board, asking Google to do "no index, no follow, no cache" for my property.
Well, I checked my home, not bad, you cannot see anything apart from my fence.
If you live in centres like Auckland or Wellington, I urge you to check your home here to see whether your privacy is at any kind of risk, like this one ... you can make a complaint to google.
Actually the coverage is quite good, except some west coast roads down south and Stewart Island, rest of the New Zealand is pretty much covered.
Through a little playing around I found street view seems to have a few holes in it. Some houses I've lived in (and I've lived in a hell of a lot of houses in NZ- my family has always been nomadic) simply do not appear no matter how much you fiddle around trying to get the proper location. I managed to find what I believe to be my oldest younger brothers' and my parents current houses (like I said, nomadic family- I've never seen either house with my own eyes), but the best picture I could find of the houses I've lived in was a fence and a bunch of trees at the bottom of the bank said house was perched on (I'm a Wellingtonian, I spent most of my childhood perched on steep banks).
Emm ... that's bit strange, if street view is available for your streets, those houses should be somewhere. New Zealand has changed a lot in last few years, especially in more urban areas, so maybe you just don't recognise them any more?