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How to Erase Your Home from Google Maps
YAHOO ^ | 6/26/14 | Alyssa Bereznak

Posted on 06/28/2014 9:38:13 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

It seems like Google Maps is getting more new features every day. And now, according to The Daily Dot, the companies that provide satellite images to Google just got approval to take higher-resolution photos. Meaning that your prize rose garden will be crisply broadcast to anyone who happens upon your neighborhood’s Street View.

But there are some things that most would prefer not to air to the entire Internet. Those being your car’s license plate, the facade of your house, your visitors, and — of course — your face. The good news: There are tools in place to allow you to blur these things out. The bad news: It seems that anyone can use them on anyone else.

Let’s review:

1. Go to Google Maps and enter your home address.

2. Your address will appear on the map. Underneath the search bar, click the Street View box. Or you can grab the little Pegman on the bottom-right corner of the screen and place him wherever you’d like.

3. Once you’ve adjusted your view so you can see the front of your home, click Report a problem at the very bottom right of the page.

4. You’ll be brought to a page that displays your address and the image of your home. Adjust the red box to make sure it’s focused on the thing you want blurred out. It can be your face, your license plate, your home, or anything else (you, naked, doing backflips in your front yard). Indicate what you’d like to eliminate by filling out the form under Request blurring. You can also report poor image quality


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To: Star Traveler

The American sheeple spend their time thinking about the trivial , the baser instincts, the totally unreal and useless. They don’t have time to think about real problems in this country.


21 posted on 06/28/2014 10:35:00 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: humblegunner

Yeah, kinda depends on the definition of low cost. I can’t afford the r/c stuff but IIRC the unit I was refering to is less thn $1000.

Art Newland on youtube has some excellent videos flying around his neighborhood and his club’s r/c airport. There are lots of others as well.

FWIW in the ‘60’s people complained about teen aged rocket boys like me and my friends when we flew camera equipped Estes model rockets and camera equpped balloons.


22 posted on 06/28/2014 10:35:08 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Stop the Stupid!)
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To: GeronL

Yeah ... they should “look at the big picture” ... and excuse the pun ... :-) ...


23 posted on 06/28/2014 10:37:15 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

They already blur people, license plates, and most signs. If you go nuts blurring stuff, it just calls more attention to you.


24 posted on 06/28/2014 10:43:50 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Star Traveler

Our neighborhood was recently found by google maps. Since then, we’ve had several incidences of thefts, attempted break ins and prowlers. We’ve never had that problem before. Coincidence or a useful burglar tool.


25 posted on 06/28/2014 11:23:13 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

A useful burglar tool is a car driving down the street ... :-) ...


26 posted on 06/28/2014 11:25:15 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Kirkwood

Yeah ... the thief just hops in his car to see for himself what is really going on at that address ... LOL ...


27 posted on 06/28/2014 11:26:42 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: babygene; KarlInOhio
They sell stuff that you can SPRAY onto your license plate that supposedly screws up the red light cameras...it shines it back so that the plate is unreadable.

I do not know if it works...the reviews have been mixed

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28 posted on 06/28/2014 11:31:21 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

So go and blur out all your competition!


29 posted on 06/28/2014 11:34:18 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Just checked my house on google Street View. Photo is about 5 years old.


30 posted on 06/28/2014 11:37:32 AM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
it shines it back so that the plate is unreadable

I would think that would only work when the camera is supplying the illumination, not for the Mercedes in the illustration.

31 posted on 06/28/2014 11:38:11 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Star Traveler

When google/bing/sat maps are outlawed, only outlaws will have them.

It isn’t the person using the device, it’s the device that commits the crime.


32 posted on 06/28/2014 11:50:39 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Stop the Stupid!)
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To: prisoner6

Ahhh ... you’re borrowing from the gun control debate ... :-) ...


33 posted on 06/28/2014 11:53:35 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
paint a cross on the roof and fly a US flag in the front yard. Google will get so many complaints about the “offensive” images that they'll remove it.
34 posted on 06/28/2014 11:54:39 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: LostPassword

That is an excellent idea!


35 posted on 06/28/2014 12:01:48 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Stop the Stupid!)
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To: TruthWillWin
Photo is about 5 years old.

Ours is tagged as September 2013. Glad I cut the grass shortly before they drove by.

36 posted on 06/28/2014 12:15:04 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

Hmmm...mrs p6 just brought up something related. Anyone look at homes on the real estate websites like zillow? Often there are tons of inside pics and slideshow tours.

Planning to rob...go to zillow. You can case the place from your armchair.

Perhaps those sites should be banned as well.


37 posted on 06/28/2014 12:44:40 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Stop the Stupid!)
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To: KarlInOhio

Interesting. SPIKE had a short series about dropping off the grid a couple years ago. They recommended an array of LEDs spaced around the bill of a BB cap. It completely washed out the face from security camera footage; parking lot cameras up on a light pole, ATMs, and so on. Can’t recall the frequency they used, however.


38 posted on 06/28/2014 12:59:47 PM PDT by kitchen (Even the walls have ears.)
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To: kitchen

Maybe infra red leds? Wish I could turn them off on my home webcam. They reflect off of everything.


39 posted on 06/28/2014 1:10:01 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Stop the Stupid!)
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To: Star Traveler

Huh?


40 posted on 06/28/2014 1:10:25 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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