How to Erase Your Home from Google Maps

YAHOO ^ | 6/26/14 | Alyssa Bereznak

[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

[prisoner6]

Putting my money where my mouth is.

http://www.mycampage.com/craftonpennsylvania

Link to my earthcam page. In the sidebar there are links to our live, controllable webcam. Yes it can be panned to see into our living room. Tonight we will be watching svengoolie on metv.

Oh, BTW, we are heavily armed.

And yes the neighbors appriciate being able to log on and watch their property online. Plus there is the weather station.

All soon to be regulated/banned.

[kitchen]

I can't recall, although they were either outside the visible spectrum or very low output. I scouted youtube and Spike but couldn't immediately turn up any episodes.

(Neat cam setup.)

[prisoner6]

(Neat cam setup.)

Thanks.

Looks like it will be down for awhile. Getting hit with a severe storm. LOTS of rain. Ponding in the parking lot.

The back up power should be ok for a few hours but it looks like our Comcast IP service is Comcastic...as usual, LOL!

[bicyclerepair]

The license plate lenses aren’t prefect. Had one on and still got a camera ticket.

But I’ll be darned if I looked at it from angles and it did blur out at from angles. Don’t know how the camera got it though. The camera was high up in the toll booth. So maybe up high the lens doesn’t block? From the sides it did though.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Got that beat!

[21twelve]

So I finally come across one of your posts and its of a dang hedge. I’ve missed your beautiful bird photos. Hope you are doing okay.

[cynwoody]

The control freaks will be coming for webcams soon. Also cameras, dashcams and phonecams. Already after r/c planes and copters.

In the Evil Empire, maps and phone books were state secrets, and things like typewriters needed licenses.

Here is a rainy day Google Street View of the Lubyanka Building in Moscow:

Back in the day, it was said to be the tallest building in Moscow, because you could see Siberia from its basement.

[BunnySlippers]

Google already blurs faces and license plates.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

hehehe