One of my favourite thrills of using Google Street view is when you see someone innocently going about their day on the street.
"Oh looky here... my hydrangeas need watering, I'll just pop out in my onderbroekie before they completely wilt..."
and BAM! You're online for millions of people to see!
I kinda wish I'd been outside doing something strange when they rode past my house, but alas, some of us have to work.
Speaking of work this leads me to "working girls".
A while back I found this book advertised online and I'm really considering getting it. These are the kind of things you can make using Google maps!
Pick an interesting topic that relates to location. Google. Print. Book! Wonderful.
No Man's Land is a self-published book by Mishka Henner who went online to find out where men sought prostitutes, and then compiled the images from Google Street View.
However the post where I found it does mention that some people found the book to be exploitative of the women's rights and upsetting as it's intrusive and insulting towards the women who may very well just be making a call or walking on the side of the road. They didn't give any rights to be in a book about prostitutes, but then google didn't ask permission for them to be online either.
I see what they're saying. I do, but it's also hard to deny these images are beautiful in an eerie and sad kind of way.
Then again... HAD I been outside the day Google drove past I might have been the one being called a prostitute.
Makes you think.
