Google Street View car gets stalked across Berlin
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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An anti-Google Street View group in Berlin had some fun this weekend, according to the Guardian tech blog.
Noticing that the Street View camera car was parked on a nearby street, members of Free Art & Technology (FAT) attached a GPS device to the car, so they could follow its progress as it drove around snapping pics for the Berlin edition of Street View.
What exactly that proves remains to be seen, but it did let the group follow the car around — and plot its travels on a map. To the amusement of many posting comments on the site, FAT used Google Maps to do so.
While the group seems generally anti-Google, one commenter noted: “GoogleMaps ist good, like every other map. But Streetview is only bad.”
Check out the map here. It looks like Google’s found the GPS device, as it hasn’t updated in a while.
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