Want your home shown on the internet?
Lucy Siegle has been looking at Google Maps - a website that uses photography to allow anyone with internet access to view our world in unprecedented detail. It has led to some amazing discoveries but it also a tool that can be used for no good. It has been speculated that terrorists have used it to plan attacks and that its detailed view of houses and back gardens makes it a ready source of information for burglars.
A recent update to the website allows users to browse a selection of pictures taken along city streets. Street scenes, people and homes, in 25 UK cities from Aberdeen to Southampton can be viewed using the service.
Recent One Show guest Dave Gorman says he can be seen on the website standing outside a shop here. You see The One Show office here. The Angel of the North can be seen here. And a satellite view of Glasgow here.
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Google's pictures of UK go live.
Do you want your home to be shown on the internet? Do you feel that your privacy is under threat from the web? Or are you welcoming the benefits that maps on the web bring? Share your views.
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