'Rudest town' laid bare by Google
PEOPLE from across the world can now visit Grimsby – without leaving the comfort of their own home.
Homes, cars and even people can now be viewed on-line at the click of a mouse, after the North East Lincolnshire became one of the latest areas to be added to web sensation Google Street View.
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Grimsby Town Hall as seen on Google's Street View.
The tool, providing 360-degree images of public roads, was launched in the UK in March last year, initially focusing on just 25 cities.
Scenes from Street View including Grimsby Town Hall.
As reported, the car – mounted with special cameras that stitches together panoramic photographs of areas for the internet search engine – was spotted in the Grimsby area in April last year.
And now, users can zoom in on those images and use them to take a virtual walk along whole streets.
To find out more, see today's Grimsby Telegraph.
To try out Google Street View yourself log on to www.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/ and click on try street view.
You can let us know what you think about the controversial site by commenting on this story at www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk, emailing newsdesk@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk or calling (01472) 372236.
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by Stephen, GY, soon to be gone!
Sunday, March 14 2010, 11:12PM
“Rudest town? Doesn't surprise me...people around here rarely smile.”
by Zoe, grimsby
Sunday, March 14 2010, 8:33PM
“i think it's made grimsby and cleethorpes look rather nice, check out church lane in bradley it looks very pretty!!”
by clare, Blundell ave
Sunday, March 14 2010, 3:28PM
“I think it's great, spent ages on there last night I didn't even know it existed....had a real trawl down all the houses I've lived in and where I grew up...bit dissapointed I couldnt see the excape routes though, not good for nosey people who want to look round the back lol”
by me, at home
Sunday, March 14 2010, 3:25PM
“I don't think so inmate, it only shows the front of the houses and you can't zoom in properly.....I know, I tried....my bedrooms at the front and wanted to make sure it was clean for the pics lol”
by josephine white, Grimsby
Sunday, March 14 2010, 2:51PM
“John at home wrote: "without the cameras that is 162,000 crimes that the police would not have solved"
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But thats not the point, John.
CCTV might have helped to *catch* 162,000 criminals, but how many *more* crimes might have been *prevented* in the first place had there been a regular and visible police presence in high crime areas?
How many people would heve been saved the fear and emotiotional devastation of being victims? How much Police and court time wouldn't have been wasted - *after* the event? And how much would have been saved in Insurance payouts?
I'm not against CCTV in principle, and in places like shopping malls or busy Railway Station where a constant police presence may not be viable, they can be useful aid in Police investigations. But to altogether replace 'Bobbies on the beat' with cctv and employ them as means of preventing crime - well, it simply hasn't worked.”