I’ve told this story on lemmy before. Years ago I was walking along a crowded Manhattan street during rush hour, so there was heavy traffic. There was a Google Street View car moving at about the same speed as me. End result: for some months to a year or so I was everywhere on about 4 blocks’ worth of street view.

Yep! I was riding my bike between classes in college and passed one of the sidewalk mappers

Not me personally, but a friend of mine was captured on Google streetview in 2008. Google then didn’t update the pictures in my country due to legal concerns for more than 10 years, so it was funny looking up his address and seeing him with a full head of hair when he had been bald for years already lol

They got my dad sitting out front of his house. Ended up being the last picture taken of him.

The streetview car went by the day we were moving into our house, you can see the moving truck behind the trees. They’ve never been back so 14 years later it’s still the same! They had been by fairly regularly before that, guess they said eh, we’ve got enough of that place. I’ve taken screenshots of the three different passes for reference.

Yes, just recently in fact. Was cleaning the garage and stepped out to throw the ball to my dog and the car drove past right then. So I of course waved, took some photos and then promptly jumped in my car to follow it. lol

Yep but a year or so after that the streetview car starting passing by that place much more frequently so my photo was buried in the previous dates. And then Google removed that specific date for some reason. So now it only exists as a screenshot on my phone.

The Instagram dox guy knows where you live now.