Google Street View comes to Liverpool amid privacy fears
Jul 21 2008 EXCLUSIVE by Richard Down, Liverpool Daily Post
Google Street View camera mounted on a car in Liverpool (320)
A GPS receiver matches each photo with a geographical location, and a laptop which sits on the passenger seat beams the information back to a central control location that helps to check the quality of the images and control the basic setup of the equipment.
John Gallagher, manager of Kelly Services Liverpool, is helping coordinate the mapping of the city region.He said work had begun in the early hours of Monday and was likely to continue for several weeks to build a complete picture.
Mr Gallagher said: “All the images are sent back to Zurich immediately and then they tell us to take them again, or whatever.
“We’ve been onto some estates in Liverpool where people have asked us what’s going on.”
He said people who had spotted the car had mistaken them for police and there had been some level of mistrust.
