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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 04:09:02 pm

Title: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 04:09:02 pm: wow what a great idea google have come up with, you go to maps, put the street and area you want to see, and you get every angle great to view before you go to a new job, at least you know what you are getting into, it is like you are really there, it is even possible to quote a price from this, funny thing is i can only get scotland, i think they are still adding the streets onto the map

see how it works
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x75/trainingacademy/th_stview.jpg) (http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x75/trainingacademy/?action=view&current=stview.flv)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Dean Taberner on March 19, 2009, 04:20:32 pm: Have you got a link mate?

Dean
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 04:22:23 pm: open google then open maps just ad number street and area, a flaf should aper with a pic on it click view it is superb, am putting a video on in about a half hour
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Tosh on March 19, 2009, 04:23:22 pm: It may give you an impression of how much to charge, but I doubt it would show you locked gates, back gardens covered in obstacles, the actual height of a building (I mean I've 1st floor windows as high as 2nd floor windows); parking; and other access problems.

Call me negative, but I don't think you can beat actually going to view a property to give a proper quote.
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 04:26:31 pm: i agree with you tosh, but at least you know roughly what you are going to be working on,
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: matt on March 19, 2009, 04:31:21 pm: it might help ftp see the mounds of dog crap that he allways gets ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 04:34:57 pm: thats possible matt, you can zoom right in lol even see bird poo on the glass ;D
video nearly uloaded will let you see how it works
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: R W C on March 19, 2009, 04:55:11 pm: I saw a french car the other day with 4 cameras on its roof driving up and down all the roads and it had the google logo on the side.

Chris
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Ian Lancaster on March 19, 2009, 05:19:31 pm: Well, I tried it and all I got was a map ???

Not only that, when I put my address in, the pointer saying "31 Woodberry Drive" was actually pointing at no 37. They'd better watch out if I'm on Al Qaeda's hit list ;D ;D
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 05:24:40 pm: i think you will find in a few weeks all the streets being added on to the map, i checked a few streets in scotland and they all work
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 05:25:49 pm: Quote from: R W C on March 19, 2009, 04:55:11 pm
I saw a french car the other day with 4 cameras on its roof driving up and down all the roads and it had the google logo on the side.

Chris
thats the same van i saw last summer in my street,
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Window Washers on March 19, 2009, 07:09:34 pm: I just had a look at my house and it cant zoom into it, I can see the roof ::)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 07:13:39 pm: ian your using the wrong one ;D check the video i made at the top, thats the view you get
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Mr Formby on March 19, 2009, 07:33:43 pm: Just what the burglars need
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: sageorgeta on March 19, 2009, 07:50:16 pm: Brilliant...i just seen all my families houses in Perth,Australia.
:)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: cherubs cleaning on March 19, 2009, 08:06:23 pm: the bad pep r going to love it

jerry
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Window Washers on March 19, 2009, 08:22:57 pm: Quote from: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 07:13:39 pm
ian your using the wrong one ;D check the video i made at the top, thats the view you get
I must be doing something wrong as it don t show you how to do it in the vid, and I am seeing roofs of houses nothing else, had the same with google earth ::) :(
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: cherubs cleaning on March 19, 2009, 08:26:03 pm: ian u must be

i just look at one of my vans and see the number plate clear as a bell

jerry
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 19, 2009, 08:33:33 pm: follow this instruction video ian ;D
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x75/trainingacademy/th_streetviewguid.jpg) (http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x75/trainingacademy/?action=view&current=streetviewguid.flv)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: poleman on March 19, 2009, 08:37:34 pm: They have only done small parts of the UK!
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: East coast window cleaning Services on March 19, 2009, 09:05:33 pm: Ive priced loads of jobs this way in the past
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: pjulk on March 19, 2009, 11:44:34 pm: I can only get a map up of the streets no houses.
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: seandyer2003 on March 19, 2009, 11:48:11 pm: haha, i seen this on the news and new it would be on here before long haha

It will be good though if it does take off, can price over the phone !!
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Polewash on March 20, 2009, 04:04:55 am: Quote from: sageorgeta on March 19, 2009, 07:50:16 pm
Brilliant...i just seen all my families houses in Perth,Australia.
:)

We've had street view for ages in Perth, its great. I use it all the time for work. You can drive down a street straight to the house, no need to look at the number. That and my TomTom is all I need. ;D

John
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Window Washers on March 20, 2009, 07:35:57 am: no wonder I cant see anything the house I was looking for are not on there lol. ::)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: sageorgeta on March 20, 2009, 08:12:01 am: Quote from: Polewash on March 20, 2009, 04:04:55 am
Quote from: sageorgeta on March 19, 2009, 07:50:16 pm
Brilliant...i just seen all my families houses in Perth,Australia.
:)

We've had street view for ages in Perth, its great. I use it all the time for work. You can drive down a street straight to the house, no need to look at the number. That and my TomTom is all I need. ;D

John

John where are you in Perth.
My family all live around Ballajura and Lansdale (near Wanneroo).

:)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Tom Mac on March 20, 2009, 10:57:29 am: try 4 gotley road, bristol. Big brother is watching you
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 20, 2009, 01:12:44 pm: nice one ;D
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x75/trainingacademy/bristol.png)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Aqua-Wash on March 20, 2009, 03:28:53 pm: Looks like going to be stopped due to 'privicy laws' and being used by thievies etc. http://www.asylum.co.uk/2009/03/20/google-already-pulling-images-from-street-view/
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Window Washers on March 20, 2009, 08:38:34 pm: Quote from: Stan The Man on March 20, 2009, 08:14:43 pm
seen a car with big camra on today
thats a speed camera car had them down south for years now ;D
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: WCE on March 20, 2009, 08:46:16 pm: Quote from: P&R CLEANING SERVICES LTD on March 19, 2009, 09:05:33 pm
Ive priced loads of jobs this way in the past
Did you transport yourself into the future then ::) This is new technology ;)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: johnny_h on March 21, 2009, 06:54:03 pm: i remember seeing the google car just looked up where i saw it and yep im there in all my glory lol
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy) on March 21, 2009, 07:21:52 pm: Quote from: sageorgeta on March 20, 2009, 08:12:01 am
Quote from: Polewash on March 20, 2009, 04:04:55 am
Quote from: sageorgeta on March 19, 2009, 07:50:16 pm
Brilliant...i just seen all my families houses in Perth,Australia.
:)

We've had street view for ages in Perth, its great. I use it all the time for work. You can drive down a street straight to the house, no need to look at the number. That and my TomTom is all I need. ;D

John

John where are you in Perth.
My family all live around Ballajura and Lansdale (near Wanneroo).

:)

not long back from mandurrah just south of perth, i managed to get one expat scot started in wfp while i was over, there is a huge scope for wfp sales over there, in fact outside the uk/ireland and the states/canada and part of mainland europe i think the next big sales map is oz and NZ.
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy) on March 21, 2009, 07:25:53 pm: Quote from: Stan The Man on March 20, 2009, 08:14:43 pm
seen a car with big camra on today

these cameras are mounted on ordinary cars ( maybe getting local guys to do the filming, wish i knew about it i would have offered my services), the cameras are about 6 feet high on a pole type thing above the car with multi angle cameras, they seem to film every possible angle as they drive along, i saw a guy today in one also but he was parked up outside a sandwich shop getting his lunch, if only i was two minutes later i might have been famous. 8)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy) on March 22, 2009, 08:13:15 am: Quote from: johnny_h on March 21, 2009, 06:54:03 pm
i remember seeing the google car just looked up where i saw it and yep im there in all my glory lol

give us a butchers then 8)
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: A.J on March 22, 2009, 04:16:04 pm: 80 Bury St, Enfield ;D
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: jouk45 on March 22, 2009, 04:31:58 pm: Quote from: A.J on March 22, 2009, 04:16:04 pm
80 Bury St, Enfield ;D

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x75/trainingacademy/AJ.png) ;D ;D
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: STEVE-UK on March 22, 2009, 08:31:35 pm: looks like you need a new hose mate ;D
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Post by: Mr.G on March 23, 2009, 12:32:15 am: What an ACE feature!
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: poleman on March 23, 2009, 12:59:20 am: Quote from: Mr.G on March 23, 2009, 12:32:15 am
What an ACE feature!

it would be! but they have only done small parts of the uk lol
Title: Re: pricing from street view map
Post by: Mr.G on March 23, 2009, 01:07:12 am: yeah, and not my part dammit!