Comments on: Removing Your House From Google Streetview

By: Arlene

Arlene — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:04:52 +0000

I am unable to locate the removal tool according to your response to #3 above (Jonathan). I have been trying to get to the bottom of this for an hour. I want the picture of my home removed from your Google Map system.,
Pretty Please??

By: Arlene

Arlene — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:48:40 +0000

I don’t care if it is legal or not for you, Google, to have a picture of my home on your system. I want it removed from your system.
I feel it is an invasion of my privacy. You don’t care about an individual’s feelings…reflected it the above blogs, but I don’t like it and I want it removed! Your instructions to remove it are not easy to follow…and it is difficult to contact you. If you don’t remove it I will not use you for anything anymore. I think you are getting too big for your own good.

By: Hemi Cuda

Hemi Cuda — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:18:36 +0000

Nah, it still works man… But yeah, admin got pawned

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:57:38 +0000

admin got pwnt

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:05:50 +0000

“They will know because you include your address in the email”

Have you tried searching Google Maps by address? Their address range is hopeless, when I searched for my house it put me half way down the street on the other side. So the operator isn’t going to be able to find the right house by doing an address lookup. So unless you include some visual clues in your email as well as your address, I wouldn’t trust an operator (who’s probably half way around the world) to be able to find your house. That’s why it’s better to find the actual picture of your house and report that.

I take it back though – you’re way’s not completely wrong, I just don’t think it’s the best way of doing it – especially because Google went to the effort of building a removals tool right into the product.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:10:32 +0000

Yeah your way is probably better. However, my method is not ‘completely wrong’ as it still works, just takes a few extra days.

“waiting while they find your house (how will they know what it looks like??!)”

They will know because you include your address in the email.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:02:29 +0000

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa – that’s completely wrong.

DO NOT send them an email – that’s gonna take ages to get read. THERE’S A MUCH EASIER WAY OF DOING IT:

Find your house on Google Maps (search for your address), then click on the Street View button to see what the picture looks like. When you’ve found the picture of your house click on the “Street View Help” button at the top right of the picture. On the next page click on the “report inappropriate image” link. That then takes you to a really quick form – basically you click on the “remove my house button, add an email address, complete the captcha and hit send.

That’s way easier and gonna be way quicker than sending someone an email and waiting while they find your house (how will they know what it looks like??!) then email you back and wait for you to write back again.

I removed my house using the removals form above – it literally took 1 minute to complete the form, and the image came down overnight. I was pretty impressed, actually.