Interesting observation about Google Maps, after my grocery delivery guy said that my house was shown on Street View as having a picket fence -- and my house has never had a picket fence. I said "Maybe they put another house there instead, because I'd requested my house be taken off Street View years ago."

So. Investigation just now, of my address. The delivery guy was mistaken, due to the... confusing nature of Google Street View. The house which he *thought* was my house, was actually a couple of houses down the street. Which he might have realised if he'd stopped to consider that the house with the picket fence... is not on a corner. (And he knew my house was on the corner, it was in the delivery directions, and he'd even mentioned that it was on the delivery directions).

So... why the confusion? It's due to the method which Google uses to *disguise* the fact that a house has been removed from Street View. They don't replace that spot with a blank or fake house, no. They just make it impossible to see that house by zooming or bouncing past it.

For example, if you put in the address "11 Foo Street", then it will show you 13 Foo Street, and then when you click on the arrow to go down the street, it will do the "blur-zoom" thing, and you'll end up at 9 Foo Street instead. And you'll simply blame yourself for not having clicked correctly.

So the next time that Google Maps Street View seems frustratingly uncooperative, it may be doing it on purpose, because Requested Privacy.

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