thecoalman - 3:59 pm on Jun 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

I agree Demaestro, making things illegal just to protect people from a few unscrupulous people is not a good thing but a limit needs to be set here. The overhead imagery avaiable from Google now is getting close to the limits of what I would find acceptable.

From the street? If the good hiding places are the shrubs by the front door then sure. I would hope for the robbers sake that he knew more about the house than the front door picture given to him by Google Maps.

My comment had more to do with the overhead imagery however in my area a street level view would provide many details about peoples back yards. There's a lot of neighborhoods where that would be the case. In some places you can see clear across to the next block.

Second case that I have heard of.

Yes and the first one they dove up quite a lengthy private road marked as private property and appeared to have images that were take right from the guys driveway.