Standing out in the Google crowd
Updated on 19 March 2009
Some of the quirkier pictures spotted on Google's Street View on the day the controversial mapping service is launched.
Google launched its controversial Street View mapping service today, with web and mobile phone users able to see 360-degree views of 25 cities in the UK.
The service, developed after Google spent a year crawling British streets capturing thousands of images, has been criticised by some as an invasion of privacy.
But the technology has also thrown up some quirks too. Here are five of the funnier pictures spotted on Street View today.
Click on the images below to visit the Google Street View page.
The KFC colonel's face gets blurred out by Street View in Tottenham:
A man at a bus stop in Edinburgh signals for peace:
A shark caught on camera in residential Oxford:
A man waves at Street View cameras outside Kings Cross station in London:
Some apt graffiti in Newman Street, Paddington, London:
And finally, a bonus picture from Haringey for Channel 4 News fans:
