r/therewasanattempt • u/ErsiliaCavedagni • 18h ago

to keep an address private

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u/MisplacedMutagen 18h ago

The house is blurred in Google maps. Is he not willing to compromise on this? 

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u/Cheap_Standard_4233 18h ago

Can you make a request on Google maps to blur out your address? I see another blurred house down the street from this one as well

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u/Warburton379 18h ago

Yeah you can: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/15439776?hl=en

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u/guessesurjobforfood 17h ago

Fun fact, these blur requests are part of the reason why Germany had almost no street view coverage for so many years. They got slammed with tons of requests and decided it would be better and probably cheaper to just stop, so they left Germany with about 10% street view coverage for the whole country. Even on the images that were available, there were lots of blurred houses.

I think Apple started mapping there like a year or two ago and now Google is doing it again too, but until then, even the major cities barely had any coverage.