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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated 24 March 2012 :-
Thailand version of Google Street View launched
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Six months after starting work on the project, Google Thailand yesterday officially launched the Google Street View service in the Kingdom - the second country in Southeast Asia in which it is available, following Singapore.
Street View is an online technology that provides panoramic views of city streets and some other areas. Thailand is the 35th country in the world in which Google Street View has been made available. It was first launched in the United States in 2007.
Pornthip Kongchun, head of marketing for Google Thailand, said that six months after the company embarked on the project, Thai people can now experience Google Street View for themselves. The service currently covers Bangkok and its surrounding urban areas, Chiang Mai and Phuket. Coverage of these provinces is about 95 per cent.
"In Asia-Pacific, Google Street View is available in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, Singapore and Thailand. In Thailand, the next cities for Street View will be Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang, Nakhon Phanom, Hat Yai and Nakhon Si Thammarat, and also Thailand's World Heritage cities," Pornthip said.
She added that Google Street View is designed in part as a tool to leverage Thailand's tourism industry. The Google Street View project in Italy's ancient city of Pompeii resulted in an immediate 25-per-cent increase in tourists.
Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) governor Suraphon Svetasreni said the TAT is collaborating with Google Thailand to use Street View imagery to promote Thailand's tourist attractions throughout the country by showing the world what they look like, where they are and how to get there.
"The first priority is Thailand's World Heritage [sites]. We plan to allow Google Thailand's Street View team to collect images of the World Heritage sites started in Ayutthaya and Sukhothai, as well as Sri Satchanalai," Suraphon said.
The TAT has invited people to nominate interesting places or national treasures to be featured in Google Street View for the world to explore at http://www.tourismthailand.org/mymiracle.
Thapanee Kiatphaibool, assistant director at the TAT's Marketing Information Technology Group, said the agency expects Google Street View will help increase the number of international tourists visiting Thailand this year.
"We expect it should help boost tourism by even more than the 25 per cent it achieved in Italy's Pompeii. The TAT earlier targeted attracting around 19.5 million people to visit Thailand this year. With Google Street View we hope it should be higher than that, but we have not yet finalised the numbers," Thapanee said.
Pornthip emphasised that Google has gone to great lengths to safeguard privacy while allowing all Thai users to benefit from the Google Street View feature. To use Google Street View in Thailand, access http://maps.google.co.th/streetview.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:33 pm on Mar. 23, 2012
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Kaymanx
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This would come in handy during the next floods.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:24 am on Mar. 24, 2012
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bkkz
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It's not complete though. They left out a lot of the sois. For example, you can't traverse down Sukhumvit soi 11 to see your favorite spots. Lazy buggers.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 1:39 am on Mar. 24, 2012
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BKKdreaming
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the cars with cameras on top were across the street from MBK the other day.....
When face recognition gets better there will be no place to hide !
BK
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 2:07 am on Mar. 24, 2012
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bkkz
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They do blur out the faces and car number plates. There have been instances where a guy gets photographed in front of his own house.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:48 am on Mar. 24, 2012
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Kaymanx
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Yes, I noticed the faces and other identification like car numbers were blurred. The pictures look quite great specially one of a winding road by the beachside - don't know where that was -- with faces of the lovely girls blurred. Well in a way that's some assurance that, while we could be caught with our pants down, at least our faces would be blurred. Not in LOS and pining ? Log on to Street View and see real life street pix ! I did that today. Maybe in time the street view car drivers would discover the little sois. On the other hand, they might simply get overwhelmed by all sorts of demand from the millions-strong LOS fans worldwide !
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:58 am on Mar. 24, 2012
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DrLove
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Quote: from bkkz on 1:39 pm on Mar. 24, 2012
You can't even see Nana Plaza as Soi 4 is not included.
I guess most of the photos are from September-October last year.
I think that 'Jack' did a better job of Pattaya, where even the smallest sois were covered.
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:00 am on Mar. 24, 2012
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Kaymanx
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Actually, I did see a view of Soi4 from the McDonalds corner, including those cracks on the kerb. But I could not pan further in.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:05 am on Mar. 24, 2012
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CalEden
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Maybe they did Nana Soi 4 with all the street side bars and the day trade they do, the photo turned out to be a giant blur. So they did not publish it. 555!
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:13 pm on Mar. 24, 2012
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