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Originally Posted by MattR

I had that one come up too, it said I missed it by like .0001 KM or something, lame.

Also, there was one in Napier, NZ that I recognized without looking it up, as I had been on that very sidewalk, kinda freaked me out a little bit. Pretty cool excuse to check out different places. I like how they blur out obvious signs and text...

I think the blurring is from Google. They've got some algorithm that attempts to detect and blur out faces and license plates for privacy reasons. It's pretty aggressive, so lots of things that aren't faces or license plates get blurred because they just happen to kinda-sorta look like one to the algorithm.

http://www.google.com/help/maps/streetview/privacy.html