How to Remove a Home's Photo from Google Maps
Google Maps is an Internet-based tool that not only provides directions to specific locations, but also shows an image of the house, business, or other address you are trying to find. The visual element of Google Maps is called Google Street View. The service photographs structures, including residential houses, and stores the photographs within the Google Maps system. If you don't want your house's photograph included in Google Maps, you can have it removed from the Google Maps/Google Street View system.
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Instructions
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Open your computer's Internet browser by clicking on the program's icon on your computer's desktop. This applies to both Windows and Mac platforms.
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Enter maps.google.com/maps in your Internet browser's URL box.
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Press the "Enter" or "Return" key. The Google Maps website will load in the browser.
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If the view is not already a photograph of the United States, click "Satellite," located in the upper right corner of the map displayed on your screen, .
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Enter your address in the box next to the wording "Google maps" at the top of the screen.
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Click "Search Maps." Your house's location and photograph will appear on the map in the right-hand section of the screen.
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Zoom in on the picture to pinpoint your house's location by using the slide on the side of the map. You will see a close-up photograph of your house.
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Click on the link "Report a problem" in the bottom right corner of the screen.
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A dialog box will appear--"Report a problem with the map."
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Use your computer's mouse to drag the orange oval on top of the red oval.
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Click "Other" from the drop-down arrow list of options.
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Enter "Security Concern," "Remove my house's image from your Google Maps/Google Street View system" or other similar wording in the box. Include your email address.
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Click the check box by the words "Email me when the problem is resolved."
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Click "Report problem" to submit the photograph removal request.
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Tips & Warnings
Note the day you submit the request on a piece of paper or calendar. Save this information in case you need to contact Google again and the company requests the date of your original submission.
