Google Maps, Street Veiw

[Morph]

This is really cool. A 360 deg view at street level:

 

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-google-svn&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=google%20maps%20street%20view

 

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Bill Morphy

[Bummer]

It looks like they've added quite a bit of territory since they started doing this. In the beginning they had some complaints about privacy. Apparantly some folks didn't like the idea of Google taking pictures into windows and posting them online. Google pointed out that it was no more than folks saw when driving down the road and the issue died out.

 

Google Earth has a panorama view layer. Cathedral Lake in Colorado has a high res 360 degree view.

 

Very cool. I've shown both of these features to quite a few people. Funny thing though, I've never used either feature when planning a trip, though I use those tools to do it.

[Morph]

Steve,

 

How long has Google been working on this project? And do you know what cities are planned to be added in the future ?

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Bill Morphy

[Bummer]

Street View was launched on 25 May of '07. The idea goes back to the eighties when Nicholas Negroponte video mapped a Colorado city for the Army.

 

Richmond, Atlanta, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington, D.C. are said to be next. Australia is expected to come on line in the second half of '08. They're also working on cities in Canada.

[tooldood]

On the way to the store this morning, I crossed paths with a car with a goofy looking gizmo sticking up from the roof and a Google maps sign on the door.

[Lone Eagle]

Hey, Scott, he wasn't lost was he :rotf::rotf: