Google Maps.. Street View!

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html

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Where did they get this from? They are working with Immersive Media, a company that has an eleven lens camera capable of taking full, high-res video while driving along city streets. Each captured pixel is geotagged and primed for consumer use. Their main clients up till now have been city planners and the defense industry.

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This feature is awesome! 360 panoramic view of almost every block of your favorite major city!
Actually for now it's limited to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York. I'm sure they'll try to expand the database in the future.

Check out my neighborhood!

Any of you guys live in any of those cities?

How ya doing, buddy?

Microsoft's Local Live had this prior to google I believe. However, looks like google expanded upon their small implementation.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hmm, they didn't have that features around my house. :<

How ya doing, buddy?

Personally, I like the directions that Google Maps will give from New York City to London. Check it out!

How ya doing, buddy?

It'll be cool when you can look at your own house.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Maybe they'll expand it to England at some point...

It must be weird to look this stuff up and then see yourself walking down the street or something.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

That is so awesome, I wonder how often these images get updated, if they do update them. striped phantom I checked out your neighbourhood and its really cool how the pictures are so clear, even when you zoom in. I could totally see that van's license plate.

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Neat idea. I hope they do this for Phoenix in the future.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Boston is a cinch.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Hmm, it looks like they got the images by driving down a street with a video recorder and took the screenshots at relevant points. Interesting idea. I would like to see one done of Houston, especially downtown, uptown, and the Medical Center/Herman Park area.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

This is what they're using (or at least something similar.)
from Immersive Media.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

Boston is a cinch.

NO, THE GOOGLE VAN CONTAINS A BOMB. ANYONE TAKING A PHOTOGRAPH IS A TERRORIST. CLOSE THE CITY.

People have already found hilarious things with this - There was a story on Digg a while back in which someone was caught by the camera leaving a strip club.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

If you go to Times Square, an ad for Yahoo is on the big screen they show NBC Nightly News on.

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My friend that lives in San Francisco got totally weirded out when I described - in great detail - a crack in the side walk in front of his appartment window. It freaked his freak until I explained what I did.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I saw this on the news last night. Apparently someone has already complained because when they viewed their house, their cat was visable through the window. I would too, what with all those dog predators using the internet.

FELIPE NO

Ha, I saw that news story, too. That cat did look a bit shifty, anyway.

I think this is a great step forward in technology, albeit a controversial one. While I can't really imagine people searching through other people's houses on the 'net, this thing (Google Maps) does have the potential to make people feel insecure...but like a spokesperson said, you can have your house removed from the maps or something to that effect.

Hell, I'd feel insecure with all of the dog predators lurking the maps, like said above. =O

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

The scary thing is, this is just what the public gets to see. There could be some real time top secret version where you could be seen picking your nose through your bedroom window and then proceed to scratch your ass.

Jam it back in, in the dark.