Topic: My mind has been officially blown...

[rbmgf7]

Google earth and maps was crazy enough to have a satellite view of the world down to the details of streets and cars. While in Google Maps, on the left hand side of the legend above the Zoom, there's a figure of a person you can click and drop into the map. you'll now have a street view of the location with high-res, 360 degree pics. a good portion of the US, Australia, NZ and Europe have been logged.

who ever knew this kinda resources in technology would come? and it's free!

[my78k]

WOW!!! That really is cool...I couldn't find anything any where near my house but I was able to find the area we rent in every winter down in Kissimmee Florida

Dennis

[Glenn Stauffer]

They've been doing this for a while.  Here is a page with close-up photos of one of the vans used to produce the street view photos.

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~tebo/GoogleStreetViewVan/

[alltherightpills]

Or you can do what a bunch of people in Pittsburgh did and stage a bunch of random stuff for the google vans to capture.  Like a marching band, a marathon, a parade, a mad scientist's laboratory, a sword fight, etc.

Here are the links.
National Geographic write up:
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2008/12/a-street-with-a-view.html

The street view:
http://maps.google.com/maps?cbp=1,262.96388206761037,,0,16.58444579096093&cbll=40.456878,-80.01196&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=40.458499,-80.009319&spn=0.00569,0.012918&z=17&panoid=zHdES6mj-vBrH2nF-K9ROQ

The project:
http://www.streetwithaview.com/

[Ecosse]

It's Big Brother man. I Google zoomed my apartment and I'm looking over my shoulder right now.

Hmmm... that's odd, what's that red dot on the back on my nec 









  Cool tip!

[DammitDan]

Yeah, I especially liked the picture of the kid in the ghetto of a large city (I think it was Chicago?) running away from another kid who had a gun pulled out.

They deleted that particular frame for some reason

So now when you're traveling down that particular street it's frame frame frame (blank) frame frame...   

[Steve F]

Yeah, I especially liked the picture of the kid in the ghetto of a large city (I think it was Chicago?) running away from another kid who had a gun pulled out.

They deleted that particular frame for some reason

So now when you're traveling down that particular street it's frame frame frame (blank) frame frame...   

Was it deleted? or did the lense get shot out? 

[fuzzybutt]

how cool/scary is that? saw my saturn AND my k4 in the driveway. my daughters suzuki samurai too.

[Really?]

Saw my wife standing in front of the garage.

[bender01]

Yeah Ill bet that someones been busted with the WRONG persons car in theyre yard! Honey why is Bills truck in our yard? 

[tramp]

just goes to show technology can hurt and help