Take a Virtual Drive with Google Street View
If you haven’t come across it yet, you need to check out google street view. Go to maps.google.com and click on the street view link on the top right hand corner of the map. This will show you a number of cameras on the map and you can then zoom in on the area that you want to go to or simply type the address or city in the usualy search bar to take you there. As an example, type in Empire State Building, New York. This will take you to right in front of the Empire State Building. Once in street view you can click on the direction on the screen that you want to look. You can look in every direction possible it seems and you can even look up to the top of the building from the street. What Google has done is drive all over the place in the last year with a camera on top of a car. similar to the way you have the 360 view of the inside of houses online, you get a 360 view of the street from the perspective of the top of the car in Street view. Pretty cool if you ask me. Freaks some people out though as can be seen in this article from USA Today below…
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2007-06-12-google-street-view_N.htm
Anyway, i like it.
Here is a video put out by Google on this which is pretty um… cool?
Tags: camera, google, google maps, street view
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