Google continues to add cities to its Street View maps product that launched earlier this year. You can now view and stroll through high quality photos of most of the downtown areas of San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando. Nine cities are now covered - click on the camera icons to dive into the city and see it.
Microsoft is working on competing products, but they are not as elegant or easy to use. See our coverage of Street Side and Virtual Earth 3D.
Interesting novelty .. I guess?
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When will it come to Washington D.C.?
It will be interesting to watch as this expands to cover most of the USA
imagine seeing details of portions of the Grand Canyon, or the landmarks of old Hollywood, or the beaches of Hawaii
http://streetviewr.com/index.html#ojsimpsonknife
OJ Simpson’s house with, yes, as bizarre as it sounds, a knife sharpening van outside..
No love for Chicago?
Also, would it be possible to make the little golden man have legs stretched out like he’s walking. Right now they float behind him like he’s “haunting” down the street.
As this news follows today as well:
Immersive Media’s Google deal in jeopardy [National Post]
http://communities.canada.com/.....pardy.aspx
I originally thought this a kind of interesting toy — and maybe it really is — but I recently went to San Francisco and I was amazed at how much this helped me recognize the neightborhood I stayed in — before I got there! That was useful and I welcome this, I just hope that they can keep it reasonably up to date.
Dallas, please.
Hey, the San Diego photo Arrington used is three blocks away from my home. I’m the coolest.
Can’t wait for this to come to my part of the world! But I think this is very good and will take some time to cover many cities.
Where’s Boston?
Boston isn’t here:
http://streetviewgallery.corank.com
But over 600 other Street View finds are!