Info: Street View stuff

Google's Street View came up in a conversation with some co-workers today. Apparently, there's still a few people out there who didn't know that you can view (an ever-increasing selection of) addresses at the "street level" - and "walk" the guy (I can't remember his name) around the neighborhood. Fun stuff. You can even incorporate the street views into your driving (or new walking) directions, and literally see the way -- drive the route virtually, if you will.

Anyway, we decided to go a quick Google search (of course) to find out about street view, and -- since I was talking to some of our science and tech guys -- decided to learn about the camera and the process. Here's a few links to get you started.

the wiki article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

 

the camera

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9724604-7.html

 

the funny streetview blog

http://funnystreetview.blogspot.com/

frequent updates of random things you can find on street view. here's some fun ones

http://funnystreetview.blogspot.com/2008/01/pirate-cropdrawing-on-google-maps.html

http://funnystreetview.blogspot.com/2009/01/firefox-cropcircle-on-google-maps.html

http://funnystreetview.blogspot.com/2009/02/man-gets-arrested-on-google-maps.html

enjoy. and decrease your anxiety of driving to a new place by checking out the route before you go.

one last one -- let me know what you see  here 

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