The new Google Maps Street View feature, which allows users to click on maps in major cities and get real images of the street, is causing a real ruckus on the web. In order to make the map work, Google had to send out a van with a bunch of 360-cameras to get street level images. Turns out, not all the images they picked up are the kind people want broadcast throughout the universe. Captured pictures of an old man jaywalking, a smiling man walking out of a strip club and two fellas walking into a cannabis club have made their mark in San Francisco, while two college gals sunbathing at Stanford University are making their mark on "oh there's a girl nearly naked" scene. And don't even get me started on the image (pictured at right) of what looks to be ET touching down in New York. Turns out, the view from the street might be more exciting than the view from the top afterall.
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1Haha... they have every street surrounding me but not mine for some reason. I think I will use this when I can't rememeber if a shop I am looking for is on one block or another. Maybe I could also use this to scope out parking. Oh the possibilities.
2Can't wait for the day for this to be REAL-time. Talk about Big Brother.
3Wow. I was wondering how they got these pictures in the first place.
4I'd be kind of annoyed to show up on Google Maps, personally.
5I added here the best Google Street View.
6weird!!
7Figured they weren't real time. But do people really need that much detail?
8i agree with shy. i think if i used this i might end up getting more lost. (loster?)
9What the hell is that thing? Is no once else freaked out by ET? That looks nuts! Am I missing out on the joke?
10Yeah -- what the heck IS that thing?
11I want to marry the man in that orange suite. Will you marry me?
12I added here some amazing Street View from the last update (08/2007).
13Dude, ET is like 15 minutes from where I live! I might need to go investigate...
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