Google Maps... "Street View"

[robphy]

Google Maps: Washington Square Park, NYC (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=washington+square+n&sll=40.738007,-73.99646&sspn=0.006991,0.012252&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=40.73141,-73.99697&cbp=1,213.000080125058,0.5,0&ll=40.735243,-73.996761&spn=0.007479,0.014591&z=16)
In the embedded photograph, drag to rotate, click an arrow to travel.
On the Google-Map, drag the Orange figure to a Blue-Outlined street.

If you zoom out in "Street View", you can see that only a few areas are covered: New York City, Miami, Denver, Las Vegas, and San Francisco.

[FredGarvin]

Here's the best Tapas place on the planet:

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9835/thompgrandeq2.jpg

This is really cool.

[robphy]

http://www.google.com/maps?q=Lombard+St,+San+Francisco,+CA,+USA&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.802132,-122.419046&cbp=1,32.096751909164,0.527232222275816,0&ll=37.802702,-122.41883&spn=0.001117,0.002242&z=19

Things are a little confusing on Lombard Street, San Francisco.

[G01]

It really is amazing how close of images you can find on google....

[robphy]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2007-06-01-google-maps-privacy_N.htm
"Google's street-level maps raising privacy concerns"

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/06/01/1219256.shtml
"Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns"
...points to
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/request_for_urb.html
Wired's "Request for Urban Street Sightings: Submit and Vote on the Best Urban Images Captured by New Google Maps Tool"

(It shouldn't be too hard to blur faces, licence plates, etc...)