Google Maps... "Street View"

robphy

Google Maps: Washington Square Park, NYC
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:



This is really cool.

robphy

http://www.google.com/maps?q=Lombard...,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/in...-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/27bstroke6/200...t_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...)