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May 29, 2007

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Google Maps adds Street View, Awesomeness

Posted May. 29, ’07, 10:55 AM PT by Cyrus Farivar
Category | Geekery

Telegraph Ave.Oh man, I haven’t been this excited about maps since—well, who am I kidding, I’m always excited about maps. (For the record, I have no less than three that decorate my bathroom.)

In any case, Google has just wowed us again with a street view feature into Google Maps. For now, in selected metro areas around the country, including New York City, Las Vegas and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Basically, you enter an intersection or an address as you normally would, and then click “Street View,” and you get a pop-up that shows you a photograph of that intersection, complete with a cardinal axis superimposed over it.

In this photo of the main entrance (Bancroft Ave. at Telegraph Ave.) to my alma mater, UC Berkeley, you can clearly see the north-south axis that bisects the campus.

Heck, if that doesn’t impress you, I put in my home address in Oakland and found my Toyota Corolla parked right out front. I encourage you to try this at home, kids.

Other sites:

Times Square
Golden Gate Bridge

Update: According to a posting on the official Google Maps blog, Denver and Miami are also covered, with more cities to come soon. -DM


6 Comments

wesg Author Profile Page said:

Welcome back, Cyrus!

May 29, 2007 12:10 PM
Toby said:

You can also take a look at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in NYC.

May 29, 2007 12:56 PM
Dustin Moore said:

You can see the full extent of the Immersive Media dataset behind Street Views at
http://demos.immersivemedia.com/onlinecities/

These demos show the full motion video panoramas in the dataset though this requires Shockwave.

May 29, 2007 7:13 PM
lipbalm said:

Wow, that is nuts. Is it a bad thing that I can zoom right in and read people's license plates? The detail is incredible, even at full zoom.

I'd love to see the vehicle/camera-rig they use to make this happen.

I can't wait until they make it to Sacramento, CA.

May 29, 2007 8:51 PM
Fred said:

Cool list of Street View Findings:

http:\\www.laudontech.com\StreetView\streetview.html

May 30, 2007 8:27 AM
Geotrotter Author Profile Page said:

I added here the most amazing Street View.

June 14, 2007 4:10 AM

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