Google Street View
 

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html

Kinda cool but creepy at the same time.

That is sweet, but I don't like the fact that i can actually zoom in on my own address plate on my mailbox.

welcome to last half year, its actually useful sometimes, before u go somewhere u can look at it so u know what to look for

I know this isn't the trash talk thread in the garbage bin, but thats pretty much the most useless, dumbest ****ing thing I've ever read. Maybe you should have said "welcome to six months ago," but I'd still think you're an asshole.


I'm sure there are plenty of people who didn't know about it.

The folks at jalopnik have found 3 or 4 crashes caught on Street View cameras. Pretty funny.

I'm sure my great grand father didn't know about it... but he's been dead for 6 or so years.

hey i can see my house from here. lol

I wanna know the undertaking of a project like this...

How many people were out running around with cameras and notebooks?

i checked out a lot of locations across the country last night, just out of curiosity. when i checked out my own neighborhood, i was able to angle the picture down towards the street and see a car underneath with all kinds of equipment in the rear windshield, so i imagine its all recorded with gps and a new picture is taken every few seconds. pretty sweet.

How the hell did you do that?

I couldn't' get that to do it on my location...

It wasn't in every location I looked at either. In fact, the only place I did see it was in Bensalem.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...188/google.jpg

hm I never knew about that

i've actually seen this car go by while i was on ccp's campus. its some old sedan with a bunch of equipment tied up to the roof including 4 camera's facing each direction. this must have cost a whole lot to pay for equipment, gas for all these cars to drive all over the US, and the people needed for such a project.

oh wow, I can see my car haha

heres one of the cars they used
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.au...rsivevideo.jpg
heres the camera
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/camera_head.jpg

I park my car in the same spot and constantly keep tabs on it... its my own security camera = )

I vote badass. Too bad I dont have flash 9 on my work comp so I cant actually view anything lol.

Thing is crazy. I can't wait for them to do Levittown with it.

first person to find my house wins.....something

Thats freaking nuts. If Google can do this, imagine what our government can do!!