The Making of Google Streetview
Ever wonder how they get all those streetlevel images on Google Streetview? Now, thanks to a reader who sent this photo it, you do.
Ever wonder how they get all those streetlevel images on Google Streetview? Now, thanks to a reader who sent this photo it, you do.
Stoner, what’s going on with the copyediting with you guys? Site is rife with typos.
— ms. huffy
Not that you’ll read my comment, since I’m posting on Sun.
Wow, they really do exist
“Why does the driver look like an alien?!”
LOL!
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I saw this car on Atlantic Avenue yesterday or the day before. Why does the driver look like an alien?!
BTW – If you want to be REALLY creeped out, take a look at Google Street View UK. The pics are really high quality. You can practically see people sitting on their toilets.
Hot. 6 AM, Sundays?
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Gang of villagers chase away Google car
– http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/03/google.anger/index.html
(CNN) — Google’s ambitious plan to offer a 3-D street level view of communities across three continents hit a snag when angry residents of a UK village blocked the search engine’s camera car from photographing their homes.
Fearing the appearance of their well appointed properties on the Web site would attract criminals scouting for burglary targets, villagers in Broughton, north of London, summoned the police after spotting the car…
The guy appears to be driving, talking on a headset, and monitoring a computer screen all at the same time.
Kinda cool, kinda creeps the shit out of me.
In summer 2006 I was on Orange St. and one of these cars passed by.