Change, underestimated?

Here’s something that I assume will eventually come to NZ, Google street view as viewed on google maps. Some cities in the US are completed, the following image comes from Castro street in San Francisco.

This from businessweek

Maybe you’ve seen one cruising the streets in your city: A platinum gray Volkswagen Beetle with a camera that looks like a small disco ball fixed to the roof. They’ve been driving the streets in major cities across the country, snapping some 125 million images to be digitally woven into 360-degree views of everything from New York’s South Street Seaport to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

For a laugh check out some of the random images snapped at mashable.

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streetview, google, geography

Thanks to Mark for putting together this how to video for downloading pictures on winxp.

This is also another example of some of the uses of youtube and google video etc for education.

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