Google Maps Street View

Not sure if everyone has seen this or not, but Google recently released a new feature in Google Maps called “Street View”.  To check it out, go to a map of San Francisco and click “street view”.  Streets that have a street view show up in blue, and if you click anywhere on the blue street, it will give you a street-level picture of what is at that exact spot.  Now that is cool!

I’m assuming Google is doing this by driving around and taking pictures of everything.  I’m not sure how feasible is for them to do this on a national level without some sort of user-generated content.  However, if they open up that can of worms, how will they police it?

Either way, it’s pretty cool stuff!

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