Comments on: Google Maps: Street View and Mapplets

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:51:51 +0000

What about streetview in Canada? Believe it or not there is alot goin’ on there, too.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:56:51 +0000

This is really amazing…but I don’t think that respect the privacy of the people in the photos.
A question, do you know if google have done an API to let us put directly our photos on the map?

By: Geo-Trotter

Geo-Trotter — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:59:16 +0000

I added all the best “Google Street View” here : http://www.geo-trotter.com/cat-street-view.php.

By: theDRZA

theDRZA — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:01:43 +0000

matt wins the radikewl wicked comment award.

By: Also Paranoid

Also Paranoid — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:05:49 +0000

Bob, do like I do and install Adblock in Firefox and block everything from google-analytics.com and google-syndication.com.

* If you use the google toolbar, the URI of the page that you’re visiting is sent to google for page rank info, which means they know that your IP went to that page at a certain time.

* If you’re logged into your gmail account, it know knows *who* is searching and visiting pages. If you’re using the toolbar, it always knows.

* Go to a page with adsense and it knows that *you* are visiting that page, even if you didn’t find it through google.

The level of data aggregation that Google has amassed is incredible, yet slightly frightening. I’d say that in the next year or two others will begin to discover just how much Google knows about you and Google will begin to see a backlash.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:49:49 +0000

Check out this hottie coming out of the disney store:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=&near=10+market+st,+san+francisco&sll=37.796255,-122.408552&sspn=0.020279,0.032659&ie=UTF8&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.78829,-122.4084&cbp=1,306.3104149919614,0.552154483252459,3&ll=37.792151,-122.408359&spn=0.01014,0.016329&z=16

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:28:37 +0000

Pretty cool, although they need to do Chicago.

By: Tamlyn Rhodes

Tamlyn Rhodes — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:06:50 +0000

Technologically amazing, but the interface sucks. navigating backwards and forwards, even with the keyboard, is a real chore. Top marks for wow factor though.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:02:27 +0000

20 votes and all 5? no way! Google is the new MS in the skin of a sheep. It reads you emails ( gmail) tracks what you surf (search + analytics + double click) tracks where you go (google maps) and now takes your picture passing by streets!

keep clapping until is too late…

By: Adam Sanderson

Adam Sanderson — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:49:23 +0000

What really does it for me is that the roads are drawn onto the photos, very cool.

By: Bertrand Le Roy

Bertrand Le Roy — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:35:23 +0000

Scratch that. The rotation transitions are quite a bit nicer on the Google version. :)

By: Bertrand Le Roy

Bertrand Le Roy — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:32:59 +0000

Hum, didn’t Microsoft do that months ago?
http://preview.local.live.com/

By: Aaron Newton

Aaron Newton — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:11:42 +0000

No wonder the next Grand Theft Auto looks so realistic…

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:38:49 +0000

There is already a list of interesting find using Street View:

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

By: Zion

Zion — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:47:12 +0000

This really kicks some serious a…
Have you noticed how some images have 4 levels of zoom ? Impressive, at the very least …

By: Dougal Matthews

Dougal Matthews — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:00:21 +0000

That is quite incredible. However, I’d like to see some street views in Scotland ;)

very very impressive.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 30 May 2007 07:54:55 +0000

that’s much more than impressive