Street View Update Feb 08
Thursday, 14th February 2008 by Alex Turnbull
The Google Lat Long blog has announced that Google has just added 12 more US cities to their street view coverage, bringing their total coverage to, um.. lots. The new cities added are as follows:
- Albany and Schenectady, NY
- Boise, ID
- Juneau, AK
- Kansas City, MO
- Manchester, NH
- Milwaukee, WI
- Research Triangle Park (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), NC
- San Antonio, TX
- Salt Lake City, UT
And presumably just for today (because today is Valentine's Day in case you'd forgotten), it seems the little Street View guy is standing on a little love heart.
Aww, puke.
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
Holy crap, I forgot you guys are in the future. Here it’s still Feb. 13.
Hey Dan, watch out for the number 3 bus today! Regards from the future.
A few weeks back it was reported on the radio here in New Zealand that there was a car with suspicious looking cameras mounted on top driving around Wellington city. Perhaps Google is looking outside of the US for their street level mapping?? Maybe a long shot, but I hope it’s true 🙂
Maybe it’s just me being dumb, but I can only count 9 links.
Yeah I noticed that too Izzy, but it transpires that Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill (Research Triangle Park) have been counted as three individual cities. The link in the post goes to a random location in Raleigh.
Incidentally, whilst clicking randomly around these places looking for something interesting to link to, it occured to me how incredibly dull so much of this imagery is – it’s mostly just miles and miles of virtually empty residential streets!
However the Juneau, Alaska link is to an image of a glacier, which is definitely cool.
Has anybody found anything more interesting than that so far?
best i got was a fat lady falling off a bike, but I cant find it again.
Why on Earth has the image quality of Street View become lower than the original set of cities‽
I’m still waiting for them to do Washington (DC). Funny how that one hasn’t made the cut yet – wonder if they weren’t allowed to drive their Googlevan around the city for security reasons, or something.
Chicago suburb streetview has been greatly expanded too. Just over the weekend I looked and still didn’t see my house, but then on Monday it was there!
Did you guys abandon the whole streetview forum thing?
@Rob – how on earth did you type an interrobang?
I think the really hi-res stuff was done by another company and purchased by google as I remember?
@koen – yes we gave it a good long time and tried to encourage it, but unfortunately people just didn’t seem to be as interested in Streetviews as they are in the aerial/satellite stuff.
We also get virtually zero submissions of streetviews to the site.
A quick glance at one of the sites that posts street view links maybe gives you an idea of the general kind of things you can see, and personally, I’m more interested in the stuff we post here at GSS!
GSS FTW! w00p!
Will you all still accept streetview sites for possible posting?
@nova72 – absolutely! We base the vast majority of the site’s content on what gets submitted to us, and if people submit street views, then we’ll consider writing them up for the site.
Manchester in Streetview? Excellent !!!
….oh?
….wait a minute………
Doh!
There’s been a few sightings of the Street View car in Sydney. Hopefully they make it out to my street! http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/googles-candid-camera-snaps-australia/2007/11/23/1195753275851.html
Just saw a silver VW van with a camera boom on top in Bristol, UK. Wonder if it was a Streetview van. The camera looked different from what we’ve seen here on the site. For one thing it was enclosed … which would make sense in light of the ‘raincover troubles’ we’ve discussed. The pod on top of the boom definitely had about the right number of portholes though. If it was … I’ll be on Streetview when it rolls out for the UK 😀
Tammo I’ve been waiting for someone to see one over here – I was wondering if we should launch a competition to see if any GSS readers can get themselves onto streetview? Obviously they’d have to prove it was them… perhaps by holding up large GOOGLESIGHTSEEING.COM banners? 😀
less than one year ago I did subscribe to google heart plus and payng the fee. To day I had a computer crash and I lost everything. Can I have back my google heart with street level? Thank.You Cesare Ferrara