Street View Update March 08
Monday, 31st March 2008 by Alex Turnbull
It's been just over a month since Google added 12 new US cities to Street View, and yesterday we got new imagery in another 13 cities, and interestingly, a US national park! Here's some of the highlights, including links straight there:
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Anchorage, Alaska
- Austin, Texas
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Fairbanks, Alaska
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Rockford, Illinois
- Richmond, Virginia
- Spokane, Washington
- St. Petersburg, Florida
- Tampa, Florida
Finally, Google have also added imagery for the few roads that run through Yosemite National Park, California, which enables us to see some pretty stunning scenery.
Here's El Capitan, a 910 metre vertical rock formation that's a popular challenge for rock climbers, and some spectacular Giant Redwoods living up to their name!
Read the full story at the Google Lat Long Blog, read more about El Capitan and Giant Redwoods at Wikipedia.
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Hats off to anyone who can find a ‘drive through’ redwood tree. Not sure if there are any caught on camera though!
I live in Albuquerque and it’s great to see my city on there! I was surprised at the extent of the coverage — they also included Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, and a lot of the distant small towns away from the metro area. Curiously, there are plenty of streets right in the heart of ABQ that didn’t get captured, like mine for instance. I have to wonder how some entire centrally-located neighborhoods were overlooked.
When are these people gonna drive by my house???? That’s so irritating, they have imagery for a bunch of shacks in the middle of nowhere Alaska and yet they don’t have a picture of my house in suburban Chicago.
One feature that has gone largely unnoticed is the censoring of Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo logos in the street view imagery.
http://virtualtourism.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-censors-competitors-in.html
Well, really, there’s actually 2 National Parks in this update. You see, the Cleveland Area has the only urban National Park in the United States. View Placemark,,0,2.648394391226331
And the website for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park: http://www.nps.gov/cuva/
Poor Fairbanks, now everyone’s going to know just how much of a dump it is.
The Anchorage street view is a bit screwy. C Street now goes through from Dimond to Minnesota, but the street view cuts off the parts that aren’t on the map.
Yay! I’m so excited for the Cleveland street views because I can see the house I grew up in (which my grandmother still lives in)! That’s really cool.