Loads of new areas for Google Street View
Wednesday, 11th June 2008 by James Turnbull
Last week, we celebrated Street View's first anniversary with our Top 10 unseen posts. Google have now joined in the celebrations by adding a massive 37 new areas.
All the new areas are still US based, but the update does include 10 parks for you to explore. The updated imagery also magically erases the street view car, so you can look down and see the virtual ground beneath your virtual feet.
See the best Street View sightings in our Street View category and if you spot anything cool then let us know!
How do you reckon it does the whole ‘ground beneath your feet’ thing?
Well I guess they know what the ground looks like in front and behind the car, so it’s probably an amalgam of those two bits of imagery.
Edit: I mean the actual imagery of the right bit of ground, but just captured from in front and behind the car as it passes.
I wish I noted the location, but I was viewing various areas in Charlotte, NC and found a place where if you look out towards the back of the car you could see some distortion in the imagery and you could see what appeared to be a front bumper. I assumed it was a place where they mess up erasing the streetview car. I agree with Alex’s theory.
At least some of the imagery in Connecticut is over a year old! My house shows up, and sitting in my driveway is the car we sold last September!
Gas near my house in Louisville was $2.79/gallon when they took some of it!
They hit most of Tulsa, OK after we had a huge ice storm that damaged most (if not all) the trees in the area. You can see lots of piles of tree limbs sitting around waiting for crews to pick them up.
I spotted the google car (an astra) complete with 360 camera atop driving around Leeds (UK) on Thusday just gone – how cool !!
The black gmaps astra is still in Leeds. Got stuck behind it on the Headrow about 30 mins ago!
Wonder if i’ll be on it 😀
Said black Astra came up my street in Pudsey, Leeds today. I was about to get in my car. Ill be famous lol. What an exiting job though ay. There must be thousands of miles worth of road in Leeds.
Astra was seen at 10:30 on 29 july 08 on Stanningley road, Leeds (near firestation if you know it. i was crossing the road listening to my ipod, i might be on it
Spotted on Brown Lane West (Leeds) 10.42am 06/08/08
Watched it go up one side a side road, made sure I was outside waving at it on it’s way back 😉
Spotted on Watnall road in Watnall, Notts this afternoon, going both ways. Should be on!
Streetview car spotted in Stretford, Manchester on Saturday
Spotted in Chorlton Manchester today. The Google worker drone was parked up having a bacon butty for his breakfast. http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/garybaldy/DSC00017.jpg
Saw the same camera system on top of a grey van in hyde park the other say. Said ‘Surveying’ and ‘Yota tv’ on the side. Couldn’t find anything about Yota tv online so is this the new disguise??
Make that Hyde Park Leeds.
Dude! If the pics are old then suck it up! Let’s see there’s about… Oh I would say the whole fricken earth and you are complaining that the pics are old!? They can’t take pics of the whole earth every day!! Think about it. Nice how they are nice enough to make it free for you and you complain?! I think they should charge u all who complain about how current it is. They are spending millions on cameras and satalites but u look for free. Suck it up.