Google Maps street views

At the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference this week, Google presented yet another feature addition to Google Maps: Street Views (read the Google LatLong blog for the announcement including a video presentation of Street View).

Cool features include: interactive pan, zoom and navigation with the use of the mouse and full screen viewing mode. Here are some examples of my past hour (yes, it’s really addictive) of “driving” around the streets of San Francisco:

Also seen above to the lower right is an example of the new 2.5D maps in Google Maps.

For direct links to Google Maps of the examples above: Upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right.

So far only areas in and around Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco are covered by Street View, but I’m sure more cities will be included shortly as this is a very valuable addition to the usual aerial photograps and topographic maps.

Via O’Reilly Radar.

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