Wow!! I love Google's new Street View. I do a lot of research where I collect photographs of textual landscapes in urban sites. The ability to cruise around urban sites from the comfort of my office is cool (don't get me wrong - it doesn't replace the need to be on site). The top photo is a street scape shot of a random street in San Francisco (878 Haight Street); the second photo is zoomed in on the poster board (in the top right hand corner of the street scene).
The collision of geography and technology with my own interests is really exciting.
If you want to learn about Street View, there's a cute tutorial here.
On the privacy issue raised in relation to Street View: I've been living in the UK where I appeared on CCTV an average of 300 times a day. If you're in the US and you are one of the 100 million people who shop at Wal-mart you are contributing to the more than 460 terabytes of personal data (your social security and drivers license number, where you live, which colour lipstick you buy, what snack foods you like, when you are having a dinner party).
2 comments:
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That's a really amazing feat for Google! Google has a penchant to come up with ideas that can leave people "stunned!" LOL! Haha! It's actually fun for a person to navigate the app. Using it would make you feel as if you're really on the streets. :D
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