Daniel Steinbock » Geo http://www.steinbock.org/blog futures grow from seeds of thought Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:18:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Google hits the streets http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2007/05/29/google-hits-the-streets/ http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2007/05/29/google-hits-the-streets/#comments Wed, 30 May 2007 06:57:46 +0000 Daniel http://www.steinbock.org/blog/?p=40 Here are a couple of adjacent images from Google’s new ‘Street View’ in GoogleMaps.

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Light at the End of the Tunnel

As of this writing, you can walk the streets of New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami–maybe more. The automated stitching of panoramas from different days and times makes for some high-tech surrealist photography. Continuing the twisted translation of reality into the Googleverse…. Just wait until these are fed by realtime surveillance/web cameras and the most-recent geotagged Flickr photos.

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