Thread: Google Street view.

Mine hasn't been updated yet can only see blurry overhead veiw and neighbours gum tree is still there from a yeer ago.

August 05, 2008 12:00am

CLOSE-UP images of Australian homes, businesses and famous landmarks in cities, towns and remote areas are now available for free on Google Maps Australia.

Street View, the newest addition to the popular website, contains more than 10 million images that users can search and view.

Australia is only the third country to benefit from the technology, useful during last month's Tour de France. It is also available in 50 US cities.

From 3am this morning, anyone can access the tool by simply clicking on a button to find the 360-degree, street-level images.



The hard yards of getting Street View off the ground involved a group of "Google" cars mounted with rooftop digital cameras.

The vehicles criss-crossed Australia, snapping endless photographs for about six months.

Street View integrates with other Google Maps services - driving directions, searching and mapping specific businesses in a neighbourhood and the highly popular satellite views on Google Earth. It can give drivers images of intersections to go with their driving directions and enable prospective homebuyers to view the streets surrounding a property for sale.

Cafe and restaurant goers can determine if a venue they have in mind has al fresco dining.

Business owners can take things further and download free images of their properties and other information, for use on their own websites.

Google Maps creator Lars Rasmussen says Street View has many applications for business, government and for rescue services when natural disasters strike.

"Our ambition is, of course, to be a world map - we're almost halfway there," Mr Rasmussen said.
Google puts everything on map with Street View | The Courier-Mail

My car is nowhere to be found!

Found the Patrol though at Mum's work.

WOW! very cool site

this is my house being built about 6 months ago!

Ha ha, I like the view of my house.

It isn't mine It's the front view of the house directly behind mine.

It does give the address of the house behind also. Maybe they haven't photographed the side streets in my area yet.

GOOD.

Yeah google have been in a bit of bother with the privacy issue, they came out with some technology that blurs peoples faces, there is a picture in New York where the software blurred out a horses face but left everyone else's visible.

Not sure if its a big deal, if someone knows your name and can be bothered searching through 600 pages of phone numbers to hunt you down then you have other things to worry about

Must've done our street last year, the Series 3 Ute is out the side and everything's brown and dead.
Your name and address and other details on the public record are far more information than could ever be got out of Google Maps.

Here is the competitor site called mapjack.

http://www.mapjack.com/