Very cool Google maps street view

Google has launched an amazing new feature for Google Maps called "street view." It's only available for San Francisco, New York City, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami. Street View gives you the ability to view 360° panoramas of street-level imagery on Google Maps.

<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=37.09024,-95.712891&spn=47.167389,92.8125&z=4&om=1&layer=c">
Here's one link that shows you the cities.</a>

 

The heck with that.. go to the Weather Channel's website and use their interactive maps and see how much you can zoom and still get a radar image. It's pretty amazing when you can see what part of town the heaviest rain is in and the parts of town where the rain isn't hard.

 

You'd better look a little deeper at Google Maps and Google Earth.

 

EStreet, I'm not seeing the interactive maps on the WC Web site, and either way, seriously, Google Maps/Earth is absolutely ridiculous. You've got to give it a shot.

 

Those Google Maps/Earth are pretty amazing.
However, on the weather channel website, if you go to a specific city's page, then go to the bottom of that page, you'll get the radar for that city and there's a button that says "click to interact"
It works best if you go somewhere that you know it's raining. For instance, this map of the Chicago area:
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/USIL0225?from=36hour_map_large&zoom=7&interactiveMapLayer=radar

you can zoom in pretty close with the radar. For instance when I looked earlier, in the Chicago area it was raining in Arrigo Park, but not in Little Italy.... on the map it looks like they're only 10-12 blocks apart.

 

big-motherfucking-brother

 

Drudgereport.com's headline is about GoogleEarth's ability to zoom in on people and license plates. He doesn't have a link to a story, just the images.

 

This is how Google created the street view: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/31/google_maps_zoom_her.html

 

And the cool stuff folks are finding in the pics:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/request_for_urb.html

 

That's amazing as well as terrifying.

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