You can now see street view images similar to Google Maps StreetView at Mapjack from Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park. Mapjack have previously added images from San Francisco and Sausalito in the US and Chiang Mai in Thailand.
Images at Mapjack have a much higher quality than the ones available through Googles StreetView. But Google have already images from 30 cities in the US and plan many more.
Later today StreetView will be included in Google Earth, several websites report. This is part of the launch of Google Earth 4.3. In this new version 3-d images of buildings will load faster and you will have the option to see day and night lighting. You can now also add YouTube videos to Google Maps.
A couple in Pittsburgh have sued Google claiming street view images of their home invades privacy. The images were taken from a private road owned by the couple and that’s why they may have a valid case, but most likely Google have not done anything illegal when publishing those images.
The Google cars that take the StreetView images are able to shoot video aswell and we might be getting some new exciting features soon. You can already see an example of this amazing interactive video feature.
This 360 degree panorama similar to Google Streetview covers a famous cemetary in Paris, France.
You can see Streetview type of image map solutions in other countries, but not by Google yet. Google Streetview currently only cover New York, San Francisco, Miami, Denver and Las Vegas. Instead the solutions outside the US is run by local companies and we’ve taken a look at some of those solutions. It’s very useful and great fun if you are going to visit for instance Paris, Toronto, Stockholm or Barcelona. Let’s take a look. (more…)
