More Street View cities added today!
Chicago Sears Tower Link
Today Google Maps will add six new areas covered by Street View. The total number of cities will then be 15. The new cities added today will be Phoenix, Tucson, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Portland, Ore.
The images in Phoenix, Tucson and parts of Chicago are all in high resolution like in San Francisco and San Diego.
Google have also introduced the ability to pan up in most new cities so you can watch the skyscrapers.
Google Maps Street View is also available in Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami and Orlando. (Source: Google LatLong)
They have also created a new song and video on YouTube announcing the 6 new cities:
Thumbs up and thumbs down instead of rating 1-5
Now you can vote for the images by thumbs up or thumbs down. We used to have a rating system from 1 to 5 stars. I hope that it will be easier to vote on images this way, so we’ll get more votes.
You vote by clicking one of the thumbs under the image. If you give a thumbs up to an image, it gets +2 and if you give a thumbs down, it gets -1. The total rating can be seen under the image.
We’re working on migrating the ratings for the old images to this new system. The ratings for the brand new images should be working as intended already.
