Google Maps' Street View: Coolest Fucking Thing Ever

Check out the streets of New York - several other cities are also viewable! Click on a blue street to zoom in and get a 360 degree view at street level.

That is fucking awesome and a little weird.

They're a couple numbers off on my apartment building.

That is the coolest ever.

I like how when you pick up the little dude he looks like he's flying. Google is taking over the world and I want to be on their side, damnit.

Except there's no chicago street view. which is lame.

OHMIGODHEDOES!

I didn't notice that before. =X

sweet, that's awesome !

my mind is blown. it's kind of nice being able to look at familiar streets when i'm so far away from home and just a tick home-sick.

Kind of reminds me of one of the new NIN album's concepts.

Anyone else?

Whatever. Someday, man, Google will have the whole country on street level. I'll be able to view, like, whatever mile marker on I-80 in the middle of nowhere Iowa that I want to on Google, someday.

I think that would be cool. "I know that cornfield I'm lookin' at on Google! I totally do! And that truckstop, too! Sweet!"

Oh hey, not to dwell... Or provoke...

But I've never been to NY, and I'm curious as to what ground zero looks like (these days especially).

Address?

Oh and the Statue of Liberty! Where's that?

I'm supposed to be on vacation, but I broked my arm/shoulder. So this is going to be my little vacation from home. Yay, laziness!

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Be elzebe beat me to it.

I looked at the view of my workplace. It seems to be about 3 months old and taken in the early morning.

DIA resembles a swastika from above

Search for "World Trade Center New York"...

I don't think you can see it, but "Liberty Island New York." You'll have more luck with Satellite View for that one.

I can see my house. There's a dude standing outside it with a hood on. It's the same dude that's ALWAYS standing outside my house with a hood on.

I'm impressed.

my sister's boyfriend works for this company. a few weeks ago they had the vehicles (vw beetles) with the cameras mounted on the tops running around portland.

it's kinda cool stuff.

and i'm a little creeped out.

I see it as doing one better than HopStop's pictures of outside subway stations. You can see what it'll look like when you're walking somewhere?

So you can recognize where you're going if you've never been there?

Do not question our Overlords. Just accept it.

It will make stalking you SO much easier now that I can see what trees/dumpsters I can hide behind.