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mercanucaribe

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Neat, but kind of stupid. THey can't hope to do every major city any time soon and really what's the benefit anyway? They're still pics at the street level, what do I do with that?
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You see what the area looks like. It's good if you're house hunting or something.
 
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loup garou

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Amazon's A9 had this forever ago, but they got rid of it about a year ago. Their pictures were much, much clearer too. I used it quite often.

That said, I saw the vehicle Google uses to do the photography a couple months ago here in Manhattan. Its a big white van with a round turret on the roof that houses the cameras. Turret has plexiglas 360 degrees around. I went up and down my route that day (saw it on my walk to the subway), but didn't see myself, unfortunately. The van was stopped when I saw it though.
 
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xospec1alk

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29th st between 2nd and 3rd ave in manhattan is wrong. very wrong. i think its actually 28th st that they are showing
 
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glugglug

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Originally posted by: xospec1alk
29th st between 2nd and 3rd ave in manhattan is wrong. very wrong. i think its actually 28th st that they are showing
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Is this why you think that?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q...40.742674,-73.98034&cbp=2,100.92,0.5,1

Noodles 28 relocated about a year ago. They are no longer on 28th. Don't remember if its 29th or 30th though.

Something IS funky there though, the pictures driving down 3rd ave clicking arrows have a couple jumps back & forth.
 
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xospec1alk

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Originally posted by: glugglug
Originally posted by: xospec1alk
29th st between 2nd and 3rd ave in manhattan is wrong. very wrong. i think its actually 28th st that they are showing
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Is this why you think that?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q...40.742674,-73.98034&cbp=2,100.92,0.5,1

Noodles 28 relocated about a year ago. They are no longer on 28th. Don't remember if its 29th or 30th though.

Something IS funky there though, the pictures driving down 3rd ave clicking arrows have a couple jumps back & forth.
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nah, if you go down 29th towards 2nd, and then look back, you'll see that vietnamese place Lan, but if you stand on 3rd and look down 29th, you'll see Tonic there instead...man i miss living in that neighborhood... =(
 
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I Saw OJ

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Neat, but kind of stupid. THey can't hope to do every major city any time soon and really what's the benefit anyway? They're still pics at the street level, what do I do with that?
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Dang, who invited Debbie Downer to this thread
 
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b0mbrman

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Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Neat, but kind of stupid. THey can't hope to do every major city any time soon and really what's the benefit anyway? They're still pics at the street level, what do I do with that?
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You see what the area looks like. It's good if you're house hunting or something.
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Errr...I think it might be useful if someone tells you to meet them at 1720 Main Street, you could check out Street View so that when you're driving, you're looking for the building and not the street number
 
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toekramp

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They are using a technology developed by Immersive Media. They demonstrated their 12 headed (I think that was right) camera to my group a couple years ago, but stills and full motion video. Very cool stuff.
 
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