Walk the streets with Google Maps

Google maps has added street level photographs of some streets, in some cities to maps.google.com. The new feature allows you to virtually walk down streets with full 360 degree views of your surroundings.

Google Maps Street View

Some are already raising questions about privacy though. While Google has reportedly removed pictures of women’s shelters from the photos and offers to take down personally identifiable images, privacy advocates will ultimately have to accept our increasingly searchable world where less and less information is truly private.

This entry was posted in Technology. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

Comments

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>