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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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OMG!!! Google released street view for Australia last night and they have done Tasmania. We haven't been left off the map this time. For those that have no idea what I'm talking about, Google street view is an add on to their Google Maps website. They drive all over the country in a special car equipped with a heap of camera's on the roof and GPS and stuff then put it all into their computers and allow you to "drive" down the roads looking around as you go at the photo's they have taken. The photo's are all stitched together really well so it just looks like driving a car. You can see people on footpaths, cars in driveways etc etc. I checked out my place but someone else's car was in the drive so it must have been before I moved in. I checked out my old place and my car was parked out the front and my wheelie bin was sitting there empty!
There are web sites dedicated to finding interesting things in street view like a child falling off his bike or a car on fire, but I found one today only a few hours after it was released. I was looking at the channel court shopping centre in Kingston and found the Google camera van stopped outside the wine cellar. Does that mean the Google man was driving under the influence?
Click here for the street view map, or check out the snap I took below.
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