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Google Maps Offers Mind-Blowing Street View — It’s Like Walking Around Virtually in a City
May 31st, 2007 | Posted in Podcasting |
Google Maps now offers a street view to major cities on their maps. It’s like there are 360 degree web cams set up all over major cities — you can virtually explore them, cruising up and down streets. It’s simply amazing. Check it out.The only disappointment is that more cities aren’t available in the street view. I think right now it’s limited to San Francisco, New York, Denver, Las Vegas, and Miami.
Watch this video for a two-minute explanation. I’ve been street viewing New York City for the past little while. Man, I miss that place. I was so creative and alive there. That was before I sold my soul to technical writing. Do a virtual tour walking down Broadway in NYC. Here are a few street view pictures:
Times Square, the craziest, most visually stimulating place on earth
141st and Broadway area, near our first Brownstone experience (Harlem)
Near Juliard, this is the LDS building that is now a temple
Columbia Univ., School of the Arts (where I went to school)
Looking at these pictures reminds me of the time when I had creative writing foremost in my mind. What happened to that? Wow, it’s like I’m remembering who I used to be …
I guess I realized I needed to make a living, and technical writing (after a two-year teaching stint at the American Univ. in Cairo) is where I ended up. But looking back at New York makes me rethink my decision. Maybe I should be a tech writer by day, essayist by night.
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May 31st, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Check out some more “interesting finds” via Google Streetview here:
http://www.laudontech.com/StreetView/streetview.html
May 31st, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Those are cool places. Thanks for the link.
June 1st, 2007 at 10:28 am
I added here the best Google Street View (28 views and more after …).
June 1st, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Interesting. I hadn’t seen the picture of the temple. (I didn’t know you were a BYU alum–me too!)
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:26 am
Hi Jordan,
Thanks for the comment. I hadn’t seen the picture of the temple either. That’s why I navigated to it on Google Street View. Yes, I’m a BYU alum. I went there for my undergraduate degree. Then went to Columbia for a masters degree.
June 4th, 2007 at 8:56 am
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June 7th, 2007 at 1:48 am
Hey. Check out some more pictures on
Map Mole
Go in and vote on your favorite one. There are several pages of them, so you might have to scroll through to find which ones you like.
June 14th, 2007 at 7:18 am
I added here the most amazing Street View.