Google Inc. is introducing street-level map views of various U.S. cities, giving Web users a panoramic, 360-degree images as well as the overhead views Google Maps has offered. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Google Maps' latest feature, creatively codenamed Google LRV during production and early testing, takes its year-old Street View right into the home, allowing users a virtual tour inside people's houses.

Be sure to also read Hillary Proposes Tobacco Tax Holiday and Typo Leads To Microsoft Purchase Of Yoo-Hoo picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

A Google company blog says that as of today all new users of Google will have their personal information tracked, collected and stored for a so-called better customer experience using Google... picked by monkeyman 2 years ago

Google’s Street View feature for Google Maps, which enables users to see certain parts of several big US cities through panoramic images, has caused a new trend: StreetSpotting. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

The Google van(?) drove right up their driveway which was marked private. The family, whose terrible name is Boring, are suing for $25,000 saying that part of the property's value was privacy. picked by coldbladed 5 months ago

To make Google Maps (even) better, Google have released a new API that means everyone on the Internet can make a contribution to Google Maps with text, shapes, photos and other stuff too. picked by TheStep 1 year ago

A woman and child walking along the Golden Gate Bridge were captured by Google's Street View cameras twice! Or they have freakish stalkers. picked by TheStep 1 year ago

A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet. picked by AutumnLotus 3 weeks ago

Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists over the centuries, but never quite like this. God’s Eye View portrays four key Biblical events as if captured by Google Earth. 4 really amazing images and a very cool sculpture, must see! picked by 2manyusernames 9 months ago

Without any context or timeline, it's hard to tell exactly what you're seeing in the extraordinary panoramic images captured by Google's magic van.

Including a guy climbing over a fence and Borat peeking out of a window. picked by doggylives 6 months ago

yeah, right picked by Rogue 1 year ago

Kevin Bankston, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was surprised to see his face in a street-level image on a now defunct online map a few years ago.

A follow up to AutumnLotus' post picked by suebe 1 year ago

Google maps can be hacked in certain places to zoom in further than expected. To do this:

1. Go into satellite mode
   
2. Click "link to this page"
   
3. Edit the "&z=" in the querystring of your address bar to 23 and go to that new address.

Anyone want to help me scan rooftops in hot sunny climates? picked by jaxomlotus 1 year ago

People can be identified on Street View, which could break a Canadian law picked by DemureArt 12 months ago

Google has added a couple of useful parameters to their image search engine. One rather interesting one is &imgtype=face.
will bring up various images
brings up faces only picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Online Bingo at its very best. Let me show you the best places to play Online Bingo and where to find the biggest Bingo Jackpots on the internet! picked by ann127 1 year ago

Select from a list to view the current position of satellites in real time. Uses Google mapping technology! GOOGLE ROCKS! picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

Google created tons of products in the past. And some of them, they removed again after finding that they didn’t work, required too many resources, didn’t take off, or were overshadowed by legal concerns. Here are some of the “lost” Google services and features.

I never knew some of these had even existed picked by doggylives 5 months ago

The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center has 200,000 historic maps and 5,000 atlases. Many are online in high resolution. You can explore the collection by location, subject, date, publisher, author and projection. They give virtual tours, select a map of the month and have a section called Maps in the News, where they profile Darfur and Iraq. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago