Google adds Street Views for more cities

by Brad Linder Oct 9th 2007

Google is making it just a bit easier to stalk your friends and find pictures of yourself online. The company has expanded its Google Maps Street View feature to cover 6 new cities: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, and Tucson. No, we have no idea why they didn't just drop Tucson and Chicago and find two more cities starting with P, (Portland, Oregon, and Portland Maine anyone?)

The Tucson, Phoenix, and Chicago imagery is all in high resolution. Google has also enhanced the pan capabilities. You've always been able to look up, down, left and right in an image. But if you ever tried looking at the top of the Empire State Building, the image was cut off. Google has added the ability to pan up to the top of high buildings including the Sears Tower in Chicago. The top of the Empire State Building is still missing.

If you live in a major city that hasn't been added to Google's Street View yet, all we can say is keep an eye out for cars with cameras mounted to their roofs in the near future. And make sure you're not carrying anything embarrassing. And say cheese.

Tags: google, google-maps, street-view

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kojo87 said 8:38PM on 10-09-2007

what the hell! Monona WI isnt on there yet!

niclet said 8:27AM on 10-10-2007

We also saw Google street car in Montreal / Quebec.

Tanner said 8:31AM on 10-10-2007

Wheres Atlanta? You think they would add that as it is a relatively major city....

ski4life101 said 8:34AM on 10-10-2007

Google car has been spotted in Toronto Canada just last week

Chris Gilmer said 8:54AM on 10-10-2007

Google car also spotted on the outskirts of Toronto, in Brampton, Ontario Canada last week. Wonder how long it will take them to import all the images and blur all the faces as per Canadian law?

Big Brother said 2:26PM on 10-10-2007

Check out some of the over 750 "interesting" Google Street View finds here:

http://www.laudontech.com/google-street-view/google-street-view.html

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