google street view

[Paul]

http://maps.google.com/ and press the street view button at the top of the flash window, then find a blue street and double click on it.
http://preview.local.live.com/
A similar thing by microsoft.

[Yaloopy]

That's totally fucked up.

[warters]

Me likey!! Vegas is looking cool!

[ferris]

Crazy creepy...

[Shockwave]

Imagine how much work went into it!

[Jim]

Our guess is they have a car with a panoramic camera/multiple cameras on top.  They drive down the road and it takes a photo every 100m or so.  Will still take a long time to do the whole planet though   And a lot of  hard disk space.

The Vegas stuff is a bit peculiar.  If you find the Monte Carlo (pretty much opposite the MGM Grand on LV Boulevard) it looks like it's miles from the road, but in reality it's just a few metres away.

Jim

[taj]

ET spotted by Google street view
http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/

And here is the vehicle used to do the dirty on people leaving strip clubs...
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/the-google-street-view-vehicle-revealed/

So cooooool