Kiters Captured At Ground Level On New Google Site
 

OK, let's do some clicking, panning and tilting,
hell let's do some zooming too.

Click on the "guy" icon that shows up after clicking on,
http://tinyurl.com/67k3sk
Who are those people setting up and out riding?

http://tinyurl.com/3q54b3

http://tinyurl.com/5kqbbb

http://tinyurl.com/6flu39

Now you try. Enter your current home address or maybe even the address where you grew up as a kid.
You might be surprised by what you find. You might even see yourself! After you enter your address and click in,
be sure to hit street view and drag and drop the "guy" icon where you want to look.

Happy Googling, things have reached a new level.

wow

Sure is impressive ...

http://tinyurl.com/624fxp
Down your way, too bad they shot so late along Islamorada

At Ft. Desoto I can pick out:

Billy Parkers Camper, Sam from eckerd college, Adam Delvechios truck....

I don't know the others.

Danny

Is that Randy by the gray pickup?

Hard to tell... I was hoping others would chime in...

I musta been boosting too high to be caught on camera..;)

http://www.fksa.org/albums/album347/East_Beach.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/67k3sk

Next time!

Here's some more info on the camera system the Google Gnomes used to capture these images.

http://media.popularmechanics.com/im...street-630.jpg

"For the past seven months, Kevin Nanzer has been on the road almost nonstop, living in and out of motel rooms and corporate apartments. He’s crisscrossed the country, living for weeks at a time in cities like Austin, Texas, Oklahoma City, Okla., Raleigh, N.C., and Albany, N.Y.

Nanzer, 23, is a geoimmersive data producer for Immersive Media, a Canadian company that specializes in the fast-growing world of “spherical video”—aka mapping the world for Google and beyond. For 5 hours each day (the most he can film because of the sun’s angle to the Earth), Nanzer and a co-worker drive anywhere from 80 to 200 miles through a major city, capturing video and location data of every single street, bridge and highway.

“By the end, you’ll get to know the city better than the one you grew up in,” he says. “You can call me if you’re lost in Oklahoma City, and I can tell you how to get somewhere. I know all the streets.”

On this particular day, I’m sitting shotgun with Nanzer for a sneak peak at the 360-degree, roof-mounted data collection for topography 2.0. He typically wouldn’t shoot footage on a rainy Manhattan day like this, because raindrops obscure the camera’s 11 image-sensing lenses. And while the several blocks we covered looked as crystal clear as they do on the Google site (click here to play around with our test-drive footage), I’m not sure I could have taken it much longer anyway: Immersive uses a Volkswagen Beetle because of its small footprint and low ride, but that makes for one hell of a cramped trip. With all the equipment in the backseat, this tricked-out Bug fits just two people up front, where a laptop already takes up most of the dash on the passenger side, leaving me barely enough room to turn on and hold my camcorder steady."

Continued at:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...y/4232286.html