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More Cities get Google Maps Street View

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday August 07, @03:46PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the taking-over-your-privacy-one-city-at-a-time dept.

CNET News and google-latlong blog reports "Google has added four more cities to its Maps street view: San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando, Fla. San Diego is getting the same high-resolution imagery treatment that Google gives San Francisco; I'm not sure why." Update: 08/08 20:39 GMT by S : In addition, the Geowanking list discussed examples of Google's Street View hacks.

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• New Google Street View (08-2007)

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  by geotrotter (1159) on Wednesday August 08, @07:59AM (#1629)

  I added here some amazing Street View [geo-trotter.com] from the last update (08/2007).

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• spammer

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  by Anonymous Voxel on Wednesday August 08, @07:54PM (#1631)

  Anyone notice how this guy posts this on every blog post mentioning SteetView? I consider that spam.

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