Comments | dmg: All hail the Google van

dmg

All hail the Google van

Feb 14, 2008 19:51

Woohoo! Google has finally added Street View for the Triangle. With our upcoming house hunting, it couldn't come at a better time. Now I can easily see if a neighborhood has been stripped of trees by the developer and mark it off our list ( Read more... )

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suhl February 15 2008, 01:38:38 UTC

The van came through around mid-November.

dmg February 15 2008, 03:57:06 UTC

It looks like our pumpkins still weren't carved for Halloween yet (though it is blurry and hard to see), but it was probably somewhere in that time frame for our neighborhood.

deftly February 15 2008, 01:52:02 UTC

It's actually a fleet of Chevy Cobalts, and they were seen in July. Here are some interesting shots of Durham.

dmg February 15 2008, 04:01:22 UTC

Wow, the camera setup is much smaller than I imagined. For some reason I expected this huge 360° block of cameras to be strapped to the top.

deftly February 15 2008, 04:06:40 UTC

If they do it like they take images for the 360-degree house tours, they have a conical mirror pointed down, and the camera points up. You get a full 360-degree view in one shot, which you then turn into a 360-degree cylinder view with software.