Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Uh...does this make anyone else uncomfortable?

The Drudge Report today had some amazing links to the new Google street view maps. I have always thought that the satellite views of people's homes are pretty amazing...but this level of detail makes me really uneasy. Here is an example:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=museum&near=San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&ie=UTF8&view=map&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.786543,-122.493491&cbp=2,301.359472786112,0.597284478470746,3&ll=37.797475,-

Here is a link to two news story on the new map:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6187556.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/29/google-maps-now-with-360-streetside-views/


Google has a van that randomly drives around and takes pictures of people unawares and then plasters it on the internet? This is too weird. It does explain some things, however. Last week, several men barged into our house wearing blue jumpsuits that said "Google" and started taking pictures. We found this picture when we google mapped our house:

1 comment:

Grammy said...

Simply amazing!
Love,
Grammy