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Google Debuts Street View and Mapplets

Posted by kdawson on from the you-can-see-faces dept.

Today at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference Google unveiled two new map features. An O'Reilly blogger describes Street View, which uses 360-degree street-level video from Immersive Media to enable neighborhood walk-throughs in (for now) a few selected areas. The other new feature is Mapplets, which let you embed Google Maps mashups in any Web page. Much more coverage is linked from TechMeme.

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  1. Yahoo Ad in Times Square by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Go to the street view of Times Square and what do you see? A big billboard for Yahoo.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&sll=37.84883 3,-122.420654&sspn=1.051842,1.867676&ie=UTF8&om=0& layer=c&cbll=40.756663,-73.986495&cbp=1,156.292682 926829,0.5,0&ll=40.763544,-73.987255&spn=0.013392, 0.031028&z=15

    I know Google themselves didn't collect the data, but it's still kind of amusing.