Today, my lovely wife showed me a feature on Google Maps that just absolutely floored me. We all know that you can get: aerial images, street maps, topographic maps and Google Earth 3-D images....but did you know that you can actually get an image of your own home....from the street view?

It is as if someone just stood in front of my house and took a picture of it!

Amazing!

It will be a great tool for my reports, but it is really odd to see your own home from the street. Heck, the image is only 6 months old!

-Vic

The street view option is very cool! I love google earth!

I must be doing something wrong. So far I've only been able to get the front of one house up. Every other address I've tried including our own house, just shows an arrow pointing to the house position in the street.

You have to actually download the Google Earth program onto your computer to do the street views.

It's kind of neat looking, but a bit creepy too. They have people that drive around in cars that take pictures from the street view. Scary that they've done such large sections of the planet so far.

Thanks Erin. I did see the download thing and thought maybe that's the reason why mine isn't working.


Creepy is right. It's not really a good feeling to know that some-one has driven past and photographed the house that is both personal and dear to you.

I will have another look at that download program later. Thank you.

This is wild to say the least. I have been playing since reading Vic's post! Sometimes technology blows my mind.

Besides making me dizzy, this is so cool, yet creepy as Koala said!

Thanks Vic!

oh you don't have to download it..

just go to "Google maps Street view"
and zoom in to a city and the extra Street view button should show up by the other buttons.

A little man icon will show up and if the streets are lined in blue then you can drop the icon in those places to look at the street view.
sometimes you have to double click for a new box to pop up also zoom in and zoom out
for moving around just grab and hold to drag it up / down/ side to side
click on the arrows to go forward or back

ahh found the help section-
[ Blue outlines show roads where street view is available.
This icon shows where you are on the map. The green arrow points in the direction you're looking. You can drag the icon to navigate to a different location. You can also just click on a blue outlined road to go there.
Drag the street view to look around 360°. Use the arrow buttons to navigate down the street. You can also use the arrow keys on the keyboard.

]
how they do it- special multi camera -
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9724604-7.html

Jeez!! The pic of my house was taken from the water!!

Not working for me! That's what I have been doing, but I can't see anywhere to get a "street view"!

I type in the address, and it shows up with the street and an arrow pointing to the house, but that's it. I do have an option for satellite, elevated terrain type stuff, but no street view

Oh well! I guess if I want to spy on other people I'll just have to download the goods.

:::::::::looks around:::::::::::: I have had earth google on my pc for around two yrs, maybe longer.even found the house I grew up in as a child in the city before moving out. have found the great wall of china and stone hedge, the pyramids and naza (sp?) lines down in peru, i believe. eiffel tower, london tower, picadily circle, you can check out the grand canyon, hoover dam, mount rushmore,its pretty cool beat surfing the spam or leech highway, i mean the web

theres a new one unfortunately i was half out of it when i heard about the companies name that is doing same as goodle earth and the realtors are using these products to help sell houses and neighborhoods

pretty sure i found one for a surface of mars too just not sure lost a lot on our main system here a few months back a lot of links and pics,