14 DAY TRIAL // If you see a Google car with a strange thingy on top, you have to smile and look smart, because you've just been immortalized on Google's Street View. Of course, there's the chance you'll have your face blurred, but it's worth it.
The Mountain View-based company is looking rather intent on getting every city to have a 3D 'walkthrough' experience available, so they're running their little cars off to all the corners of the United States in order to achieve that. 12 new cities have found their way into the Street View update this month alone: Juneau (Alaska), Boise (Idaho), Salt Lake City (Utah), San Antonio (Texas), Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Manchester (New Hampshire), Kansas City (Missouri), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Albany, Schenectady (New York).
The Google Lat Long Blog presents a rather interesting approach to the whole deal, and if you had followed it throughout its existence, you would have noticed that they've always used their latest feats when presenting an update. The very last one was the panoramic view, so today's post has embedded three beautiful images that you get to zoom in and out of at your free will.
Ionut Alex. Chitu of the Google Operating System asked a very interesting question, whether Google should consider outsourcing their job to some other companies. That would mean an increase in the speed at which new additions are being made and the possibility to work simultaneously in several corners of the world. Or, perhaps the Mountain View-based company should think about accepting images from their huge fan base, and then use technology like Photosynth to merge them altogether into a beautiful and similar product to what they are working on right now.
The 12 new cities added to the US Street View effectively double its coverage.