OK, THE COOLEST thing from Google! Go to Google Maps and you can freaking walk down a street in VR!!

[originalpckelly]

http://maps.google.com/

Amazingly awesomeful!

[originalpckelly]

1. I don't know if it works anywhere else, but I noticed it here in Denver!

You can literally go down a street. They must have had some type of 360 panoramic camera set up with some type of GPS to do this. It's pretty cool. I can't wait to see if it works in other cities. This could really change the way we do things in navigation, because the obvious ability to see something from the street view will make it much easier to find landmarks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. How do you get it to show you the street level view?

The addresses I tried didn't give me any instructions..... :shrug:

[originalpckelly]

3. I don't know if it works in cities other than Denver...

here's an address in Denver just to try it with:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=16th+St,+Denver,+Denver,+Colorado+80202,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.352165,64.951172&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=39.747784,-104.993935&spn=0.015805,0.031714&z=15&iwloc=addr&om=1

Then go up to the right hand corner and select "Street View", then click on one of the blue street lines, that should open a window on the webpage that allows you to move around at street level.

[originalpckelly]

4. Was that any help?

:shrug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Sorry to not have responded sooner!

And indeed it was very helpful!

Alas, the address I put in didn't have the feature...:cry:

[originalpckelly]

9. Hey don't worry about it...

we've been having random thunderstorms so I've not really been able to get on DU much today. :-)

[Omphaloskepsis]

5. The cities it works in are:

San Francisco, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Denver, CO
Miami, FL
New York, NY

And yes, they did have vans driving around taking pictures.

[KitchenWitch]

10. It is only available for certain cities, Peggy

Los Angeles and surrounding areas is not on there yet.

Denver and San Francisco are.

[Tektonik]

7. My fav thing is texting google (466453) to get info

The last I used it was trying to find a nearby Sears to repair my watch, and I was just off of work. Texted 'Sears, San Diego' to 466453 (46645 works as well I believe) and instantly I got a listing of nearby Sears w/ addresses and phone numbers in a text msg from google.

[TK421]

8. That is just fantabulous! But it doesn't work in the Philadelphia area

not yet, anyway....but thanks for posting

[electricmonk]

11. A bunch of sites are already popping up

for people to post odd, funny or strange images found on Street View.
Here's a couple.
http://www.streetviewfun.com/
http://streetviewr.com/