The Google Street View team has been busy, with the pedals on the Street View trike powering the cameras across the 22 different countries to snap some of the world’s most beautiful parks.
An interesting new site called HistoryPin lets users ‘pin’ old images on to Google’s Street View to provide an instant ‘then and now’ view.
The fall out continues after Google’s Street View cars were discovered to have been scooping up samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks.
Despite posting a comprehensively grovelling apology, a class action lawsuit has just been filed in Oregon district court claiming privacy violation.
This delightful cartoon from Google Japan shows how the Google Street View is created, with a cute little camera-bot rolling through a landscape of wooden trees and buildings.
It’s all rather lovely.
Google has come up with a foxy way to capture street view data in areas inaccessible to their traditional camera cars: the Street View Trike.
Basically a three wheel trike with an omnidirectional camera and GPS widgets on top, the trike lets Google grab photos from scenic running routes, cycling trails, college campuses and similar car-unfriendly locations.
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