Google Street View Snaps EFF Privacy Advocate on City Stroll
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It's official. Every new mapping service must capture an image of attorney Kevin Bankston (sometimes sneaking a cigarette).
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Blog: Gizmodo reports that Google has a fleet of camera cars to take photos for Google Maps street view, and they are Chevy Cobalts
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(InfoWorld) - Google has improved Google Maps with immersive views of streets from a handful of U.S. cities as well as with miniapplications that can be embedded on a map. The Street View feature places users at the road level, giving them the perspective of drivers and pedestrians and thus offering a deeper and more detailed experience of the location than aerial images provide. So far, Microsoft has been at the forefront of immersive online maps imagery, introducing so-called bird's-eye views in late 2005 that allowed users to tilt aerial images and view them from an angle. In November of last year, Microsoft unveiled 3D views of 15 U.S. cities, a feature that lets users zoom in and out of these urban areas and get a three-dimensional view of buildings, terrain, and the like. On Tuesday,Â Microsoft increased the number of cities availableÂ in 3D in its Live Search mapping site. Google debuted Street View on Tuesday with major roads in San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver and promises to add more cities "in the near future." Meanwhile, Google also announced it is now possible to build lightweight applications so that users can mash them up with Google Maps. Called Mapplets, these gadget applications will be available in the Maps site for users to choose from and apply to their maps. Currently in preview mode, Mapplets can be found in a special version of Google Maps for users who want to try them out. Mapplets take the concept of Google Maps mashups one step further, Google said. Previously, developers could build an application on top of Maps and make it available on a specific Web site. Now, those mashups can be packaged as a Mapplet so that several can be combined on a single Maps Web site. Developers can find more information about creating these mapplets in this documentation page. To allow for the creation of Mapplets, Google merged two of its existing application programming interfaces: the Gadgets API and the Maps API.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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By JAKE COYLE  Since its debut, Google's "Street View" feature for online maps has set off heated debate over its street-level photographs.
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Google Maps can be a bit of a shutterbug these days.
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Private, in these parts Analysis Like a trigger-happy tourist, Google has shot almost every street in five US cities and added its pics to what might be the world's biggest holiday album. But if Google ever starts shooting the streets of Europe, courts here could fight back.â¦
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Blog: CNET asks its readers to submit Google Street View images that demonstrate when they were taken.
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Ever been hassled by security when taking pictures? You may be well within your rights. Photographer Thomas Hawk's trying to raise awareness about public photography, one snapshot at a time. By Evan Ratliff from Wired Test.
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Blog: Google street-level view on maps can help San Franciscans avoid parking tickets by remotely monitoring street signs
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The Web 2.0 application Doppir lets users track their travel and buddies at once.
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Google and EarthLink a risk to privacy The American Civil Liberties Union became the latest group to criticize a city-wide network San Francisco has proposed building with EarthLink and Google, arguing that the deal would compromise user privacy.â¦
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English photographer Alastair Daly was in the market recently for an affordable digital music player capable of storing enough songs to pass the time on his hour-long commute through the capital city's clogged streets.
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Maps feature isn't yet available in Canada, but if it was its high-resolution images could violate citizens' privacy rights, privacy chief says in letter to Google.
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More than 2,000 surveillance cameras in public places would be tied in to a network that would use sophisticated software to spot emergencies or suspicious behavior under a plan announced Thursday by Mayor Richard Daley.
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NEW online maps which let users zoom in on photos of roads and homes has shocked the US.   A car loaded with 11 cameras drove 50,000 miles filming for Street View on Google's Earth maps. The Big Brother-style pictures show faces and even look into windows.
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Photos tagged with location data are becoming popular, and new devices are tapping into the trend by offering GPS features.