Google amazes me

My wife sent me a link to a feature on Google Maps called "Street View". (It was unveiled to the public in May 2007 and the Twin Cities were brought on board December 10, 2007.) I love Google Maps and think it's the best map site in existence, but I'd never tried the Street View function. The Twin Cities happens to be one of the locations in the country that Google chose for this feature and it's amazing!!

Here's how it works. You go to Google Maps and find the location you want to go to. As long as the street is highlighted in blue, you can do a Street View. Click the Street View button at the top right of the map and a little yellow man will pop up in the middle of the map. Drag him to where you'd like to see the street view and a window pops up with a view of that street. You can advance about 10 yards at a time along the street and can scan around 360 degrees, as well as zooming in and looking up or down.

Here's an example with the building I work in. Try it out, it's pretty sweet!


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If you click on the picture and drag your mouse, you can move up, down, and around. If you turn it down towards the street, you'll see the arrows that let you move down the street.

Play around and be amazed!