If you haven’t noticed the new feature of Google Maps, Street View, you should definitely check it out. It is absolutely stunning how they’ve managed to pretty much capture the entire image of Australia on a street level.
You can turn on the Street View feature on the top right navigations by clicking on Street View (d’oh). The blue lines that you see are the regions that Google has mapped out on a street level. Pretty impressive ay?
The Street View feature allows you to rotate 360 degrees, inspect all angles around the point on the map you selected. To move to a different spot, simply click and drag the yellow man on the map to a region that has the blue outlines.
It also has a limited zoom feature which will result in a pixelated view, but I guess that is a good thing for privacy reasons.
You can also see that a general concensus showed on the ninemsn homepage shows that majority of Australians do not see the mapping of the streets as an invasion of privacy.
I’m quite impressed at the quality of the images and the accuracy of the rotational views. Google has definitely stepped up in its mapping technology and only one can wonder what will Google’s inter-galatic mapping be like.