Google Steet goes to the Grand Canyon

The portable camera ball is just going on its first trip, and Google has chosen the most natural destination for a novice tourist -- the Grand Canyon, of course. Staffers with Trekkers are currently walking trails along the South Rim of the canyon to provide both eye-level points of reference for wayward hikers as well as some breathtaking, controllable panoramas for those who can't (or won't) make it to Arizona. Once the photos make it to Street View sometime in the undefined near future, it'll be that much easier to turn down Aunt Matilda's 3-hour vacation slideshow.

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Cool!

Google does some really nice stuff. I had this love/hate relationship with SIRI (mostly hate) on my IPhone, Google just release a free search app for the IPhone that takes voice input. It's MUCH better that that POS SIRI.

I've seen the car driving around before.. I have to admit I never updated my iphone because i don't wan their crappy map app and no youtube.. They will probably force me eventually though

the jimmy wrote in post #15188600
The portable camera ball is just going on its first trip, and Google has chosen the most natural destination for a novice tourist -- the Grand Canyon, of course. Staffers with Trekkers are currently walking trails along the South Rim of the canyon to provide both eye-level points of reference for wayward hikers as well as some breathtaking, controllable panoramas for those who can't (or won't) make it to Arizona. Once the photos make it to Street View sometime in the undefined near future, it'll be that much easier to turn down Aunt Matilda's 3-hour vacation slideshow.

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soon they will be in your back yard

watt100 wrote in post #15225461
soon they will be in your back yard

...and how do we know they have not been there yet?

It's getting to the point in the new Apple version of maps were you can view from a 3 dimensional angle. For security reasons it kind of scares me to think that some criminal can preplan his attack from his home computer.

pbelarge wrote in post #15225691
...and how do we know they have not been there yet?

we don't, maybe they have given non-public map views to the NSA

AmslerPhoto wrote in post #15225709
It's getting to the point in the new Apple version of maps were you can view from a 3 dimensional angle. For security reasons it kind of scares me to think that some criminal can preplan his attack from his home computer.

That's nothing new.

We landscape photographers have been planning shots using Google Earth for years, including visualising the direction of sunrise and sunset, and the features that will be illuminated and the placement of shadows at any given time.

Brilliant...Wow never knew.

going there soon