Houston, This is Google Street View

Google 08-08-2007

Google Street View, Google’s mildly controversial plan to photograph almost every street in the US and make the images browsable in 3D, has expanded once more: San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando join the line up today. The company suggests checking out Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA as a starting point.

It’s a move that’s led the LA Times to run the usual privacy story, albeit with a new spin: could the addition of LA mean some celebrity shots have been captured? Over the next few weeks, I’m sure we’ll find out. In the meantime, you can check out our Top 15 Google Street View Sightings.

Nina

There are going to be alot more people in houston in the next few days. Also going to be alot more complaints about privacy. I wondering how well some areas are going to be covered. One good thing is that you'll be able to tell if someone is home before going over to their place.

m1ke

the images are pretty blury and it appears to only be downtown area.

Lynn

Well that seems pretty pointless then. I know the map version on google you can see a good lot. I spy on Sinny's place so I know if he's home or not before I go over there. If I see 2 cars already there I'm so on my way over.

seximamita

yeah i tried it out a couple weeks ago and like mike says "the images are pretty blurry" i guess it only covers sum surten parts huh

Hsoolien

The images of my place are usually about (as far as I can tell) about three to four weeks lagged behind, they are about a week behind for my parents (funny cause they live in a small 1town outside of my City)

Raven

Yeah its not an instantaneous view. I tried on Sinny's place which actually gets updated every other day which is wierd for that area but that's on the maps site. The images are pretty blurry when vieing on a cell phone. You wouldn't be able to tell who a person is but you couldn't definitely identify someone's car with the down view.

snakeyez85

nice! omg.. i can't wait to see the project once its completed... no wonder goog traders above $500 ... this company is da shit! (had 20 shares and sold em at $120 a LONG LONG time ago... who knew!)

Nissa

Will anyone be able to use this? This will be good for looking at the traffic before leaving the house.

Hsoolien

We have traffic cams set yup at high traffic areas in our city you can login to. But all the google (and affiliated map) sites require satellite photos that are at best a day behind

Raven

We have them here too, but I know they have them in houston except I think almost each cam is owned by a different news station. So you would have to go to each web to see for there.