![]() It will be of interest to see how the privacy issues plays out. With a bit of humor, the Guia buscadores blog posted a visual instruction on his blog showing you how to stop the GoogleVan from taking pictures of your house. Wired has started their own collection of Google Street View imagery, asking users to vote on their favorite pictures. Over on WebWare, Daniel Terdiman is hoping to start the ball rolling on personal photos taken from Street View and has asked readers to send him their images. Other image links of concern have been of a person taking out their trash and images where the license plate of a car is readable. The link offered showing the woman’s exact address which seemed to some to be an issue of greater concern than the dim view of the cat in the window. One post to the Boing Boing blog reported a reader that was upset about the view of her cat sitting on a perch in her living room. While many are excited about the extended functionality and increased detail offered by street view photos, some are concerned about the level of detail that the photos are offering into residences. ![]() The new Street View functionality from Google Maps is once again raising the concerns about privacy. Google Street View along the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, 2007. More cities are in the works to go online. Streets that have available street level photos are outlined in blue on the plan view map. You can further navigate up or down the street or use the arrows in the upper left hand corner to rotate the view and zoom in and out of the image. Once you drag and drop the icon to the new location, a street level image pops up. You can grab the icon of a person on the map to move around the city. ![]() Starting with Times Square, New York City, The Golden Gate Bride in San Francisco, and South Beach in Miami, users could access an additional button called “Street View” to see street level photos which provide a 360 degree view of the street. Google unveiled its latest foray into the geospatial world with the launch on of its Street View application.
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