The New Google Streetmaps!

Google has outdone themselves again with a truly ambitious update of their Google Earth function. Exploring neighborhoods at street level–virtually, is now possible.

Where Google Earth allowed you to zoom in on streetmaps anywhere in the world, in select cities, this new program gives you actual street level views. The pictures are high resolution, allowing you 16x zoom and 360 panning functionality.

It is fascinating and the implications of this technology now available to us commoners boggles the mind. There are, for obvious reasons, also complaints that privacy laws are being violated.
Click on the link below for Google's explanation of this new function:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html