Google Maps‘ controversial Street View feature gets ground-level, 360-degree views of six more cities today: Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Ore. and Tucson, Ariz. That makes 15 cities total where residents can dodge parking tickets and wait to see the funny/crazy sights around town.
A lot of people have a lot of problems (some legitimate, in my opinion) with this service. However, there are also some sites that aggregate interesting pictures of slices of life around the cities that have been captured so far. It makes me think about the Mass Observation movement in Britain in the earlier half of the 20th century. Could one do a piece showing a day in a particular city? I would love to see pieces done on separate cities that document life in specific cities.
-Matt
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Originally by Kevin Purdy from Lifehacker on October 9, 2007, 7:00am
October 9th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I saw this earlier today, and freaked out because Portland is on the list of new cities. Google took a picture (lots of pictures) of my house. The entire concept is definitely a little weirder now that I know some guy in a google van drove down my street.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Would you be willing to let us see these pictures in class?
October 10th, 2007 at 6:00 am
the big questions are just endlessly compelling to me. what makes google NOT big brother? i mean, if the government was sponsoring this service, it would be challenged, right? but somehow google is not distrusted (except by the few that raise the issues, like the now-famous girls in their bikinis at stanford). maybe google is so ubiquitous at this point, considered an impermeable force that is not connected to humans or organizations, that it is acceptable for them to develop this technology, people remain ambivalent… maybe the public feels like google has just developed this technology for human interest, for the sheer virtual experience of seeing what a city looks like or what the building that you just google-mapped looks like so you wont miss it when you drive there. but what are the economic impacts of this–what sort of advertising will be (or has already been????) developed for this system…..what will the “real” world look like when people “prepare” it for google-street-view images in order to advertise…
here is an image of Target on google maps…
http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2005/08/advertising-with-google-maps.html
ramble ramble
October 11th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I’d love to give a google tour of portland in class.
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