You know, it really never occurred to me that street view databases might exist for Europe, Japan, and other places I've been curious about. It's mind-blowingly obvious in a totally un-ironic and non-sarcastic way.
*nod* I was kinda amazed to find myself using it to give my boyfriend a tour of the parts of LA I used to live in, the other day. Never mind something like this.
Yeah. I still like Google because I feel like they're really improving public accessibility of knowledge and information. And useful services for free is nice.
That really is pretty cool. I would use this kind of thing as a precursor to traveling there, so I had a better feel of a place before going. Very very cool, and great that you could share a place with you BFs!
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Date: 2009-12-04 08:15 pm (UTC)...also, did I just float through a wall?
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Date: 2009-12-04 10:12 pm (UTC)Brings back great memories. When I was there I climbed on every goddamn rock they allowed the public to touch. It is really an interesting place!
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Date: 2009-12-05 06:26 pm (UTC)I only realized they actually had foreign cities at Street View a few months back, when I was touring Rome virtually.
Closer and closer to the Snow Crash 'Earth' program, except non-live.