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Google Street View adds Antarctica, Brazil, Ireland

38 points| msbmsb | 15 years ago |googleblog.blogspot.com

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[+] nysauhem|15 years ago|reply
When I saw this headline I was wondering how they managed to get pictures from Antarctica, but looking at Google Maps, it just looks like a geotagged photo-album
[+] acconrad|15 years ago|reply
I was hoping they were going to haze a Noogler and force him into deep sub zero tundra.
[+] msbmsb|15 years ago|reply
Right, taken on a vacation to Half Moon Island by the VP of Engineering for Maps. Not all of Antarctica, yet.
[+] hopeless|15 years ago|reply
I'm incredibly impressed with the streetview coverage including the classic Irish one-track, grass-down-the-middle roads like this one near my house: http://bit.ly/8XLSfU
[+] morganpyne|15 years ago|reply
Aroofromcorkayamaroo? Ha, nice to see a fellow Irishman here. I too have spent the last 20 minutes exploring the backroads of my hometown. Hats off to Google, the quality is really goood.

Having lived away from Ireland for years and not getting home too frequently, I find that Street View has the power to fully immerse me and make me nostalagic for places. It is up there with the list of Space Age Things I dreamed of as a kid and now almost take for granted. The future is arriving in wonderful ways and washing over us in waves. (But I'm still disappointed I can't hop into a suborbital hotel for a cheap 0g holiday)

[+] ajtaylor|15 years ago|reply
This is one of the many things I love about Ireland. You don't have to drive very far outside Dublin, Cork or Galway to go back 50-100 years in time. These one-lane roads also make for good cycling too, if you go with a group who knows where they are going. :-)
[+] rudyfink|15 years ago|reply
That is a very pretty road.
[+] kemiller|15 years ago|reply
And yet they still don't have my block, smack in the middle of the SF Bay Area.
[+] yellowbkpk|15 years ago|reply
Last time I talked to the Street View people they mentioned that missing streets like yours are usually related to bad GPS reception at the time of capture, leading to the inability to match roads and imagery. This is usually the reason for small pockets of no coverage in otherwise densely-covered areas.
[+] dsantos|15 years ago|reply
i didn't know they had streets in Antarctica :-) great pictures.
[+] grackle|15 years ago|reply
That depends on your definition of "street". They do, after all, have one of the most extreme highways on Earth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo-South_Pole_highway

I would pay money to cruise down that in Street View. I wonder if you could stick the Street View photo module on top of one of those Snow Cats and hit record next time they do a run?