Google Street Maps

This is something that can easily waste many hours and is a good way of seeing places you would like to visit and get an idea of what it’s like. It’s also good to see what your own house looks like on there and be nosey about friends places (and anyone who says they don’t if fibbing).

The street level view is excellent and it has brought the maps to a new level especially now that they have rolled it out to much more of the UK can see so much more detail.

Anyway have a look at http://maps.google.co.uk and then then Satellite view and then click on the little person on the left where it says ‘Drag me to a street’.

Once you have dragged across the map will get something like this,

There are people out there playing around with all sorts of applications for this and one example is the following is what they did for the Olympic Games, click here to see more.

One day you’ll be able to get near real time viewing of areas, although this will open up a can of worms with all sorts of issues about privacy but many other concerns. In the meantime well worth the viewing.