Street view invades Australia

I can’t wait for the conspiracy theorists to get going on this one – Google have released Street View on their maps in Australia. Unlike earlier releases, this is a massive and dense coverage… amazing detail.

The face blurring technology is in full swing, and not very discriminate – blurring both the wheels on my car, as well as heaps of other vaguely face like things.

Anyway, I’m pleased I wasn’t imagining things when I spotted the Google car last March.

This entry was written by andrew, posted on August 5, 2008 at 10:39 am, filed under googlemap, tech and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. shor
    Posted August 5, 2008 at 2:36 pm | Permalink

    Woot! Finally!

    We’ve been working behind the scenes at Fairfax to make it happen on domain.com.au too :P

    Check it out http://www.domain.com.au/streetview (are we first to market?)

  2. Adrian
    Posted August 26, 2008 at 3:23 pm | Permalink

    Some odd omissions though; a couple of large blocks of the suburb of Hampton didn’t get visited, while all around it did.