Google, this is seriously cool

Doing a search tonight for stuff in downtown glassland, so I hit up Google Maps and poked around. I noticed a new button, “Street View,” that I hadn’t seen before (so don’t tell me it’s been there for five years), and clicked it.

Little yellow stick figure, kinda floppy, pops up on the map, which breaks out in all these blue lines.

I drag the little yellow guy to where I’m going on the map, click on him, and up pops a 360-degree view of the building I’m trying to find, at street level. I can rotate the picture, travel up and down the street…wow.

From the map, it looks like they have at least some part of about 15 US cities covered already (they do NOT have a view of my front door, I checked). It’s kinda spooky and kinda cool at the same time, but given my predeliction for getting lost–and my need to landmark–it’s really going to come in handy.

Thanks, Google.

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