Google Street View is Coming to Raleigh
Google August 19th, 2007On my way home Friday I found myself behind one of the Immersive Media cars that I assume was scanning streets in Raleigh for Google Street View. These are crap photos but my camera on my phone is crap. The Beetle had www.immersivemedia.com across the back window and Oregon plates.
Horrible screen capture from video
Then he elluded me with a quick U-turn but managed to get one more shot
This is what the car looks like (not my photo)
August 19th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone doesn’t claim I photoshopped these images. I didn’t so just in case it happens to be that you can see my dorky face in my grey Saab 9-3 trying to take a pic of the car on street view this comment will serve as a record.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:11 am
I believe you Tony…
I was driving the bug
August 27th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Damnit, all the cool stuff happens in Raleigh. All we get in Durham are lacrosse scandals.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hey, Street View is up for Raleigh. I just drove past NotSleepy
February 12th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
:p could have organised a mass “lets get into google street view doing stupid things outside” event heh.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
But if you look down while in street view, that doesn’t look like a VW Beetle…
February 18th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
yeah and my car isn’t behind it. i guess the one i saw wasn’t taking pics.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Perhaps they had more than one car in the city.
I know looking at the pics of where I live the photos weren’t taken til September, since I moved to my current residence in West Raleigh Labor Day Weekend and when I pulled up my address, my car is in the driveway.
Also judging by the cars in the parking lot of the office I work at in Apex, that area was photographed in early October, since I spotted a coworker’s car in the parking lot who started there at the beginning of October.
Pretty cool way to waste a few hours though:)
March 8th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
google didn’t use bugs. they used 07 cobalts for streetview.
March 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
@Ronnie
They did use VW Beetles as well. I spoke with the guy who was driving one in Raleigh.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Actually, the wonders of 360° imagery are very seducing to any technology-minded person! It’s such a marvellous
way to look at places: it is certainly endowed to become common practice for web’s remote locations viewing.
In Europe, as per this website ( http://www.virtualvisit.tv ), immersive imagery and streetview capabilities are on
their way, purposed by a Swiss company called GlobalVision Communication ( http://www.globalvision.ch ).
Sure you have had a great success with it in the US… hopefully GV will follow the same path in Europe