Watch Where You Live: Google Street View Launches In Toronto
Posted October 7, 2009 11:09 am.
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It’s either one of the coolest things you’ve ever seen – or a gross invasion of privacy.
Whichever way you see it, Google Street View has people talking.
The program launched in Toronto and other Canadian cities on Wednesday, allowing users a walker’s eye-view of buildings, bridges and everything else on the streets.
No longer a yellow grid of roads – although that function still exists – Google Street View shows you what the streets actually look like, in glorious high resolution.
But it’s not a real-time view – instead, it shows what Toronto looked like when Google’s cameras began photographing the city in April.
That’s the new home of CityNews, pictured above (most of the scaffolding is gone now).
In response to privacy concerns, the company vowed to blur out any faces snapped in the photos.
Check it out for yourself: Go to Toronto on Google Maps and drag the yellow icon onto whichever area you want a closer look at.
To watch a demonstration of how Street View works, click on the video link below.
