Finally! The other Canadian cities have had Google Street View since October, but Google in their infinte wisdom has rolled out the functionality to 9 more Canadian cities. Now, Canada has 20 cities that are enabled for 360-degree street view. Check it out at http://maps.google.ca
Along with Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, street view is now available for Victoria, Nanaimo, B.C., Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Sudbury, Ont., London, Ont., Sherbrooke, Que., and St. John's.
Well, wouldn't you know it? I was checking where I work and found myself looking at a picture of me walking along Osbourne Street in downtown Winnipeg. I must have been going home for lunch that day.
Good thing Google has taken the Canadian Privacy Commissioner's advice and blurred people's faces. Unfortunately, I know me and my friends know me so they can tell that it's me. But you can't, so that's okay :-)
Google Street View for Winnipeg.
Pretty cool!
The great thing about Google Street View is that you can see places from around the world, just as if you were walking down the street in Paris to the Louvre. When I went to Paris and Rome in September, we checked Google Street View for the apartments that were were staying in. It was very cool to walk around the neighbourhoods and it was almost like deja vu when we finally arrived there because everything felt so familiar.
Of course it did, we saw it on Google!
It will very cool when Google captures the street view for Vancouver for the Olympics Games for January 2010. I can hardly wait. It will feel like we're there in person. Almost :-)
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