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Pittsburgh goes virtual on Google.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA)
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October 9, 2007
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Byline: Elwin Green
Oct. 9--Smile, Pittsburgh -- you're on Google-vision.
Starting today, Pittsburgh joins the list of 14 cities that Internet users can tour online by using Google Maps' Street View. The service, which launched in May, offers three-dimensional, photographic views of cityscapes that a user can navigate street by street to locate everything from apartments to gas stations to theaters.
With Street View, dragging and dropping the icon of a human figure onto a highlighted street will pull up a photo of the street, placing the user in a virtual world in which it is possible to move forward, backward, to the side -- even to rotate 360 degrees.
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