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Article: Get ready for your close-up ; Google's acclaimed, criticized Street View bears down on Boston
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 11, 2007
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Google Inc.'s controversial Street View feature, which offers 360-
degree, street-level images of urban life so clear that passersby
often can be identified, is set to make its Boston debut this
morning.
Starting at around 10 a.m., Internet users who click on the
"Street View" box on Google Maps (maps.google.com), will be able to
peek at images from streets in Boston and surrounding communities.
The views were stiched together from images taken by Google
employees over the past year from cars and vans equipped with
cameras.
The feature, which already captures street scenes in 15 cities
across the country, has become popular among people planning
vacations, searching for shops or restaurants, ...