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For years Google Maps has offered Street View, giving viewers a street level glimpse into far away destinations.
Word on the street (no pun intended!) is that Apple is sending out vehicles to photograph various locales in Ireland, UK, and the United States, with the imagery being used in their Apple Maps application.
In the US, Apple will be driving around parts of Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Texas, Utah, and Washington state.
In Ireland, Apple will map the greater Dublin area. For the UK, street mapping will be done in Essex, Greater London, Kent, and Birmingham.
Apple's page states:
[...] Apple is driving vehicles around the world to collect data which will be used to improve Apple Maps. Some of this data will be published in future Apple Maps updates.
[...] We are committed to protecting your privacy while collecting this data. For example, we will blur faces and license plates on collected images prior to publication.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday June 13 2015, @10:27AM
that was quite cool.
The driver had this shit-eating grin on his face when he drove by. To my surprise the camera looked homemade; there were eight cameras on a small tower on the car's roof. That tower was constructed quite crudely of plywood.
I haven't been able to dig up the photos with me in them. I don't know whether those particular photos were never selected for use or were simply replaced by new photos of the same place taken at a later time.
There is a way to look up street view from the past but I've never had the headspace to deal with it. It was at the Starbucks on Snell Avenue, South of Blossom Hill Road in San Jose, I think it was in the late spring of 2010. Do yer worst.
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday June 13 2015, @08:00PM
I couldn't find a 2010 set of pictures, so they might not have used them like you suggested. Only 2009, 2011, and 2013: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.238086,-121.830701,3a,75y,281.1h,76.42t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s37vkNJHvI9YANqYi-yc08g!2e0!5s20110501T000000!7i13312!8i6656 [google.com]
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:47AM
I loved that starbucks but at the same time I was unlucky in love with two different women.
(Not at the same time.)
I'm pretty sure I was at one of the tables at the window when the car went by, for sure I would have had my macbook pro. They must not have posted the photo.
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