It's Evansville — Google Street View Has Arrived In Evansville

Google Street View Has Arrived in Evansville

The Courier has posted an article announcing that Google Street View has finally come to the Evansville area. Street View is a part of Google Maps that gives you a first-personal angle of the roads of major metropolitan areas.

The Street View car was rolling around town last summer. It was a greenish Chevy or Geo car with a silver apparatus on top of it that would capture the images for street view. The chatted briefly with the guy who was driving the car at the Shell right off the I-164/Lloyd exit. Quite an odd fellow, but I guess thats to be expected when your job is to just drive around with a big camera on the roof. I snapped a photo of the car from my iPhone and uploaded it to my Flickr account. Here it is a bit closer up (thanks to stormbear.com.

Street View is useful for someone visiting from out of town since it gives you an easy way to get reference points for directions. I’ll scour around it and see if I can’t find anything interesting/odd in our streets when the camera was driving by.

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