Google StreetView Coming to Tokyo!
It looks like Google StreetView will start in U.K. with avoiding the privacy problems, its localized edition became available in Japan and Australia as well.
Last week Google Japan said “Nothing to say” about when the service starts.
Japanese Edition covers many streets and alleys in Tokyo, Osaka, Sendai and Sapporo. But I’ve never seen their vehicle taking the pictures.
I wrote a lot about StreetView, I found it records changing of the town scene by taking the pictures periodically, like a certain historical encyclopedia of images, when I see the pictures of my neighbourhood.
StreetView with iPhone is a useful combination for those who have GPS devices but lose their ways very often.
The following is Google’s camera vehicle taking images, witnessed in the heart of Tokyo.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/wa-ren/20080515/p1
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Masaru IKEDA