I was just like biking down Park Drive N
Google Maps Street View is pretty amazing. The detail, the 360 view, the small increments between images. Just see these poor guys driving down Park Drive N. Google is quite amazing. This new street view has mapped 5 cities in the US.
Next, I would expect them to sell these cameras with GPS and have ordinary people drive around with these on their roof. And then once a week, you would sync the camera with Google Maps making sure to only upload good, new, interesting, appropriate photos.
Future advances to this would be local sounds, videos and custom photos - thus competing with sites like Locr.
Update 2007-06-01: The Google Map Street View Team can be seen here, as the truck passes by, Slashdot has an article about privacy issues with street map, and the latter also links to a contest for finding interesting things - of which I especially like the speed limit violation or stopping at the drive-thru. And some images have been removed, like this one once picturing an ongoing police investigation. Here is a top 15 of some of these and other sightings.
Update 2007-06-09: I have found a galaxy visible in bright daylight.
