Watch a Google Street View Cam in Action!

Last year Google introduced Google Street View as a component of Google Maps offering panoramic street-level views. Using the feature users can view parts of selected cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas at ground level.

In order to produce the imagery for the service Google mounts a special panoramic camera on a pole on top of the roof of a vehicle. Then, the car simply drives around town capturing the imagery as it goes.

Here is a video of a Google Street View cam car in action, moving along Interstate 10 near Palm Springs, California.



And here is a Street View image of our favorite pizza place here in NoHo.


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