Ames now has "Street View" in Google Maps.

[EggMcClone]

Looking at the shadows (and lack of drinking) they did the area around Welch Ave in the morning.

 

[ia8manfan]

True, would the camera have to be rotating? or just take a wide panoramic view? The question I have about one is how is the car able to drive down the road and take video footage directly 90 degrees left and right of the direction of the car?

I think what they do is have a camera rotating 360 degrees and have a GPS attached to the top.

 

[Landshark]

I can tell the cleaning ladies were over at my grandparents house on Johnson that day.

 

[isucyfan]

Pfft, I'll be impressed when Google has Street View in real time.:wink:

 

[Landshark]

My uncle and cousin were visiting my grandma on 20th street that day...this is too funny.

 

[Bader]

Pfft, I'll be impressed when Google has Street View in real time.:wink:

Wow really? It still freaks me out that they can even do this.

No thanks, the world is enough like 1984 already. I don't need a freaking wall looking into my house all day

 

[LindenCy]

Yes, the backward bumpkinville of Ames, IA has finally grown up and joined the rest of the world on Google Maps. You can crawl along the streets of Ames

Jack Trice:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+S+16th+St&sll=42.015105,-93.632419&sspn=0.007461,0.019312&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=42.018947,-93.628621&spn=0.014921,0.038624&z=15&cbll=42.01149,-93.63379&panoid=uQhcowV44mQ8DfQO2DiLWw&
cbp=1,338.95646597553645,,0,5

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...q2-d1y1WABMgqKA&cbp=1,224.72782300377764,,0,5

Wow, that is crazy.

 

[Cloned4Life]

WOW, that's amazing. I can definitely see my car...awesome, yet, kinda creepy.

 

[Broodwich]

Well, it looks that most of the "metro" area of Des Moines is covered.

It looks like someone finally got to Ames before Iowa City for once.

Iowa City:
-BW3
-Old Chicago
-Chipotle

Ames:
Google Maps

This is really cool, but I would trade it in a second for a BW3 in Ames.

 

[Irresponsible]

My uncle and cousin were visiting my grandma on 20th street that day...this is too funny.

If my wife asks, that is NOT my car parked near the Delta Delta Delta house!

 

[Stumpy]

Driving back from New York last week, I was actually following a Google Maps car for a little while. It's a regular car with a pretty small rig attached to the top.

Not the one I was behind, but the same equipment: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/1752826315_1696745b32_b.jpg

 

[SeattleClone]

Pfft, I'll be impressed when Google has Street View in real time.:wink:

Well I'LL be impressed when Google has Street View from exactly 4 1/2 days ago. :smile:

 

[dustinal]

So it looks like this has been posted here for a few days, but I just saw it for the first time. Cool!

Someone else placed the pictures around late October of '07, and I think that's about right. Obviously the fallen leaves put them in the Fall, and I don't think they had fallen to the extent they did until about mid to late October last year. I know it's not November because I can see my grill sitting by my house and I know I put my grill in the garage before November last year. I also know it was '07 because I didn't live there year before. So at the least the pictures of my house were probably mid-to-late October of '07.

Can I have my cookie now? :wink:

I just think this is really cool.

 

[ISUFan22]

Just checked out our place in Grimes. It seems to be from last summer or early fall.

 

[Rogue52]

It has to be Fall 2007, 150 Anniversary flags are up as well as the "This is Cyclone Country" flags.

 

[Wesley]

Looks like we have a Wayne sighting putting up a dish.

 

[ISUKyro]

For those asking how they do this: I've seen them in Houston a bunch. They have vans or suvs with a small tower of cameras on top. It looks like 4 or 8 cameras as the driver covers his route. Kinda cool to stick out your tongue when you see them go by.