Anyone else addicted to Google Street View?

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Now that they've added New Zealand, I've been addicted to it, looking up the places where we lived, plus relatives' houses. Way cool! It's almost like being there. The suburb where a particular aunt used to live is now riddled with crime, so it's preferable to view it this way.

now that i think of it it isnt that bad, just dont give anyone your addy especially online and it looks like all the licence plates are unreadable. wow this is pretty amazing you can even walk down the street. this is some valueable technology and i cant wait for them to make nature views. i'd rather see/walk a cozy trail tucked back into the grim woods

Not sure why this is in autism discussion but anyway...

DeLoreans!! !

I was on it last week, I find it great.

Does anyone know a good address in the UK I could look at with nice scenery ie: rolling hills, lakes or ancient buildings? I'll likely never get to vacation overseas so would be cool to walk along the roads remotely.

They haven't uploaded ANY! Of the UK yet, I mean come on! At least do a little bit... Lazy programmers...

I absolutely love the satellite feature. I often look up areas that I have been to in the past.

The most interesting place I seen on GSV in the US is Newport Kentucky. The eastern edge of Newport is very low income and gritty, the western edge is beautiful Victorian era mansions with tree lined streets. You can see a gradual change in affluence every time you look from one street to the other

My favorite international city is Sydney Australia. Very clean, very urban

Is anyone else finding the street view a little iffy? Sometimes its not coming up for a location but 30 mins later it does. Is the site just bogged down with too much traffic from all the WP'ers that are now obsessed with the site?

I've been trying to calculate the average time lapse between when the picture was taken and when it becomes available on Street View. All the familiar addresses I've looked up suggest that the picture was taken at least several years ago.

So it's like a time capsule.

I think it was taken in 2007, maybe summertime. I saw my car parked in front of my aunt's and uncle's house and my car wasn't at my apartment when I looked. Are all street images taken at different times, not all in 2007?

I also looked in the up in the air images and saw more cars were parked in the apartment parking lot while the street image view had one car parked there. I looked at my aunt's and uncle's house again and saw my car parked in the same spot.

When I was looking at the town of Remington, Indiana, and what a humdrum place it looks, there were Christmas lights up on the main street. Which suggests these pictures must have been very recent, indeed I believe they were added just last week.

at first i was confused at how they were getting these pictures, but when i was on the interstate here i could see the shadow of the van with a camera ontop of it, obviously taking panoramic pictures as it drives down the street and then submitting them to google