As reported here last week, Google Street View South Africa launched today. Naturally it took me all of 4 seconds to type in my address, and lo and behold, there was my house! How cool is that?
And of course there’s my brother’s car parked in the driveway. He’s clearly there to raid MY fridge and watch MY satellite television. Get a job!
Let’s all just try to ignore the Psychiatric Hospital marked on the little map in the corner though, okay? Running this site has not driven me completely batty. Yet. Of course it’s nice to know that if I ever do feel the need to skip up and down the road while wearing a tutu and hurling insults at random pot plants for their plot to enslave buttercups help is not too far away…
For those of you who have never used Street View before you can simply change the orientation by clicking the compass and literally follow the road along to see exactly where you need to be going, a la:
No more crappy cartoonish maps for me, no Sir!
Go try it out for yourself: http://maps.google.com/. Not all the major intersections and places you’d expect to be available appear to be so, but I assume it’ll get there eventually. I imaging that a feature like this is constantly being updated.
