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May 13, 2008
Times Square at Night in Google Earth/Maps StreetView
Thanks to Google Earth's StreetView layer, I noticed some of the new StreetView images released today have some night-time views of Times Square. See it here in Google Maps:
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In Google Earth (v4.3 only), if you turn on the StreetView layer and zoom down to near street level, you'll see miniature spheres showing the images in place of the icons. That's how I quickly noticed the different set of images. See more about StreetView in the video demonstration of Google Earth 4.3 here (the last half of the video shows it).
The Times Square area is a particularly good area to check out the new face blurring technique Google is using to help reduce privacy concerns about StreetView imagery. They have face detection software to help with the blurring process.
Posted by FrankTaylor at May 13, 2008 5:31 PM
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Posted by: bertrand at May 14, 2008 5:08 AM
It is great to view the Time Square in the night!
Posted by: adamzhu1986 at May 14, 2008 8:00 AM
i m from brasil i lives sao paulo i like to visited time square but today i couldnt to because i m jail mr chairman globo tv rue doctor chucri zaidan 46 morumbi at sao paulo
Posted by: vania at January 1, 2009 12:23 PM
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Another great pic from Street View
http://votw-francais.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-street-view-besoin-de-censure.html