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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 05:31 PM

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