For the longest time Google Maps’ "Street View" hadn’t been available in this area and then today I logged on and found it live…here on my own corner!  That pic to the left (click to enlarge) is a screenshot of my monitor with the street view for my address shown.  Kind of wild that it’s available here, and it’s cool being able to notice that the pictures had to be taken at least a few weeks ago due to some items that appear in my yard that are no longer there and to notice that the pictures had to be taken in the morning because of the angle of the sunlight and the shadows.

Actually street view is now available in a large swath of the Winston-Salem/Greensboro metro areas.  The area of the map to the left that is in blue is where the street view is available.  I’d love to know how Google does this…oh wait, here’s an article in Popular Mechanics with pictures of the camera they use at $45,000 a pop!  Way cool.