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Maakuth on July 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Early Days on Street View

The thing is they buy these photos from outside vendors and I imagine they are very expensive to get. There's decent coverage from urban areas, but I don't think it scales up as well as street view driving. Also, it's certainly neat for checking out areas in general fashion, but I'm not sure it's especially useful.

EDIT: predicate

gcb0 on July 7, 2014 [–]

funny. you said the exact same thing people said about satelite/street view, before they covered most bigger cities.

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