+ Google's obilquehas been available as an experimental feature in Google Maps Labs.
To see the new imagery, simply zoom into an area while in Satellite mode. Where we have 45° imagery available, the imagery will switch from an overhead to 45° angle as you zoom all the way in.
--Google Lat Long Blog
+ Undoubtedly, the most well known provider of oblique or what they "bird's eye" imagery to the general public is Bing. Actually, they've been offering it since the "bird's eye" was part of Microsoft Live Local. It debuted in December, 2005.
We've also noticed that over the years "Bird's Eye" imagery continues to imagery for locations around the globe. For example, here's the Colosseumn, Rome and the "Friendly Confines" also known as Wrigley Field in Chicago.
How About a Comparison? Googleplex in Mountain View, CA Bing ||| Google
Note: With the Bing version, you can rotate and look at the Googleplex from different directions.
To see what we mean, go to www.youtube.com/leanback, and you’ll note that a selection of videos -- your “feed” -- plays immediately. This feed is based on your YouTube settings and preferences, including content from your subscriptions and videos your friends are sharing on Facebook (assuming you’ve connected your YouTube account to your Facebook account). You can also watch the most popular comedy, entertainment, news, or more. And if you don’t care for the video that’s playing, use the right arrow key on your keyboard to skip ahead to the next video, or try the up/down arrows to search, access player controls, and browse channels and videos. You won’t need your mouse for this experience.
Google is guilty of breaching Australian laws by collecting private wireless data with its "Street View" mapping cars but will escape punishment, the privacy regulator said.
Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis said she was unable to impose sanctions under Australia's Privacy Act, but had ordered Google to apologise after finding their Street View service had broken the law.
7. Google is guilty of breaching Australian laws by collecting private wireless data with its "Street View" mapping cars but will escape punishment, the privacy regulator said.
Starting next week, Street View vehicles will being roaming Ireland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden again, wrote Brian McClendon, vice president of engineering for Google Geo on the company's European public policy blog. Google has spoken to regulators in those countries.
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