Google Earth Streetview has come to Wellington!
Unlike the tiny pictures on Streetview I have seen for other cities, these ones are quite big, and the view from each position is fully rotatable in three dimensions. I remember when Streetview first appeared. The pictures were small, and only rotated horizontally in 45 degree increments. Even then I thought it was pretty cool. Now, you get a pretty good feel for what streets are actually like - as I can now confirm from looking at streets I'm actually very familiar with. Before, I had looked at streets in Tokyo, New York, Chicago, and some parts of the Australian outback (weird, I know!). But now I can confirm for myself that they give a pretty good idea of what the area is like. I was driving past the end of a street today that I had explored on Streetview, and I thought "oh yes, I remember going down there". I had a good memory of what it was like down that street...but then I realized it was only a Streetview memory, and not a real one. What to call this phenomenon...
Deja View?
