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I share your interest in Google Earth, but I have mixed feelings about Street View. For a long time my little cul-de-sac has been accessible in that medium, but it has recently been updated, presumably with better cameras, and now Google peers into my living room window. I find this a bit unsettling, to say the least.
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When Google first started showing the street view perspective, I used it intensively trying to plan a ski holiday for friends and family. I would look for hotels that were within easy walking distance of the piste or lifts. Sometimes I would begin at the lift and walk around looking for likely hotels and then track them down on their websites. I spent a ridiculous amount of time getting to know places and it got to the point where I came across certain characters so often that I felt that I could call them nodding acquaintances. My memory of these virtual trips is so ingrained that I now have difficulty remembering whether I have actually been to a place or just visited virtually. Maybe there’s a poem in there?