Are you ready for Street View?

It seems that Europe is getting ready for the Street View feature in Google Maps. In the past couple of months there were reports of Google Street View cars visiting various cities in Europe, for example, here in Madrid and Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam/Rotterdam. And just this afternoon a colleague shot this picture outside our office while drinking a coffee.

Google Streetview Car Barcelona

Google Streetview Car Barcelona on Gran Vía

Well after reading this, wedding proposal 2.0 in streetview, I am wondering if businesses are ready for the Google Van visiting your streets. Did you spend some bucks on new outdoor print already? Maybe now is the right time to refurbish your neon’s a bit.

I think it will be nice to see your business in Streetview alongside the placemark you added to Google Maps using the Local Business Center or KML files.

Update: I noticed this post on Chris Silver Smith his blog naturalsearch about text recognition in StreetView and how it could improve Google Maps. It’s a recommended read.

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August 12, 2008 · Filed Under Google Maps

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3 Responses to “Are you ready for Street View?”

  1. Marjolein on August 19th, 2008 6:54 am

    They were here again today, at plaza Universidad :)

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