Google Street View has now come live in Australia!
Google Street View is part of Google Maps and allows you to explore a point of location on a ground level view (an actual screenshot of the location taken from the street level).
Google Street View helps you out in observing and pinpointing a certain location in the real life quickly and easily.
These are some scenarios to help you realize how useful Google Street View is:
- You are going to a certain destination spot for your holiday. While planning, you may want to check out the place first before actually wasting your time to go there! Some time you’ve made a plan to go sightseeing on a good spot but end up disappointed.
- You are trying to book a hotel but have no idea of its surroundings (besides looking at the street names and places on the map).
- You have a meeting with your client on a new place that you’ve never been to. Google Street View can help you pinpoint the right building quickly, so you don’t have to waste time looking at the property numbers.
- You may want to show off where you live to your friends.
The City of Melbourne, where I live
- You are planning on a property investment somewhere far and want to investigate more on its surroundings for value.
- OR if you already have a property investment, you can keep track of the building progress from your home (assuming Google updates it frequently enough lol). For example, here is a photo of my current property investment area (still on development):
Now you can see how lazy the developers are!
Although some people see this as an invasion of privacy, others (including myself) see this as a welcomed innovation! I’d expect us to be able to see a live feed directly from the satellite some time later in the future 
So how has Google Street View benefited you?
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I just can’t wait when will this features come to Indonesia
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Google shot our neighborhood on trash day and many of the homes are obstructed by multiple bins sitting curbside. It really doesn’t make for a pretty picture and would probably turn off any RE investors (at least aesthetically).
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Will this feature be available for India. I don’t think it will be soon
Google Site View is not yet available in my country. I don’t when it will be available. I can’t wait for it so I can view some of the places I haven’t visited yet.
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love this technology.. but I only use it for fun.
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i generally think its not a very good idea and a bit too nosey
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I just hope that they can implement it here in the Philippines. It much more easier for me to locate a place if I can see a landmark that will let me find that location faster.
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I think this is great for people who are seeking a new house to check the neighbourhood first before deciding where to move. As far as the picture is updated. FYI, the Google Earth data is not valid ‘cos when I check my house location, their data still showing images of 2003. And my house was not there yet!
I’m not sure how long will it take for them to cover the “whole world”.. even when it does, we’re not sure how out of date the screenshots are..
I’m glad to see Google continues to improve its street views. The image of my street has not been updated in a while, so I don’t know how useful the images will be.
I’ve always wanted to visit Australia. Now I can!!
The images are very clear.
Michael, now you cannot sunbath outside in the buff.
I am from Sydney, and they came all the way up our street, skipped past a few houses down from us and then continued further along the street, not sure why they did this.
I can make out my parents cars tho
Stuart
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lol definitely won’t be doing “unique” stuffs outside of a shelter nowadays
@Stuart: lol you should have chased down the car and ask it to do a re-run of your street
HAHA Michael, I probably would have if I had seen it at the time. Mind you at least it does give added privacy lol.
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I love Google Street View! It’s just so cool and seeing it launched in another part of the world is really great – it means improving technology already made, rather than simply adding more and more gigabytes to a cellphone!
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