Everyone will remember the mild furore over the summer when Google was suddenly found to be patrolling driving around various roads in the UK taking pictures for its Google Street View product.
One of Google's vehicles was spotted in Sutton this week, home to Travolution Towers, though what they would want to photograph in a sleepy suburb of Surrey is a mystery to many :-).
Anyway, not put off by the less than favourable publicity, Seety.co.uk launched this week with its own version using Google Maps.
Seety has been busily recording footage from as many streets in London as possible.
Users can plot their whereabouts on the map and then bring up a walkabout tour in another window.
Fun, but a bit slow.
The picture below shows where I am sitting right now (in a well-known coffee emporium on Oxford Street) as I write this post, less the glorious sunshine, alas...
One of Google's vehicles was spotted in Sutton this week, home to Travolution Towers, though what they would want to photograph in a sleepy suburb of Surrey is a mystery to many :-).
Anyway, not put off by the less than favourable publicity, Seety.co.uk launched this week with its own version using Google Maps.
Seety has been busily recording footage from as many streets in London as possible.
Users can plot their whereabouts on the map and then bring up a walkabout tour in another window.
Fun, but a bit slow.
The picture below shows where I am sitting right now (in a well-known coffee emporium on Oxford Street) as I write this post, less the glorious sunshine, alas...
They obviously filmed each road only one way, to save webspace so half the time you seem to be going back in time and everything moves backwards- needs a fast connection for best effect, but you still cant break the speed limit or reach my house..... but it's still good fun