I'm travelling on the PaddysValley tour of Silicon Valley in December and right now I'm using Google Maps Street View to familiarize myself with downtown Palo Alto where we'll be staying in the Cardinal Hotel. Google have done it again, Street View is incredibly useful. Starting at our hotel I can walk a few steps north east along Hamilton Avenue, turn left onto Ramona Street, past the Osteria, another few steps and voila, Coupa Cafe where all the VCs hang out.
At this stage I've 'walked' a few miles around the neighboring blocks to visually memorize my way to the Facebook office, Junnoon, Rudy's Pub, the HP Garage, the Ning office, the Miyake Restuarant and the Caltrain Station. I'm sure when I get to the real place in December it will be a most unusual case of deja vu.
Related: Bernie Goldbach wants Street View for Irish boreens.
There are already quite a few coming in in addition to the 600 existing finds here:
http://streetviewgallery.corank.com
Posted by: Big Brother | August 08, 2007 at 05:43 PM