I noticed a small white car with Google branding and a massive collection of cameras on it’s roof driving in front of a bus I was on the other week. It seems Google are photographing the whole world with fish eye cameras to enable you to bring up images of streets within Google maps. You’ll notice the street view button if you’re viewing a map where the system has been enabled. So far they’ve got big chunks of Australia, France, Japan and the USA online — and obviously the UK is on it’s way. It’s been very time consuming visiting familiar places in Australia, America and Japan — be warned! There are some bugs with the path finder, sometimes I ended up going through buildings, and the images are quite low in resolution too. I imagine it’s all still quite beta at the moment though.