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Google announced Google Street View which features high resolution 360-degree street level views from major urban cities. I was impressed.
Shortly after the announcement, Greg Sadetsky found a way into the inner works of Street View. At wherecamp (held on the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, CA) a few developers, including me, had a look at what Greg had found out. We soon realized that it is fairly simple to get the image tiles and soon we started to compile a short list on how this could be used outside of Google Maps. For more info see the Hacking-Google-Street-View page.
My idea was to get street view images onto the mobile phone. A few hours later it was done. And I mean done. It is live on WHERE!. Developing for WHERE is great… very short development cycles.

Mikel Maron has a good post about what else happened around Hacking Google Street Views.

If you are interested how Google collects the images and stitches them together, have a look at Frank Taylor’s post: Technology Behind Google StreetView - Immersive Media.

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