What will Google Street View show?
Updated on 19 March 2009
Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports on Google's new ground-level imaging system Street View. Will it give businesses a chance to market themselves or just offer an outlet for nosey parkers?
Google's latest online offering builds on the Google Maps application by allowing users to take a 360 degree journey along the street of their choice.
It allows you to take a virtual tour of cities and see the streets and lanes you did not even know were there.
Street View was launched in the US two years ago and has since been expanded to cities in France, Japan, Italy, Australia New Zealand and Spain. Channel 4 News first spotted a Google Street View car in London in July 2008.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy interviews Ed Parson, Google's geospatial technologist about their Street View project which has now launched in the UK.
