Important Technology Update
I don’t know if I missed this a while back or what, but our ‘hood’s finally made it to Google Street View. I feel like Steve Martin when the new phone books came in. My old hometown of Huntsville, Alabama, achieved that hurdle last year, and I was starting to get despondent that we weren’t there yet.
When did this happen, I wonder? Looks like footage was taken in July-ish of 2007.
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How the HELL did I miss this???? I guess that’s what I get for having stopped reading Gizmodo regularly. They usually have updates whenever new cities are added. Good catch.
I normally check in on BrightKite with my iPhone, but I was at Mayorga and checked in on my laptop. When it went through, it gave me a little window with a Google Street View of my location. Imagine my surprise – that was the first I heard about it.
I don’t know the exact date it was taken, but it was trash day on your street!
Yup – that would make it Thursday, and the house across the street (you know the one) still had a ‘For Sale’ sign out front.
They were taken September last year. My roommates car from my place last year that we moved into Sept. 1, 2007 is out in front, but the Window AC unit in his window is missing (wasn’t installed until our 3rd week at the house).
You can also tell because the demolished brick buildings on Bonifant are still standing.
Nice sleuthing!
Great thing about downtown Silver Spring getting the “Street View” treatment is that it has already documented places that no longer exist…like the two 1920s bungalows and Roadhouse Oldies in the 900 block of Thayer Avenue – http://tinyurl.com/5cmskc .
I would say it’s later in the year than the guesses of July or September 2007. Maybe December?
I looked at the Twin Towers Apts. on the Georgia Avenue side (below my windows) and noticed two things along Georgia Avenue: absolutely no leaves on the trees and a Christmas wreath on the lamp post.
were you looking at the street view? If not, click on one of the blue-lined streets. The overhead/satellite view might be during winter, but street view definitely has leaves on the trees, and they haven’t started to even turn yet.
Pictures were shot at different times. In my neighborhood leaves were green but some grass was brown. West of Georgia, on Seminary and Seminary Place, by Staples, and onto Georgia Ave north, there were no leaves on the trees and Roozens Nursery store had no plants on the shelves out front, definitely winter.
It was definitely over a period of time. Now that I look more, when you “walk” on Fidler Lane in front of Twin Towers, you see green trees & people in short sleeves. Once you start to “walk” down Georgia, it’s leafless trees, wreaths, and jackets. If you turn down Colesville, you can see that “Another Man’s Garden” is playing at the AFI, which played at the end of November 2007.
That’s amazing that they took that much time to map everything. I would never have guessed it. What would it take to drive these streets? Two days at the outside?
The cops were tailing the van going down Bonifant Street, too.
I’m surprised the Google Streets car wasn’t harassed by DTSS security for taking photos.
If your blog gets any more stale we can use it to make Thanksgiving stuffing.
It looks to be September for my street view but late winter/early spring several years ago for the aerial ones.
My BIG concern though is that they mark my house WRONGLY – showing “826″ as a neighbor far down the block from me. I have BEGGED Google to correct their street numbering in East SS several times – no response. Do I need to sue them for loss of business defamation (associating me with a garden-less home), and aggravation for this to get corrected.?!?