Google Street View adds OKC & Tulsa

If it's a joke, I'm not gettin' it. Otherwise, I don't see how Ballmer making a deal with google results in google getting it's own button on the iphone. Especially since MS has been trying to work a deal with Yahoo! and not google.

OH GOD, you're over thinking it. It's not even suppose to be taken seriously. Laugh it up and move on.

So basically your mistake was corrected and instead of just leaving it alone or admitting so, you try to make it out like I have no sense of humor and take these threads waaaaaay too seriously.

Okay, gotcha.

Oh, go fork yourself with a spoon.

I was visiting with a chap earlier in the eve by phone over a project, popped into street view and started discussing his property as though we were standing on the porch and I was asking questions as we walked across the property.

A rather right useful tool I've decided.

And actually, Microsoft is not headquartered in Seattle neither - it is hq in Redmond, WA - where I work by the way,

and yes Ballmer is my CEO!! lol

*but he's not even close to as rich as our Chairman, Bill Gates or co-founder Paul Allen.

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HOT ROD, I wasn't going to correct him about the location of M$! I was having fun.

But.. watched a little interesting exert last night about Billy G. He's only going to be part time chairman of the board, focusing on spending time with his kids, and Warren B. has earmarked $30B of his fortune towards Bill and Melinda's foundation. Microsoft also employs approx. 90,000 people and is the largest software company in the world.

Yeah, I realized that, but saw that he was making the Seattle connection so I generalized. Never having been to Washington, isn't Redmond to Seattle about like what Midwest City is to OKC?

If only there were a handy website for typing in a city and pulling up a map to find out...

So how do you use Google Street View in your daily life?

I was looking for hardware store I drove by about a month ago but I couldn't remember the name. I went on street view and when I found the building I zoomed in on the store front and found the name. Did a quick google search on the name and found the web site. Turns out they didn't have what I was looking for at the price I wanted to pay but it saved me about $5 in gas.

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Oklahoma City - The surprise your family has been looking for.

No kidding. I've already meshed it into my research routines. It's pretty dang cool.

Yeah, I have looked up Seattle on google maps before and that's how I knew where Redmond was. But having never been there I don't really know how it relates to the greater Seattle area. For instance someone who's never been to Oklahoma might consider Norman a suburb of OKC like MWC but when you live here you really have the feeling that Norman is it's own separate town.

Man the pictures for my old apartment complex are really old. Older than a year, because you can't see any signs of the construction of the new buildings that started last June. The google image is the same way, it's really old.

My subdivision is entirely Street Viewed, except for my little cul-de-sac! Everything else here is done but our one little street. I wonder if somebody complained or what? Made me sad.

At least these are a lot newer than the satellite pics for downtown...they are over 4 years old

To my knowledge, the Google satellite view is from USGS photography dating to March 2002. I offer this educated guess based on consistency in detail between the then-current map on TerraServer c.2004 (when it was free) and the current Google view which came out about that time to my recollection.

Incidentally, you can get a more modern view from TerraServer (as well as from other places I'm sure), but it'll cost you.

I really wish they'd update.

I know I'm a little late joining the discussion but I took this photo of the google car in Oklahoma City back in April unfortunately I don't remember exactly where so I haven't found my car on street view yet.

That looks like I-44 Southbound between the Oklahoma River and SW 15th St. Just a guess...

Problem is, in your pic the grass is green but all pics for Streetview - OKC were taken in the fall, cause the grass is discolored. Weird. Maybe they were scouting or updating for future images we have not seen. Because, for instance, in your pic there are also the construction barrels warning drivers of the cable barrier installation on that highway. In the Google Streetview pics, they are nowhere to be found.

That's the location I was thinking too. Ironically, I was watching some news station yesterday and they were showing/talking about the Google cars that are driving down every street on the entire planet to continue to make the Google Street View.

It looks like SB I-35 near N. 50th where there was recent road work going on.

I thought I remember it being I-44 Southbound but noticed that on street view as you mention its fall so it must have just been in rout to some where else and not filming.

I saw that also Metro I think Google has a goal of putting every street in the world on street view.

Not all the OKC pics where taken during the "Brown" season. Click around DT.

I found this site a couple of days ago that list some of the odd or funny sightings from Street view I'm trying to get them to add a section for Oklahoma City.
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