

"Once in Google Maps, you can visually explore and navigate a neighborhood through these street-level photographs, moving up and down streets or looking around in 360-degree panoramas," Yick said. That data is then associated with points on maps on the Google Maps website, said Deanna Yick of Google global communications and public affairs. The car's roof-mounted camera captures photographic data front, back, left, right, up and down for thousands of minute locations along hundreds of roads in any one city alone. The pictures the car takes allows millions of web browsers to "see" areas on a map with the click of their mouse via Google's Street View tool in Google Maps. That colorful car festooned with gear looking like leftovers from the moon landing has been in town recently, snapping photographs for Google Maps.
