IT TURNS OUT THAT the Google van rolled through the East Beaches when we were working in the neighbourhood on Kingmount Park Road, and they caught us on film! You can easily identify the Green Apple truck, and even though the software censors have blurred their faces, you can still recognize John, Victor, and Carlos. Ha! Hey, what are you doing there? This isn’t a coffee break! Get back to work! I’m watching you! Just kidding, these guys are real hard workers. I’m sure that the in-house pixel-pushers at Google just Photoshop’d the heavy equipment out of John’s hands. Yeah, that’s it…
TODAY’S NEWSPAPERS ANNOUNCED that Google Maps has now put its “Street Level” feature online for the City of Toronto. That means that you can enter your own address — or any other GTA address, for that matter — into the text field at maps.google.com, and in addition to ability to see an overhead view of your neighbourhood, you can now drag the little orange icon of a dude from the top left corner of the map onto the street that you want to see in photographs. You can then navigate your way through the city streets, and manipulate the angle of the camera by clicking inside the image and dragging in different directions.
