[PRCo] Re: Now I know how ir's done.

[Derrick Brashear]

I'll find my picture of when, biking down my dead end alley home I was behind the street view car. I passed and he backed out of the alley.

Those pictures aren't online yet, so you won't (yet) see me on my bike behind the car.

On the other hand, you can find my car parked on s. 22nd by Sarah st.

Derrick

On Aug 3, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:

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> This morning I was driving westbound on Illinois Rt. 22, an d while stopped at a traffic light I saw a subcompact car approaching me.  It had a roof rack , and a 6 ft. pole attached to the roof rack .  At the top of the pole was what appeared to be a soccer ball.  The ball was surr ounded by strobe lights that were flashing as the car turned onto a residential street.  
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> Then I saw the small  "Google" sign on the car door. This car was photographing streets - forward/backward/right/ left -  for the Google Maps "S treet Views ". The car was moving at about 30 mph, so I assume that the driver simply followed a pre-determined street route , and location information  was tagge d by a  GPS and computer linked to the cameras. 
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> About 30 minutes lat er, traveling eastbound on Rt. 22, I came across the car again, still winding through through neighborhood streets.   
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