It's surprising it took Google so long. I remember "street view" projects like this when the Web was in its infancy back in 1994. You couldn't spin freely aroun

It's surprising it took Google so long. I remember "street view" projects like this when the Web was in its infancy back in 1994. You couldn't spin freely around, but you could go forwards, back, turn left/right etc. I was planning one with my home town, but it burns up a lot of 35mm film and you had to then find a good color scanner (usually handheld then) or use Kodak Photo CD to get the images into the computer. Google were standing on the shoulders of hundreds of prior projects. They just did it on a scale no-one else could muster.