AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  TEE HEEEEEEEEE

Wait, what is with them not getting Capitol Square?  There is like nothing downtown.

Thriving commercial streets in Columbus: High St, Gay St Downtown east of High, 3rd in German Village,  3rd west of Harrison Ave, Grandview Ave south of 5th, OSU area, E Main in Bexley, Indianola north of Weber, Arlington just north of Waltham.

 

Up & Coming:Parsons south of Broad,  Long St.

 

Formerly urban commercial streets killed by urban renewal/suburbanization; Broad St west of Downtown, Main St through Downtown to Bexley, Sullivant Ave south of Westgate Park, Livingston Ave, Cleveland Ave.

 

What did I miss?

 

 

CINCINNATI IS ON GOOGLE STREET VIEW!!!!!!!!!!!  Why didn't anyone tell me?  I'm going to start stalking y'all now.

YUP, been their for a couple weeks, I think.  It's pretty cool.

The median on Central Parkway in downtown Cincinnati is still under construction in Streetview.

The median on Central Parkway in downtown Cincinnati is still under construction in Streetview.

 

I've been through 2 cars since they recorded my pad.

bound to happen!!!  he's "not too happy about it at all" :laugh:  :drunk:  :laugh:

 

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/08/11/article-0-023DB67B00000578-289_468x286_popup.jpg

 

Google's Street View captures the moment a drunken Aussie keeled over outside his home

 

Last updated at 21:16pm on 11.08.08

 

 

A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet.

 

He had been drowning his sorrows over the death of a friend and collapsed after climbing out of a taxi....

 

 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23530849-details/Google%27s+Street+View+captures+the+moment+a+drunken+Aussie+keeled+over+outside+his+home/article.do

 

 

Since Bill's case became known to Google Australia, his embarrassing sleep-in has been removed from the site.

 

"....and forever removed from the internet"

 

Thank goodness they discovered that before anyone caught wind of it.......awww, maaan!

This one just came out a few days ago, too.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=eagle%20point%20drive%20%20Ark&ie=UTF8&ll=34.891405,-92.238336&spn=0.009927,0.022745&z=16&layer=c&cbll=34.886274,-92.239203&panoid=-ayPjZ7AMLntTqpPl4UrXQ&cbp=1,69.37680561691764,,0,-2.0446120093056686

 

 

 

Google Android just five weeks away?

 

    This week, another unnamed source told TmoNews - a T-Mobile obsessed blog - that the American wireless carrier will offer up the first Android phone for pre-sale on 17 September.

 

    Back in June, sources told The Wall Street Journal that Google's currently closed open mobile platform could be delayed until 2009.

 

    Clipped from: TmoNews » Blog Archive » Android may be here sooner then we think

 

    Android may be here sooner then we think

 

 

 

    We’re hearing rumor after rumor that Android has been delayed, and pushed back to 2009. Well TmoNews is jumping into the pool or rumors, calling BS on those other rumors, and putting in our vote of confidence on a presale of the Android phone on September 16th, 2008. This information, coming from a trusted source, prices the Android phone, also known as the G1 (Codename or real name, we’re not sure) at $399.

 

http://rj3sp.blogspot.com/2008/08/first-google-android-phone.html

 

^ If there is an iPhone killer, this is it.

taa daa!

 

it's heeerreee!

 

via racked blog:

 

 

Attack of the Android: Introducing the Google Phone

 

Tuesday, September 23, 2008, by Leslie Price

 

 

 

Today, T-Mobile held a press conference to introduce the world to the first Google phone. G1, the iPhone's newest challenger for smartphone supremacy, will go on sale for $179 on October 22nd. And while it's certainly cooler than a lot of cells on the market, how does it match up with the iPhone?

 

For one thing, it's not as slick looking: G1 is a slider with a touchscreen and a physical keyboard, which means it's thicker and bulkier than its competitor. Also, G1 is made entirely out of plastic—certainly not as snazzy as the glassy iPhone. A positive: G1 will have it's own Android (the phone's operating software) apps store, where developers can upload and sell their programs for free, while Apple charges a fee to upload and takes a cut of each app sale. Gizmodo's already weighed in on some of the phone's other drawbacks; we're sure everyone else will have the gadget's pluses and minuses sorted out by the end of the day.

 

· The new T-Mobile G1 with Google cell phone [Official Site]

 

· G1 Android phone coming October 22 for $179 [boing Boing Gadgets]

· Photo Gallery: G1 Android Phone Up Close and Personal [Gadget Lab]

· Google and T-Mobile Introduce Phone With PC Features [NYT]

 

http://racked.com/archives/2008/09/23/attack_of_the_android_introducing_the_google_phone.php

 

 

 

taa daa!

 

it's heeerreee!

 

via racked blog:

 

 

Attack of the Android: Introducing the Google Phone

 

Tuesday, September 23, 2008, by Leslie Price

 

 

 

Today, T-Mobile held a press conference to introduce the world to the first Google phone.

 

It's like what people in 1960 imagined how the phones in 1980 might look.

an earlier sneak peak of it in use:

 

 

Between all of the Google developers, HTC product engineers, and T-Mobile employees involved, in-the-wild shots were bound to get out sooner or later.

 

And now they have, on the blog of Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins. Rizzn got the shots through a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-spy, and passed’em on for the world to see. While there isn’t all that much new to see from these shots, it sure is nice to see it out and about - and more importantly, that it doesn’t seem all that tough to type around that eyesore on the end.

 

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/09/19/shots-of-the-htc-dream-g1-android-phone-in-the-wild/

Here is the black version ...

 

http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/57/

 

 

Has anyone started using Chrome yet?  I think its pretty sweet.  Pages seem to load about 2 to 3 times faster than IE.

Not yet. I'm waiting for it to become extension-able. I'm spoiled with FF

funny enough i got a call from my spouse & her old work friends yesterday to come over to an afterwork party and what do you know it was for google for their 10 anniversary. founders larry page and sergey brin were in the house. i had a lot of work to do today so i only stuck around long enough to say, "yay, android!"

 

Information Week:

 

 

Google's Larry Page Calls FCC White Space Test 'Rigged'

The test back in August determined whether a prototype device for transmitting Internet traffic over the unused white space in the TV spectrum could interfere with microphones.

 

By  Thomas Claburn,  InformationWeek

  Sept. 25, 2008

URL:

 

  In an address to Washington lawmakers on Wednesday to advocate opening of a portion of the television spectrum for Internet networking, Google co-founder Larry Page charged that a recent FCC "white space" device test had been rigged to fail... Copyright © 2007 CMP Media LLC 

One disappointing thing to me about the G1 is a lack of Exchange support. Other than that, I like it. I felt HTC could've done a better job with design.

At last Google invents something truly brilliant

Posted by Chris  Matyszczyk

 

I know those little Google search ads are supposed to be terribly clever.

 

And I realize that Google has lots of other highly interesting services, none  of which come to my mind just this minute because, well, I seem to have done  without them until now. They don't move me. They don't make me think "oh, what a  fabulous little invention."

 

Then I heard  about GMail Goggles. So brilliant and yet so wonderfully, non-mathematically  human...

Google-sponsored satellite sends first image Oct 9 01:36 PM US/Eastern A Google-sponsored satellite has beamed its first picture back to Earth in a successful test of a camera that will supply images for the Internet giant's free online map and navigation services.  The high-resolution color image from GeoEye-1, which was launched September 6 from a US air force base in California, was of a university campus in Pennsylvania, satellite operator GeoEye Inc. said in a statement. The Dulles, Virginia-based company provided a link to the image at its website: www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/Default.aspx The picture of the Kutztown University campus was taken on Tuesday while the satellite was in a 423-mile-high (681 km) orbit over the East Coast of the United States, GeoEye said. "We expect the quality of the imagery to be even better as we continue the calibration activity," said Brad Peterson, GeoEye's vice president of operations.             GeoEye-1's main client is the US government's mapping arm, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, but Google is a major sponsor of the 500-million-dollar satellite and has exclusive commercial rights to its images. "We are pleased to release the first GeoEye-1 image, bringing us even closer to the start of the satellite's commercial operations and sales to our customers," said GeoEye chief executive Matthew O'Connell. Because of national security concerns, GeoEye-1's government clients will receive higher resolution photos than commercial clients such as Google, which plans to use the images on its popular Google Maps and Google Earth programs.             The satellite imagery from GeoEye-1 will be of a higher resolution and better quality than what is currently available on Google Maps and Google Earth.             The GeoEye-1 venture is not Google's only trip into space. Google co-founder Sergey Brin is a space buff and has booked a seat on a flight to the International Space Station with the company Space Adventures, which plans to take space tourists to the orbiting space station beginning in 2011.

I got to play with the G1 on Monday ... Awesome phone, no doubt.

 

The screen is a little smaller than the iPhone (held it side by side) and the screen doesn't seem as bright or clear. The browser is a little sticky. When scrolling through pages it has a lag, but this is probably a processor issue. The icon placement, scrolling, and working the phone all mimic the iPhone. Zooming in on a page is a B, because I'm used to the "pinch and spread" instead of pressing the zoom buttons. The browser is sweet, no issues with page viewing, even logged into an Exchange email page (I chose this because it has difficult frames to work with, the MS does on purpose ;) ) ... For $179, I'd dish out an extra $20, and buy the 8GB iPhone.

 

If you have any questions about it, feel free to ask.

This is very good news. Understandable why it was not front page given the date of the vote.

 

****************************************************************

 

 

FCC Approves Google-Backed Plan to Free TV Airwaves (Update2)

 

By Molly Peterson

 

 

Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. regulators agreed to free up unused television airwaves for wireless Internet access, handing a victory to Google Inc. and rejecting claims by broadcasters that the plan would disrupt TV signals.

 

The proposal, approved 5-0 today by the Federal Communications Commission, would let unlicensed devices use the vacant channels, known as white spaces, if they come equipped with anti-interference technology. Mobile-phone makers such as Motorola Inc. would have to obtain FCC certification for each white-space product before putting it on the market...

 

To contact the reporter on this story: Molly Peterson in Washington at [email protected]

Last Updated: November 4, 2008 18:33 EST

 

 

 

 

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

 

Google is hosting the LIFE magazine picture archive. Type in your favorite city and see what pops up.

 

So far I have a lot of pictures of the Indians and Browns, and the national guard in Ytown with machine guns during the Strike in the 1937.

updated google earth for ny. i played with it a little bit tonight -- it's awesome.

 

 

December 17, 2008

 

New York City in Photo-Realistic 3D Now in Google Earth

 

Google has updated the 3D buildings in Google Earth for New York City! This is a HUGE update with at least hundreds (if not thousands) of new 3D buildings with photo textures applied. Basically, Google has completed nearly every building in Manhattan Island for Google Earth. Just fly to "New York City" and turn on the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. Tilt your view so you can see the buildings in all their glory. This is the largest city i've seen done with photo-realistic textures to date.

 

As a comparison, here is what New York's 3D photo-realistic buildings looked like in January 2007:

 

 

And here is what it looks like today (click on the image for a high resolution version made with Google Earth Pro):

 

 

By the way, many people had already contributed dozens of photo-realistic 3D buildings to NYC since January 2007. And Google has faithfully kept those models in the layer while adding in the new buildings to fill in the gap.

 

I plan to create a video fly through soon. In the meantime, check it out for yourself in Google Earth now. By the way, there's a cool way of flying around buildings in Google Earth 4.3+ - You can swoop between buildings like Spiderman.... read this story for tips.

 

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/12/new_york_city_in_photorealistic_3d.html

Might want to put this on mute unless you dig Eye of the Tiger and the Hamster Dance song.

 

 

 

December 09, 2008

 

Google Doubles US Coverage of Street View Imagery

 

Today Google has doubled the amount of coverage for Street View imagery in the United Sates. Street View is now available in many new cities and states. New cities such as: Memphis, Birmingham, and Charleston, SC. And new states for the first time such as Maine, West Virginia, North Dakota and South Dakota. If you turn on the Street View layer in Google Earth, you can zoom around and get an idea of the scale of the amount of Street View coverage available now in Google Earth and Google Maps (you used to be able to get an overview in Google Maps of the Street View imagery, but I'm not sure how to do that with the newly designed maps interface). There is coverage in roads going between cities and in smaller towns now - not just the major cities. Both Google Maps and Google Earth share the same imagery database, so the availability of the imagery is the same in both platforms. Here is the Official Google Blog post with more details on the new imagery.

 

Streetview coverage map

I hadn't been following this thread and missed the previous post, but the other night I took note of GoogleMaps' coverage areas...

 

US Coverage (streetview):

 

World Coverage (streetview):

 

US Coverage (traffic):

I wonder how often they will update the street view images. Every few years or so would be nice.

I heard today (maybe someone already posted this) that Google Earth recently added historical imagery, allowing you to select from several images over the past 15 or so years; its a fun feature.

They also added updated ocean floor imagery.

 

New View of Ocean Floor in Google Earth  Google has released a new rendering of the ocean floors around the world. The ocean floor is colored to reflect the terrain features of the sub-sea surface. The new rendering is a bit higher resolution (much higher in places) and is presumably more accurate than the previous version.

 

According to the copyright messages the new ocean floor is coming from "SIO, NOAA, US Navy, NGA, GEBCO". These entities are dedicated to getting the best ocean floor surface data they can. You don't have to do anything special to see the new ocean floor, just open up Google Earth (it's not visible in Google Maps yet). Unfortunately, the new ocean floor in Google Earth is NOT 3D - yet. This could be the first part of the release of new data for the rumored "Google Ocean".  Hopefully, we'll see a 3D version someday.

[UPDATE: As someone pointed out in the comments, some island atolls which had low resolution data look less "visible" in the new imagery. Particularly noticeable are the Maldives, also St. Helens, Montagu Island, and many other islands now show "floor" instead of the islands. I have to agree with the sentiment of the commenter. Although Google has tried to at least show those portions of the atolls which have above water presence.

 

In my opinion it is very important to show satellite/aerial imagery any time you can see the undersea surface in addition to the land. If the bathymetry is visible through imagery, then show real photos! It will be helpful to mariners/boaters who use those waters who will then be able to see both undersea structure, and locations of anchorages (presence of other boats).]

Here is a comparison of the old ocean floor (as currently seen with Google Maps) verses the new look in Google Earth (click on the image for a larger view comparison):

 

 

http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images109/oceancompare2.jpg[/img]

 

 

In some areas - like near the shore of Puerto Rico - the ocean floor imagery shows higher resolution terrain data than in other areas. But, what many of us would like to see is 3D bathymetry (terrain) data as well! It's all just a matter of time.

I heard today (maybe someone already posted this) that Google Earth recently added historical imagery, allowing you to select from several images over the past 15 or so years; its a fun feature.

 

From the Google Earth Blog - http://www.gearthblog.com/

 

 

Google Earth 5 - Initial Reactions  Google Earth 5 was released on Monday February 2nd. Overall, it appears the reaction globally has been very positive. Lots of excitement over the four major new features: Ocean, Recorded Tours, Historical Imagery, and Mars. Many other significant features have been discovered in the last two days especially for developers.

    Here are some notes on initial reactions so far to Google Earth 5:

• 
   
  
• Installation - There have been some discussions in the past about the Google Earth installation process. When installing Google Earth (and many other Google applications), Google has been installing an application called "Google Updater" which runs on your machine in the background checking periodically for updates. It will automatically notify you when an update is available and give you the choice of installing updates. This applies to both Windows and the Mac versions of Google Earth now. Now, when you first download Google Earth from their web site, it notifies you about the application. Some people would prefer to just download the application itself and install it themselves. Overall, there have been few reports I've seen with other installation problems (considering the number of people installing GE).
     
  
• New User Interface - Google has made some changes to the look compared to GE 5. The most obvious being new buttons at the top, and new sliders for time animation, historical imagery, and record tours. I've seen some positive reactions to the more "Mac-like" look on the Mac. There haven't been any wide-spread complaints to date on the other changes.
     
  
• Historical Imagery - Probably the strongest general user reaction has been over the historical imagery. People are literally "wowed" by the ability to turn back the clock and look at places over time from an aerial perspective. But, I've also heard strong reactions in many other areas. Here are some highlights:
     
  
• Mars - probably the second-most popular addition is the Mars mode. This new feature seemed to surprise a lot of people. There have been other Mars virtual globes (WorldWind and Celestia). But, the new Google Mars has a lot of nice features and is rich with annotations, imagery, 3D terrain, and photos. I know several people in the space program who are thrilled with this new popular tool for Mars.
       
  
• Ocean - The most-anticipated new feature has also been very popular. Many people are thrilled to see such a popular application help raise awareness about the world's oceans and some of the threats to the ocean environment. I hope lots of people will go beyond the 3D bathymetry and explore the new "Ocean" layers which contain very important information about overfishing, rapidly melting ice at the poles, man-made environmental threats, and other issues facing the oceans. See this nice CNN story about the new GE 5's Ocean data.
   
  
• Recorded Tours - There are new tours coming out which are beginning to show the power of Recorded Tours. Anyone can make a recorded tour, but developers have new features that enable some amazing ways to demonstrate Google Earth to people. I'm expecting this will end up being the most used new feature in GE 5. Google also had Jimmy Buffet show up at their announcement and they produced a tour showing Jimmy Buffet's concert tour!
   
  

  For Google Earth developers, here are a few reactions: 

• Changes to KML - to enable some of the new features in GE 5, Google had to make extensions to the standard KML.  However, some have expressed concerns that Google has done this, saying it will be harder for other companies to adopt the standard if Google changes it. Google has heavily documented the changes, they say they've used provisions provided by the KML standard to make changes.  And, they've updated libkml for the new features. I would expect they would like to see these new extensions become a part of the standard in a future update.
  
• Internal Browser - Google has improved the support of browser features in placemarks. You can now include iFrames, and most other features in placemarks. This means you can have more sophisticated HTML content and user interfaces inside Google Earth. I expect there will be some powerful new ways to interact with Google Earth as developers get a chance to take advantage of this new capability. One example is the new Mars easter egg with Meliza.   
  
• Altitude Mode - there have been some concerns expressed about being able to render KML undersea (see discussion in comments to this post).  Some files seem to work just fine, but developers are asking questions about the implementation.     
  
• Record Tour - Lots of excitement by developers with the new Record Tour. Many of us have been waiting for some type of "scripted" capability to share experiences and show things to people with Google Earth. Many developers have lauded the new features and shown a lot of excitement about the possibilities. I'm sure there will be some initial issues as this is a new feature. But, I'm sure Google will listen and address shortcomings in future updates. Expect to see a lot from developers using this new powerful feature.
  

  Developers should also make sure to check out these posts:  (GEB, OgleEarth 1, OgleEarth 2, GoogleGeoDeveloperBlog).

Google moves onto the smart grid

By Todd Woody, Fortune Magazine, February 10, 2009

 

Google has become the utility of the digital age, something we click on as much as we flick on a light switch or turn on the water tap. Now the search giant is literally getting into the utility business with the development of smart grid software that gives consumers real-time information on their electricity consumption.

 

Called the PowerMeter, the prototype online dashboard is designed to download data from smart meters and display current electricity use and show how much power your refrigerator, big-screen television and other appliances are using at any point in time...

 

 

I just got an invite and signed up for Google Voice.  Anyone else using it right now?

 

 

Columbus now has more coverage of 3D Buildings in Google Earth.  I noticed this as I was modeling the New Main St Bridge. 

 

god in carroll gardens, brooklyn? haha!

 

 

 

August 4, 2009, 12:11 pm

 

Has Google Found a Stairway to Heaven in Brooklyn?

 

By Jenna Wortham

 

Ever since Google began deploying a roving fleet of cars to capture panoramic, street-level views as a function of the company’s Maps service, a gallery of unusual and occasionally controversial finds have been discovered through the feature.

 

But nothing quite this mystical.

 

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/04/technology/google_streetview.480.jpg

 

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/has-google-found-a-stairway-to-heaven-in-brooklyn/

 

I just got an invite and signed up for Google Voice.  Anyone else using it right now?

 

 

 

I just got my invite a few days ago.  I set up my account and chose a number but I haven't really had time to play with it yet

Regarding Google Earth, is there an easy way to make a poster-size high-resolution image of an entire metropolitan area (say, Cincinnati) without having to save a few dozen individual images and stitch them all together?

They are a weird format, (SID) and you need a special viewer to open them, but here is a link to aerial photos of entire counties in Ohio:

http://gis1.oit.ohio.gov/geodatadownload/osip.aspx

 

I haven't used the viewer for over a year, but I seem to recall being able to export/print images from the SID file in any size I wanted.

 

The reason I bring this up is because I think this is Google map's source for their aerial views.

 

Hope someone finds this useful.

Regarding Google Earth, is there an easy way to make a poster-size high-resolution image of an entire metropolitan area (say, Cincinnati) without having to save a few dozen individual images and stitch them all together?

 

AFAIK having Google Earth Pro allows you to set the resolution much higher when exporting your view to a file, but there is still a limit. Back when I actually had a job, the only way we made poster-sized high-resolution aerials was with Aerials Express.

I just got an invite and signed up for Google Voice.  Anyone else using it right now?

 

 

 

Got mine about a week and a half ago ... ready for Google to start porting numbers!

Columbus is now all photo realistic.  You should check it out.  It is really cool!

Google Updates Chrome with Extensions, APIs

Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Jan 25, 2010 9:03 pm

 

Google's release Monday of a "stable channel" update of the Google Chrome browser for Windows features HTML and JavaScript APIs as well as browser extensions, according to company blogs....

 

...The extensions in Chrome offer content and functionality from a Web site into the browser regardless of what sites the user has open; they can provide alerts and notifications or perhaps let a user access favorite Web services from icons next to a user's address bar.

 

"Google Chrome extensions use the same multi-process technology that makes the browser fast and more secure, so that extensions won't crash or slow down your browser," Fette said in the Google Code Blog. Google offers an online extensions gallery....

 

 

Full article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/187663/google_updates_chrome_with_extensions_apis.html

 

There is now expanded streetview coverage in more places in Canada, AK, Norway and Finland

 

Farthest north coverage in AK, Deadhorse. They drove th whole of Dalton Highway

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=70.246866,-148.382635&spn=0,359.91889&z=14&layer=c&cbll=70.24277,-148.392094&panoid=fuzbdakDOHp5ElAwxRMOFQ&cbp=12,337.61,,0,10.62

 

Northern Most in Canada (Inuvik YK)

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=68.39918,-134.79126&spn=0,349.61792&z=7&layer=c&cbll=68.380862,-133.756418&panoid=iQMIa4SFYFYrlPzYLElA1w&cbp=12,127.52,,0,5

 

Welcome to Russia

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=67.049233,29.429626&spn=0,357.40448&z=9&layer=c&cbll=66.941474,29.018527&panoid=5t3cEq9QPOm0Kpl-invoGw&cbp=12,84.18,,0,9.57

 

Anyone have thoughts regarding Buzz?

I think Buzz has fizzled so far.

 

Maybe I missed it but did you guys know Cincinnati is now in 3D on Google Earth?

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/01/cincinnati-now-in-3d.html

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/01/cincinnati-now-in-3d.html

Totally sweet.

Woman Sues Google for Bad Directions

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100531/tc_pcworld/womansuesgoogleforbaddirections

 

Search Engine Land reports  that Rosenberg, a Los Angeles California native, is suing Google because Google Maps issued directions that told her to walk down a rural highway. She started walking down the highway--which had no sidewalk or pedestrian paths--and was struck by a car. She is suing Google for her medical expenses ($100,000), as well as punitive damages. She is also suing the driver who struck her, Patrick Harwood of Park City, Utah.

 

On January 19, 2010, Rosenberg was apparently trying to get from 96 Daly Street, Park City, Utah, to 1710 Prospector Avenue, Park City, Utah. She looked up the walking directions using Google Maps on her Blackberry. Google Maps suggested a route that included a half-mile walk down "Deer Valley Drive," which is also known as "Utah State Route 224."

 

There's not much more to say--she started walking down the middle of a highway, and a car hit her. Who wouldn't have seen that one coming?

 

She was walking down the MIDDLE of the highway---THE MIDDLE!!!!

 

...Edit - she was struck crossing the road in the early dawn hours, it was dark and she assumed there was a sidewalk on the other side

 

http://searchengineland.com/attorney-in-google-maps-lawsuit-43349

 

However, the lawyers expect Google to review their street view imagery for walks, every one of them

“Google had shots of the corner there. Had they looked at that, they would have realized,” Young said.

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