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Why do the bus riders have jackets and the walkers none? |
| By Bobby Tanzilo Managing Editor E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Bobby Tanzilo |
| Published Feb. 20, 2008 at 11:22 a.m. |
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Google has added street views of Milwaukee and if you're looking to have hours of fun, Google your address. The photos were apparently taken this summer (it's clearly warm out) and we know our neighborhood was done in July because our house guests' truck is parked in front in the photo!
Much like checking out your neighborhood in Google Earth, it's oddly fascinating to see the world you see every day captured by Google and available for anyone around the world to see.
I like looking at the people in the street view photos. I wonder if any of them know they're immortalized, captured on virtual film for the world to see. They are Milwaukee's virtual representatives.
When people from China, France and Australia search 1930 E. North Ave. -- and you know they will!! -- they'll see the two people waiting for the bus wearing out-of-season jackets and two others walking by in T-shirts. They might wonder, just like I do, what accounts for that discrepancy.
Surprisingly, perhaps, Milwaukee is out front in this technology. When my neighbors searched their parents' house in Texas, there was nothing. When I searched my childhood home in Brooklyn, there was also no street view.
Hurry, go Google your house!
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