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Have you Googled your house?
Why do the bus riders have jackets and the walkers none?  
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Tags: google maps, google earth, street view, milwaukee streets

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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BrewCityTimmy Mine was taken on a sunny day you can see the shadow of the Van taking the pictures. ...
arks00 I noticed the street view on Monday while searching an address downtown. Very ...
jagia I see my car parked outside my building(awesome spot), but that isn't too exciting. ...
Chrisna Your entry is much better written than mine: http://onmilwaukee.com/myOMC/blog/show/1336 ...
Downtown Shhhhh ..... I'm parked in the loading zone in front of our Downtown home on ...

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