360 Cities -- if you can't be there, click here

April 3, 2008 2:07 PM

360 Cities contains over 6,000 fantastically shot virtual reality panoramas of 50+ cities worldwide. It's also accessible through Google Earth and Google Maps. Too immersive for you? Well, check out VeniVidiWiki to discover points of interest with videos, nature areas and parks, restaurants, hotels, and other travel-related stuff.
posted by cog_nate (9 comments total)

My wife kinda squicked out when she saw that the street-level view of our house in Google maps included our children outside playing on the lawn. A little too 1984-ish? Can one opt out?
posted by Devils Rancher at 2:10 PM on April 3, 2008

Done. But with errors.
posted by punkfloyd at 2:14 PM on April 3, 2008

It's criminal that they don't have Sydney yet - being the most beautiful city in the world and all - but nice to have both Riga & Liepaja represented.
posted by UbuRoivas at 2:22 PM on April 3, 2008

Google has also attempted to mollify privacy concerns by allowing photographic subjects who are uncomfortable with their image on the database to request its removal. -- Stanford Daily

Go to Street View Help, then click Report Inappropriate Image.
posted by dhartung at 3:11 PM on April 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

Looks amazing—thanks!
posted by languagehat at 6:32 PM on April 3, 2008

360 Cities contains over 6,000 fantastically shot virtual reality panoramas of 50+ cities

Sounds like they need to add about 300 more cities.
posted by IAmHumblerThanYou at 6:33 PM on April 3, 2008

good image resolution, with zoom.
posted by uni verse at 7:43 PM on April 3, 2008

Go to Street View Help, then click Report Inappropriate Image.

Thanks. Let's see if the behemoth notices my feeble protestations.
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:24 PM on April 3, 2008

"if you can't be there, click here" - unless you are curious about the continent of Africa.
Some incredible photography from the represented cities, though.
posted by AppleSeed at 4:08 AM on April 4, 2008