Google Streetview - mindshifting the globe

Google has added a new feature, Streetview. The map is now alive, a seamless span of live images.

Now when you travel you can see exactly what to expect; the neighborhood, the parking, the house or building.

1. How can you use this?
2. What about privacy for those who happen to show up in a photo?
   
3. What happens if your house is pictured while going through renovation just before you put it up for sale and that's the image someone sees while house hunting?
4. How might you use Streetview and Map Create for business and marketing?
   

Click here for an orientation on creating your own map.

The mindshift: maps go interactive with live images, data and search capability. Have our mental models for maps changed much, a means to figure out how to get from point "A" to point "B?"

There seems to be some innovative opportunities, but it will take a mindshift.