Just check it out. EveryScape is darn impressive. Sure you could view Flickr pics from a beautiful city placed nicely on Yahoo maps, or download GoogleEarth to view the world in 3D, but EveryScape is something totally different – you get an actual 360° image of the scene. You can rotate the view and move along to the next block… just try it for yourself, no registration needed and all you need from your browser is flash. I wonder how long it will take them to scape tho whole world though. Currently they have a whopping 5 blocks of downtown San Fransisco scaped, so I think they have a long way to go still. When they do get it done, it’ll probably be really awesome. Meanwhile, you could just go for a stroll downtown – now that’s the most realistic experience you’ll ever have.
Nice article. (I’m a bit biased.) We’ve actually finished acquiring all of San Francisco, and have multiple teams going out in both coasts.
It’s nice to see the world for free like what Everyscape and MapJack.com are doing. But I hope they will be mindful of some etiquettes when it comes to privacy.