virtual yooperland... and rest of the world

They're here.
Whitefish Pt Lightouse-google view
Don't have the time to drive to Whitefish Point today? Go there virtually, right now.
Google has come to da yoop. I even found my house for the whole world to see(not too thrilled). It's called Google street view service. Go look for your house, bet you'll find it unless you live on a well hidden remote two track. Google has been driving all over the world with a video cam mounted on top of their car that takes 360 degree images of every road they drive down like every 25 feet or so- with 360 panning available everywhere they drive- up, down, side to side. It is amazing.
Ever been to the Jampot?
It's a bakery run by monks, living in a Catholic Monastery of the Byzantine Rite, in Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw Peninsula. Leave it to Google to capture a couple of these monks leaving the Jampot.
Jampot-google street view
If you come to the Keweenaw during the summer, you MUST try Jampot's Abbey Cake, a fruit cake drenched with bourbon. Everything they have there is GOOD, I like their caramels and carrot cake cream cheese muffins. They have all kinds of jams as well, made from the wild berries they pick themselves.It's a sure thing instant weight gain of five pounds every time we go there!
Proceeding on- to more Googling via street view-
This technology is cool,and compilation of all this information and framework to run all this is mind boggling, but if only everyone used the internet for the good of mankind, know what I mean? I do hope the people in charge of our country's security are taking a deep look at this, but too late now, cat's out of the bag.
Check out the Mackinaw Bridge, you can 360 it to look up, down, all around. All at your fingertips.
mac bridge looking straight up Google street view

Mac Bridge Google street view

Granted, with digital cams nowadays you can get even better pics than this, but you have to physically GO there, and you can't stop on the bridge when driving across. I wonder right now how many people that hate America are combing thru this incredible amount of visual knowledge at their fingertips.

Here's a link of some people in Britain turning back a Google car.

And there have been lawsuits already from disgruntled residents finding out their house has been Googlerized.

When an increase in break ins in affluent neighborhoods is starting to be directly tied to Google street view, this really makes one think if all this info at one's desktop is really a good thing.
I don't have the time, but I'd be interested to see what sensitive areas are being displayed by Google in this street view that you find- that should probably be deleted for the security of the country. A couple months back when I first found out about street view, I toured the streets of Chicago and got an in depth view of Soldier Field, Lakeshore Drive, etc. and was amazed at the detail being shown. Too bad Google can't demand a term of this street view service is to use it in only the best of good intentions.