Google Street View Glasgow

Google HQ must be a fantastic place to work.  Practically limitless resources to chuck at doing more and more amazingly technical things with the internet whilst silently shaping the way we use the internet and what we can find on there.  That’s pretty much what we’re about here, but our pockets aren’t as deep.

I’ve just discovered via The Register that their Google Street View service has finally launched in the UK with amazingly detailed images of a number of major cities, including my hometown of Glasgow.

Like any business, Google is all about generating online revenue and I had an interesting chat at the weekend with a friend who works out of their London office in the advertising division and they’re always looking at new ways to squeeze more money out of advertisers.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a future development of Streetmap let you click on actual business shopfronts and then access related information.  They’ve already started on this in a sense via Google Local Business centre and that is something we actively involve ourselves with via our website optimisation service.

In the meantime, Google Street View is a pretty tidy app that gives us  an added feature that we can chuck into the mix  for any web design project we may be working on. We’ve done some pretty nifty things with the Google Maps API thus far, so it will be interesting to see how this new element gets used, abused and customised!