ryoung wrote:
I now use.
http://www.instantstreetview.com/
I opened the above site and entered my address. My house is two years old and it wasn't there. I rotated the street view to my neighbors house across the street, which was built 8 years ago, and it's not there either. Just empty building lots. The house next to his appears, but it was built 10 years ago. Not much use using data that's 8 years old.
I'll stick with Google Maps.
ryoung
Actually, I just looked at instantstreetview.com again and it uses an API to Google Maps so it is just a shortcut to Google Maps' street views. Does Google Maps show more recent photos of your street then instantstreetview.com? If so, Google must not release their latest photos to all.
You bring up an interesting point though, how often can these map companies afford to retake street view photos? It's quite an undertaking and I know they have automated camera rigs on the vehicles that are driven around to do this but still it has to be costly.
