The news was all over Twitter this morning. Google Street View went live for Hong Kong. This is dangerously addictive stuff. Basically you go to Google Maps and then keep zooming in. Once you’ve zoomed in far enough, it will switch over from a map to street view.
What’s amazing to me is how much of Hong Kong they’ve covered. Central and Wanchai were a no-brainer. Yes, you can see all the Wanchai bars (but they did the photos during the day, not at night). They got Sai Kung town, too. And then I followed the trail all the way into the car park of my tiny village. I could see my car and my house!
Just what I need, another dangerously addictive distraction.
UPDATE: As others figured out long before me, you can click on the little orange man and it will outline the streets covered by Street View in blue. Drag the “man” to the street you want to view. Looking around Sai Kung, I know they shot this in the morning because the gate at Anthony’s Ranch is down. And at the bottom of my road it shows construction, that finished up a few months back. Anyway, the more I look at this, the more I’m loving it.
