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December 09, 2008

See your house in Google Street View
By Jeff Inglis

Google Street View has come to Maine - and we expect privacy problems will not be far behind. To see what's going on, visit maps.google.com and notice there's an orange person-shaped figure at the top of the zoom-in/zoom-out slider on the left side of the map area. Drag the orange figure over the map itself, and you'll see areas highlighted in blue - those are where Street View works.

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