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Spotted: Google Street View Trike

SPOTTED BY: Torontoist Flickr Pool contributor emanintdot. WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square WHEN: Approximately 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday WHAT: By now we're largely familiar with the Google Street View car, which traverses city streets to record the details of our thoroughfares. But cars can't get everywhere, and in its quest for thoroughness (a good or bad thing, depending on how you look at it) Google has also outfitted smaller, more nimble vehicles with its 360 degree cameras. The Google Street View trike records hard-to-reach places like laneways and alleys, and it was on display for curious onlookers yesterday.

Googling Toronto: Rob Ford Edition

Since the summer of 2010, Toronto’s political discourse has remained cranked at eleven. And while our new mayor isn’t completely to blame, he’s lit more than his share of fires. But just what kind of impact is this new climate having on Toronto’s online presence? To answer this tough question, we consulted the most important [...]

TTC and Google Maps Work Together on Mobile Devices, Too

On Thursday, we spilled the beans about the TTC’s new integration with Google Maps, which means that as of this very moment you can use Google’s service as a trip planner. (Just don’t try to get to get to Ottawa.) We missed mentioning it at the time, but the whole thing should work on your [...]

TTC Is Now On Google Maps

A sample TTC trip planned using Google Maps. It’s about time. Launched in 2005, Google Maps has provided transit directions for a number of transit agencies across North America, but up until now, TTC customers haven’t had the benefit of Google-based internet trip planning. That’s changed now, as Google and the TTC have quietly activated [...]

Google Updates Satellite Maps, Makes Us Green

Google—that tease—has quietly replaced one set of satellite imagery of Toronto on Google Maps and Google Earth with one far greener and sunnier than the previous. Remember what summer was like? You can reflect wistfully at your convenience. Hat tip to Ervin2 over at SkyscraperCity.

Googling Toronto

Since its official launch in August 2008, Google Suggest has been fuelling a new auto-complete meme that has taken off on social sites like Digg and Reddit and even encouraged news sites like Slate to take a pseudo-sociolinguistic look at Google’s most popular searches. What we search can tell us a lot about who we [...]

An Aerial Earth

Google Earth image of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, just outside of Atlanta. In the two rooms of Gallery 44 at 401 Richmond Street West, you can see planes take off from Chicago’s O’Hare and Tokyo’s International Airport at the same time. The gallery’s current exhibition, entitled “Google Earth”—running from October 23 to November 28—features a handful [...]

Google is Hiding Something

The neighbourhoods of Alderwood and Long Branch have been almost entirely omitted from Google Street View. The blue lines represent the areas covered by Google Street View. Contrary to what Google Street View indicates, Browns Line doesn’t have a huge gap in it. Although Google has mapped most of the city in 3D, Street View [...]

The World’s Tallest Freestanding Cylinder

When Google rolled out the Street View version of Google Maps, a rift in the space/time continuum (or, so they claim, an error in stitching together the shots) appeared to produce, from some viewpoints in the city, duplicate CN Towers. But Google wasn’t done with our poor CN Tower—no, now that Google Maps also features [...]

Nowhere to Hide from Google Street View

Yesterday’s launch of Google Street View created a new wave of digital tourism, with most of us starting with our home address and then scouring the mostly anonymous bodies nearby for flickers of recognition. As is par for the course with the service, the camera sometimes captures some unusual, quirky, and mysterious events. Here are [...]

Google Street View Toronto Goes Live

At long last, Google Street View has gone live for Toronto as of this morning. We’re gonna be perusing the sights today, but if you spot anything great, email it to tips@torontoist.com. Thanks to reader Ben Hendry for the tip.

Google Street View Car Spotted Again, and Again, and Again

Photo by Caitlin Jane. Last Friday at Bloor and Lansdowne, Torontoist reader Caitlin Jane spotted one of Google’s Street View cars, caught precariously in the middle of an intersection, as the cars are wont to do. Jane writes: “it was trying to turn right onto Bloor (heading west) and had to wait for the light, [...]