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Here at Tinnovation HQ we’ve been Google Maps fans since day one!

A great piece of tech that we’ve had fun with in the past, see Gaming Dave’s Google Racer here.

So we were very pleased to see the launch of Street View in the UK yesterday. Having scouted about for an hour or so we were even more pleased to see a couple of our crew represented!

First up, Head of Dev, the big Jay Burton with our ex-traffic manager, Liz:

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And coming up the rear, Head of Interactive, Gaming Dave and his lovely missus Christina:

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Brilliant! Have you spotted anything good on Street View yet? Drop us a link in the comments below!

Daves car

He’s been at it again, our David has produced what I think is a great demonstration of a browser bassed Google Earth & Google Maps (within Flash) mashup.

So please start your engines and get ready to make your own sound effects as you taz around a city of your choosing.

NB UPDATE
As it turns out, thanks to Googles servers not having a cross-domain policy file, it is not possible to analyse the image data returned by the Googls Maps API. As a result the detection method used to determine if the car is on a road doesnt work online.

We hope at some stage to either resolve this, or make a downloadable version.

(Screen shots below)