For Blogging Out Loud...

So, Google has launched the UK version of it's controversial StreetView project. Now, like our friends in the States we can re-trace that drunken night out, check out our new neighbourhood or spy on our other halves...

The Google street cars have been trawling the nations highways and byways for months and the finished article is impressive with 360° horizontal and 290° vertical camera pictures.

Following legal discussion faces and numberplates are blurred.

How to use Google StreetView;

• Go to Google maps at maps.google.co.uk
• Zoom in on a major city
  
• Drag the yellow man left hand side onto a street on the map. If the street is highlighted blue StreetView is active
  
• Drop the man at the point you want to view from and you will switch to the 3D image.
• Play!