Street View on Google Maps

If you haven’t visited the Google Maps site recently, check it out. They’ve made a startling—at least according to some people I’ve shown it to—addition. For many an address in larger cities, Google now provides a “street view,” a 360 degree panoramic photographic view of the street. One can then do a virtual walk down the street, and turn corners on to neighboring avenues. It doesn’t appear that they’ve gotten to North Dakota or South Dakota yet, but if you live in the New York City area, as I do, people from Google have likely driven down your street. While some people say “Oh, Wow,” others see this as an invasion of privacy. I’m with the “Oh, Wow” crowd, but I do understand the concern for privacy. What do you think?