Now this is just effin’ kewl. At the Where 2.0 Conference today Google released an exciting new feature called Google Maps Street View that’s “wow’d” the tech industry. It’s a feature that Microsoft and Amazon A9 have beta’d and let slide off the face of the planet without any further updates or attention. Well, what’s a loss to them is a gain for Google. They took the idea and applied a better user interface that makes it blend well with the existing Google Maps. The new feature makes you want to literally “walk” the streets of San Francisco and Las Vegas.

Street View takes the existing technology to a whole new level. Smooth transitioning 3D panorama views with high quality photos that you can zoom into and drag around. Really neat. I seriously wish San Diego was on the list of cities like San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Denver, and Miami but like Google Transit we’ll just have to wait a year or two. Dammit!

Anyways, the new feature opens up a whole new world to peeps like me. For the next few hours I’ll probably walk the streets of San Francisco and New York looking for funny and weird shots that Google accidentally photographed. Try these for instance:

Need some money?
She’s got legs and she knows how to use them.
Hot babes direct to you.
Oh, it’s definitely a thong!
Attack of the clones.

If you’re outside the U.S., click this: http://maps.google.com/?&gl=us and search for one of the listed cities above.

[Via: Google Earth Blog, Techcrunch, and Google Maps Mania]