Big Google is watching you me

Google Street View has come to Knoxville.

For instance, here's the place I just came back from -- the Knoxville Visitor Center on Gay Street, where the WDVX Blue Plate Special takes place every weekday:

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And here's a look at the Gay Street Bridge, seen from across the river in South Knoxville, with several downtown buildings, the Sunsphere, and the Henley Street Bridge in the distance:

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(Hat tip: Michael Silence.) More after the jump.

Here's a closer view of the Henley Street Bridge:

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And here's the view from the Henley Street Bridge, driving toward downtown:

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Here's the Sunsphere, as seen from the point where Main and Cumberland split off:

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Here's UT Law School:

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And here are a few different views of Neyland Stadium:

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Comments

[B. Minich]

This is so unfair.

How does Knoxville get Street View, but Washington DC and Baltimore do not?

I mean, come ON!

Heck, Google Street View goes through parts of po-dunk Indiana, PA! You'd figure that they could go through DC, or at least some DC suburbs!

[Brendan]

Hmm... that is odd. Is to overly paranoid to think that maybe the federal government has asked them not to do D.C.? (Though that wouldn't explain Baltimore.)

[kcatnd]

As a native of Nebraska, I was also surprised to find Street View for Lincoln and even a lot of the small towns within an hour's drive. If I were standing on the street in Shelby, Nebraska and saw the Google van drive by, I'd probably think it was a joke.

[Marty West]

They have had Street View in Philly for a while. But I live just outside the city in a town called Lansdowne. EVERY street in Lansdowne is now on Street View EXCEPT mine!!!! WTF Google?!!?!? I want to look at my house from your weird panoramic camera!!!!

[Beavis and Butthead]

Heh, heh, heh...

He said Gay...

Heh, heh, heh,.....

[B. Minich]

I wouldn't be surprised if the government said to not do DC. I suspect that Maryland is just being weird about this issue.

Maryland is weird about everything, so it would fit.

[David K.]

Eh, Spokane WA has it but Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia don't. I think google just picks names out of a hat or something.

[Nadine]

All the pictures in this post are black for me and I'm using the firefox browser.

If I link into the pictures, then also the Street View pictures under Google Maps is black.

So Big Google isn't watching you as so much censoring you...

[Alasdair]

Nadine - all I'm seeing is the black, and I'm using Internet Explorer ... it must be something special for us francophones to prevent us seeing it ...