German people don’t like Google Street View much. Following the legal backlash which saw the Berlin State Supreme Court dub Street View an illegal invasion of privacy, Google is blurring out 240,000 locations whose owners don’t want them displayed online.
There are several social and political implications about German citizens having uncommon standards for privacy and being slow to adopt (and refreshingly skeptical of) something like Street View, but how about we just gloss over that and enjoy the novelty of this unusual visualization of a locale?
Head over to the Creators Project to read a great blog on the subject.