Google Street View has been available in several cities but has now made its debut in Boston, according to the Globe. The process allows you to take a 360 view of an address. If you want to use it, just go to Google Maps, type in a Boston address, and click on the little yellow man that pops up at the address. A new window will appear with a street-level image of the area. You......

Earlier today the home page of Channel 5's website carried a story about a Massachusetts bridge closure in prominent position. It's since been buried on the site. The story with the headline "Mass. Bridge Closed After Minn. Tragedy" evoked imagery of any of those bridges we reported on earlier, I-91 closures as it crisscrosses the Connecticut river, or some span over hills on Rt. 2, or even more local like the length that leads over......

Jason Bailey may have been chasing the car that eventually crashed into a tree on Blue Hill Avenue and Callender Street yesterday morning. That crash killed a passenger, 18-year-old Porsche Hubbard, and injured the female driver, a 10-year-old girl, and a baby. The DA's office announced that 28-year-old Bailey, of Mattapan, was arrested and charged for the crime yesterday, and he is being held on $100,000 bail. That announcement says that Bailey was allegedly vicious......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

Zooming in on the South End/Roxbury in Google Maps something interesting showed up: the gentrification line. The high resolution images are in their satellite database for all of Downtown and Back Bay. Most of the South End is included, but once you cross over Mass Ave, into what we generally accept as Roxbury, things aren't quite as clear, they aren't as green either. Back in January the Globe ran a piece called "Breaching Mass......

This afternoon, before the sloppy snow began to fall, a 22 year old man was struck by a Taxi on Huntington Ave near Forsyth St. The taxi clipped the rear wheel of the cyclist and sent him under the rear wheels of a nearby dump truck carrying a full load of scrap concrete. Northeastern News reports that police recovered a fixed-gear bike (with mangled front wheel), a cell phone, a right shoe, a messenger bag,......

Bostonist would suggest that if you're looking to get from Boston to London you check out the number of international flights available on any given day. Apparently Google Maps makes a different suggestion – 3,642 miles of swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, a stopover in France, and a crossing of the English Channel. It is not surprising that the Green Line won't get you there. Via Digg......

Uncle Google unwrapped another Werther's and handed it to us. Again, with butterscotch goodness in our mouths, we're totally giddy. Today's sugar high comes in the form of real-time traffic information on the Traffic button toggle on Google Maps. Major roads from Worcester to Boston and northbound and southbound from the area are color coded. It's also available in Providence, Springfield, Hartford, and many cities nation wide. The official Google blog gives us insight......

It's tough to not envy our Austin peers these days, as the sonic ear candy that is South by Southwest looms in mid-March. Without the ability to hop on a plane and hightail it to Texas, many have been left to look at initial lineup announcements and imagine wandering Sixth Street with happy grins on their faces. A new tool on the official festival site could add to the bitterness, but it can also......

The Red Sox have us all dreaming. Dreaming of warmer weather. Dreaming of baseball. Dreaming of the Fall Classic. We're just a week and a half away from the first matchup of the spring training opening match up – so there is a lot of time to consume with daydreaming about baseball. Because we don't have enough vacation time to spend the entire spring training season in Ft. Meyers we'll have to rely on......

There is something to be said for aerial photography. It's a great way to see the city on the large. It's expensive to take and it's not very interactive unless you know a pilot and can hop a ride to go check out the sites yourself. There is a company based in LA that is using technology to provide not only an aerial, zoomable view, but also panoramas and time lapse photography using gigapixel digital......

While you were waiting in line for the CharlieGate to open the MBTA has been hard at work. Fixing escalators? No. Running busses on schedule? Of course not. Giving their website a complete overhaul? You got it. This morning browsing over to the MBTA.com website brings up a whole new page. Compared to the last 2002-esque design of the T website of yesterday the new implementation is in the flashy web 2.0 vein. For......

The days are definitely shorter. Daylight escapes us all while toiling away at work. We leave under the blanket of dusk to head home. Less daylight hours almost always seem to have a negative effect on the motivation to go out on the town. Luckily the powers of the internets make it easier to figure out the closest dimly lit place to go grab a brew in your neighborhood. Last year the beermapping project......

It's a funny thing when you tell people they can take the bus from point A to point B in Boston. Most people just laugh. The buses in Boston don't really run on their schedule, though some get close. The problem is that most folks know how to get around using the trains and trolleys. busses simply confound most users in their routes. As they occasionally pass by they display things like "via Broadway" or......

In an anti-terrorism exercise to test bomb sniffing dogs and their handlers at Logan, State Police attached an 8 ounce piece of plastic explosive to a Massport pickup. The explosive turned up missing. No word on where the dogs are. When we heard about this incident we thought it couldn't be more absurd than losing explosives in a training exercise. Of course, it was. Massport's aptly named "Troop F" were working to complete the TSA......

Exploit Boston just showed us a new tool. We're totally keen on it. Though our preference has been for Google Maps since they launched, we knew Yahoo would do something to integrate their purchased web properties to try and win us over to their map world. This. Could. Be. It. You've been able to geotag your photos for some time. Now all you have to do is drag and drop photos on a map. Using......

It seems like Google Maps have been a go-to source forever (in reality it's little more than a year). The days of Mapquest hegemony are a memory. When the satellite overlay came out as part of Google's map project the Flickerati immediately took to creating memory maps by putting notes on grabbed images of everything from their childhood home to where they had their first kiss. The map we've been fiddling with all last......

Tomorrow the big trucks roll through our neighborhood picking up the stuff on the curb. Bostonist takes pride in the fact that during the last five weeks, our household has put out more in our blue recycling bin than trash. No, we haven’t just been hoarding the un-recyclables - it is just the result of learning to engage in three-R vigilance. If you don’t have a bin for recycling get in touch with your city,......

No longer is Bostonist's passion for cartography, especially on the interweb, a closely held secret. We could go ahead and link to all those times we've talked about Google Maps in past posts, but that would be a long list and we'd rather point you towards our new search tool, Rollyo, at the bottom of the page. Mapquest used to be the standard for online mapping, yahoo encroached, but Microsoft was slow to the......

. . . she looks at maps and sees people waving! And now, Google Maps brings that same effect to all of us. Bostonist, along with everyone else in the world who likes cool stuff, has told you lots of times about how Google Maps it the hottest thing since Susan Orlean's upstate New York weekend palace. Now we learn that it is even hotter than ever, because a couple new levels of zoom......

Bleeding-heart, privacy-loving, pinko-communist civil libertarian that we are, Bostonist has sometimes harbored doubts about sex offender registries. But we have also long been a map nerd (our bedroom in high school was decorated from floor to ceiling in bus and subway maps from around the world), and Google Maps is, in our humble opinion, the best thing on the internet since HotOrNot.com. So we can't help but be morbidly intrigued by MapSexOffenders.com, a service that......

Bostonist usually tells you about the mash-ups that are kicking new tunes over at the Independent. Today, however, we were told about the newest Google Maps mash-up. Seth Fitzsimmons (co-founder of the dailyjolt.com) over at mojoDNA.net sliced and diced the panels he pulled from Google Maps with the maps he grabbed from the MBTA site. The result: MBTA bus lines and subway stops sitting on top of a nice clean map. The demo on his......