Google Street View Adds New Spartanburg Images
Google Street View now features 100-percent more Beacon.
Street View is an immensely cool project — it’s a virtual tour of a city, with more than a hint of occasional voyeurism — so I can hardly be blamed for being a little impatient. Who wouldn’t want to look around the city for weird, cool, interesting stuff?
While the update is far from complete, a few more streets did appear on the local Street View map today, hinting that we may soon see a complete update sooner rather later. Currently, only a few of the major roads are visible.
To give Google credit, they did manage to include Spartanburg landmark The Beacon Drive-In on this update.
You’re welcome
Street View is wonderful if YOU CAN USE THE FRIGGIN’ MAP. Look at the Google map of the Downtown area. Did you know they moved Westgate Mall into the Herald Journal building? That Reidville Road goes all the way to Wakefield Buick? Or that something called WHRZ-LP sits in the middle of Richardson Park? A pirate radio transmitter, perhaps? Or how about that Main stops at Church and then picks up again at Spring? Shall I go on? No, please, one more– no two more. Arkwright Cemetery is next to the railroad depot. The County Administration Building is now Rutledge College.
WHRZ-LP is the low power FM on 104.1 operated by First Baptist. I believe the transmitter is actually on the BB&T building. They must be pulling data from the FCC now.
It’s nice there are some more Spartanburg images. I’ve been curious as to Google’s, or rather their sub-contractors’, priorities on this. Both my sister’s house in Pinopolis, SC and Hartsville, SC have been on Street View for a couple of years. Neither town is close to Spartanburg in size. Heck, Pinopolis is really only a small peninsula that juts into one of the lakes near Charleston. I doesn’t even have a “downtown” that I’m aware of as it is a collection of subdivisions near Monck’s Corner.