Catching up with Windows Street View, Google Maps has also launched its own Street View. The speculations started when Google was spotted getting domain names with “Google Street View” registered.

Street View is a new feature of Google Maps that enables users to view and navigate within 360 degree street level imagery of various cities in the US. Street View provides users with a rich, immersive browsing experience directly in Google Maps, enabling greater understanding of a specific location or area. Street View imagery will initially be available for maps of the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami, and will soon expand to other metropolitan areas. By clicking on the “Street View” button in Google Maps, users can navigate street level, panoramic imagery. With Street View users can virtually walk the streets of a city, check out a restaurant before arriving, and even zoom in on bus stops and street signs to make travel plans. Press release

According to Mashable, it’s not yet live for many of the locations. But big cities like New York, Denver, Miami, Las Vegas and San Francisco has it already. Please click the image to see a larger view.

See it in action as demonstrated by Barry Schwartz.

More about this from the Lat Long Blog.

Tags: Google Maps, Street View