
Google gets street view pictures by driving cars along public roads with Cameras mounted on the roof taking pictures in all directions. These pictures then get associated with a particular address.
In the past six months, Street View for most of the roads in Bedford have been added.

To use Street View, you can go to Google Street View Maps and enter in an address. For example let's say we want to see a picture of Papa Gino's. All we do is enter in the address, in this case, 310 Great Road Bedford MA. The following Image comes up.


Google Street View only takes images from public streets so you may not be able to view business that are located in a shopping center or houses far from a public street.
Another way to view businesses and houses in Bedford is through the Accessors's Database on the Town of Bedford Website. Just enter the street address or the owner's name. For this example, we'll take a look at Papa Gino's again, so we enter 310 Great Road, and it brings up a picture, the owner and the assessed value (in this case $661,900). Click here to see the example.
The Bedford Town Web site also has a Online Property Viewer that you can use to view property and customize with lots of information like zoning, abutters and aerial photography. Like the other web sites, you just enter an address.

2 comments:
You may want to take a look at wikimapia.org too... It's kinda addictive though. It's an annotation overlay over the Google maps data.
I went through and tagged up a bunch of Bedford places.
BTW here is their view of Papa Gino's.
Hey Ben,
Pretty interesting site. I spent a few minutes "flying around Bedford". I like how you can tags things. Looks like the imagery is about 3 years old.
Thanks!
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