From BikeRadar  “A vehicle sporting an impressive item of roof-mounted optical hardware moves along the street at a steady, metered pace. The all-seeing eye blinks every 10 metres or so, capturing the view in panoramic, 360 degree detail.

The images are destined to be up-loaded to the internet, for the benefit of the lost, the curious and the armchair stalker. For this is Google Maps in action, hoovering up suburban scenes for its Street View feature. And thanks to that very same facility, we can now travel with the Google-wagon along Cleveland’s  West 90^th St, and as we do so, we finally we see signs of activity. A teenage boy, happily rides his bike on the road up ahead. Sporting a baseball cap, white t-shirt and baggies, he’s just like a million other American teenagers – except today, he is about to be immortalised by the mighty G.”

That made my day