On Hallowe'en or the day before (I don't quite recall, and I'm not positive I sync'ed the photos–only one is necessary to show everything here, really–off the iPhone the same day), I saw this parked outside my employer's office building:
That's the corner of 9th and Market streets (and yes, it's a legal parking space, though it's kind of in the way during rush hours; yes, the meter had plenty of time left). There are some gaps in the Philly streetview (my street for example, which only fits one car and is often blocked, but also some streets it's difficult to turn into if you're just driving around, and then huge swaths of the greater Philadelphia area, while others are pretty well covered–here look), including some area right nearby that parking space. Here's the parking spot in question, but note all the streets without blue lines nearby.
There is, of course, no camera actually mounted on the roof rack on the car pictured here, but the car was also unattended, so it only makes sense that they took it down. (It wasn't in the front or back seat, I'd presume in the trunk or taken along.) But it fits the descriptions I've read of Google cars in the past and it's got Mass plates (not something one sees all that frequently in Center City Philadelphia, though they're more common in University City where there are more students).
So what's the deal? Is Google back filling in the holes? They've certainly been adding more cities with Streetview pretty regularly lately.
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