[Swordmaker]

I saw one a few days ago. I figured it was google or something else. But there was no 8ft high pole camera on the van...don’t the google maps vans have that?

Not quite 8 feet. . . more like about four feet above the car:

Google Mapping and Street View Vehicle

Might be a total of 8 feet counting the Subaru car.

[dennisw]

I am guessing that four ft camera pole on google maps street view van is passe now. That now it can be done the way Apple is doing it. Now it is less obtrusive, noticeable. I had no idea this LIDAR mapping technology was being used so widely these days by real estate firms etc etc

[cynwoody]

Not quite 8 feet. . . more like about four feet above the car:

Any reasonably heavy user of Google Street View has seen the shadow of that many times.