Get lost in Vancouver with Google Streetview

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Google Streetview has come to Canada!

All kinds of people are rejoicing: all kinds of privacy types are screaming.

My wife sings at a Remembrance Day service every year at a seniors residence in 
the West End.  This year we are meeting someone there, and I figured that Google 
Maps, and Streetview, would provide some assistance to them.

Found an interesting, and so far repeatable, bug.

Go to 
http://maps.google.ca/?ie=UTF8&ll=49.285457,-
123.128253&spn=0,359.989175&z=17&layer=c&cbll=49.28554,-
123.128384&panoid=bSAFnLhpCn32dxXGDvnXoQ&cbp=12,326.65,,0,5

(or http://is.gd/4eaGw )

You are now a little north of the intersection of Haro and Bute, facing north west 
(if you are seeing a yellow delivery van in front of you).  If you click the "back" 
arrow on the line that appears in the street, you will move backwards to the 
intersection.  If you click forward from this point, you will notice that the street 
changes completely.  You are no longer on Haro, but in the lane behind the 
building to your right (northeast).

As far as I can tell, Google doesn't even intend for you to have the option of 
going down that lane.  Also, I can't find a way to get back on Haro street until the 
end of the block.

(I can also tell which way the Google car was driving down Haro when it tooks the 
series.)

So, if you come to Vancouver for the Olympics, don't rely on Streetview.

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