At 10:00 this morning, Google launched its Street View of Metro Detroit. For those who aren’t familiar, Street View is a special feature of Google Maps that lets you essentially “walk the streets” of a city. It features 360 degrees of still photographs taken every few yards along thousands of city streets, and each city takes Google weeks to compile as they drive their special photography trucks back and forth. One of the original cities featured under Street View was San Francisco, the footage of which became famous when it accidentally captured some anonymous young woman with her thong showing.

Now, I don’t think I want to see any residents of Detroit with their thongs showing, but since I grew up there, perusing Google’s Street View of the region is like being a kid in a candy store. Look! There’s my house! There’s my grandmother’s house! There’s my friend’s house! There’s my high school, yuck. There’s Donutown! There’s…Dou…uh, where Doug’s used to be! Ironically, Google captured more footage of Detroit’s suburbs than of Detroit itself. Then again, the un-photographed areas of Detroit are probably areas where, if they’d ventured, their camera truck and its fancy equipment would have been stolen and parted out.

To my friends and family from the region, have fun finding familiar places. And maybe even some familiar faces!