this year.

Digital Urban is reporting about a project just launched by the city of Philadelphia smartly calledVirtual Philadelphia that allows anyone to walk the streets of the city from the Internet. Sadly it is a Windows only experience, but from the videos it looks pretty freaking impressive. Is it really useful? Who knows. I guess it is nice to have a general idea about a city before you go, but I have also found that walking out of a train station in the middle of a foreign land is an exhilarating experience.