Pretty insane (new?) feature in which you can essentially walk around select U.S. cities with a full 360 degree view. Doubtless not as cool if you don't live in NY, LA, Chicago, etc. But as a Philly resident, I can confirm this is pretty bananas.
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i like msn virtual earth bird's eye view/3D view. disclaimer: it's msn.
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/
― get bent, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 05:46 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm. the original url doesn't work for some reason when you click on the link. just cut and paste it if you're interested, i guess.
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
My car is in two places simultaneously. I guess their camera-car came by my place when I was home, and my friend's place when I was there.
I'm a little disappointed by the low resolution. I can't even read the sign at the site of my old favorite restaurant, to see if it's changed. Of course it might be a little creepy if you could zoom into peoples windows...
― Rich Smörgasbord, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Albany, Richmond, Albuquerque, Boise and many others added now. I make it 41 cities in total
― water, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
oh god, goodbye office productivity i've just spent half of the afternoon, "cruising" the streets of Anchorage
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
You've gotta get your bearings!
― Kerm, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't notice Anchorage and Juneau. thats 43 cities in total
― water, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
my sister is freaked out that she can see her car at her apt and her office (albany) using this. it wouldn't really bother me, i think it's cool. at least the resolution of the photos isn't high enough to make out the license plate!
― sleep, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tinyurl.com/5w4you
― sleep, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&q=6436+S+Oakley+Ave,+Chicago,+IL+60636,+USA&layer=c&cbll=41.776747,-87.681011&panoid=R4fqWJEJkVCRco2uu3GK9Q&cbp=1,261.1320878166891,,1,9.011977324668344&ll=41.780241,-87.680168&spn=0.006992,0.016072&z=16
bang!
― vaqueros, Saturday, 24 May 2008 10:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Typically the British press are getting their knickers in a twist about this, snoopers charter, invasion of privacy, licence for thieves to case out properties etc. Clearly the useless twunts haven't even looked at the US experience. I can't wait till they get my streeet and the rest of the UK photographed.
― Billy Dods, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw the car, wonder if I'll be in a pic.
― ledge, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I drove past the car, and then it pulled out behind me and was sat there as we waited at lights. I really hope I'm in there (although the car's on Google Maps already at the previous owner's house).
― Bocken Social Scene, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
when you virtually walk down our street youll see our next door neighbor standing at the back of her minivan staring straight at the camera and looking kind of shocked
― sunny successor, Friday, 11 July 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I am amazed that my crap rural town is in street view already. You can see our broken freezer in the driveway, giving our house just that little extra bit o country.
― Euler, Friday, 11 July 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone seen the camera?
― sunny successor, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Why can't you use streetview in London?
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 January 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah dunno what the holdup is - the picture-taking cars have been driving around for london for a while now
― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Friday, 2 January 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Move up two clicks, then look down and to the left.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
That's fucked up!
― Last night it was pullulating with (Michael White), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
jeezus. If you go another click further and keep looking back, it's all the way in the ditch.
― the maximum value that ZS obtains given its constraint is 8 (Z S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
omgggggg
― max, Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
and if u go one more they stop the van
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
When Google Streeview inevitably helps solve a murder in a city, please bump this thread.
― the maximum value that ZS obtains given its constraint is 8 (Z S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG!!!
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=UTF-8&q=8+Sampsonia+Way,+Pittsburgh,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15212&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ll=40.458262,-80.007505&spn=0.008588,0.01693&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=40.457662,-80.007541&panoid=KD0g-IcPQW09qFcP2RU2kg&cbp=12,310.45443546675455,,1,10.375837805207798
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
shenanigans
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell, Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:48 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark
We're sorry, street view is currently unavailable due to high demand. Please try again later!
― Edward III, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
wasn't there one w/ some chick flashing the van?
― Edward III, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm so brilliant, at first I thought, "Why did they find a dead deer in the ditch and throw it back up on the road?"
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I still can't get that one to work
― Edward III, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Will you accept a kidnapping?
― Pancakes Hussein Obama (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i've been caught by google street view twice now.
― fwiw (rockapads), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Also pot bust.
― Human kind cannot bear very much (Michael White), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I will not accept the kidnapping success story. I will only accept a shot of someone chasing another person with a bloody knife raised high!
― the maximum value that ZS obtains given its constraint is 8 (Z S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Landmarks and skyscrapers I can see. But ordinary people's homes? Christ some of these spoiled internet assholes need a dose of reality. Motherfucking hate these people.
― u s steel, Friday, 30 January 2009 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link
there's this jogger guy i always see around my bf's neighborhood and it turns out he's in the google streetview picture of my bf's house!!
― forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Friday, 30 January 2009 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I just discovered that google streetview existed yesterday. Accidentally. I inadvertently clicked something or another trying to see what part of Auckland my new apartment was in when suddenly a vivid, sunny, interactive panorama was presented to me and I was like OMG MY NEW LIFE and it was crazy.
― ╓abies, Friday, 30 January 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Gathering the imagery for Street View requires quite a bit of driving; as such, we take safety very seriously. Unfortunately, accidents do happen -- as some people have noticed, one of our Street View cars hit a deer while driving on a rural road in upstate New York. Due to several user requests using the "Report a concern" tool, these images are no longer available in Street View.
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/01/oh-deer-street-view-and-road-safety.html
― James Mitchell, Friday, 30 January 2009 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
OK so its gone already? Anyone get a screenie?
― Trayce, Friday, 30 January 2009 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i.gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps
― M.V., Friday, 30 January 2009 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link
London's up
― Bocken Social Scene, Friday, 11 July 2008 14:37
It is!
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
glasgow's up too, you can see my flat but not my street
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
link
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't see meself at Camberwell.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
bit creeped out by this tbh
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
My house is the one with the black window frames and 'For Sale' sign outside. I'm at work right now, if anyone wants to go round and rob me.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf are you all doing posting your addresses on the internet
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
what?
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Pics are taken from the other side of the road from where I saw the car :(
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
my living room window = above and to the right of the blue arrow:
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to come round and murder you or some lurker is
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the quiet ones you have to worry about.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Am expecting paparazzi when I get home.
ledge, call 999, say you're having a stroke and see how long they take.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
follow fallen branch on top of of electric box thing and that's my bedroom window open.http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=se1+7bb&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.248626,39.550781&ie=UTF8&ll=51.499738,-0.109452&spn=0.019743,0.038624&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.499831,-0.109393&panoid=spft1A4b2JgGcZEsRbrxjA&cbp=12,353.64662429373345,,0,4.299999999999999
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
oops, sorry, biggest link ever.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Also appears to be my house. I cannot believe you posted a picture of my house on the internet!!
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
erm, that went wrong, i'll try again.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
my parked car is at neither my old residence, nor my new one. i appear to have vanished.
― fuck all y'all i'm gonna die young w/bubbles in my mouth (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:08 (fifteen years ago) link
how come stevie never posts here anymore?
― fap fap fap wtf crazy caps self-publishe... (1) (rent), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
follow fallen branch on top of of electric box thing and that's my bedroom window open.<iframe width="425" height="240" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/sv?cbp=12,305.3486422857701,,0,5&cbll=53.449877,-2.274035&panoid=&v=1&hl=en&gl=uk"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=Manchester+M16+0ED,+UK&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=20.193763,51.328125&ie=UTF8&z=14&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=53.449877,-2.274035&panoid=ZNCaZJ_8g0IndtzdwAVJEg&cbp=12,305.3486422857701,,0,5&ll=53.457547,-2.270136" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking hell, what a mess.sorry everyone, any mods wanna make it look pretty, feel free.
also ledge, soz!
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm complaining to my mp.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
fair enough, tell mine too, it'll give him something to do.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
my mate just sent me photos of both the outside of my house and my girlfriends. theyve got the numbers wrong which is a bit less unnerving. my upstairs window is open though, and it also makes my house look lovely, i hope it doesnt mean we get robbed
― straightola, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
It can't get past the gates of my poncey estate. Take that, The Man!
― McDonaldinho (Matt DC), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Bloody typical - Derby, Nottingham, Coventry...no Leicester...we are truly the Forgotten City.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazing quality though - seems better than a lot of the US streetviews - are they using a different camera?
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
And they seemed to have gone around Birmingham city centre in the dark...
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Hull of course is the first and true Forgotten City and we've been left out again here. ( leicester missing is wrong too.)
Scunthorpe though... why? eh?
― tomofthenest, Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh hey, Oxford streetview!
Which goes no further west than the station, so I can't invite you all to spy on my work. Not that you'd want to.
I accidentally ended up outside my GP's surgery when trying to drag the icon to somewhere a couple of blocks away from it, and am relieved to note that I am not pictured coming out of the door clutching pamphlets about embarrassing conditions or anything.
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Daily Mail readers wade in - difficult to tell which ones (if any) are taking the piss...
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
What an invasion of privacy-google is a cancer and should be obliterated, what happened to our right of privacy, I saw one of these last week parked in a private driveway near Totton College in Southampton am I glad I'm emigrating.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. Just looked at a picture of my house without any cars in the driveway and got a little creeped out. This is what your house looks like when someone's casing the joint!
― Eephin' Pageant (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 19 March 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Fancyapint.com in like Flynn!
― from beyond the anal destiny citrus fruit explosion (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 19 March 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been caught by the Google street view van TWICE now. The first one seems to be gone now, thank fuck.
― The Lost Boys Buff Guy Playing Sax (rockapads), Thursday, 19 March 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
link?
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 19 March 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
The camera seems to be going mental around ledge's place--side-on and close to the google van on both sides it's all distorted, all around the streets in that area
― James Morrison, Thursday, 19 March 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, it's like that all over the UK: software seems to have done a bad job editing out the van.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 19 March 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I think its funny you guys are all "omg this is creepy" - when streetview debuted in Aus last year everyone I knew was completely "OMG THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER LOOK THERES MY HOUSE!" at work and productivity went to zero for about 4 hours.
― one art, please (Trayce), Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm excited!
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Also we don't do any work anyway.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
omg this thing is so funking useful!!
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Same here--people spent all their time finding pics of workmates roaming the streets and sticking them up on pinboards.
― James Morrison, Friday, 20 March 2009 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Street view in my suburb ends two blocks from my house. :\
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy crap, wait, no, they changed it! I can tell this was taken on a Thursday morning, sometime between 8am and noon, because there is recycling waiting to be picked up on my tree lawn, but the trash has been picked up already.
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
if only SPECTRE in james bond had this toolhttp://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Greek+St&daddr=Dean+St+to:Margaret+St&hl=en&geocode=FRYMEgMdxv_9_w;FUIQEgMdqvX9_w;FUYTEgMdVs_9_w&mra=cc&via=1&rtol=0,1,2&dirflg=w&sll=51.513717,-0.134647&sspn=0.004901,0.009656&ie=UTF8&ll=51.514485,-0.135323
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry wrong linkhttp://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Greek+St&daddr=Dean+St+to:Margaret+St&hl=en&geocode=FRYMEgMdxv_9_w%3BFUIQEgMdqvX9_w%3BFUYTEgMdVs_9_w&mra=cc&via=1&rtol=0,1,2&dirflg=w&sll=51.513717,-0.134647&sspn=0.004901,0.009656&ie=UTF8&ll=51.503059,-0.126096&spn=0,359.991578&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.503166,-0.126113&panoid=4m9IGtmq8ZR4YEv3T6IYVw&cbp=12,268.726035518684,,1,4.667583055269528
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
if anything i think the widespread acceptance, even excitement, is more disturbing than the actual photos - i don't assume my flat will be burgled or that i'll be stalked b/c of it (though if i'd had stalker problems ever i'd be petrified about it) - it just transgresses a basic expectation of privacy for me. ok, any random lunatic could take pictures of my flat and put them on flickr or whatever, but that would still be indefensibly creepy, and this just makes the creepiness so much more official. it's awful.
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
people can walk down your road
― unaustralian (jabba hands), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://neoshinka.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/lost_highway_robert_blake_video_camera_400.jpg
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
People taking pictures of your flat would only be creepy if they are doing it because they wanted to take a picture of your flat for no reason (or for personal reasons to you)?
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Pancakes Hackman, why does your neighbourhood hate front fences?
― ambulance chaser (S-), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Beats me! They're not very common in this entire suburb.
A lot of the families here are Orthodox Jewish, and have tons of kids who all run around through each other's yards, so maybe that's part of it? We're going to put up a small fence or hedge, though.
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
How about some piano wire six inches off the ground?
― ambulance chaser (S-), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yah its not like all the houses are tagged with who lives there. it's just streetscapes right? no different to driving down to high st to see what it looks like
I'm looking for a new flat at the moment and am finding this thing very helpful
― sonderborg, Friday, 20 March 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
stfu creep
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
All the orthodox jews in my neighbourhood must have complained to google, because within weeks of my area going up on streetview, large chunks of the surrounding streets disappeared again. Not whole streets - just bits, 2-5 properties wide.
It then occurred to me each was where a temple or jewish high school was.
I dont understand the paranoia, but eh *shrug*. Its not like the places arent blazingly obviously jewish temples/schools when you pass them on the road!
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 20 March 2009 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
They snapped my place on trash day too.
Makes it look like there's always trash in front of my house :(
― Nate Carson, Friday, 20 March 2009 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
- can you seriously not work out why jewish bodies might not want detailed pictures of their institutions, locations and environs on the internet - do you seriously think that people being able to walk down your street on is the same level of intrusion as this
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't see how someone looking at a static picture of my house counts as intrusion.
― ledge, Friday, 20 March 2009 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
not seeing the big deal here.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean the problem. the application itself is kind of woah.
Dont get me wrong, I know exactly why they'd want to be removed. I just think it's a bit uneccesary - these are very visibly jewish institutions with signage and gates and banners and its not like theyre area 51 or something. Still, I dunno.
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Also a picture of a house on an indeterminate date months ago. Aren't churches/synagogues/places of worship marked on maps anyway? Now you can see a picture and see that the big churchy-looking building at the address of a church is actually a church after all.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
next thing you know they'll be publishing books with people's names addresses and phone numbers in.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
They took the picture of my house well over a year ago cos the front yard isn't covered in rubbish and weeds, it looks all neat and tidy. I gave up trying to clean it up a long time ago, it was a losing battle.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
will never happen
― lo (cozwn), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
if you saw someone outside your flat staring at and studying the building - not in a casual, walking-past way, but loitering and looking closely & carefully - would you not be creeped out and discomfited? if i saw that i'd be calling the fucking police. if someone physically did that there's a reasonable expectation that someone would see them, but the thing with google street view is that anyone can do this without you knowing.
apparently there was some furore when this was rolled out in japan - cis sent me links to the debate here and here - cut through the "cultural divisions" argument and plenty of the points are massively otm
also you may not necessarily have had problems with stalkers, or wanted to keep certain people from knowing too much about where you live or work, but it should seem obvious that plenty of people do have to think about such issues.
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
does anyone know how often the streetviews are updated?
― lo (cozwn), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i looked at my old houses and have no idea when they were taken, if i was living there at the time or not. there were some blurred-face people around, but pretty sure none were me.
surely the whole point of stalking is you have some idea of the stalkee before stalking them? ie not randomly scrolling through streetviews and looking out for blurred-face people... idk, maybe even stalkers are aspie shut-ins these days. but the odds of someone finding out where you live or work from streetviews have got to be pretty small.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
If my stalker doesn't know where I live, no problem. If the stalker knows or can find out where I live, that's a problem regardless of streetview. Don't see how this enables anything.
Maybe if you leave your key in view through the window...
http://vision.ucsd.edu/~blaxton/pagePapers/laxton_wang_savage_ccs2008.pdf "Using modest imaging equipment and standard computer vision al-gorithms, we demonstrate the effectiveness of physical key teledu-plication — extracting a key’s complete and precise bitting code ata distance via optical decoding and then cutting precise duplicates"
- if they ever bring out a super-hi-rez version.
― ledge, Friday, 20 March 2009 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Who fancies playing the BNP members streetview game then?
― McDonaldinho (Matt DC), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
they're updated every two to three years apparently. if you don't want your house featured, you can have it obscured. police are happy with it. information commissioner is happy with it. whiners stfu.
― joe, Friday, 20 March 2009 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks for links lex, those were interesting
― lo (cozwn), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
says he in his cator estate ivory tower xxp
― leigh exodus (country matters), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
people are focusing too much on actual concrete consequences - i'm not arguing that bad things will definitely happen as a result of this, but it instinctively feels intrusive and uncomfortable, and for people with security concerns, it does absolutely nothing for their peace of mind
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
It's odd that this weirds so many people out considering people have been for several years totally okay with the idea of putting pictures of their face on the internet, with their name attached, for anyone to see, and even with the notion that it's virtually impossible to stop people from doing so in this day and age. But as soon as houses come into it people freak.
There's another argument to be made about sheer saturation of information, one house among hundreds of thousands of others isn't really that interesting, unless you have a special reason to be interested in it. In which case that's either creepy or not depending on your interest and, as Ledge says, if that reason is creepy then whether you can look at that house on the internet is almost irrelevant seeing as you can turn up there in person any time you want.
― McDonaldinho (Matt DC), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not about houses vs faces - it's an issue of control. putting photos of myself on the internet is an information flow that i'm 99% in charge of - this is something i have no control whatsoever over.
and turning up in person to do creepy shit and loiter around is absolutely not the same thing as being able to study and look closely on the internet. the first will probably get you arrested, for one thing.
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
it seems so innocuous tho in terms of actual useful stuff it outputs: bcs it is updated so infrequently it doesn't really give stalkers/thiefs all that much useful information (terrorists/etc it gives more useful info perhaps). compared to something like club cards, e.g, and which seem to me much more invasive of privacy, giving tesco/etc a daily account of everything you buy and letting them target you based on that. but again with these and with facebook I'm giving my explicit consent for the info to be shared. I guess I'm giving google tacit consent by not complaining to them?
― lo (cozwn), Friday, 20 March 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
But if someone wants to take a photo of your house and put it on the internet without your consent they have been able to do so for years. At least with Google it's accountable to them and you can get it removed.
(Someone needs to try that with their house, see how long it takes)
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I was gonna say that's still not equivalent but then I remembered that you can upload your own "streetviews" to google maps can't you?
― lo (cozwn), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
what about people putting photos of you on the internet?
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually it took about 30 seconds of Googling to find an unauthorised picture taken of my house with information about its exact location. And I assume it's been there for a while.
In attempting to argue with the Lex I've actually succeeded in weirding myself out now.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
for stalking purposes, i'd be more worried about ilx before i worry about googlestreetview, to be honest.
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
What's really annoying about Google Streetview is that it actually restricts itself to streets so there are huge swathes of eg Hampstead Heath that you can't actually see. Including the view from the top of Parliament Hill I think.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i DO worry about ilx
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
It never phones, it never writes...
― ledge, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
clubcards don't seem odd to me. i mean, you know what you're letting yourself in for, there's a specific reward, and tbh i couldn't care less about targeted marketing - it's not like i'm being forced to buy anything
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
if you saw someone outside your flat staring at and studying the building - not in a casual, walking-past way, but loitering and looking closely & carefully - would you not be creeped out and discomfited? if i saw that i'd be calling the fucking police.
I do exactly what you are describing AND then take photos AND then put them on flickr. As do quite a few weirdo creeps like me...Modernist houses group on flickrPost war houses in the UK group on flickrNo-one has ever called the police on any of us as far as I know. Usually people are intrigued that someone is interested in their houses.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
many x-posts also there's other gaps like they can't drive down Oxford Street, and other places like in Kings Cross where they'ev just got fed up with one-way systems and miss out streets.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf are those flickr groups
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
apart from anything else that's just fucking impolite
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, because no-one has ever taken photos of houses before. What the hell are you talking about?
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
are the google bikes they use for narrow streets motorbikes or bicycles? if it's the latter, they should def send them through the parks.
― joe, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
More specifically they're amazing resource for anyone interested in domestic architecture of the twentieth century. Instead of having to buy really really expensive architecture books.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah who cares what the people living in those houses might think
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Blurred-out faces of irate (or smug, more likely) members of the Parks Constabulary in every frame.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I have taken pictures of random people's houses and put them on the internet before (like, every fucking time I go on holiday for one thing). I think that's part and parcel of living in an architecturally striking house, you accept that people are going to stop and look at it and take photos for ages.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― lex pretend, Friday, March 20, 2009 11:15 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
Well I care and if someone objected I'd take down their photo but I'd also point out to them that it's pretty pointless. You seem to be arguing against a whole history of photography.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
lex if you were standing in the window with your willy out then maybe you'd have a point. but there's nothing private about the outside of a house unless you build a big fucking wall around it, always been the case for obvious reasons and google streetview does nothing to change that. Also I'm really worried by the idea that people walking down the public street looking at stuff (with their eyes!) should be arrested! That's the real big brother shit, not this.
― tomofthenest, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
By the way Alex you really shouldn't leave your rubbish piled outside like that.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
if i could, i would definitely live in a house with a big wall around it
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link
what if people take a photo of that big wall?
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
weird houses with big wall in front of it flickr group
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
you'd have to put another big wall around that one.
― tomofthenest, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.movieforum.com/movies/titles/labyrinth/images/labyrinth.jpg
― ledge, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no you can still see the house ;_;
no the castle at the top is just a decoy the house is somewhere behind the wall.
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
can still see Lex's willy.
― tomofthenest, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Lex yesterday - waiting for those pesky googleflickr folk...http://www.davethewave.co.uk/hector/book/hector-the-gardener-front.jpg
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.davethewave.co.uk/hector/book/hector-the-gardener-front.jpg
Hahaha Tomofthenest I got that one...
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey - it's our old place in London! They've painted the outside:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=percy+circus+london&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.638819,79.101563&ie=UTF8&ll=51.529145,-0.114605&spn=0.007422,0.019312&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.52909,-0.114817&panoid=EeW8O191LOyEmyDxj-VmFQ&cbp=12,141.6283033276249,,0,5.000000000000001
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:31 (fourteen years ago) link
And there's a Travel Lodge there now! That's definitely new.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice. Looks like half of it got bombed during the war or something? That crescent is quite difficult to navigate on this.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, it is hard to navigate. So cool to see now though and notice little changes etc.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
they've found wally btw - he's hidden on putney high street, outside the o2 shop.
― joe, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://tinyurl.com/dyqqz6
This is the house near me that I have been raving about for ages. I want to live here.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe there will be some uproar about local councils using this to see if people have done anything to their house fronts without planning permission or something.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
That house is awesome!!! I don't blame you for wanting to live there.
My old office building.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=vauxhall+bridge+road+london&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.638819,79.101563&ie=UTF8&ll=51.488598,-0.129218&spn=0.007429,0.019312&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.488669,-0.129352&panoid=IECletTIxT8Vk6CNN_vmIA&cbp=12,102.61534147518684,,0,5
Was hoping I'd spot ex co-workers but no such luck.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice little green bit in the middle - I love the little squares/circuses in Islington.At the bottom of Great Percy Street at the junction with Kings Cross Road there's a traffic warden(?-CPSO?) without her face blurred out!
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
xp to ENBB's original post about where she used to live, incidentally.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Ned, yeah I really loved living there. It was so central but so cute.
I didn't realize faces were supposed to be blurred out!
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
They have some software that is supposed to do it I think? It's a bit hit and miss though.
So, across the bridge from MI5 then eh?
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm more concerned about having my telephone number and address available in a directory to thousands of people than google streetview.
― Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post Yep, right across. I see the lady now!
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
you know what i'd love to see? photos of streets where i grew up, but from different eras in the past. you get some of these on the transport for london site, i guess. but its ace, to get a feel for how those areas have changed, especially the ones which are now pedestrianised shopping centre type areas, like my former ends of wimbledon.
they don't have to be 3d or nuthin.
― Darramouss Darramouss will he do the fandango? (stevie), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The massive brutalist wonder that is Pimlico School appears to still be there and I thought they'd demolished that.
It's quite good to be able to check places like that out without having the haul my arse across London for it, I must admit.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
The hit and miss-ness of the face blurring is obvious from the link to the Pagoda House Matt linked to - the mini in front of the house has it's wheels blurred out.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
they blurred out the mural of bobby sands on the falls road too.
― joe, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post Or across an ocean as the case would be for me right now.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
What would be really cool would be if you could enter in a start and end point and it would automatically 'walk' the route for you.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
That would be absolutely fantastic. I spent last night looking at Dundee, where I used to live, 'walking' through some of the places which I spent a lot of time around and although interesting the constant clicking and dead ends can be quite tedious.
― Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Pimlico School is definitely going - but in stages - they've knocked down one bit and started building the new one, the rest goes this year.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=twickenham&sll=51.503059,-0.126096&sspn=0,359.99043&dirflg=w&ie=UTF8&ll=51.433116,-0.338516&spn=0.006073,0.03828&z=15&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.433007,-0.338548&panoid=66AP6bR9-UqJGluciDaFyg&cbp=12,200.4840870734139,,0,-2.163677130044837
pub i used to frequent when i lived in london :'''''''''(
― fap fap fap wtf crazy caps self-publishe... (1) (rent), Friday, 20 March 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
good idea Matt. altho maybe we should cut to the chase and make it a proper video game.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
aw i liked pimlico school.
― ledge, Friday, 20 March 2009 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ENBB: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=highgate&sll=51.529145,-0.114605&sspn=0.004792,0.013218&g=percy+circus+london&ie=UTF8&ll=51.575939,-0.143402&spn=0.001197,0.003304&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.576226,-0.143839&panoid=78jCXjyZkO9JknSK38i74A&cbp=12,20.178142241538552,,0,2.662337662337663
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rowans&sll=51.433116,-0.338516&sspn=0.014555,0.026436&g=twickenham&ie=UTF8&ll=51.56484,-0.105143&spn=0,359.986782&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.564916,-0.105258&panoid=W19H6j5pQmlR_XhG-ijaTw&cbp=12,9.798431821001292,,0,-2.8896103896103833
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:05 (fourteen years ago) link
few things as sad to me as a boarded up pub.
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:01 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yes and with added functions like stealing cars and shooting people
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, but its like a huge greenhouse when the sun's out, innit. impressive building, though.
― Darramouss Darramouss will he do the fandango? (stevie), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Ken - YAY!!!! Too bad pic wasn't from a Tuesday when the music quiz duo were entering the establishment. Now that I would have liked to see. Still, awesome.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 20 March 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Aw, the Headington roof-shark in Oxford is all shored up by scaffolding ;_;http://tinyurl.com/cck4ll
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 20 March 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I've just been interviewed by the local paper re: the shocking exclusion of Leicester from streetview. I think they might have trapped me into saying rude things about Scunthorpe. For which I apologise to all Scunthorpians, but you know wot journos are like...
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Dave Gorman is claiming HE is on streetview. It doesn't look much like him to me.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 20 March 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I found a picture of a guy from work walking to work. Looks like this area was pictured at about 7 in the morning, meaning there's no chance of me being on it unless they took a picture of my bed.
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Friday, 20 March 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Blimey, I can see my neighbours walking out of their gate!
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Coming soon Google Bed View
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
They're apparently going to be talking to someone from Google on PM (BBC Radio 4) shortly.
― krakow, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
This is incredibly creepy!
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
But making the little yellow man walk around is fun, nintendo should make it into a game, coz it's as involving as Animal Crossing.
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
my grans old house looks well manky now :(
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
just typing "Ealing" will give you a picture of a guy taking a picture of the google car!
― jel --, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Missed this - Paisley jnr. almost as daft as his dad.http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/technology-gadgets/google-maps-street-view-lsquomay-be-a-security-threatrsquo-14237716.html
Mad comments too. I find it hard to believe that some people actually think this is a livefeed.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
personally its a good idea but i am not at all happy that people ca get such a close up of my home....that is my sanctuary and if wish for burglarto get such a close up re access...i am not happy at all
Thanks for clearing that up Anna.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i will coment when i get on to it
Posted by mary | 21.03.09, 22:16 GMT
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
outside the office I work in in Clerkenwell, you can see a girl from my office sat on the front steps crying, while another dude from the office consoles her
it's on the east end of Aylesbury St, Islington
― ambient bangers (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
found it, jeepers.
also randomly found a view of a guy working underneath his car, the odd thing about it was that it seemed to be in some kind of quiet cul de sac neighbourhood. something eerie about the google van driving around somewhere so secluded.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i was thinking about starting a thread containing street views of addresses celebrated in song but electric avenue has not been mapped so fuck it
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Electric_Avenue_Market_01.JPG/300px-Electric_Avenue_Market_01.JPG
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that electric avenue?
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
nothing creepy or intrusive or wrong about that at all, oh no!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_01/kissTIME1208_600x897.jpg
What an invasion of privacy!
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
giant corporation gloats over individual woman's indeterminable grief
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i take it you two would be ok with a recognisable image of yourself crying on the street was on this, then?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
what if you were so upset by the possibility of your privacy being invaded that you ran out onto the street to cry and then the google van took a picture of you
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I do all my crying on the dance floor.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i believe it was because a child kicked a ball in her face
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7961000/7961224.stm
what an invasion of privacy!
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
last 10 posts or so = total fucking excelsior
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/starla_zero/emoboy6ez.jpg
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
none of the last 10 posts are funny, like, at all
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^this one is
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
what if the google van took a picture of me laughing at these posts
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
boxes w/in boxes
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
mostly just max's post tbh but that 60-foot penis swayed my praise
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
because faces are blurred it's not at all obvious that someone might be crying. gnarly sceptre you carl lewis of conclusions, honestly...
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe he was the dude doing the consoling?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I love viewing decrepit small towns in rural southern US. Behold, Hughes Arkansas, which I drove through once to get to the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=hughes+arkansas&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=IwLJSZCsHYLnnQfksa2PAw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
wow so much space. pretty bleak altho kinda love the Poor Boy's Liquor sign.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
the gnarly spectre colleague picture looked like the dude was kissing the girl. Spread that round the office please.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― NotEnough, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Do Google image vans not go south of the river or something? How come Electric Avenue hasn't been done when my little street out in Zone 3 has?
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Google Street View omits roads not passable by traffic. The market on Electric Avenue prevents traffic access. Same with Ridley Road in Dalston, which is also not covered.
― dubmill, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
they don't seem to have done the roads where my office is, just off Old St/City Rd
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
There's other roads around Brixton you can't go down on Street View that are traffic accessible, I reckon they're just shirking.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh come on people, this again? If you don't want to be photographed doing something, don't do it in public.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Heh the closet of the crying lass pics is deleted , I wonder if they asked it to be taken off.
― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Closest. Gah.
― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
my girlfriend just showed me her home in japan, and then took me on a little tour of her town. she said it helps cure her home sickness, taking these little virtual walks. i thought that was incredibly sweet.
― rio (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Busta Rhymes always headlines the Streetview... WOO HAH
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I just checked in with my old college house that I shared with three other guys and yep, it appears to be a daycare now.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I just looked round the streets of the little beach village in southern NSW that we spent all our childhood summers in... havent been back there in like 10 or 15 years. Boy did I feel homesick, and it's not even home!
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 10:38 (5 hours ago) Bookmark
it's still there, just further along
― Bad, Bad Memories of a Good Time (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah no what I meant is, yeah you can see them in 3 or 4 frames but as you move up the street closer to them, one frame's been deleted.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
oh i see now
― Bad, Bad Memories of a Good Time (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i can see my bike on this thing, out the front of my old sharehouse
― resident advice whore (haitch), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
my long since stolen and trashed car is in front of my old house :\
― Bad, Bad Memories of a Good Time (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP
― resident advice whore (haitch), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Behold, Hughes Arkansas, http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3384738930_4821dfd447_o.jpgThis is pretty much what I imagined the USA to look like (outside of cities) until I was in my teens.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
You should try dragging the little figure to Australia - outside of the cities it looks like Mars with stubby trees. And I also had my first Google Maps Streetview dream last night - I dreamt that I was Streetviewing along the main street of my home town, but when they took the pictures there was a carnival in progress, so all I could see was floats and people dressed in costumes.
― snoball, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=55.852938,-4.307327&z=15&layer=c&cbll=55.850552,-4.304141&cbp=12,5.343154515894224,,1,2.012916204217535
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha. Ned, that pretty much IS what the US looks like where I'm from! You might need to add a farm supplies store, then you'll have it.
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
its true a lot of the country looks more or less like that
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I just realized, y'all probably havent seen the "best" part of Hughes, Arkansas. If you plug in 106 Bush St, it'll take you up a bit from Poor Boy's Liquor to a completely abandoned retail block. I'm fascinated looking at stuff like this, don't know why.
The rural south is obv poorer than the norm, but yeah churches and a farm supplies store pretty much defines small town America in general.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
vermonthttp://i40.tinypic.com/2s9bub9.jpg
iowahttp://i39.tinypic.com/116rimr.jpg
montanahttp://i42.tinypic.com/2zi78uc.jpg
californiahttp://i39.tinypic.com/o8t4xg.jpg
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh God that Montana one is awful.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
outside the office I work in in Clerkenwell, you can see a girl from my office sat on the front steps crying, while another dude from the office consoles hernothing creepy or intrusive or wrong about that at all, oh no!
Creepy is when you follow around a particular person and photograph them crying. Creepy is not when you take a pic of a building and a crying person just has to get themselves in the frame.
A person crying in public is really invading the public space with their weeping, y'know? It's not an invasion of privacy. It's an invasion of publicity.
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you guys hear about the aus guy who's friend had died, so after the wake he went and got proper trashed (fair enough I suppose) and passed out on his front lawn somehow. And thats when mr Googlevan went by, and snapped him sprawled on the lawn.
The picture's been removed - but the thing I found odd was the moral indignance of the paper saying "well THIS kind of thing is a bit much isn't it google" and then they printed a copy of the image in the paper for all to see
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
did someone already post that one of the dude falling off of his bike
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
when you go further and further along the street he's in different stages of falling
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
where where
― ledge, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&sll=51.54057,-0.160589&sspn=0,359.980989&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FcSsEgMdzTD-_w&split=0&t=h&layer=c&cbll=51.572642,-0.090421&panoid=uHilFYHULRvF5GxanNF7VA&cbp=12,333.9231995342988,,1,9.304169845589092&ll=51.572349,-0.090981&spn=0.024006,0.038023&z=15&iwloc=addr
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Sunday, 29 March 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Me too. The car left askew with one door open in the median is a nice touch.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 29 March 2009 07:20 (fourteen years ago) link
12 vishoek, groningen (nsfw)
― lo (cozwn), Thursday, 2 April 2009 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
lololol
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's another nsfw image from a lay-by outside Rome. This lady has got her own van and is being studiously ignored by several men working on the lay-by). Pretty odd.
I'm sure I read somewhere that because there are so many streetview shots of prostitutes around Rome the Mayor says he's "going to do something".
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooops I got that link wrong - you'll have to click along the lay-by a bit, you can't miss her - she's the one not wearing an orange jacket.
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 2 April 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Village mob thwarts Google Street View car
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 2 April 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Ned: is it that lady sitting in the folding chair? Im not sure how it's NSFW unless I've missed somehting.
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 3 April 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
her tits are out
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 3 April 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
and there are dildos
― Duderonomy 1:69-420 (iiiijjjj), Friday, 3 April 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
wrong pic
― balls by titleist (electricsound), Friday, 3 April 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
"My immediate reaction was anger; how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?"
Flashmob anyone?
― turnover is validating, profit is salivating (ledge), Friday, 3 April 2009 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly. broughton is a shithole anyway
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 3 April 2009 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Unbelievable. How to attract attention to your "affluent" area 101. I really despair of my fellow Brits.
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, last time I looked she was nakkid from the breasts up. Have they shopped a blouse on her? tbh I feel a bit depressed just looking at that view now and wish I hadn't linked to it. The whole scene is so seedy, the woman (I suppose she might be happy in her job I guess), the litter. At least the sun is shining...
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
[there's some splendid wall paintings in the church at Broughton incidentally.]
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"My immediate reaction was anger; how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?"http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/03/article-1166722-04402D39000005DC-651_468x361.jpgPaul Jacobs there on the left. Having his privacy invaded.
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
You just have to love the Mail, they also posted a photo of a house in Broughton.http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/03/article-1166722-04402C6F000005DC-147_468x286.jpg
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Do these idiots not realize that anyone that wants can drive down their street and look directly at their house? Jesus. It's not like its a real-time cam that allows you to watch for when the house is unoccupied for prime burglary action.
― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooops wrong pic, although that does show a house this one is better from a burglars pov...http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/02/article-1166722-043EA0C2000005DC-8_468x634.jpg
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Another villager, John Holmes, said Street View was 'an invasion of our privacy' and said Google 'should have asked our permission'.
He must be one of those fellows with a "Yes, I do own the road" bumper sticker.
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/03/article-1166722-04402D39000005DC-651_468x361.jpg
guy on right says on TV news "an englishman's home is his castle"
― conrad, Friday, 3 April 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
when in reality an englishman's fleece is his suit of armour yes I posted this five minutes later
― conrad, Friday, 3 April 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
L-R - once-trendy English teacher who now hates "the kids", PE teacher who was a professional football player until injury cut short his career...
― snoball, Friday, 3 April 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Still want to know why the UK/Europe software is so much shitter at editing out the Google car than the Australian version.
― James Morrison, Saturday, 4 April 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know what you mean but the photos seem a lot clearer on the UK ones than anywhere else.
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 07:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, you mean at the bottom of the picture?
Yes, that is irritating and led to the the Telegraph running this totally ridiculous story...
Local medium Jane Cohen, 39, said: "Apparitions have often been caught on film but are invisible to the naked eye. "This woman is very smart - but she is dressed in clothes that you just don't see these days unless it's in a period drama on TV.
"But what is really strange is that she doesn't appear as a full figure - you can't see all of her."
Except of course you can...
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 08:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahah what are they, utterly dense?
― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 4 April 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
It is odd though that the editing out of the car body is a lot worse in the UK - its all blurred and obvious, you dont even really notice it on the aus pics.
― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 4 April 2009 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if it's something to do with the cameras rather than the software - they seem radically different.Aussie streetview carhttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2219/2051749701_5b81783834.jpg?v=0Brit streetview carhttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2666901841_a16aa6a53b.jpg?v=0
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 08:58 (fourteen years ago) link
In the spirit of Creative Commons - the first photo is here by Sebr and the second photo is here by Byrion. Looking through the flickr googlecar group it's interesting to see the wide variety of cameras they use. Maybe of the Brit one hadn't been so huge it wouldn't have caused so much bother in Broughton?
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
...if the Brit one...
― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 April 2009 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Paul McCartney takes his house off streetview.
Seems neither he nor his security team has heard about live search maps.
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 22 May 2009 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
A+ headline
― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Friday, 22 May 2009 09:00 (fourteen years ago) link
xp...or, in fact, the internet.
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 22 May 2009 09:05 (fourteen years ago) link
They've really cocked up that road actually. They blocked out a lot more than his house (I wonder who else lives down there?) and (just past Maccas pad) all the car number plates are still visible.
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 22 May 2009 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
28 IF ?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 22 May 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
loving the motion blur that they now add to the transition as you click through a street
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 24 July 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"Maybe if we wait around long enough we can see Oprah!" (SW corner)
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=41.884255,-87.65325&panoid=3itxBNbw90Xj10LZKTXjoQ&cbp=12,226.49,,0,7.77&ll=41.88416,-87.653244&spn=0,359.993032&z=18
― Snorks is worst cartoon in america and world plus fuck Snorks (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 25 July 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Singapore added. Looks quite awesome.
Also Coronation Street
― the acquired taste that is howard wolowitz (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, so not interested in that? How about a walk around Pompeii?http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.751,14.487&spn=0.3,0.3&t=m&q=40.751,14.487
― the acquired taste that is howard wolowitz (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 4 December 2009 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
or Kew Gardens?http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.650964,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=51.47144,-0.293798&spn=0,359.961419&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.471314,-0.298664&panoid=3MCrkLthqgG0r27UbS4ZTg&cbp=12,112.58,,0,6.5
― poster x (ledge), Friday, 4 December 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/iog31e.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
ew
"Report a problem"
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
peepoop
― shartin jort (am0n), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
taiwan is looking well nice on streetview right now and so is hwy 395 between bishop and lone pine (and then 136 se of there)
― Parish Priest!, Friday, 29 January 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
it's really upsetting to me that i live in a major u.s. city and yet my entire neighborhood is not streetviewed. i wonder if i can contact google to volunteer and they'll come out and weld the camera tower to my car and commission me to do it, including paid training. cause i would do that.
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 29 January 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I did actually complain to google that my main minor UK city had not been s/v'ed when Scunthorpe had been. And literally a couple of weeks later they were out and about. However this may not be cause and effect (and they've still not released the maps even though it was months ago).
In the meantime some Berlin art pranksters claim to have attached a GPS device to the googlecar.http://streetcar.fffff.at/
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 7 February 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
The road my parents live on in rural eastern NC is streetviewed. I find that astounding.
― Jeff, Sunday, 7 February 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
There was an article in the paper here a couple weeks ago saying Google are now doing to go round on pushbikes getting areas they couldnt get to by car - zoos, botanical gardens, pizzas, that kind of thing. That'll be awesome!
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Monday, 8 February 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
By "pizzas" I clearly meant "piazzas", erm erm.
Trayce, they're already doing this. See upthread a few posts.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 8 February 2010 09:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah that kew gardens thing was what made me think of it. Theyve not finished it here yet but I'm looking fwd to being able to see some cities pedestrian plazas, inside taronga and melb zoo, and so on.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Monday, 8 February 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I HAVE DISCOVERED THE VORTEX
http://i46.tinypic.com/1ys3no.jpg
Turns out it's on Nevada 427.
― Pontiac Driving Excitement (Z S), Friday, 5 March 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
...and its still sitting where it was on February 7th. Prankster FAIL.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 March 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
And the whole of Britain is up (or about 96% of the roads anyway). Now we really can see what the most rubbish county is.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 11 March 2010 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257622/Google-faces-storm-naked-child-Streetview.html
URL tells you everything you need to know.
The photos, showing the child's mother or nanny helping him dress and a man looking on, have sparked fears that paedophiles will have a new way to search for photos or targets online.
A MAN LOOKING ON.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Google had blurred the child's face but not the registration plate of the family's car, making it possible to trace their address.
ATTENTION PAEDOS, NAKED CHILD LIVING AT KNOWN ADDRESS IN UK
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
in my day you could kick a ball in the street with it all hanging out, without fear of being raped by perverts online
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Does any country in the world wring it's hands about streetview as much as us Brits?
Google's Street View has come under fire after a new survey shows that two-thirds of people find the images 'intrusive' and 24 per cent think it is a 'service for burglars'.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
New survey shows that two-thirds of people find people walking down their street 'intrusive'...
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Monday, 15 March 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
The report was carried out by myvouchercodes.co.uk
yeah they sound reliable
― joe, Monday, 15 March 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Is the 3D button on Streetview an April Fools joke?
― nate woolls, Thursday, 1 April 2010 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ha! don't have any 3d glasses to test whether it's actually being applied "for real"
― Nhex, Thursday, 1 April 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
haha it totally works
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 1 April 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I used my Avatar 3D glasses and it didn't work.
― Duke Newsom (DavidM), Thursday, 1 April 2010 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
it's just the old fashioned blue & red glasses you need, i don't know how the avatar ones work.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
A "View In 3D" option has been added to Google Books as well, so surely it has to be a hoax?
― Convenience Fish (snoball), Thursday, 1 April 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, an AFJ
apj or not, it still works pretty cool. some scenes work better than others there are some dodgy parts.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm feeling more fucked-with from the fact that my tiny hometown is now comprehensively covered on Streetview. They've gone too far.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
'Horse-boy' on Google Streetview
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Thursday, 24 June 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Google Steed View
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 24 June 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
oh horse-boy when will you ever become a horse-man
― del griffith, Thursday, 24 June 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
this is my favorite new thing: http://web.mit.edu/~jmcmicha/www/globegenie/
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, I think I know what I'm doing for the rest of the afternoon.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't understand what it's supposed to be doing.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay this is kinda fun
― van smack, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
It randomly shows you places on Streetview. Except it's not all that random, as it gets stuck in certain regions.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
for me that region is the ohio valley
― del griffith, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I keep getting stuck in North Carolina.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
What I've been doing in my spare time.
Haven't had that much spare time lately.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
That's great, PP. I like.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm visible on streetview in 2 diff. locations. the most famous i'll ever be (other than appearing in a live shot from the Gene debut album booklet).
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
a genie for live cctv's would be more interesting than this street view
― van smack, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
true, cctv would be great but i'm having a lot of fun shuffling locations.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
hi ireland
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Cherrington+Place,+Castlebar,+Ireland&sll=53.851919,-9.301643&sspn=0.090525,0.219383&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Cherrington+Pl,+Castlebar,+County+Mayo,+Ireland&ll=53.861183,-9.284606&spn=0,0.027423&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.861384,-9.284951&panoid=io3QE80zK7uiBvfWA18cvA&cbp=12,204.27,,0,7.39
spot the fucking yobs next door, nice touch. now that i've moved back in, the car is better, the garden's neater and the curtains aren't always drawn. drop in sometime.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
nice bench
― ledge, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Dublin,+County+Fingal,+Ireland&t=h&layer=c&cbll=53.00981,-9.029999&panoid=cXC-3CRzaMjICXWWCpHsbQ&cbp=12,346.2,,0,7.5&ll=53.009703,-9.03008&spn=0.002527,0.008256&z=18
― nate woolls, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
that's just where i live, though- this is where a darraghmac is from
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
is that the fr ted house!??!
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes it is.
― nate woolls, Friday, 1 October 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
disgracefuil that it's in dublin tbh. another example of the inherent bias in the system
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Hello Penguins!http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-62.59663,-59.904971&spn=0,0.030899&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-62.59609,-59.901651&panoid=ZzuMubmHCfCGGo3ePSlpCQ&cbp=12,277.36,,0,5
― Duncan Donuts (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a couple of shifty looking fellas a little bit down the road from the Father Ted house. Something's definitely going down.http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Dublin,+County+Fingal,+Ireland&t=h&layer=c&cbll=53.011163,-9.028946&panoid=GSfwJF2Fv4AuZpMfiSeDRg&cbp=12,90.42,,0,11.33&ll=53.010933,-9.029126&spn=0,0.007725&z=18
― Duncan Donuts (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
can remember getting completely lost driving around here (aka the middle of nowhere)
my favourite mountain
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Friday, 1 October 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf
― entrylev leviev (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
shangri la? k2?
― 156, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, nothing to see here, just god and jesus hovering in the clouds over a swiss lake.
― circles, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
nakh did u find that urself?
― max, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
miracles are real!
― markers, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Big ol bug on the lens. Or a leaf.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
go down the road a bit and it stays in the same place on the screen. then turn the other way and it's still in the same place on the screen, over the land instead of the lake. obviously something someone stuck on the camera for a laugh. xpost!
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 03:50 (11 hours ago)
yeah
― entrylev leviev (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
appearing on gawker in 5....4....3....2...
― dayo, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
already happened!
nakhchivan got a 'hat-tip' which im sure will please his bank manager
― ENRRQ (history mayne), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
33,107 views already for a streetview glitch?
― entrylev leviev (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
dang I hope the friends who I e-mailed this to check the timestamps to see I wasn't cribbin offa gawker
― dayo, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus christ one look at gawker comments is enough to make one never want to read anything but ILX ever again
― dayo, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Gawker's commenters are way too smart.
― StanM, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
omg looooool at all of this. A++
― markers, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Gawker's one of the few bigger sites where I actually bother to skim read the comments
n e ways max, thx for the hat-tip but (inna markers style) could u remove it just in case this goes viral on xtian sites or something and they find this thread? (you never know, right)
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
he is hat-tipping the armenian exclave ffs
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
azeri
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah even i knew that ffs
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
rd yr wikipedias rmde
whatever, nobody knows a goddamn thing about you after nrly 1 year's ILX posting, you're not gonna be tracked by some crackwad fundies
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
no, but this thread might, right?
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
lol the obsession continues, this thread's just the matrix
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
nakhchivan austrian lake jesus god apparition streetview google miracle amazing holy turin lourdes stigmata behold
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
there it is
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
front page on yahoo news this afternoon
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, no prob. i owe you a meal, let me know if youre even in nyc.
― max, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
doesn't let anyone know of his movements imo
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
except 'to the kebab place and back'
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
these street view things are almost always nuts for us, for whatever reason.
― max, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
hat tip max, u r a true mensch of ilx
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
^ that is a compliment iirc
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
darragh i know what "mensch" means
― max, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
that one would look awes even w/o the glitch
very nostalgic for switzerland right now
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
ha i was reprimanded for misunderstanding it previously max, is all
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i believe i referred to a child-rapist defending bishop as a mensch before i was corrected
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
lol breaking character
― ENRRQ (history mayne), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 17:12 (1 minute ago)
haha
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
― max, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesse James Woods (darraghmac) wrote this on thread Ratzinger becomes Pope on board I Love Everything on Apr 8, 2010THE VATICAN has again hit back in strong terms at those criticising the Catholic Church over its handling of the sexual abuse of children by priests.In an interview yesterday a senior Vatican figure, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, said criticism of the Holy See over the issue was “truly incomprehensible”.“What we are dealing with now is a cultural battle: the pope embodies moral truths which people don’t accept and for that reason the shortcomings and errors of priests are used as arms against the church,” he told the Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano. Cardinal Sodano, who at the weekend said the church would not be distracted by “idle gossip”, in an apparent reference to the child abuse scandal, again defended the record of the pope and bishops on the issue.“It was not the fault of Jesus if he was betrayed by Judas. Nor is it the fault of a bishop if one of his priests sullies himself with grave crimes. And certainly, it is not the responsibility of the pontiff,” he said.“The Christian community correctly feels itself injured when people try to involve it as a whole in grave and painful incidents concerning some priests, thus transforming individual guilt and responsibility into collective guilt with a manipulation that is truly incomprehensible.”this guy is quite the mensch, if i understand the term correctly.
THE VATICAN has again hit back in strong terms at those criticising the Catholic Church over its handling of the sexual abuse of children by priests.
In an interview yesterday a senior Vatican figure, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, said criticism of the Holy See over the issue was “truly incomprehensible”.
“What we are dealing with now is a cultural battle: the pope embodies moral truths which people don’t accept and for that reason the shortcomings and errors of priests are used as arms against the church,” he told the Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano.
Cardinal Sodano, who at the weekend said the church would not be distracted by “idle gossip”, in an apparent reference to the child abuse scandal, again defended the record of the pope and bishops on the issue.
“It was not the fault of Jesus if he was betrayed by Judas. Nor is it the fault of a bishop if one of his priests sullies himself with grave crimes. And certainly, it is not the responsibility of the pontiff,” he said.
“The Christian community correctly feels itself injured when people try to involve it as a whole in grave and painful incidents concerning some priests, thus transforming individual guilt and responsibility into collective guilt with a manipulation that is truly incomprehensible.”
this guy is quite the mensch, if i understand the term correctly.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
idnuttc
looool
― markers, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
could see my red face from google maps after i was taken aside and given a quiet word after that post.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
probably time to rescreen 'the apartment'
― ENRRQ (history mayne), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
this will put a whole new complexion on it
God-like apparition on Google StreetView - Stuff.co.nzall 1227 news articles »
jesus....
― lily allin (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
not all of those baout this but anyway
― lily allin (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
looooool
― markers, Friday, 22 October 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome to the big leagues son
― max, Friday, 22 October 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
the big leagues of "stuff.co.nz"
lily allin - This summers biggest hit?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 23 October 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL I was just reading the tech section of the Age (proper Melb broadsheet paper) and this is mentioned! I'm like "oh lol doo doo wait Max R3ad I know that name hahah wtf".
So yeah, legit papers reporting this even over here. And this is where it started? You guys.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Saturday, 23 October 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
haaaaa!
― markers, Saturday, 23 October 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
fuckin guys
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 October 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/brad_hirschfield/2010/10/god_and_google.html
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 23 October 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
One of my editors forwards a Macks Reed story to the writing staff probably once every month or so (October's entry was about Clarence Thomas.)
Each time, I get that same feeling I got when my boss saddled up to me one day and asked, "Tre, do you know what a sockpuppet is?"
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 23 October 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
aw thats nice to hear
― max, Sunday, 24 October 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
This image, captured by the Street View feature of ubiquitous searcher (a fact about Google which may hint at the search engine itself is increasingly God-like, if not actually God) has been interpreted by thousands as a glimpse of God captured on camera
― max, Sunday, 24 October 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm
From: Andrew Johnston <astrosand✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧>Subject: http://gawker.com/5667404/did-google-street-view-find-god-above-a-swiss-lakeTo: Max Read <✧✧✧@gaw✧✧✧.c✧✧>
fake,gay and photo choped
― max, Monday, 25 October 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
display name potential there
― I Want to Change My Password... (bnw), Monday, 25 October 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
America's next top media critic
― markers, Monday, 25 October 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
photo choped
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Man loses seven stone after seeing himself on Google Street View
Bob Mewse, 56, weighed 21 stone 3lb after years of feeding his sweet tooth with cakes and biscuits.He was so horrified a year ago when he saw himself on Google Street View – a mapping service that uses a 360-degree camera to record images – that he decided to start losing weight.Mr Mewse lost a third of his body weight after drastic changes to his diet and a strict regime of exercise. He now weighs 14 stone (89kg)
He was so horrified a year ago when he saw himself on Google Street View – a mapping service that uses a 360-degree camera to record images – that he decided to start losing weight.
Mr Mewse lost a third of his body weight after drastic changes to his diet and a strict regime of exercise. He now weighs 14 stone (89kg)
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
germany, the land of the ghostly floating boxes
― circles, Friday, 19 November 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
- "You've got plenty of square feet in here, utilities are paid, new flooring and a new refrigerator were just put in last January… One of the prettiest little houses you're going to find here in Topeka."- "Sounds great! So, uh, why is the rent so much cheaper than the other houses we've looked at?"- "Well, your across-the-street neighbors …"
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 7 April 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
shudder
― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
Virtual road trip!
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Sunday, 8 May 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
I always expected that was going to be one of Google's next applications, yeah. But maybe it's way too much network traffic even for their infrastructure.
― StanM, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://robotflaneur.com/
nothing you couldn't already do, but still fun
― iatee, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
random teleporting flaneur. following actual routes - with faster refreshing - would be much better.
― i love the smell of facepalm in the morning (ledge), Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
I prefer this to the Virtual Road Trip thing above which pretty much does what you want, because:1. moving between adjacent streetview feels slow and clunky, which saps the joy out of following a route2. if I'm looking at an unfamiliar city, I don't know which bits are interesting to look at, so I don't want to pick the route myself - I'm quite happy to zap randomly between unknown locations, some of which are central and may contain glimpses of famous landmarks (possibly not from the usual angle) and some of which are pleasingly off the beaten tourist track
I just had a pleasing teleport around SF, which I visited for 4 days in 1999, so it's a good combination of mostly unfamiliar + a little bit of "hey I think we went down the next street across" for me
(but setting the refresh time might be good, though at least you can pause if you get an interesting one, and skip if you don't)
― sambal dalek (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 19 June 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
pressing 'x' to stop teleportation wasn't working for mealso, I got stuck on that thing where the camera pans whenever the pointer moves, and couldn't get out of it. (I guess I just don't know the trick; to get out of it I'd left click, which would zoom me in, then I'd have to zoom out etc)
― vmic damone (rip van wanko), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mapcrunch.com pretty good for random teleport fun
― blueski, Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
they really need to get the car out at night, as an option for selected locations
― blueski, Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
Well, as long as they stay in the city.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
I 'travel' a lot via Google Maps Streetview. Yesterday, I drove down the north coast of Yorkshire to Robin Hood's Bay and then tooled around on the Moors. Later I went from Castellane to Moustiers Ste Marie via the Verdon Gorge.
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol i tweeted something yesterday 2 the effect that if you couldn't go 4 a drive but wanted 2 u could just use google maps in street view mode
― markers, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, and I tooled around downtown Aix-en-Provence and the old part of Nice.
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i tried to recreate a vice city style drive around in miami. and realised just how fooking big compared to a video game a real city is.
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
This is one that I plan to use someday on my borderline blog.
When I have time and Wyoming comes back into the rotation...
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I had either this thread or the o_O thread to post this in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopM8uPTl_8
Or maybe I should have posted it in Attention Tuomas - I have Finnish question
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'm enjoying this app, which I discovered about 5 minutes ago!
Click on "GO" on the upper right and it kaleidoscopes!
http://rorschmap.com/?lat=41.89002071845417&lng=-87.6522518713623&z=14
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Click here and then move forward.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oh my god. I have some friends who must never see that video.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Florida's outrageous color palette has gotten way out of hand.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
That's a cool site, Je55. Check out the Heartland.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
That reminds me, I need to see if my friend has a J I can bum.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
That is really cool, PP.
Do You Want To?
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Why have I never noticed the aeroplane in Russell Squre before?
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
it only showed up a month or two ago.
― ledge, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
It's flying pretty low for such an urban area, right?
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
It is not flying, it has no shadow.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think you can tell how high it is? only how much higher the camera is (twice as high according to my calculations). typical approach height over london might be 2-4000 feet tho.
― ledge, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
er not feet, metres. i think.
you wouldn't see the shadow because of the height. not in the same frame anyway.
― jed_, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't even thinking right when I said that. Of course, the plane would appear larger in relation to how close it was to the camera, not the other way around.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Ned T Rifle found another one over Tottenham.
http://t.co/Ttidxfv
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
There's something about these I find unsettling to look at, like the thread of shipwreck photos.
― oppet, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
That's one big piano to the left of the Tottenham plane as well.
― Matt DC, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Old news, but you ain't trippin.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.whatwasthere.com/
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
That is so awesome!
― Je55e, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
Sometimes I like to pick out random cross streets in New Orleans and "drive around." 1604 St. Thomas Street, down in the warehouses near the river, features a burned out, gutted car.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/1604.jpg
― Hawaiian mime montage (Dan Peterson), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
I used to live on St. Thomas! It was much nicer where I lived (Irish Channel). So weird to go for a run near the levee and see a ship towering way above you.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
New Orleans and Detroit are two depressing cities to explore randomly on Google Street View.
― pplains, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
i've been doing this in Ciudad Juarez
― bulge renaissance (+ +), Monday, 30 January 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yikes....
I don't find NOLA that depressing overall. There are plenty of blighted areas (and the Lower 9th Ward, obviously), but it's deceptive b/c even totally livable and even desirable areas look ramshackle compared to other cities.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
It's just crazy that even in 2011, you get photos like this one of NOLA.
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yeh, you're right. It is pretty heartbreaking. I was there about a year ago and along I-10 on the edges of town, there were still several huge apartment complexes (the kind of generic sprawling ones with dozens of 2-4 story buildings) that stood empty and untouched from the day Katrina came through. It's some zombie apocalypse looking stuff :(
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
I couldn't find the complexes on Street View, but they're like these, but wrecked and falling apart with no one to even demolish them.
http://g.mnp0.com/dimg/2115260/460x345/2115260.JPG
It's surreal, and it's got to take its toll on people who see them every day. I was only there for 6 months, but even that made me feel *off* - too dramatic to call it "crazy," but not just right.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
THERE I AM DEPRESSED ARE YOU HAPPY??
:)
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
I was looking at SW Detroit, actually seemed kind of nice! Leafy streets with single-family houses that were a little weathered but not run-down or anything. Looked at Zillow and all these houses are valued at $25K each.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/detroit.jpg
Yep, Detroit is depressing as fuck.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
You can drop the little orange man into any residential neighborhood of Detroit proper and likely see something like that on any block.
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I know, there was just something about this particular view that captured my imagination.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah definitely. Some are surely sadder looking than others.
How does someone abandon a castle.
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
I would love my very own midwestern castle.
― kate78, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
however, I'm not going to Detroit to get it.
― kate78, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Midwestern Castle, you say?
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
That's actually a pretty beautiful corner in jvc's pic.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
I went to high school in Charlevoix, MI where this thing is located
http://i.imgur.com/aEz54.jpg
Besides weddings and parties, they hosted rock concerts. I once parked on a hill near it and listened to Ratt and Ugly Kid Joe. Pretty sure they were playing the same night? But I could be merging memories to save mental bandwidth.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
Welcome to Miami Beach
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Found this today while "driving around" the upper ninth ward in New Orleans. It's the Club Desire, an early showcase for Fats Domino.
http://prestonlauterbach.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/clubdesire-1.jpg
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
cool find, dp
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3056/3078278579_13712c8943.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://web.mac.com/jsdart/Site/5years_later.html#6
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, that interior shot is crazy. Here's info.
http://www.regional-modernism.com/2008/10/club-desire-threatened.html
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing much about this one. Patton Oswalt tweeted about an L.A. 7-11 last week and I found this dude whizzing past it.
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/4932/screenshot20120507at319.png
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
andorra, croatia and chile now viewable on GMSV
i get so excited when they add new places!
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 28 September 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
speaking of which, this is really cool!:http://gawker.com/5946727/googles-underwater-street-view-will-show-you-the-way-to-fish-clubs-mermaid-graveyards-whale-parks-etc
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Friday, 28 September 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome to Namie, a Japanese city that has been quarantined since the 2011 tsunami.
20,000 people have yet to return to their homes. Google Street View gives those people a tour of the city's current state.
― pplains, Thursday, 18 April 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
This is kind of weird - Google Streetview is usually so good about blurring faces. I've even seen artwork on signs blurred because the mapping thought it was a real face.
But, on the one street in America where you probably would demand to have your face blurred, GSV has been leaving everything out in the open.
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102818AM_zps7a234729.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102756AM_zpsf895bafa.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102805AM_zps72853b48.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102029AM_zpsbc133e92.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102123AM_zpse79beff4.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102103AM_zps4d63c04f.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101759AM_zps2634f544.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101738AM_zps84bd0361.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102421AM_zps86dd2d30.png
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101812AM_zpsaf476e92.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101101AM_zpsebcaf821.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at100817AM_zps44bf4fea.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101644AM_zpsf6455261.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101617AM_zpsbfe6df44.png
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
holy shit. makes sodom and gomorrah look tame by comparison.
― dylannn, Monday, 20 May 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
thought this revive was gonna be about this awesome site which is awesome & should have its own thread & is absorbing & great,http://www.geoguessr.com/
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 20 May 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
Oh, cool
My first try: 10070 points
Guessed the right continent for all of themU.S. plains guesses were closeThought Alaska was Washington or Oregon
That was fun!
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
we did discuss that here: Guess the City
― dylannn, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Does deserve its own thread. B/c it's a game I don't suck at.
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
I LOVE THIS GAME.I can only assume that PP hasn't posted about it yet because he is currently engrossed.
― kate78, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
I'm pretty good at it, but once I guessed someplace in the Missouri River valley in the US and it turned out to be Finland. :\
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Monday, 20 May 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
...and who knew that so much of Australia looks like Africa? Or vice versa?
― kate78, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
I knew that was Portugese, not Spanish. Dammit!
I kinda suck at World Geography, truth be told.
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
This is all I want to do all day.
Was greatly helped in one round by the truck that said a company name and "SCOTLAND" on it. Guessed outskirts of Glasgow, but it was Aberdeen.
Was very proud of guessing w/in 100 km of a place in Argentina b/c it looked arid and the truck in the picture was a Mercedes.
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
New high score.
― kate78, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
My first try: 17,230Was helped greatly by two road signs in somewhat clear view.
Not helped by Brazilian farm looking like the Great Plains of NoAm.Also not helped by guessing that remote African rolling highway was located in inland South Africa, not the Northwest corner.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
I'm lucky I can sound out Cyrillic. One time it plopped me right down in front of the main train station of what was helpfully labeled, in 20 foot letters, СМОЛЕНСК.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
Ok, 2nd try: 29,363. I'm going to stop playing this as I know this is the kind of game that will lead to my downfall:
Can you beat 29,363
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 24 May 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
wao, got within 100km for somewhere in the middle of australia, i'm retiring with that as my final attempt.
― ohmigud (Merdeyeux), Friday, 24 May 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
Albert got .005 km on one of those. Beware.
― pplains, Friday, 24 May 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
just got 19011
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 25 May 2013 06:50 (ten years ago) link
Argh, rural Finland looks EXACTLY like northern Minnesota.
― Dan I., Saturday, 25 May 2013 07:02 (ten years ago) link
I am mostly terrible at this but it's p. compelling! I did just have a good-ish game (read: lucky) until I thought a woody backroad in West Virginia might be in Belgium.
(also I would have been really lucky with place #2 as I was dumped down right outside a big sign saying Kapuskasing - 'cept I had no idea where that was. Turned round and there was a Tim Horton's, though, so that was a pretty good clue)
Do you lose points if you move around before guessing?
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 25 May 2013 10:12 (ten years ago) link
I tried cajunsunday's and got 28875 (click that link to challenge me).
― Grampsy, Saturday, 25 May 2013 12:55 (ten years ago) link
I found myself on a rocky, red-earthed desert highway with SIMON PONCHO written in the dirt by the side of the road and was sure it was Mexico. it turned out to be Manitoba, damn. I'm pretty much hopeless at this game when there aren't any street signs or shops nearby.
― unregistered, Saturday, 25 May 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
You lost the challenge with 7847 points against 28875/
:/
― ohmigud (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 25 May 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
did you cheat, grampsy? how did you get within 0.008 km of some spot in the middle of nowhere in Tasmania?
― unregistered, Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
enough with the Brazil already, whats wrong with Daventry once in a while?
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
How are you playing this game? I just rotate, but don't move anywhere, then just take a guess. I'm not very good.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
Come at me, bros
Totally cheated with another tab open, btw.
― pplains, Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
I decided to go the other way and challenge you without moving the camera at all.
You lost the challenge with 3702 points against 27907.
― ohmigud (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 25 May 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
anyone care to beat my unimpressive score (11811 points)? don't cheat like Grampsy!
― unregistered, Saturday, 25 May 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
8446 against you, unreg - hopeless.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
I just rotate, but don't move anywhere, then just take a guess. I'm not very good.
That's what I've been doing too. I'm also not very good.
I've used the "zoom" function on some streetsigns, though, and once I accidentally moved while trying to zoom and I don't think it made any difference to my score. Then again I haven't stopped to work out the scoring, so...
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
I think you can move all over the place if you want. It's got that "return to original location" button that resets everything.
― pplains, Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
is googling street signs cheating?
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 25 May 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
(asking for a friend)
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 25 May 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
[url=http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=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%3D%3D0got someone, but i forgot who[/url]
― pplains, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
xpost - Grampsy seems to be ok with googling street signs, but it's frowned upon by those of us who are not Frauds.
― unregistered, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
It is a guessing game. Seems to me that doing active research would take most of the guesswork out it.
― parodic pastry (Aimless), Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
cool building.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/2fe24c25d4859466beeb27d95f7e659c/tumblr_mndc3h85FT1qivgd4o1_1280.png
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
I'm guessing Iowa
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
Saskatchewan, Iowa.
― pplains, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
what is that, a grain elevator? awesome
― unregistered, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/grain_elevators.html
― dylannn, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
Obviously, no Canadian would reference "Liberty" on their grain storage building. It would be too boastful.
― parodic pastry (Aimless), Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
actually i managed to close the page before finding out where it was. I'LL NEVER FIND OUT.
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
there are fewer of them ever year--
In 1950 there were 3,035 primary elevators in Saskatchewan, with storage capacity of 283 million bushels and twenty-two licenced buyers. Twenty years later, in 1970, there were 2,750 elevators, with storage capacity of 225 million bushels. After that the number of elevators declined tremendously, so that by 2004 there are only 197 primary licenced elevators, with a storage capacity of 2.8 million tonnes (100 million bushels). Although there are only six major grain companies as buyers, there are now approximately fifteen terminals owned by farmers—wholly or in some joint venture with a major grain company.
― dylannn, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
http://saskgrainelevators.blogspot.ca/
guys, it said LIBERTY SASKATCHEWAN right on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty,_Saskatchewan
― dylannn, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
VANISHING SENTINELS II
This 371 page full color book contains: Diagrams and descriptions on how a wooden grain elevator operatedMaps showing where the railroads and elevators were from 1950-2010and which remain today;The histories of the Western Saskatchewan grain elevators(When they opened, which companies owned them, and their known fate);Photos of the remaining wooden, steel and concrete elevators with some thathave been demolished from 2000-2010, and their present location as of December 2010.
― dylannn, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
http://goo.gl/maps/CPqBu
― pplains, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:+51.153,-105.437&hl=en&ll=51.145339,-105.442561&spn=0.003816,0.010568&sll=51.145345,-105.441953&sspn=0.007633,0.021136&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.145345,-105.441953&panoid=UHInaUjmMLgKPHgtkvLInA&cbp=12,112.81,,0,-10.32
― dylannn, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
http://www.custodela.com/p/smiles/emot-colbert.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
thanks for that. I just booked a ticket to Liberty, Saskatchewan.
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
beautiful country out there, buddy. good fishing up at last mountain lake. craven country jamboree down the road the first week of july, randy travis, kenny chesney, tim mcgraw.
― dylannn, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
New high score on cajunsunday's/Grampsy's game!
Didn't cheat, just spent four hours playing. And there are two of us.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 25 May 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
guys, it said LIBERTY SASKATCHEWAN right on it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty,_Saskatchewan― dylannn, Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:28 PM (3 hours ago)
― dylannn, Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:28 PM (3 hours ago)
You guys are all cheating. The real rules of this game are that you are not even allowed to look at the screen: a 3rd party must act out the scene via charades and then you throw a dart in the general direction of a map.
Reading the name of a grain elevator is just wayyyyy over the line for me, for example, consider blind people or those without a computer for example.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 25 May 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
If there's one thing that 112 years on the planet have taught me, it's that anything worth doing is worth doing "by all means necessary".
― Grampsy, Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
26951 - Challenge me and feel free to cheat like a motherfucker.
― pplains, Sunday, 26 May 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
Things I hate:
• Russian locations because I can't read Cyrillic.
• Locations where you can't move anywhere, just look around yourself.
• I swear, if I get dropped down on some stretch of a 1000 km dirt road in the middle of Australia again...
― pplains, Sunday, 26 May 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Man, I just got dropped underwater on the Great Barrier Reef! Best result ever! Turtles! They streetviewed the Great Barrier Reef, ffs!
http://maps.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/gallery/ocean/heron-island.html
― ailsa, Monday, 27 May 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
haha, it's amazing what those Google cars can do! if you walk around a bit, you can climb out of the water and watch a couple of guys practicing their scuba diving in a resort swimming pool.
― unregistered, Monday, 27 May 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
I got dropped here today.
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Monday, 27 May 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
what on ilx? that car does get everywhere
― pplains, Monday, 27 May 2013 02:54 (ten years ago) link
― pplains
got 11762 on this one - I tend to be happy enough with anything over 11k especially on one like that with wide open spaces
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link
For doing this I do a panorama and i zoom but i dont move away from my original location, mostly get scores of around 12K, had 15k occasionally, 16300 is best so far but that came from getting 2 of them within 10 miles
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:50 (ten years ago) link
oh and no research in another tab obv!
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:34 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Is that Florida? The little radar dish, the wide open spaces and the huge buildings on the horizon say NASA to me.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
― kate78, Friday, 24 May 2013
i got a new high score with that one too! 17102, tho the football stadium was a bit of a give away
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013
14057 at this one, got the alaska one super close and another US one within 7 miles but got one of the others on the wrong continent which let me down
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
Wait you mean you can play exactly the same locations as another person played?
― Je55e, Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
Apparently so! Weird - I didn't realize you could do that.
It is Midway Atoll, Phil. Prompted me to look it up, it was only a WWII name for me.
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
i just got 19,241 but was helped by landing on the doorstep of petra and a lucky guess at vancouver.
― So: The Answers (or something), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
OFF TOPIC but I just accidentally dragged 'javascript:void(0)' into my Google Maps directions destination, and it sent me to the Wall Street Journal's London office. What does it all mean?????
― Bob Bunsen (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
This is frustrating and fun--why is it so obsessed with Finland, though?
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 3 June 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
I find this game really has a boner for Finland, northern Norway, the prairie provinces of Canada, western Australia, Ukraine, and western Russia.
― kate78, Monday, 3 June 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
And Brazil. Don't forget Brazil.
Yesterday, I did get plopped down next to a beach on which were parked four fire trucks that said OXNARD FIRE DEPT. I didn't even have to turn once, let alone move, and got it within .05km.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Monday, 3 June 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
I got one that set me down right outside the Ketchikan Ferry Terminal. Another on the Confederation Bridge.
― kate78, Monday, 3 June 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
are the locations randomised or from a selection of pre-chosen places?
― NI, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
I landed on Midway again!
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Monday, 3 June 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
i always enjoy getting close-up people shots. i found this amazing one of a bunch of guys running towards the google car but i didnt manage to screen shoot it in time.
check out this guy!
http://kidsteel.tumblr.com/image/52082260415
― cajunsunday, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/5cd9fafc1ab10a287f2d0de7c8ccb004/tumblr_mnu4nrxwJ41qivgd4o1_1280.png
― cajunsunday, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
You have to name him.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 3 June 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
I got one that set me down right outside the Ketchikan Ferry Terminal
I've had that one too. So, pre-chosen rather than random, I reckon, otherwise what are the chances?
― ailsa, Monday, 3 June 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
The one that plunked me down in the middle of a logging road in a BC forest sure seemed random.
I have been noticing this unintentional Soderbergh filtered way of going from the grainy standard cameras from the 2007 days of yore to the high-def ones of today. Sometimes you'll catch the scenes side-by-side, and can back up and down from one year to the next.
― pplains, Monday, 3 June 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
I've gotten the Ketchikan one and nameless dude, so yeah, probably not totally random. But they still seem to give me "road in Australia with no identifying features" a lot.
― Vinnie, Monday, 3 June 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=124+Honey+Lane,+Tottenville,+Staten+Island,+NY,+United+States&hl=en&ll=40.508742,-74.237151&spn=0.02607,0.038581&sll=40.508725,-74.236691&layer=c&cbp=13,277.48,,1,4.93&cbll=40.508647,-74.237127&hnear=124+Honey+Ln,+Staten+Island,+Richmond,+New+York+10307&t=m&z=15&panoid=GxsD8cCzzYsSThAQ6jlm7A
Every day these two welcome home
― suare, Monday, 1 July 2013 10:25 (ten years ago) link
Kinda neat to find a place on there where it's always Christmas.
I was cruising through some neighborhood - maybe in Baltimore - where the yards had gravestones and the front porches had cobwebs. Of all times they pick to drive the camera around, they pick Halloween.
― pplains, Monday, 1 July 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
When did Google Maps get animated 3d driving directions? I guess they are walking and biking too?
― Talking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Blues (doo dah), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
Annoying *new* streetview. They've removed the static navigational arrows, so you have to just click on the road to move around. Which is terrible because if you get a road that goes over/under another road you'll end up teleporting.
also horrid huge road labels don't seem to be removable.
― prop forward turned celebrity chef (Ste), Saturday, 20 July 2013 10:37 (ten years ago) link
hmm, I still have the arrows (although I can't see them unless I look down at my feet)
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, 20 July 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
...and they only allow you to move forwards and backwards, whereas there used to be 4-directional arrows at upcoming intersections. yeah, this is definitely not an improvement.
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, 20 July 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
No, not creepy at all. Nuthin' like being caught in somebody's scope inside a Maryland parking lot.
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at65626PM_zps03448699.pnghttp://s612.photobucket.com/user/pplains/media/Screenshot2013-09-13at65431PM_zps4a41ea34.png.htmlhttp://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at70705PM_zpscc857971.pnghttp://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at70840PM_zps3cb3636a.png
Though this guy doesn't seem tgaf.
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at71229PM_zps3979e676.png
[√] Full license plate number on display [√] Coming out of a liquor store [√] Camo skin on truck [√] All petered out.
― pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
[√] Carrying an apparently heavy backpack and small triggering device.
― nickn, Saturday, 14 September 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
[√] roofrack for transporting deceased venison
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 14 September 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at80422PM_zps405ba1b5.png
"Excuse me, Ma'am? We hope you enjoyed your shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond, but may we check your bags real quick?"
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at80524PM_zps12bd1c3f.png
"A'ha!"
― pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
This is the tiniest entrance to a Walmart that I think I've ever seen.
http://i.imgur.com/EyHYNMh.png
― pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
Is your "Nawlins" album all from Street View?
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Saturday, 14 September 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I think they might even be posted up on this thread somewhere. I was just amazed at how they didnt blur out any of the faces.
― pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
I guess they are redoing Japan at the minute, lotsa little pokey back streets to cover in those cities, must be difficult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJv-C1dA0WA
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Saturday, 14 September 2013 08:28 (ten years ago) link
The day Google gets the "street" that my parents live on is the day they have finished the entire world.
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 September 2013 10:53 (ten years ago) link
http://bit.ly/17ttxFQ
― kinder, Saturday, 14 September 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiEmxDklKw
― conrad, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 09:24 (ten years ago) link
not streetview but fucked up:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/tech/web/google-maps-dead-body/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 18 November 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link
http://jalopnik.com/insane-seattle-bus-crash-captured-on-google-street-view-1479721983
― anky, Monday, 9 December 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
http://goo.gl/maps/vXrSo
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Are_You_Experienced_-_US_cover-edit.jpg/480px-Are_You_Experienced_-_US_cover-edit.jpg
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
"Purple Haze, all in my brainNew Baltimore don't seem the sameActing funny, but I don't know why'scuse me, while I GIS the sky"
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
It's like something out of a Poe story
― Le passé, non seulement n'est pas fugace, il reste sur place (Michael White), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
to me it looks more likehttp://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwiGzOt-xL3Img1CejKtALvs6RByZosgd7y25MAYOibLJu1qBbug
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
I love browsing around and finding a Google Street View from 1976.
― pplains, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.old-games.com/screenshot/6112-3-interstate-76.jpg
― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
the google earth van passed in front of me last week! so i may be on streetview w/ a blurred face sometime soon.
― clouds, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
a blurred cloud.
― Jorge Wah Wah (anky), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
I realize I'm a bit early, but welcome to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost Google Streets spot, during Constitution Day (17 May). Enjoy your snowmobile ride up the valley.
― The inscrutable idiot savantism of (Sanpaku), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Or alternatively, ride down from the top of the world.
― The inscrutable idiot savantism of (Sanpaku), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
https://d1zjcuqflbd5k.cloudfront.net/files/acc_444775/1exj9?response-content-disposition=inline;%20filename=Screen%20Shot%20on%202016-05-02%20at%2014%3A18%3A31.png&Expires=1462195424&Signature=VijOpn1dbIga7iLyaGrulpQLNOQ-0eY6u99YimHJ8wUKJRQKX0ZsbCJ~M1EdHVkBrFcSljFp3pj1q-bBFqvUe~QebftTFIT3p5-gVcWnQZijD2Suf0SrG8gCc3OWxvbbjJW4j8CKn5r-EfeCTD9bo4SZ~AHW9~RoLYnGEq0ci-8_&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJTEIOJM3LSMN33SA
― saer, Monday, 2 May 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link
― pplains, Saturday, July 19, 2014 2:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hate it when a link dies. It's like I die a little as well.
http://i.imgur.com/57wV7Tr.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 2 May 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link
it vanished into the ether, and then it came back out of the ether for swift half before the last bus
http://i.imgur.com/WTWMBnP.jpg
― saer, Monday, 2 May 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
http://static4.gamespot.com/uploads/original/mig/8/2/7/5/268275-inter76_005.jpg
― just her neck. thankig u in advance (stevie), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 09:26 (seven years ago) link
A friend of mine just found herself in google streetview, p cool
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 12 January 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
https://goo.gl/maps/DKpbfD8ir3x
Nah, just go down a little further north, to the end of the road. I'll be right here when you get back, promise.
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
I guess the "Free Candy" sign was at the start of the road.
― nickn, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.geoguessr.com/
It drops you in a random location in Street View--anywhere in the world, or limit it to specific countries, cities, etc.
Tool around in Street View looking for clues to your location. (Oh look, a sign for a eucalyptus oil distillery and a street named South Coast Road--southern Australia maybe?)
In another little window, zoom all the way in on a world map and click where you think you are. It will show you how close you were and award points.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 04:36 (five years ago) link
https://goo.gl/maps/L1hxx4kDJiE2
― lxy, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
:-(
this
― lxy, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
haha, what?
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
Rear Window for the 2010s?
― nickn, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
St Mary's Church, Lansdowne, India
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.8441589,78.6783428,3a,30y,319.68h,80.36t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPxeV33DNgyzeVfqpXR4zTqiAqTjmi1uIdoaw67!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPxeV33DNgyzeVfqpXR4zTqiAqTjmi1uIdoaw67%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-2.9338646-ya336.5-ro-0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096
― anvil, Saturday, 16 March 2019 08:19 (five years ago) link
That tells me "no results found for your search".
Has anyone tried wandering around central London on streetview recently? It might be fixed by now but for a while they were using pictures taken after dark and you could hardly see anything.
― koogs, Saturday, 16 March 2019 08:58 (five years ago) link
ghost girl worked for me anvil
― alomar lines, Saturday, 16 March 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
ha ha. yes, working here now i'm not on my phone.
what i was talking about:https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5142681,-0.1504043,3a,75y,85.24h,92.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seiUimBvUm8d1CB0tOIdQIg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― koogs, Saturday, 16 March 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
https://scontent.fhfa2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/58419672_10161595951870304_6912216092966387712_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ht=scontent.fhfa2-2.fna&oh=97f2627961fadfecd6338a9c526ecb5e&oe=5D6A73C1
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 26 April 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
trenchaaant
― nashwan, Friday, 26 April 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Storm Thorgerson's Google Street View
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 27 April 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
i'm furious that they got rid of the timewarp feature.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link
damn, i was using that just last week to find a pic of me that had disappeared!
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
The same - my missus went for a pint at the pub opposite the RNIB, and I was looking through to see if the vans had captured any of the Good Boys that apparently park up outside the pub.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
what is a good boy?
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
a good ol'pupper
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
some good boys outside a pub
https://imgur.com/a/2nhc8Fn
(i was google mapping my old neighbourhood a few years ago)
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 4:36 AM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I AM OBSESSED.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
I don't understand, are you all talking about this feature?
https://i.imgur.com/1OvBEHr.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Yeah that geoguessr game is super fun & addictive, huge fan.
― One Eye Open, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
that's the one. it's been missing since yesterday, just shows the date the picture was taken but no option to move it back.
who knows. it seems that it might be temporary:https://www.reddit.com/r/streetview/comments/bnvtw1/time_travel_broken/
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
weird, it's available for a certain distance around my house but not elsewhere. coincidence?
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
strange. it works in a few canadian cities, but not all of them. but still not in tokyo. still furious.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
I'm pissed off at streetview. I managed to get in it when the car drove near my workplace last summer. They updated the photo sometime last fall. This thread had prompted me to go back and check it out, but it had already been overwritten by another pass they did in October.
HOWEVER, the streetview of my house hasn't been updated since 2013. I've had the siding replaced since then and would prefer to see an updated result. Another house on my street also had major renovations done and the house next door was completely bulldozed and rebuilt.
I had never heard of the time travel function before. It's available on my residential street, but not in the part of downtown DC where I work.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
i think this is peter dinklange taking out his trash. i just stumble on it, but he does live in the area.https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7899868,-73.969507,3a,75y,289.11h,68.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sm5AFJU3_QOhqLze6ovBo4g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― mizzell, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
^^ Along those lines:
How embarrassing to be caught wearing your "I'm A Virgin" t-shirt by the Google Street Car
https://i.imgur.com/cmv7NkN.png
https://i.imgur.com/Hg66VRb.png
https://i.imgur.com/P85FlQ4.png
― pplains, Sunday, 7 July 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
the back of that says something like "and this is an old shirt" IIRC
― StanM, Sunday, 7 July 2019 06:21 (four years ago) link
Svalbard
https://www.google.com/maps/@78.2186019,15.6434786,3a,75y,97.63h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOaNdr9tYrSYkUL7MWxUMgaLsBj7iZOAsxSdc5n!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOaNdr9tYrSYkUL7MWxUMgaLsBj7iZOAsxSdc5n%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya6.365872-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
Longyearbyen, the Norwegian settlement
Barentsburg, the Russian settlement
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 7 July 2019 07:05 (four years ago) link
oops
here's Barentsburg
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 7 July 2019 07:06 (four years ago) link
computer is difficult
https://www.google.com/maps/@78.0672618,14.2077317,3a,75y,42.67h,86.24t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sY4FFKKwXfI7dE88JTDDgfw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DY4FFKKwXfI7dE88JTDDgfw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D24.15574%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 7 July 2019 07:08 (four years ago) link
So briefly off-topic, this shirt makes no sense.
https://i.imgur.com/FK4k65W.jpg
1.) Why a new shirt say it's an old shirt? If it was bought when the old person was still a virgin, shouldn't it have said "this is a new shirt?"
2.) What if s/he was still a virgin, then what difference would the shirt's age be?
3.) Do they make shirts that say "I watch Quantum Leap (but this is an old shirt)"?
4.) OK, so "I watch Quantum Leap" probably = "I'm a virgin", but you see where I'm going with this.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
I think the implication is that you were a virgin when you bought the shirt but might not still be.
― o. nate, Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
Yeah, but why would you buy a new shirt that said this is an old shirt.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
it's a kind of real life clickbait joke. like the deliberate funny false advertising signs that say "FREE BEER" or "TOPLESS WAITRESSES" in big letters and then something like "tomorrow" or "next door" in smaller letters, which you only see after they got your attention.
― StanM, Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
At least those signs aren't outright LIES.
Key West, Fla. --- 1971
BRENDA, 17: "Oh this shirt is great! I can wear it since I am a virgin! Good thing it also says 'this is an old shirt' so 48 years from now when I'm surrounded my family and grandchildren, people will realize that it was only true when i bought it, which is today."
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
I GET THE JOKE, I just don't get the logic behind it.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/w0ZeXUf.png
― del griffith, Sunday, 21 July 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/AjIeTJf.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.714766,-97.3690477,3a,75y,76.48h,88.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdmjm1DpSrYh7JeOb2fNHGg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Now go to "Street View 2011" in the upper left corner and click on 2015.
― pplains, Friday, 11 October 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
Can we talk about that basketball hoop though?
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 11 October 2019 11:22 (four years ago) link
too high ffs
― nashwan, Friday, 11 October 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
Well, you should have seen it in 2007.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 11 October 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/Yqp5vGBj/2009.jpg2009
https://i.postimg.cc/QtzFFGHd/blackpool2014.jpg2014
https://i.postimg.cc/nMbM14K8/blackpool2015.jpg2015
https://i.postimg.cc/nrQC7RDY/blackpool2018.jpg2018
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8067184,-3.054576,3a,75y,54.48h,93.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sQJLVSEpS-9y5a1usZs3_dg!2e0!5s20181001T000000!7i13312!8i6656
Same story all over Blackpool
― cherry blossom, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
grim.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 11 October 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
Not even going to ask about the couple in the first shot.
― pplains, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/zvqtXv90/kc1.jpg
bad sidewalk, Kansas City
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
at https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1029391,-94.5611163,3a,75y,227.68h,92.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sJm4tFKLs5ntNOUYSLyHDqw!2e0!5s20190301T000000!7i16384!8i8192
One day I will again find the street where over the course of 5 years of streetviews, a woman gradually paints a fence
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
That sidewalk is pretty bad.
BUT I would almost bet that the 9th Street sidewalk originally ran down to the corner to Woodland (behind the camera.)
https://i.imgur.com/3AltHQR.png
Maybe when they added Mary Lou Williams Ln. (and cut off 10th Street from the rest of 10th Street), they realized MLW needed a sidewalk as well. So they just laid one out until it met the 9th Street sidewalk.
I dunno, still poor municipal planning, but it's The Paseo.
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Through the decades, over and again, my whole life on that sidewalk.
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
https://postimg.cc/345mKtvK
Trouble at the Uzbek/Afghan border
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1896992,67.3054333,3a,75y,218.4h,81.16t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOLleZjAE05oYxsNupTKomgRk8lH5sF8-WHesRT!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOLleZjAE05oYxsNupTKomgRk8lH5sF8-WHesRT%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi1.6940128-ya202.04562-ro2.230651-fo100!7i5660!8i2830
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 26 October 2019 05:10 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/nzMkG5VQ/uzbek.jpg
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 26 October 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
Not what it looks like from that one picture imo - the guy holding the camera looks pretty happy (turn around, click one/two arrows forward & then 360, they're all just walking in a row) & the photos are called "Hairatan Customs"
― StanM, Saturday, 26 October 2019 08:37 (four years ago) link
I wasn'really sure what it looks like! It is right on the border, but I presumed it was maybe some kind of tour guide. I know a guy that went on holiday to Syria (sometime around 2009?) and he had that kind of setup
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 26 October 2019 09:46 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/13KyWdw5/arts2.jpg
https://goo.gl/maps/ZFWpwx1RZ19x4Ra8A
The entire city of Stepanakert, Artsakh is like a series of 1970s postcards. The colours!
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
Just up the road is We Are Our Mountains, a monument that looks like a Pink Floyd album cover:https://goo.gl/maps/Cx9SnVTrEjTbAQha6
According to Wikipedia it was the centre of controversy during the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009 because the Armenian contestant used an image of it as a stage backdrop even though it's technically on Azerbaijani territory.
I'm sure the people of Ilxor are familiar with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and regularly discuss it during dinner parties. I too have always been aware of it, ever since I read about it on Wikipedia a few minutes ago.
I'm going to try and drop it into casual conversation in a way that suggests I have been aware of the conflict forever. If all of you agree to be quiet no-one need ever know that my entire persona is built on lies.
Also, it's not really Street View, but I visited Shenzhen a couple of weeks ago, and Google's map of the border area is wrong. There's a large blank spot at the border crossing the Shenzhen's roads are broken:https://i.imgur.com/N3Bqfoi.jpg
Apparently it's a quirk of how different countries implement the GPS coordinate system - China uses a different system to the rest of the world, including Hong Kong, so although Google's satellite images are correct the roads at the border area overlap and go wrong.
When I went I used OSMAnd on my mobile phone, which was accurate, but according to Wikipedia it has been illegal since 2002 for entities other than the Chinese government to publish "significant geographic information" on China so I wonder if I was breaking the law. Merely using OSMAnd with my phone's location service turned on isn't technically publishing, but I wouldn't have fancied trying to argue with a Chinese policeperson. For the record I used OSMAnd to search for fast food->McDonalds but in the end I went to KFC and a Vanguard supermarket, where I was mesmerised by a bag of Tesco boiled sweets.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 3 November 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
Tying cherry's and ashley's posts together:
https://i.imgur.com/IoLtvNf.png
― pplains, Monday, 4 November 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
I saw a google streetview car driving around today. First one I've seen in action! Unfortunately I didn't have my 'Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself" towel with me so I was at a loss as to what to do
― cherry blossom, Monday, 11 November 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
I had no idea there's a solar system view on Google Maps, but anyway there is and you can blast through a cheesy hyperspace effect to wander round the planets and pretend you're some kind of post-human AI.
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-explore-the-solar-system-in-google-maps-via-hype-1840777348
You’ll only be able to use the space feature—and experience the hyperspace tunneling—on desktop versions of Chrome, but it’s easy to find and use:Go to Google Maps.Click the “Satellite view” button at the lower-left of the screen.Click the super-tiny “Global view” button at the top of the navigation controls in your browser’s lower-right corner.Using either the “-” key, your mouse wheel, or the Google Maps zoom controls, zoom out until you’re in the planetary view of Earth.Select one of the various planets and moons from the list on the left, and you’ll blast through hyperspace to your new destination. Eligible destinations include Mars (to visit Dr. Manhattan), Europa (to recreate the journey of that 2013 sci-fi film), and the International Space Station (to say hello to everyone currently zooming around our planet).
Go to Google Maps.Click the “Satellite view” button at the lower-left of the screen.Click the super-tiny “Global view” button at the top of the navigation controls in your browser’s lower-right corner.Using either the “-” key, your mouse wheel, or the Google Maps zoom controls, zoom out until you’re in the planetary view of Earth.Select one of the various planets and moons from the list on the left, and you’ll blast through hyperspace to your new destination. Eligible destinations include Mars (to visit Dr. Manhattan), Europa (to recreate the journey of that 2013 sci-fi film), and the International Space Station (to say hello to everyone currently zooming around our planet).
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Monday, 6 January 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd_xcFpxjP0
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link
YESSS
― nashwan, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
The anticipation and payoff so glorious
― nashwan, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
Haha
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
Good
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/0xmdNcxv/Screenshot-2020-03-10-at-03-06-44.png
Enjoyed this one from Komsomolsk-on-Amur that didn't quite make the cut for Guess the City
― cherry blossom, Friday, 13 March 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
Had to check some old addresses a while before Xmas so wound up going down the rabbithole with streetmaps. INteresting to see the change in places over time. Cos they use photos over a 10 year or higher span of time. So I can move through the streetmaps world and see a number of buildings and things in this area not being there. The local LIDL disappears if you move through the area, so does the KFC . Assume this must be happening in most areas.Also noticed that the street changes that ahppened around my mother's place to prevent people speeding through backstreets come and go depending on which way you approach the street. Think it is possible taht you can press advance in a couple of places p0articularly on wider streets. & they will take you forward into the view from either one year or a very different one.Presumably at some point if they are allowed to continue updating and people's fears of surveillance don't block things there will be a point when they do keep things on a standardised era basis. THough presumably it will only make economic sense to update areas taht have actually physically changed the road layout.BUt like semi trippy to see a road suddenly jump 9 years as you advance down it. Or see yourself jumped to a spot a couple fo roads away as the system has a gap in its photo record.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 March 2020 09:24 (four years ago) link
It looks like Pringles are really popular in Kabul!
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.5033595,69.1338412,3a,75y,237.49h,88.32t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMgGV0AAmSqbAH1lP47vJPIOMBouKleQjTWJTrN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMgGV0AAmSqbAH1lP47vJPIOMBouKleQjTWJTrN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya138.04868-ro0-fo100!7i6144!8i3072
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 19 April 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
Much more intrigued by the Twix packaging!
― pplains, Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Reclaim the streets, OAP edition: https://goo.gl/maps/yrwzum4AZ4x4Tsvr8
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/23/geoguessr-world-championships-2023-inside-story
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 23 December 2023 16:25 (two months ago) link