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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
are the locations randomised or from a selection of pre-chosen places?
― NI, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
I landed on Midway again!
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Monday, 3 June 2013 20:42 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/5cd9fafc1ab10a287f2d0de7c8ccb004/tumblr_mnu4nrxwJ41qivgd4o1_1280.png
― cajunsunday, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
You have to name him.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 3 June 2013 21:04 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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