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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
Has anyone seen the camera?
― sunny successor, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
Why can't you use streetview in London?
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 January 2009 22:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
Move up two clicks, then look down and to the left.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
That's fucked up!
― Last night it was pullulating with (Michael White), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
omgggggg
― max, Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
and if u go one more they stop the van
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
OMG!!!
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
shenanigans
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
― 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 (4 years ago) Permalink
wasn't there one w/ some chick flashing the van?
― Edward III, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
I still can't get that one to work
― Edward III, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
Will you accept a kidnapping?
― Pancakes Hussein Obama (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
i've been caught by google street view twice now.
― fwiw (rockapads), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Also pot bust.
― Human kind cannot bear very much (Michael White), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
OK so its gone already? Anyone get a screenie?
― Trayce, Friday, 30 January 2009 03:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
glasgow's up too, you can see my flat but not my street
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
link
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Can't see meself at Camberwell.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
bit creeped out by this tbh
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
wtf are you all doing posting your addresses on the internet
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
what?
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
Pics are taken from the other side of the road from where I saw the car :(
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
my living room window = above and to the right of the blue arrow:
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm going to come round and murder you or some lurker is
― cozwn, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's the quiet ones you have to worry about.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
oops, sorry, biggest link ever.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
erm, that went wrong, i'll try again.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
how come stevie never posts here anymore?
― fap fap fap wtf crazy caps self-publishe... (1) (rent), Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://goo.gl/maps/CPqBu
― pplains, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:44 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
― pplains, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:52 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
thanks for that. I just booked a ticket to Liberty, Saskatchewan.
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:55 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty,_Saskatchewan
― 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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
26951 - Challenge me and feel free to cheat like a motherfucker.
― pplains, Sunday, 26 May 2013 15:47 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I got dropped here today.
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Monday, 27 May 2013 02:34 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
what on ilx? that car does get everywhere
― pplains, Monday, 27 May 2013 02:54 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
― 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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
oh and no research in another tab obv!
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:51 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― 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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
New high score.
― 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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Wait you mean you can play exactly the same locations as another person played?
― Je55e, Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
This is frustrating and fun--why is it so obsessed with Finland, though?
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 3 June 2013 01:36 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
are the locations randomised or from a selection of pre-chosen places?
― NI, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:33 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I landed on Midway again!
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Monday, 3 June 2013 20:42 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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!
― cajunsunday, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― cajunsunday, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
You have to name him.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 3 June 2013 21:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink