Google Maps Streetview

aw thats nice to hear

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

hmm

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America's next top media critic

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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)

germany, the land of the ghostly floating boxes

- "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 …"

shudder

Virtual road trip!

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.

http://robotflaneur.com/

nothing you couldn't already do, but still fun

random teleporting flaneur. following actual routes - with faster refreshing - would be much better.

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 route
2. 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)

pressing 'x' to stop teleportation wasn't working for me
also, 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)

http://www.mapcrunch.com pretty good for random teleport fun

they really need to get the car out at night, as an option for selected locations

Well, as long as they stay in the city.

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.

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

Oh, and I tooled around downtown Aix-en-Provence and the old part of Nice.

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.

This is one that I plan to use someday on my borderline blog.

When I have time and Wyoming comes back into the rotation...

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

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

Click here and then move forward.

Oh my god. I have some friends who must never see that video.

Florida's outrageous color palette has gotten way out of hand.

That's a cool site, Je55. Check out the Heartland.

That reminds me, I need to see if my friend has a J I can bum.

That is really cool, PP.

Do You Want To?

Why have I never noticed the aeroplane in Russell Squre before?

it only showed up a month or two ago.

It's flying pretty low for such an urban area, right?

It is not flying, it has no shadow.

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.

er not feet, metres. i think.

you wouldn't see the shadow because of the height. not in the same frame anyway.

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.

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.

Ned T Rifle found another one over Tottenham.

http://t.co/Ttidxfv

There's something about these I find unsettling to look at, like the thread of shipwreck photos.

That's one big piano to the left of the Tottenham plane as well.

Old news, but you ain't trippin.

http://www.whatwasthere.com/

That is so awesome!

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

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.