Google Maps Streetview

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.

New Orleans and Detroit are two depressing cities to explore randomly on Google Street View.

i've been doing this in Ciudad Juarez

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.

It's just crazy that even in 2011, you get photos like this one of NOLA.

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 :(

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.

THERE I AM DEPRESSED ARE YOU HAPPY??

:)

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.

http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/detroit.jpg

Yep, Detroit is depressing as fuck.

You can drop the little orange man into any residential neighborhood of Detroit proper and likely see something like that on any block.

Oh I know, there was just something about this particular view that captured my imagination.

Oh yeah definitely. Some are surely sadder looking than others.

How does someone abandon a castle.

I would love my very own midwestern castle.

however, I'm not going to Detroit to get it.

Midwestern Castle, you say?

That's actually a pretty beautiful corner in jvc's pic.

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.

Welcome to Miami Beach

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

cool find, dp

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3056/3078278579_13712c8943.jpg

http://web.mac.com/jsdart/Site/5years_later.html#6

Wow, that interior shot is crazy. Here's info.

http://www.regional-modernism.com/2008/10/club-desire-threatened.html

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

andorra, croatia and chile now viewable on GMSV

i get so excited when they add new places!

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

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.

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

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