Google Maps Streetview

Yeah, but why would you buy a new shirt that said this is an old shirt.

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.

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."

I GET THE JOKE, I just don't get the logic behind it.

https://i.imgur.com/w0ZeXUf.png

https://i.imgur.com/AjIeTJf.jpg

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.

Can we talk about that basketball hoop though?

too high ffs

Well, you should have seen it in 2007.

https://i.postimg.cc/Yqp5vGBj/2009.jpg
2009

https://i.postimg.cc/QtzFFGHd/blackpool2014.jpg
2014

https://i.postimg.cc/nMbM14K8/blackpool2015.jpg
2015

https://i.postimg.cc/nrQC7RDY/blackpool2018.jpg
2018

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

grim.

Not even going to ask about the couple in the first shot.

https://i.postimg.cc/zvqtXv90/kc1.jpg

bad sidewalk, Kansas City

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

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.

Through the decades, over and again, my whole life on that sidewalk.

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

https://i.postimg.cc/nzMkG5VQ/uzbek.jpg

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"

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

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!

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.

Tying cherry's and ashley's posts together:

https://i.imgur.com/IoLtvNf.png

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

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).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd_xcFpxjP0

YESSS

The anticipation and payoff so glorious

Haha

Good

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

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.

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

Much more intrigued by the Twix packaging!

Reclaim the streets, OAP edition: https://goo.gl/maps/yrwzum4AZ4x4Tsvr8

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/23/geoguessr-world-championships-2023-inside-story

https://maps.app.goo.gl/BrtR1QTeeBbdF8S7A

Big deal, right? Ok, click on "See More Dates" and then click on 2013.

they clearly ate their owners and now live in the big house

Oh no!

puppy mill?

They might've been huntin' dogs.

there's a lot more random garbage in the background these days than a decade ago

Here is a bus with an upside down american flag in the back window

https://i.ibb.co/PzmYCx5T/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-07-02-30.png

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8091398,19.6004936,3a,75y,87.76h,88.59t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sOi_4dN6O3pH9fMzI6vNTeA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.4137395631629204%26panoid%3DOi_4dN6O3pH9fMzI6vNTeA%26yaw%3D87.75754391033294!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMyMy4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDUzSAFQAw%3D%3D

Not technically street view - it's a photosphere - but this is the first one I remember taken inside a helicopter in flight:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gcFukgdryR7RY9Du8

Also, if you search around Finse, Norway, where they filmed part of Empire Strikes Back, you get this chap:
https://i.imgur.com/Fnke8vY.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/YBB1vLS5/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-20-35-58.png

This is quite a weird team and formation

https://maps.app.goo.gl/P6jectHaELv3a8eEA

https://i.ibb.co/YBB1vLS5/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-20-35-58.png

Have we discussed being able to go back and look at past vintages? I have six different dates for my house from 2008 to 2022.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Blackpool,+UK/@53.8067201,-3.0546118,3a,75y,54.42h,80.73t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s2bohQbYUSY7HB0xBo40kqg!2e0!5s20090501T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D9.267247487393163%26panoid%3D2bohQbYUSY7HB0xBo40kqg%26yaw%3D54.418194594324575!7i13312!8i6656!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x487b4117e942d017:0xb52db2179232c2c9!2sBlackpool,+UK!3b1!8m2!3d53.8167423!4d-3.0370485!16zL20vMDFodnpy!3m5!1s0x487b4117e942d017:0xb52db2179232c2c9!8m2!3d53.8167423!4d-3.0370485!16zL20vMDFodnpy?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTAyMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

The decline of Lytham Road Blackpool 2008-2022