Google Maps Streetview

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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http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101617AM_zpsbfe6df44.png

holy shit. makes sodom and gomorrah look tame by comparison.

thought this revive was gonna be about this awesome site which is awesome & should have its own thread & is absorbing & great,
http://www.geoguessr.com/

Oh, cool

My first try: 10070 points

Guessed the right continent for all of them
U.S. plains guesses were close
Thought Alaska was Washington or Oregon

That was fun!

we did discuss that here: Guess the City

Does deserve its own thread. B/c it's a game I don't suck at.

I LOVE THIS GAME.
I can only assume that PP hasn't posted about it yet because he is currently engrossed.

I'm pretty good at it, but once I guessed someplace in the Missouri River valley in the US and it turned out to be Finland. :\

...and who knew that so much of Australia looks like Africa? Or vice versa?

I knew that was Portugese, not Spanish. Dammit!

I kinda suck at World Geography, truth be told.

This is all I want to do all day.

Was greatly helped in one round by the truck that said a company name and "SCOTLAND" on it. Guessed outskirts of Glasgow, but it was Aberdeen.

Was very proud of guessing w/in 100 km of a place in Argentina b/c it looked arid and the truck in the picture was a Mercedes.

New high score.

My first try: 17,230
Was helped greatly by two road signs in somewhat clear view.

Not helped by Brazilian farm looking like the Great Plains of NoAm.
Also not helped by guessing that remote African rolling highway was located in inland South Africa, not the Northwest corner.

I'm lucky I can sound out Cyrillic. One time it plopped me right down in front of the main train station of what was helpfully labeled, in 20 foot letters, СМОЛЕНСК.

Ok, 2nd try: 29,363. I'm going to stop playing this as I know this is the kind of game that will lead to my downfall:

Can you beat 29,363

wao, got within 100km for somewhere in the middle of australia, i'm retiring with that as my final attempt.

Albert got .005 km on one of those. Beware.

just got 19011

Argh, rural Finland looks EXACTLY like northern Minnesota.

I am mostly terrible at this but it's p. compelling! I did just have a good-ish game (read: lucky) until I thought a woody backroad in West Virginia might be in Belgium.

(also I would have been really lucky with place #2 as I was dumped down right outside a big sign saying Kapuskasing - 'cept I had no idea where that was. Turned round and there was a Tim Horton's, though, so that was a pretty good clue)

Do you lose points if you move around before guessing?

I tried cajunsunday's and got 28875 (click that link to challenge me).

I found myself on a rocky, red-earthed desert highway with SIMON PONCHO written in the dirt by the side of the road and was sure it was Mexico. it turned out to be Manitoba, damn. I'm pretty much hopeless at this game when there aren't any street signs or shops nearby.

You lost the challenge with 7847 points against 28875/

:/

did you cheat, grampsy? how did you get within 0.008 km of some spot in the middle of nowhere in Tasmania?

enough with the Brazil already, whats wrong with Daventry once in a while?

How are you playing this game? I just rotate, but don't move anywhere, then just take a guess. I'm not very good.

Come at me, bros

Totally cheated with another tab open, btw.

I decided to go the other way and challenge you without moving the camera at all.

You lost the challenge with 3702 points against 27907.

:/

anyone care to beat my unimpressive score (11811 points)? don't cheat like Grampsy!

8446 against you, unreg - hopeless.

I just rotate, but don't move anywhere, then just take a guess. I'm not very good.

That's what I've been doing too. I'm also not very good.

I've used the "zoom" function on some streetsigns, though, and once I accidentally moved while trying to zoom and I don't think it made any difference to my score. Then again I haven't stopped to work out the scoring, so...

I think you can move all over the place if you want. It's got that "return to original location" button that resets everything.