Google Maps Streetview

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".

26951 - Challenge me and feel free to cheat like a motherfucker.

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...

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

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.

I got dropped here today.

what on ilx? that car does get everywhere

26951 - Challenge me and feel free to cheat like a motherfucker.

― 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

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

oh and no research in another tab obv!

I got dropped here today.

― 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.

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

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!

― 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

Wait you mean you can play exactly the same locations as another person played?

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.

i just got 19,241 but was helped by landing on the doorstep of petra and a lucky guess at vancouver.

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?????

This is frustrating and fun--why is it so obsessed with Finland, though?

I find this game really has a boner for Finland, northern Norway, the prairie provinces of Canada, western Australia, Ukraine, and western Russia.

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.

I got one that set me down right outside the Ketchikan Ferry Terminal. Another on the Confederation Bridge.

are the locations randomised or from a selection of pre-chosen places?

I landed on Midway again!

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!

http://kidsteel.tumblr.com/image/52082260415

http://24.media.tumblr.com/5cd9fafc1ab10a287f2d0de7c8ccb004/tumblr_mnu4nrxwJ41qivgd4o1_1280.png

You have to name him.

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?

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.

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.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=124+Honey+Lane,+Tottenville,+Staten+Island,+NY,+United+States&hl=en&ll=40.508742,-74.237151&spn=0.02607,0.038581&sll=40.508725,-74.236691&layer=c&cbp=13,277.48,,1,4.93&cbll=40.508647,-74.237127&hnear=124+Honey+Ln,+Staten+Island,+Richmond,+New+York+10307&t=m&z=15&panoid=GxsD8cCzzYsSThAQ6jlm7A

Every day these two welcome home

Kinda neat to find a place on there where it's always Christmas.

I was cruising through some neighborhood - maybe in Baltimore - where the yards had gravestones and the front porches had cobwebs. Of all times they pick to drive the camera around, they pick Halloween.

When did Google Maps get animated 3d driving directions? I guess they are walking and biking too?

Annoying *new* streetview. They've removed the static navigational arrows, so you have to just click on the road to move around. Which is terrible because if you get a road that goes over/under another road you'll end up teleporting.

also horrid huge road labels don't seem to be removable.

hmm, I still have the arrows (although I can't see them unless I look down at my feet)

...and they only allow you to move forwards and backwards, whereas there used to be 4-directional arrows at upcoming intersections. yeah, this is definitely not an improvement.

No, not creepy at all. Nuthin' like being caught in somebody's scope inside a Maryland parking lot.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at65626PM_zps03448699.png
http://s612.photobucket.com/user/pplains/media/Screenshot2013-09-13at65431PM_zps4a41ea34.png.html
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at70705PM_zpscc857971.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at70840PM_zps3cb3636a.png

Though this guy doesn't seem tgaf.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at71229PM_zps3979e676.png

[√] Full license plate number on display
[√] Coming out of a liquor store
[√] Camo skin on truck
[√] All petered out.

[√] Carrying an apparently heavy backpack and small triggering device.

[√] roofrack for transporting deceased venison

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at80422PM_zps405ba1b5.png

"Excuse me, Ma'am? We hope you enjoyed your shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond, but may we check your bags real quick?"

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at80524PM_zps12bd1c3f.png

"A'ha!"

This is the tiniest entrance to a Walmart that I think I've ever seen.

http://i.imgur.com/EyHYNMh.png

Is your "Nawlins" album all from Street View?

Yeah, I think they might even be posted up on this thread somewhere. I was just amazed at how they didnt blur out any of the faces.

I guess they are redoing Japan at the minute, lotsa little pokey back streets to cover in those cities, must be difficult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJv-C1dA0WA

The day Google gets the "street" that my parents live on is the day they have finished the entire world.

http://bit.ly/17ttxFQ

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

not streetview but fucked up:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/tech/web/google-maps-dead-body/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

http://jalopnik.com/insane-seattle-bus-crash-captured-on-google-street-view-1479721983

http://goo.gl/maps/vXrSo