I don't understand, are you all talking about this feature?
https://i.imgur.com/1OvBEHr.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Yeah that geoguessr game is super fun & addictive, huge fan.
― One Eye Open, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
that's the one. it's been missing since yesterday, just shows the date the picture was taken but no option to move it back.
who knows. it seems that it might be temporary:https://www.reddit.com/r/streetview/comments/bnvtw1/time_travel_broken/
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
weird, it's available for a certain distance around my house but not elsewhere. coincidence?
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
strange. it works in a few canadian cities, but not all of them. but still not in tokyo. still furious.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
I'm pissed off at streetview. I managed to get in it when the car drove near my workplace last summer. They updated the photo sometime last fall. This thread had prompted me to go back and check it out, but it had already been overwritten by another pass they did in October.
HOWEVER, the streetview of my house hasn't been updated since 2013. I've had the siding replaced since then and would prefer to see an updated result. Another house on my street also had major renovations done and the house next door was completely bulldozed and rebuilt.
I had never heard of the time travel function before. It's available on my residential street, but not in the part of downtown DC where I work.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
i think this is peter dinklange taking out his trash. i just stumble on it, but he does live in the area.https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7899868,-73.969507,3a,75y,289.11h,68.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sm5AFJU3_QOhqLze6ovBo4g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― mizzell, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
^^ Along those lines:
How embarrassing to be caught wearing your "I'm A Virgin" t-shirt by the Google Street Car
https://i.imgur.com/cmv7NkN.png
https://i.imgur.com/Hg66VRb.png
https://i.imgur.com/P85FlQ4.png
― pplains, Sunday, 7 July 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
the back of that says something like "and this is an old shirt" IIRC
― StanM, Sunday, 7 July 2019 06:21 (four years ago) link
Svalbard
https://www.google.com/maps/@78.2186019,15.6434786,3a,75y,97.63h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOaNdr9tYrSYkUL7MWxUMgaLsBj7iZOAsxSdc5n!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOaNdr9tYrSYkUL7MWxUMgaLsBj7iZOAsxSdc5n%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya6.365872-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
Longyearbyen, the Norwegian settlement
Barentsburg, the Russian settlement
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 7 July 2019 07:05 (four years ago) link
oops
here's Barentsburg
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 7 July 2019 07:06 (four years ago) link
computer is difficult
https://www.google.com/maps/@78.0672618,14.2077317,3a,75y,42.67h,86.24t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sY4FFKKwXfI7dE88JTDDgfw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DY4FFKKwXfI7dE88JTDDgfw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D24.15574%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 7 July 2019 07:08 (four years ago) link
So briefly off-topic, this shirt makes no sense.
https://i.imgur.com/FK4k65W.jpg
1.) Why a new shirt say it's an old shirt? If it was bought when the old person was still a virgin, shouldn't it have said "this is a new shirt?"
2.) What if s/he was still a virgin, then what difference would the shirt's age be?
3.) Do they make shirts that say "I watch Quantum Leap (but this is an old shirt)"?
4.) OK, so "I watch Quantum Leap" probably = "I'm a virgin", but you see where I'm going with this.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
I think the implication is that you were a virgin when you bought the shirt but might not still be.
― o. nate, Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
Yeah, but why would you buy a new shirt that said this is an old shirt.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
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."
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
I GET THE JOKE, I just don't get the logic behind it.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/w0ZeXUf.png
― del griffith, Sunday, 21 July 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/AjIeTJf.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Friday, 11 October 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
Can we talk about that basketball hoop though?
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 11 October 2019 11:22 (four years ago) link
too high ffs
― nashwan, Friday, 11 October 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
Well, you should have seen it in 2007.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 11 October 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/Yqp5vGBj/2009.jpg2009
https://i.postimg.cc/QtzFFGHd/blackpool2014.jpg2014
https://i.postimg.cc/nMbM14K8/blackpool2015.jpg2015
https://i.postimg.cc/nrQC7RDY/blackpool2018.jpg2018
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
― cherry blossom, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
grim.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 11 October 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
Not even going to ask about the couple in the first shot.
― pplains, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/zvqtXv90/kc1.jpg
bad sidewalk, Kansas City
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Through the decades, over and again, my whole life on that sidewalk.
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 26 October 2019 05:10 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/nzMkG5VQ/uzbek.jpg
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 26 October 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
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"
― StanM, Saturday, 26 October 2019 08:37 (four years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 26 October 2019 09:46 (four years ago) link
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!
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 3 November 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
Tying cherry's and ashley's posts together:
https://i.imgur.com/IoLtvNf.png
― pplains, Monday, 4 November 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Monday, 11 November 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
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).
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).
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Monday, 6 January 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd_xcFpxjP0
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link
YESSS
― nashwan, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
The anticipation and payoff so glorious
― nashwan, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
Haha
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
Good
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Friday, 13 March 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 March 2020 09:24 (four years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 19 April 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
Much more intrigued by the Twix packaging!
― pplains, Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link