Google Maps Streetview

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