Google Maps Streetview

pressing 'x' to stop teleportation wasn't working for me
also, I got stuck on that thing where the camera pans whenever the pointer moves, and couldn't get out of it. (I guess I just don't know the trick; to get out of it I'd left click, which would zoom me in, then I'd have to zoom out etc)

http://www.mapcrunch.com pretty good for random teleport fun

they really need to get the car out at night, as an option for selected locations

Well, as long as they stay in the city.

I 'travel' a lot via Google Maps Streetview. Yesterday, I drove down the north coast of Yorkshire to Robin Hood's Bay and then tooled around on the Moors. Later I went from Castellane to Moustiers Ste Marie via the Verdon Gorge.

lol i tweeted something yesterday 2 the effect that if you couldn't go 4 a drive but wanted 2 u could just use google maps in street view mode

Oh, and I tooled around downtown Aix-en-Provence and the old part of Nice.

yeah i tried to recreate a vice city style drive around in miami. and realised just how fooking big compared to a video game a real city is.

This is one that I plan to use someday on my borderline blog.

When I have time and Wyoming comes back into the rotation...

I had either this thread or the o_O thread to post this in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopM8uPTl_8

Or maybe I should have posted it in Attention Tuomas - I have Finnish question

I'm enjoying this app, which I discovered about 5 minutes ago!

Click on "GO" on the upper right and it kaleidoscopes!

http://rorschmap.com/?lat=41.89002071845417&lng=-87.6522518713623&z=14

Click here and then move forward.

Oh my god. I have some friends who must never see that video.

Florida's outrageous color palette has gotten way out of hand.

That's a cool site, Je55. Check out the Heartland.

That reminds me, I need to see if my friend has a J I can bum.

That is really cool, PP.

Do You Want To?

Why have I never noticed the aeroplane in Russell Squre before?

it only showed up a month or two ago.

It's flying pretty low for such an urban area, right?

It is not flying, it has no shadow.

i don't think you can tell how high it is? only how much higher the camera is (twice as high according to my calculations). typical approach height over london might be 2-4000 feet tho.

er not feet, metres. i think.

you wouldn't see the shadow because of the height. not in the same frame anyway.

i don't think you can tell how high it is? only how much higher the camera is (twice as high according to my calculations). typical approach height over london might be 2-4000 feet tho.

I wasn't even thinking right when I said that. Of course, the plane would appear larger in relation to how close it was to the camera, not the other way around.

Ned T Rifle found another one over Tottenham.

http://t.co/Ttidxfv

There's something about these I find unsettling to look at, like the thread of shipwreck photos.

That's one big piano to the left of the Tottenham plane as well.

Old news, but you ain't trippin.

http://www.whatwasthere.com/

That is so awesome!

Sometimes I like to pick out random cross streets in New Orleans and "drive around." 1604 St. Thomas Street, down in the warehouses near the river, features a burned out, gutted car.

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/1604.jpg

I used to live on St. Thomas! It was much nicer where I lived (Irish Channel). So weird to go for a run near the levee and see a ship towering way above you.

New Orleans and Detroit are two depressing cities to explore randomly on Google Street View.

i've been doing this in Ciudad Juarez

Yikes....

I don't find NOLA that depressing overall. There are plenty of blighted areas (and the Lower 9th Ward, obviously), but it's deceptive b/c even totally livable and even desirable areas look ramshackle compared to other cities.

It's just crazy that even in 2011, you get photos like this one of NOLA.

Yeh, you're right. It is pretty heartbreaking. I was there about a year ago and along I-10 on the edges of town, there were still several huge apartment complexes (the kind of generic sprawling ones with dozens of 2-4 story buildings) that stood empty and untouched from the day Katrina came through. It's some zombie apocalypse looking stuff :(

I couldn't find the complexes on Street View, but they're like these, but wrecked and falling apart with no one to even demolish them.

http://g.mnp0.com/dimg/2115260/460x345/2115260.JPG

It's surreal, and it's got to take its toll on people who see them every day. I was only there for 6 months, but even that made me feel *off* - too dramatic to call it "crazy," but not just right.

THERE I AM DEPRESSED ARE YOU HAPPY??

:)

I was looking at SW Detroit, actually seemed kind of nice! Leafy streets with single-family houses that were a little weathered but not run-down or anything. Looked at Zillow and all these houses are valued at $25K each.

http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/detroit.jpg

Yep, Detroit is depressing as fuck.

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.