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.
― unregistered, Monday, 27 May 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
I got dropped here today.
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Monday, 27 May 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
what on ilx? that car does get everywhere
― pplains, Monday, 27 May 2013 02:54 (ten years ago) link
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
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link
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
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:50 (ten years ago) link
oh and no research in another tab obv!
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
― 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.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
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
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
My first try: 10070 points
Guessed the right continent for all of themU.S. plains guesses were closeThought 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
― suare, Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
Wait you mean you can play exactly the same locations as another person played?
― Je55e, Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
i just got 19,241 but was helped by landing on the doorstep of petra and a lucky guess at vancouver.
― So: The Answers (or something), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
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?????
― Bob Bunsen (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
This is frustrating and fun--why is it so obsessed with Finland, though?
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 3 June 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
I find this game really has a boner for Finland, northern Norway, the prairie provinces of Canada, western Australia, Ukraine, and western Russia.
― kate78, Monday, 3 June 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Monday, 3 June 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
I got one that set me down right outside the Ketchikan Ferry Terminal. Another on the Confederation Bridge.
― kate78, Monday, 3 June 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
are the locations randomised or from a selection of pre-chosen places?
― NI, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
I landed on Midway again!
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Monday, 3 June 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
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
― cajunsunday, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/5cd9fafc1ab10a287f2d0de7c8ccb004/tumblr_mnu4nrxwJ41qivgd4o1_1280.png
― cajunsunday, Monday, 3 June 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
You have to name him.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 3 June 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
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?
― ailsa, Monday, 3 June 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Monday, 3 June 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Vinnie, Monday, 3 June 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
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
― suare, Monday, 1 July 2013 10:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Monday, 1 July 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
When did Google Maps get animated 3d driving directions? I guess they are walking and biking too?
― Talking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Blues (doo dah), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
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.
― prop forward turned celebrity chef (Ste), Saturday, 20 July 2013 10:37 (ten years ago) link
hmm, I still have the arrows (although I can't see them unless I look down at my feet)
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, 20 July 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
...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.
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, 20 July 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
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.pnghttp://s612.photobucket.com/user/pplains/media/Screenshot2013-09-13at65431PM_zps4a41ea34.png.htmlhttp://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Screenshot2013-09-13at70705PM_zpscc857971.pnghttp://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.
― pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
[√] Carrying an apparently heavy backpack and small triggering device.
― nickn, Saturday, 14 September 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
[√] roofrack for transporting deceased venison
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 14 September 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
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!"
― pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
This is the tiniest entrance to a Walmart that I think I've ever seen.
http://i.imgur.com/EyHYNMh.png
― pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
Is your "Nawlins" album all from Street View?
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Saturday, 14 September 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
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
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Saturday, 14 September 2013 08:28 (ten years ago) link
The day Google gets the "street" that my parents live on is the day they have finished the entire world.
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 September 2013 10:53 (ten years ago) link
http://bit.ly/17ttxFQ
― kinder, Saturday, 14 September 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiEmxDklKw
― conrad, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 09:24 (ten years ago) link
not streetview but fucked up:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/tech/web/google-maps-dead-body/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 18 November 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link
http://jalopnik.com/insane-seattle-bus-crash-captured-on-google-street-view-1479721983
― anky, Monday, 9 December 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
http://goo.gl/maps/vXrSo
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Are_You_Experienced_-_US_cover-edit.jpg/480px-Are_You_Experienced_-_US_cover-edit.jpg
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
"Purple Haze, all in my brainNew Baltimore don't seem the sameActing funny, but I don't know why'scuse me, while I GIS the sky"
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
It's like something out of a Poe story
― Le passé, non seulement n'est pas fugace, il reste sur place (Michael White), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
to me it looks more likehttp://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwiGzOt-xL3Img1CejKtALvs6RByZosgd7y25MAYOibLJu1qBbug
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link