The Art of Google Street View

This dude's site is gonzo. He's used Street View to virtually travel around the globe, running into hookers, guns, segways, wild animals, fires, death, some beautiful little moments and lots of middle fingers.

http://9-eyes.com/

also I think the shot directly below gucci baby is bigfoot evidence?

best website

ppl should identify/find some of these places

still lots of the world that hasnt been street view'd

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/learn/where-is-street-view.html

!2th one down is Trellick Tower I think..

I recognized the altare della patria in rome and used GSV to find that exact shot of the Roman soldier. This should be some nerdy OCD game.

Ha, these are great, the one with the cemetary with the horses by it has a weird perspective going on so for a moment i thought they were GIANT MUTANT HORSES.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2jcvu1Zth1qzun8oo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1318668320&Signature=ne2jT9GGwbW8yPTNt3zBtOW1GdQ%3D

9eyes.tumblr.com also
but yeah so great

best website

― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, October 14, 2011 9:01 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

The Horses of Google Street View

Schoolgirls running towards camera (near the bottom) is in East London, South Africa: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Dumela+St,+Cambridge+Village,+East+London,+Amatole,+Eastern+Cape+5247,+South+Africa&hl=en&ll=-32.964531,27.88727&spn=0.007408,0.009645&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=6.881357,14.941406&geocode=FdgACf4duYOpAQ&hnear=Dumela+St,+Cambridge+Village,+East+London,+Amatole,+Eastern+Cape+5247,+South+Africa&t=m&z=17&vpsrc=0&layer=c&cbll=-32.964443,27.887289&panoid=eMPOmg3yBMlprkhtJzLMaA&cbp=12,196.68,,1,18.42

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/10130477882/1/tumblr_lrblbrBhdj1qzun8o

"smile for the camera"
"i dont wanna"

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/1596211396/1/tumblr_lc0cgeFkUi1qzun8o

Um... what?

i don't understand how there can be pictures of aquariums and football matches - surely GSV is limited to the road?

Rod Stewart Fan Club, Edinburgh

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=53+East+Claremont+Street,+Edinburgh&ll=55.96227,-3.191957&spn=0.013908,0.02871&hnear=53+E+Claremont+St,+Edinburgh,+City+of+Edinburgh+EH7+4,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=m&z=15&vpsrc=0&layer=c&cbll=55.962183,-3.192047&panoid=0fWhHq7jfv-ttLulX6wh2A&cbp=12,285.42,,1,-4.66

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/602784396/1/tumblr_l2hxo63KJC1qzun8o

xpost!

why did no one want to participate when i made this thread :(

9eyes.tumblr.com

Because no-one knew what it was from the thread title?

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/4547602140/1/tumblr_ljj09u94nG1qzun8o
I want to know where this is. So brutal!

i don't understand how there can be pictures of aquariums and football matches - surely GSV is limited to the road?

― dog latin, Friday, October 14, 2011 8:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

There's a street view tricycle that they use in some special locations.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_lLkguiqkq0Q/Sg83CxQVEMI/AAAAAAAAAnc/9tsq9212wV4/TRIKE%20RIDER.jpg

can someone explain the mammoth upthread?

I want to play this game, there was a v nice article on the paris review about this stuff a couple of days ago

It's an elephant xp

http://josmeijerhof.nl/2010/06/street-view-in-south-africa-blurring-the-elephant/

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=-25.071761,31.918094&spn=0.010904,0.014656&sll=-25.083267,31.918974&sspn=0.056048,0.127201&layer=c&cbll=-25.071885,31.918094&panoid=jtqDpQuzGqxMwKOBdQ_O1w&cbp=12,295.39,,0,9.89&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=0

The buildings (dog latin) look like Chinese ghost cities but those palms ... Dubai perhaps?

It can't be eastern Europe, there is too much sun.

Oh god, now I see it - it really looked like a wooly mammoth at first.

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/10/05/the-grand-map/

chris vaaler | October 9, 2011 at 11:49 am
Really, just a beautiful piece. The best I’ve read in some time. I don’t know if the Pulitzer folks have a category for this type of writing, but consider submitting it.

pierre_menard | October 12, 2011 at 7:01 pm
jesus christ monkey balls

I do wish he would link to these. The dead body in the street, the horses in the graveyard… it's kinda hard to believe that the Google Street Car was just toodling along through all this stuff.

That said, this tumblr is the only one I subscribe to appear on my front page.

the horses in the graveyard > work of art. we can all be artists too let's start.

kkvgz, the pic with the high rises really looks like hong kong!

Yes, I think it's Ocean Shores.

yeah some of the structures are the kinda thing you see in michael wolf's photos of HK & thereabouts, albeit in weird grungy isolation

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ocean+shores+hong+kong&hl=en&ll=22.30621,114.257426&spn=0.01074,0.014656&hq=ocean+shores&hnear=Hong+Kong&t=m&z=16&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=22.306166,114.257293&panoid=qTqMyVkVZO8E6WkGE_6npw&cbp=12,225.33,,0,7.64

or thereabouts

I think I'm at the wrong side but it's definitely those buildings.

Dunno, they look taller and squarer than the ones upthread. Windows not quite right either.

I followed the road, there is a small carved mountain on the other side and still no sight of the palms. It's the first time I use this thing and maybe I'm doing it wrong but I'm not convinced it's Ocean Shores.

palm trees fit the climate, those buildings are definitely HK housing estate style. can't remember off the top of my head which streets in HK have palm trees in the divider. but yeah, I went straight to tseung kwan o too.

The angle make it difficult to tell but maybe here?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R71zl89URJ0/Ta48fk0wk9I/AAAAAAAAELg/TDm2Fe9K_5A/s1600/Junk_est_2_surr.jpg

http://stephencfchan.blogspot.com/2011/04/luxurious-junk-bay-housing.html

my contacts tell me it's LOHAS park, which is really close to ocean shores. newly opened.

http://g.co/maps/kxxfy

and yeah, LOHAS park was built on/near the junk bay in onimo's post

http://i.imgur.com/tpl2P.jpg

NOT the cadbury bunny, honest.

can someone explain the mammoth upthread?

― dog latin, Friday, 14 October 2011 14:56

All mammoths are happy to have their photos taken, here's out local one posing helpfully on a hilltop.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/3357064525_2a45bf0aed.jpg

The horse in the road is on Lewis in Scotland.

If you go a bit further back (or forwards?) there's a couple of hikers too.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=58.200864,-6.733284&hl=en&ll=58.200865,-6.733283&spn=0.000006,0.006845&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.987104,114.169922&t=h&vpsrc=0&z=18&layer=c&cbll=58.20077,-6.733224&panoid=ZTlZZSH7w6PXp7lxXTUu7A&cbp=12,0.43,,0,23.87

the alien one is crazy

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/2101649113/1/tumblr_lcxlzbKLb11qzun8o

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/604823569/1/tumblr_l2j7f1fGXv1qzun8o
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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-63fNp27ph6c/ThqeJjmO50I/AAAAAAAAAPU/V0HHI8Zs1c0/s1600/Wayne+and+Garth+2.jpg
??

If those guys wanted to dress like that scene in WW, why isn't "Garth" wearing a hockey shirt too?

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/5117720116/1/tumblr_lkjm2nA9ns1qzun8o

dat man loss

Man, some of those captured images are gorgeous. Life is pretty.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2hxo63KJC1qzun8oo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1319296081&Signature=SzxmG0YfZ%2BrBP1w%2ByKxUGTmCYgQ%3D

okay either i've been where that pic is or i've had the maddest dream

Or you were on this thread on the 14th October.

It was the 14th of October ... a date I'll always gloss over ...

no i've been to that place

i'm hoping that inside the boarded-up "rod stewart fan club" are these grey gardens type shut-ins who've got a 10-foot-high stack of unsent love letters to rod.

LOVING THIS btw

the images have a strangely affecting dreamlike quality

Woah this is amazing.

you probably have been to that rod stewart fan club place, its fairly close to the centre of edinburgh

Travis, is that you?

http://i56.tinypic.com/2uy376p.jpg

(maybe too obscure, idk -> I'm referring to the opening scenes of Paris, Texas btw)

btw this guy must have had ppl submit photos to him right? i can't possibly believe one dude could find this many amazing shots himself, it's not like you can cruise down google street view going 60 miles an hour.

there are a bunch of hits on flickr for the rod stewart fan club (scroll down)

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=rod%20stewart%20fan%20club

don't understand Cosmo Vitelli's post. I think the guy just opens Google Street View and starts wandering around.

What leads me away from the notion that this guy has other people randomly sending and submitting images for this series is the uniformity of the image pixelation. Judging from how large the images scale, it seems likely that the dude is starting w/ screengrabs taken from a hueg monitor.

They're clearly not uniformly pixelated though, see, e.g., the Wayne's World shot. Also it could easily be people sending him the locations, which he then goes to and grabs at the resolutions he wants (you can also zoom in/out)

i think jon finds all them himself

the resolution isnt uniform across street view, so that would explain the nonuniformity of the pixelation

no, sorry--he takes tips. but he does do a lot of daily google street exploring

this is one of my all time favorite things

http://www.mapcrunch.com/

^nice

lol does mapcruch always start with the really tall jawa in LA?

oh n/m that was the veiw of the day

So, I went to Romania (NEW) trying to find vampires monuments or cool castles, etc. I have been there for more than 30 seconds and still haven't found anything of interest. Looks like I have to learn Romanian folklore & fairy tale geography or whatever.

this is one of my all time favorite things

http://www.mapcrunch.com/

― max, Saturday, October 22, 2011 5:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dang

mapcrunch.com <<important mapcrunch.com thread

is there a reason that's on 77?

i h8 noobs

and I refuse to beg for an invite.

man u just go on the thread and they let u in nbd

you dont have to "beg" you can just "ask"

stanm your holier-than-thou attitude about 77 is getting tiresome

Is it? Oh boo hoo, I'm so sorry.

haha

i didnt know 77 was still such a big problem for ppeople, but really, theres no begging involve,d you just get on the thread and say "give me access to 77 please mods"

http://i.imgur.com/jbTgd.jpg

fuck exclusive clubs but "give me access to 77 please mods"

1. These Google street view pictures are amazing.
2. I used to feel similarly about 77 but having requested access, I see that it's not at all about being an exclusive club, but about being a non-Googlable, slightly safer space to post more personal things, should you chose to do so.

I#ll bet someone has added Stan to the 77 board anyways...

The gallery on Mapcrunch also has a ton of cool (if slightly less dramatic) pics: http://www.mapcrunch.com/gallery

I think the Hong Kong apartments pic on 9-eyes was taken from here:

http://www.mapcrunch.com/gallery?offset=1710

Jenny otm.

Srly more completely transperant bitching/dissing goes on right under ppls noses in ILE and IP3 than on 77.

The guy who runs the 9-eyes blog also has some other interesting projects
http://jonrafman.com/

My favorite of the ones I've looked at so far is Kool-Aid Man in Second Life
http://koolaidmaninsecondlife.com/

Whoa, so 3D street view is pretty awesome! IDK when this started, but I've been using it today and it's fantastic, though it makes the world look like it used to when I would shroom. Like Pixar. I can't seem to create a link to it, but check it out.

Oh, this doesn't sound good: Apple is reportedly planning to drop Google Maps from its devices

http://www.demilked.com/google-street-view-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Demilked+%28DeMilked%29