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Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Mein Eyes! posted:

Related, though Google street view: http://9eyes.tumblr.com/

holy poo poo, thanks. this is a hell of a lot better than every other "funny street view images" site I've seen.

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Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

I kind of doubt there is a single person on SA who is unfamiliar with Centralia, PA at this point.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Found this cool overgrown hill bunker thing on the Swiss/Italian border. Guessing it's from WW2

http://www.mapcrunch.com/?p=46.697128,10.540133,136.6,-4.25,1

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Detective Thompson posted:

I was curious about this and asked in another forum, and got a few answers thinking it might be an old stone sheep pen. Google overlays a line on the road going through it, but if you zoom in enough it's pretty clear that the trail doesn't go through the ring, but stops in it. It's also a lot narrower and unpaved compared to the road above it, so I'm guessing it's an old trail some farmer used to drive the sheep to the pen and probably brought a wagon down with hay or whatever.

The circle is casting a shadow on its eastern and southern side though, so it's partially elevated.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Shnakepup posted:

In any case, it's kind of odd that they'd blur the picture, but still leave it in place...despite the fact that it's not actually a streetview of anything.

They will probably send a car to get correct imagery of the same area and they're just leaving that up until that happens, since obviously they can't do it immediately.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Anyone have a clue what this is?






It's in a swampy looking area surrounded by otherwise normal farmland in eastern Hungary. http://g.co/maps/rjpe

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

What is up with this region of Tunisia that seems to be criss-crossed with thousands of tire tracks? It's a really big area. Lots of races? Truck convoys?

http://g.co/maps/6z7tw

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Just FYI: Israel and Ukraine have now been added to Street View.

Poland and Thailand were added a few weeks ago as well.

Lots more weird poo poo to find!

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Estonia and Latvia have now been added to Streetview (and Mapcrunch) for those who care about such things! :)

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Nenonen posted:

Brilliant! The Ukrainian coverage seems to be centered around Kiev and other major cities, but the Baltic coverage is a lot more thorough. I like that.

Yeah they did almost the entire countries.

To be fair though, if you added up all the Ukrainian coverage it would probably be about the same size as Latvia.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Nenonen posted:

Certainly, I just love all the countryside and little special country villages... no doubt there's a bit more absolute content in the streets of Kiev though.

Odessa has coverage, and that's a really interesting city to look around.

Really hope they expand the Russian coverage soon too. Yandex has a ton of coverage of Russia but I don't like the interface at all (and obviously it doesn't work with Mapcrunch)

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

SpaceMost posted:

Where is Dubai getting all the fresh water for these ridiculous lush islands?

It depends. When you buy a condo you have your choice of Fiji or Evian for your tap/toilet water. Public gardens etc are watered with Dasani or Aquavita depending on whether that particular island has a deal with Coke or Pepsi.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Just posting to say there's a bunch new street view stuff. Chile (Santiago and a couple smaller cities), Croatia (the entire country), Andorra, and apparently some underwater stuff.

The Croatian imagery was shot during fall and is quite beautiful.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Slovakia now has full street view coverage.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Drunk Tomato posted:

Of course Google doesn't legally have to do this

They do in some places. In Germany IIRC Google is legally obligated to blur the house of anyone who requests it, these were the terms allowing them to do street view there in the first place. So it's very common to see houses entirely blurred out if you are looking at Germany. I think this is the case in the UK as well.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

withak posted:

Copyrights

Elendil004 posted:

When the Collections team from Streetview do interiors of places like museums and such, they get the copyright permission as much as they can, but there are always issues here and there.


All of the other paintings in that room look like they are from the 18th century, how could they be copyrighted? :confused:

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Elendil004 posted:

They might be on loan from someones collection and owned in that way, or hell it might actually be nudity. A lot of paintings have boobies.

Yeah, like this unblurred one on the opposite side of the very same room.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Well I guess it's working because now I'm going to have to go there to see what the paintings are.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

edit whoops wrong thread

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Detective Thompson posted:

I doubt they would put some random island on a map to catch copyright infringement. It's one thing put a street or town that doesn't exist in a map of a city or state, it's another to plop a big island in the middle of the ocean on maps that people use for navigation and might end up relying on to find somewhere to get to in case they end up bailing from a sinking ship or whatever.

Does the island appear on actual marine charts? I thought it was just on Google Maps and the like, which is not intended for marine navigation use (and would be useless for it since depths aren't displayed, most reefs, shoals, rocks, etc are not displayed)

Earwicker fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Nov 25, 2012

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

superh posted:

My point was they may be worried about the flash but that the technicality extends to "no photography at all."

The paintings are visible in a photograph on the museum's website though.

Also clearly Google took a photograph and blurred it out after the fact, so it would seem that would violate any "no photography" rule.

I think it being a rights issue makes the most sense. The museum may have the right to reproduce the paintings in a photograph on their own site but this may not extend to 3rd parties like Google.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Nenonen posted:

Another thing that caught my eye was lights in various sea areas: eg. Argentinian coast, North Sea, South China Sea and others. These have to be ships and oil rigs, but can they really be letting out so much light that the sea shows as bright as megalopolises? Or could it be that there's a different scale of brigthness being applied?

Since that is made from 9 days worth of photos put together maybe those are areas where ships travel through frequently and the lights of many ships in the same area over time got "added" together into a big cloud?

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Nenonen posted:

I can grok a drilling platform having a lot of lights on it. Safety and all that.

But would it emit as much light as a city?? Even when lit like a Christmas tree:

By itself no, but a composite photo including all the ships coming and going around it constantly, sure. I don't know what else it could possibly be.

Earwicker fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Dec 20, 2012

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Yeah those types of farms are brought up like every 10 pages in this thread for some reason even though it's very obvious what they are, and they are common all over the western US.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

In case anyone cares, they have added all of Bulgaria to Street View, and also greatly expanded the coverage of Russia, which now has imagery for medium-to-large size towns across much of the country, going as far east as Krasnoyarsk

They'v also updated some UK imagery but I'm not sure where exactly

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Might want to send that one to some local police just in case.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

It could also just be water from someone swimming, who knows. Tho that doesnt seem like a great place for swimming it looks pretty cold!

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Mister Roboto posted:

The dragged a German ship all the way from the Atlantic over to some isolated island near Australia? drat.

Well they didn't have to tow it that whole way, it was undamaged until it they used it for testing at Bikini Atoll, at which point it was irradiated so they had to tow it when they took it to the other atoll where it now rests.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Speaking of interiors, Mapcrunch has recently added about 10,000 new interior locations, so you can now see what Irish pubs look like in about 14 different countries (surprise they look exactly the same)

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

fyi Hungary and Lesotho have been added to Street View, as well as a ton more coverage of Poland and Romania (both countries are now complete). They also updated the photos in a lot of other areas but I don't know where.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Those are cattle guard seeds. Farmers plant them and they grow into cattle guards.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Has this been posted here yet? If not I'm very curious

http://goo.gl/maps/LTKbB



if you switch to Map view there is some text there in Russian or Kazakh maybe but I can't read it

Earwicker fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Jul 27, 2013

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Cpaka posted:

"Unfinished pioneers' camp". Pioneers were the Soviet equivalent of boy-scouts, but with a heavy political twist.

Well at least they finished the important part.

US Boy Scouts have a ton of political/cultural reinforcement going on as well. Lots of flag worship and such.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

WaryWarren posted:

Sweet bird.

Well if you are rich enough to fly first class anyway. I flew in one back from London a couple months ago but the coach sections are just as cramped and lovely as any other plane.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

It looks like dead alligators.

Live ones chill with most of their body submerged except for their eyes and sometimes the top of their back, and their top is fairly dark. Those look like they are belly-up on the surface of the water.

Could be some pond or something in FL that's been poisoned or polluted?

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

shortspecialbus posted:

If they're alligators they're up to 50 feet long.

That scale looks a bit off given the size of those trees, they could also be large inflatable pool alligators or something. Or they could be dead trees.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

It's the royal baby.

edit: maybe it's big statues of crocs? Looks like there are statues of other animals on that island. Or just a bunch of really big animals.



Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Well I was almost right, statues of some sort of pre-croc. Earlygator.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Cichlid the Loach posted:

Speaking of the cars, though, I spotted one on patrol the other day, anyone know how often they update street view?

I think it depends on the area. They seem to update urban areas pretty often, but I still come across areas in the US and Australia that have not been re-done since their original lo-res Street View footage when they first launched.

They are also increasingly concentrating on doing the interiors of national parks and that sort of thing, so the car you saw could have been on the way to do something like that.

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Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

That little island is the first place I ever saw porn. I was in boy scouts and our troop went to go stay overnight at the barracks I guess to learn what Navy life was like (this is back when it was an active base) and the sailors decided to educate us by giving us a bunch of porn magazines

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