NYC From Above

May 7, 2009 9:10 AM

Aerial Virtual Tour of New York City -- navigate with your arrow keys (or the embedded controls). Change views on the lower left. [via Gothamist]
posted by ericb (22 comments total)

Everybody on the ground was pointing up at me and screaming.
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:11 AM on May 7 [4 favorites]

Peter Parker Vision: Actual images.
posted by The Whelk at 9:12 AM on May 7

Everybody on the ground was pointing up at me and screaming.

You could've avoided that by informing people of the photo-op, dickhead.
posted by gman at 9:17 AM on May 7 [2 favorites]

I was thinking of posting this. Nice. Could anyone figure out how to pause it? I found it really annoying that it just keeps spinning.
posted by ocherdraco at 9:19 AM on May 7

NYC is so often overlooked for photo shoots, so it's good that we finally can catch a glimpse of this unknown backwater.
posted by Burhanistan at 9:21 AM on May 7 [9 favorites]

I liked finding the picture of the guy looking out the window of the skyscraper.
posted by not_on_display at 9:31 AM on May 7 [2 favorites]

You could've avoided that by informing people of the photo-op, dickhead.

BTW -- $328,000 Photo: White House Will Release Picture from Air Force One NYC Fiasco.
posted by ericb at 9:41 AM on May 7

Now imagine if they made one of those fancy 360-degree cameras small enough to fit in your mouth or maybe even your ear...
posted by Acey at 9:42 AM on May 7

Could anyone figure out how to pause it? I found it really annoying that it just keeps spinning.

Always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

I like that in the "downtown" view, the camera is next to a mirrored glass wall. I spun the view to look into the mirror to see if I could see the camera, and found myself face to face with a bemused dude looking out the window.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:03 AM on May 7

I found it really annoying that it just keeps spinning.

That's actually you revolving around New York.
posted by gman at 10:14 AM on May 7

Yeah, you'd BETTER keep your invisible flying fishbowl out of Queens, bitch!
posted by Oddly at 10:58 AM on May 7

That's actually you revolving around New York.

Oh. I thought New York revolved around me.
posted by ocherdraco at 11:02 AM on May 7 [1 favorite]

Um, Google Earth?
posted by adamms222 at 11:07 AM on May 7

Google Earth doesn't autoplay cheesy derivative ambient music, though.
posted by Burhanistan at 11:15 AM on May 7 [1 favorite]

I want to go to there.
posted by grubi at 11:34 AM on May 7

(No seriously, I want to go to there.)
posted by grubi at 11:35 AM on May 7

Man. That is really cool.

And that's nothing like Google Earth.
posted by eyeballkid at 12:39 PM on May 7

Holy browser crashing, Batman!

No, seriously. It crashed my browser.

Batman wasn't actually involved.

Just accidentally wrote this in the wrong post.

Feel free to favorite there as well!
posted by orville sash at 12:44 PM on May 7

Konami code doesn't work.
posted by rokusan at 4:30 PM on May 7

Wow, that was very cool. Thanks.
posted by zzazazz at 4:48 PM on May 7

Hey I can see the Mets suck from up here!
posted by fidgets at 8:25 PM on May 7 [1 favorite]

I wish it was really an "aerial virtual tour of the city," as advertised. Instead it's just some pictures from high above that you can spin around? Meh.
posted by papercake at 6:55 AM on May 8