Address is Approximate. "A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View."
posted by BoringPostcards
on Nov 23, 2011 -
12 comments
The official "StreetView" map of China is eerily reminiscent of SimCity, rendered in perfect isometric perspective without a pixel out of place:
Shanghai, the
Forbidden City,
Guangzhou, and
Hong Kong. That hasn't stopped companies from trying to create a more true-to-life photographic alternative: there is coverage of
Hong Kong and
Macau in Google Street View; sanction to cover the rest of China appears to have been given to
City8, which covers 40 cities. (The latter site is in Chinese, but Chrome or language plugins do a decent job of translating the content).
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posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Mar 17, 2011 -
34 comments
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View "It was tempting to see the images as a neutral and privileged representation of reality—as though the Street Views, wrenched from any social context other than geospatial contiguity, were able to perform true docu-photography, capturing fragments of reality stripped of all cultural intentions."
posted by dhruva
on Jan 7, 2010 -
35 comments
To promote their soon-to-be-released album, In This Light and On This Evening (coming October 27), British indie rockers
Editors have made an interesting hack of Google Maps Street View. If you go to the Editors website
here, you can wander through the streets of London looking for landmarks set out by the band.
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posted by rocket88
on Oct 19, 2009 -
9 comments
Everybody knows about the Google Van now, some
love it, some
hate it, but it has become an assumed condition now that, if you're near a street, Google Maps might have your picture (
I'm at work!). Living further off the path might seem like a solution to avoid detection, but Google has stepped off the roadway and into more scenic routes with
the Google Tricycle. Being unpowered and smaller allows Google to get their 360° photographs from vantage points other than the curb in front of your house. Google Street Views won't just include streets anymore: they plan to cover national parks, bicycle paths,
college campuses, theme parks, any any other public place which isn't exactly van-friendly.
posted by AzraelBrown
on Jul 15, 2009 -
58 comments
Google now has the megacity of Tokyo photographed at the street level. Coverage is
reasonably impressive, from the
end of the road a couple of hours out of Musashi Itsukaichi, itself a couple of hours from Tokyo by train, to
Narita Airport, down to
Enoshima, and
many,
many,
many,
many,
many points in between. . .
posted by yort
on Aug 9, 2008 -
49 comments
