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Gotta love Google!!
Jun. 1st, 2007 10:07 amOK, I'm sure the geekier of my friends (you know who you are, admit it!) have already had a lot of fun with the new Street View on Google Maps, right? Only a handful of big cities are available right now, but I was able to get within a block of where I lived when I was out in Queens, NY, which was kind of cool.
So anyway, I've been turned onto a couple sites that have some of the weirdest/funniest images from this new thing, and they are great fun! I've seen Google Sightseeing and Streetviewr so far. What's especially cool is that I found an art installation, called "Passage", which was at Burning Man two years ago, and now lives in the Bay Area!! Originally, there was fire dripping from the mother's hand into the child's hand, and flaming footprints in the ground behind them as they appeared to walk towards The Man. VERY beautiful. It's so neat to see them again in a new location, even if they don't have all the fire around them.
The other cool thing is that there were some images of police investigating a homicide, but those images have now been removed. You can still zoom out and go up or down that street, but the images directly around the crime scene are now just black. WHOA.
Other crime scenes are visible, but they are less extreme, such as speeding, urinating in public and (possibly) breaking and entering (what is going ON there??)
So yeah... If you have some spare time and want to see some true slice-of-life stuff, check out Google Sightseeing and Streetviewr.
ETA: Oh, and I almost forgot, Wired has some stuff too.
So anyway, I've been turned onto a couple sites that have some of the weirdest/funniest images from this new thing, and they are great fun! I've seen Google Sightseeing and Streetviewr so far. What's especially cool is that I found an art installation, called "Passage", which was at Burning Man two years ago, and now lives in the Bay Area!! Originally, there was fire dripping from the mother's hand into the child's hand, and flaming footprints in the ground behind them as they appeared to walk towards The Man. VERY beautiful. It's so neat to see them again in a new location, even if they don't have all the fire around them.
The other cool thing is that there were some images of police investigating a homicide, but those images have now been removed. You can still zoom out and go up or down that street, but the images directly around the crime scene are now just black. WHOA.
Other crime scenes are visible, but they are less extreme, such as speeding, urinating in public and (possibly) breaking and entering (what is going ON there??)
So yeah... If you have some spare time and want to see some true slice-of-life stuff, check out Google Sightseeing and Streetviewr.
ETA: Oh, and I almost forgot, Wired has some stuff too.
