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Google Street View adds Antarctica, Brazil, Ireland
- nysauhem 16y agoWhen I saw this headline I was wondering how they managed to get pictures from Antarctica, but looking at Google Maps, it just looks like a geotagged photo-album
- acconrad 16y agoI was hoping they were going to haze a Noogler and force him into deep sub zero tundra.
- nostrademons 16y agoIt may yet happen.
- dagw 16y agoI would work for free if my "hazing" consisted of an all expenses paid trip to Antarctica.
- msbmsb 16y agoRight, taken on a vacation to Half Moon Island by the VP of Engineering for Maps. Not all of Antarctica, yet.
- hugh3 16y agoLet's face it, most places in Antarctica look pretty much alike. They could pretty much just use a couple of frames out of Empire Strikes Back and nobody would know the difference.
- dsantos 16y agoi didn't know they had streets in Antarctica :-) great pictures.
- edge17 16y agoThey have bus drivers. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo... Interesting documentary. I've always wanted to go down there. There's even a few couchsurfers down there
- morganpyne 16y agoIt isn't an impossible dream. There are regular jobs available at McMurdo base and Scott Base and they need IT staff. I know two people who spend 6 months or so every year working down there and they are addicted to it, constantly drawn back to the beauty. They have a lots of amazing stories. You can also of course just make the trip as a tourist.
- edge17 16y agoThat sounds interesting. How did your friends go about getting those jobs? It sounds like the kind of thing i'd do. I'd prefer not going down their as a tourist; I'd rather be involved in something if I were spending time there.
- morganpyne 16y agoI'm not sure how they got started (they've been going for years and years). I don't have an easy way to reach them right now to ask, but a quick Google came up with these which may serve as starting points: http://www.coolantarctica.com/Community/find_a_job_in_antarctica.htm http://www.coolantarctica.com/Community/find_a_job_in_antarc... http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/jobsAndOpportunities/index.cfm?m=1 http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/jobsAndOpportunities/index.cfm?m...
- edge17 16y agoThanks for the links, reading through them now. Lots of great info.
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- hopeless 16y agoI'm incredibly impressed with the streetview coverage including the classic Irish one-track, grass-down-the-middle roads like this one near my house: http://bit.ly/8XLSfU http://bit.ly/8XLSfU
- rudyfink 16y agoThat is a very pretty road.
- ajtaylor 16y agoThis is one of the many things I love about Ireland. You don't have to drive very far outside Dublin, Cork or Galway to go back 50-100 years in time. These one-lane roads also make for good cycling too, if you go with a group who knows where they are going. :-)
- morganpyne 16y agoAroofromcorkayamaroo? Ha, nice to see a fellow Irishman here. I too have spent the last 20 minutes exploring the backroads of my hometown. Hats off to Google, the quality is really goood. Having lived away from Ireland for years and not getting home too frequently, I find that Street View has the power to fully immerse me and make me nostalagic for places. It is up there with the list of Space Age Things I dreamed of as a kid and now almost take for granted. The future is arriving in wonderful ways and washing over us in waves. (But I'm still disappointed I can't hop into a suborbital hotel for a cheap 0g holiday)
- vdm 16y agohttp://goo.gl/qDP4 http://goo.gl/qDP4 I wonder are there enough of us for a HN meetup in Cork.
- hopeless 16y agoyep, there are! http://www.hackernewsers.com/meetups/2 http://www.hackernewsers.com/meetups/2 There's a few of us that meet once a month to talk Ruby, Rails and other bits of HN/startup/tech stuff. It's all very informal and you're welcome to come along (even if you're not a Ruby dev). Details here: http://rubyireland.com/cork/ http://rubyireland.com/cork/
- kemiller 16y agoAnd yet they still don't have my block, smack in the middle of the SF Bay Area.
- yellowbkpk 16y agoLast time I talked to the Street View people they mentioned that missing streets like yours are usually related to bad GPS reception at the time of capture, leading to the inability to match roads and imagery. This is usually the reason for small pockets of no coverage in otherwise densely-covered areas.
- msbmsb 16y agoGoogle Brazil employees: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Google+near+Belo+Horizonte+-+Minas+Gerais,+Brazil&sll=-22.911919,-43.197032&sspn=0.023441,0.038581&ie=UTF8&hq=Google&hnear=Belo+Horizonte+-+Minas+Gerais,+Brazil&ll=-19.929656,-43.94075&spn=0,0.002411&z=19&layer=c&cbll=-19.929576,-43.940799&panoid=IFdkUCEK9vsfAZn2WFfzOA&cbp=12,14.51,,0,9.2 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...