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Google Maps goes where no one wants to go
- yanw 16y agoHere's a theory on why gov'ts don't like Street View; it exposes their countries' lesser sides, the ones that don't end up on postcards.
- CapitalistCartr 16y agoAlso, governments like to have an exclusive on power. They don't share well. Each time technology gives power back to the people, governments fight it.
- johnny22 16y agosure, but there are plenty of reasons that people wouldn't want themselves (or their houses) to end up there either. So blaming it on the government(s) exclusively isn't really fair.
- natch 16y ago#17 from the end looks like the creek near Google. I'm guessing those are some of the Google Street View people in the picture (one on scooter, one with visible badge, one mad scientist long haired type) :-).
- whyenot 16y agoYou are correct. Turn around and move up the street a little, and you will see quite a few other googlers hanging out on the side of the road ;) http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.421069,-122.086591&spn=0,0.009645&z=17&layer=c&cbll=37.421067,-122.086477&panoid=EB6bH_cM9ka9l8O6MJJitg&cbp=12,317.54,,0,-0.11 http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.421069,-122.086591...
- nostrademons 16y agoAm not sure that everybody sees the same pictures. #17 from the end, for me, was a road going through wide-open prairie with a small hill in the background and a bison (?) in the foreground. No people at all. Edit: Just reloaded. The ordering is definitely different, and it looked like some of the pictures were different too, though many were the same.
- shaddi 16y agoI'm having a hard time believing these are all actually Google Maps shots. Would have been nice if they had included a link to the image on Maps.
- nostrademons 16y agoIt'd be nifty if these were hyperlinked to the actual Google Maps location, so we could then explore around them.
- chrisbroadfoot 16y agoA lot of them probably have been taken down/updated :) But yes, I agree.
- chrisbroadfoot 16y agoThis really is a cross-section of everyday life across the world. Amazing!
- javan 16y agoI love this. Wish you could click on the images to see the map.
- NathanKP 16y agoI really wish I knew the story behind some of these images, especially the SUV wreck, with the man sitting at the edge of the roadway hanging his head in a pose of ultimate dejection. On the one hand Google Street view is a testament to incredible technological power, giving us little still life glimpses of the huge world around us, but it still can't capture all the humanity of life and the many human interactions that happen every day on our planet.
- johnny22 16y agoyet. folks have been talking about lifeblogging for years. We're only just now being able to fulfil the storage requirements at a reasonable price. Battery technology has yet to catch up though.
- balakk 16y agoSome are kinda NSFW.
- anigbrowl 16y agoSo?
- jpwagner 16y agoi tried to track a random one down (based on info in the shot)...looks like the exact shot was taken out, but i'd say it's confirmed real. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=89+Myrdle+Street+Whitechapel+east+london&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=89+Myrdle+St,+London+E1+1HL,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.514932,-0.063043&spn=0.000796,0.00181&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.515118,-0.063079&panoid=oN9CHrOiAFVDCkRcPb2ibA&cbp=12,115.44,,0,18.09 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=89+Myrdle+Street+Whitechapel+e...
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