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Wonders of Street View
- wyre 4y agoThis might be one of my favorite Neal.fun projects yet. Like GeoGeussr but without the guessing and everywhere is an interesting place. Would be nice if I could click on the location name and it would take to to it’s Wikipedia page. The top of Mount Everest was incredible.
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- amelius 4y agoI think Google could improve street view with these points: - allow the user to drag little pawn to a different point, while in street view - when the user asks for directions, allow the user to follow the path of the route in street view (let the user click "next" to move to the next important intersection, but still maintain streetview controls) - when the user asks for directions, show an overlay on the streetview with an arrow pointing into the direction where you're going
- TuringTest 4y agoThe first feature is available both on the browser version and mobile (click maximize button to enter a split view). The second is more or less possible on the mobile app since recent versions, if you access the street view from the route steps. They have worked in improving this UI very recently, a few months ago it was unusable and now it's pretty intuitive. The third one is also available on mobile, with the Live view feature that appears during walking routes.
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- burkaman 4y agoAnyone know how this works? I thought for a while it was picking a random Atlas Obscura location, but sometimes you just get an interesting temporary moment captured by the street view camera, like a bear eating some salmon or a guy riding in the bucket of a loader. Did Neal actually just spend days browsing street view and manually curate a list?
- lastofthemojito 4y agoFolks have linked to interesting finds on Google Street View for just about as long as Google Street View has existed. I'd imagine he probably borrowed locations from listicles like: Crazy images caught on Google Street View: https://www.cnet.com/pictures/crazy-images-caught-on-google-street-view/ https://www.cnet.com/pictures/crazy-images-caught-on-google-... 25 funny Google Street View pictures: https://www.techadvisor.com/article/725278/25-funny-google-street-view-pictures.html https://www.techadvisor.com/article/725278/25-funny-google-s... 48 Weird And Funny Images Caught On Google Maps Street View: https://www.journohq.com/blog/48-weird-and-funny-images-caught-on-google-maps-street-view/ https://www.journohq.com/blog/48-weird-and-funny-images-caug...
- function_seven 4y agoI don't always read the link before the comments, but when I do, it's because "neal.fun" This one is fun [1]. Don't look at the name! Cover or avoid the top-right corner and see if you spot the reason this image made the list. [1]: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=ZypGqK https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=ZypGqK
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- ghostbrainalpha 4y agoNeal.fun is the only blog I have subscribed to get new post notifications from in 10 years. If you do hit his subscribe button, there is a really cool animation too.
- philk10 4y agowhat's up with these pipes/handrails on this one? https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=5i0Gvy https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=5i0Gvy
- muti 4y agoLooks like the image was stitched from multiple images taken by a single camera, but the camera moved around instead of panning/tilting in place. Closer objects (the rail) move more due to parallax and it becomes impossible to stitch perfectly
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- abruzzi 4y agohmm, I get a splash screen then a mostly empty screen with a few icons around the edge, but nothing else. What is supposed to happen? If I click "Random" it just spins, and nothing else changes. (firefox, ublock origin)
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- coldpie 4y agoIt's embedding Google Maps stuff. Possibly you have Google blocked in some manner or another?
- drcongo 4y agoCamera trick or super powers? https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=b2wMrU https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=b2wMrU
- woobar 4y agoWalking in the snow to get a perfect Aurora picture. https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=hpkvgy https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=hpkvgy
- wwarner 4y agook this is really nice
- pionar 4y agoStranded - https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=Vq3hmi https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=Vq3hmi
- josefresco 4y agoRelated: https://randomstreetview.com https://randomstreetview.com
- em-bee 4y agoi don't think the street-view camera was meant to be taken here: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=rV6nxo https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=rV6nxo
- alphabetting 4y agoit's pretty funny the person went a decent way down the slide before the camera cuts off
- kaldev 4y agoReminds of of the "Nine Eyes" project by Jon Rafman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKtY943F_Qg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKtY943F_Qg
- callumprentice 4y agoI created streetviewr.com a few days after Street View launched in 2007 and ended up with some pretty fun images. After a couple of years, it became too much work to update and the domain lapsed. Kind of wished I'd kept it going.
- cpeterso 4y agoIf you are a Street View fan, check out GeoGuessr, a game where you try to guess the location of a Street View. Some pros on YouTube can guess with scary accuracy. https://www.geoguessr.com/ https://www.geoguessr.com/
- Aeolun 4y agoWhy does a game like that need an account…
- chronogram 4y agoBecause it is based on Google Maps so needs to pay for that.
- M3L0NM4N 4y agoIt didn't used to, but Google 10x'd the API costs for street view.
- DonHopkins 4y agoTo raise enough money to buy a vowel, and fix the missing "e".
- wpietri 4y agoI happen to know the person who first came up with that when Flickr was looking for a name. He feels bad about it, so I try to keep my teasing down to once every few years.
- bigiain 4y agoIf I Venmoed you $10 would you tease him about it this weekend?
- DonHopkins 4y agoTransfr both of us a fivr and we'll badgr and pestr him in tandm!
- moomoo11 4y agoWow this made my day. Thank you
- rwmj 4y agohttps://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=30vag3 https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=30vag3 This one is known locally as the Magic Roundabout. (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempst... )
- implements 4y agoBeat me to it! - officially they’re “Ring Junctions” I believe. The big ones aren’t too hard to navigate (from a drivers POV they’re just a succession of mini roundabouts), but there’s one at Hatton Cross (near Heathrow airport) that’s so small you can see the whole thing so traffic appears to come from all directions and it’s a bit of a nightmare: https://goo.gl/maps/PR4XBTPeEg1YojUeA https://goo.gl/maps/PR4XBTPeEg1YojUeA
- NKosmatos 4y agoNice one, but I don’t like the history/back button “hijack”.
- wwarner 4y agoSometimes I just get on street view and find a place I've been before that's far away and just cruise around clicking carets.
- slongfield 4y agoIf you've never done it, revisiting places you've been before in Google Earth VR is a kind of surreal experience. Whenever I've introduced friends to VR, letting them visit their old homes is always a hit.
- dragonshed 4y agoWhile playing with this, I landed inside a tardis [1] in England. Pure awesome. [1] https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=QHW86N https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=QHW86N
- Scubabear68 4y agoPedantic: Several of these are not street views. One was a 360 view of a water fall (Bolivia), and another an aerial view of the PAC Man building. What are the inputs here?
- knolan 4y agoClick the share button on the side and it’ll give you the Street View link.
- denlekke 4y agoi dont know the nuances of what is and isnt "street view" but google maps does incorporate user uploaded static 360 images, maybe some of the ones you mention are in that category
- ranon 4y agoThey are all photospheres. Some are created by Google themselves while others are user contributions.
- elihu 4y ago"Cubist church" is kind of a funny caption because of the grammatical ambiguity between "this is a church constructed in a cubist style" and "this is a church where people go to worship perpendicularity." https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=3tXgUF https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=3tXgUF
- wpietri 4y agoThat reminds me of a church in San Francisco: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7851929,-122.4257436,3a,75y,142.34h,104.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFWau2dHsL_jwUOpCoFpiew!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7851929,-122.4257436,3a,75y,... It's officially known as Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, but its shape reminds many people, me included, of a washing machine agitator. So it's commonly known as Our Lady of Agitation, or St Mary of Maytag.
- elihu 4y agoThey could put a cross on the roof, but that wouldn't actually resolve the ambiguity.
- tpoacher 4y agoI clicked on a few thinking "huh what weird places" ... then I stumbled upon the "Shark Attack" one (the famous "shark through the roof" in oxford, headington). I used to live close by, literally two streets down. Small world ...
- bhrgunatha 4y agoThe Headington Shark has its own tag on Google maps https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Headington+Shark/@51.7589492,-1.2154444,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4876c16255601961:0xda56b9960a2d00a8!8m2!3d51.7589492!4d-1.2132557 https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Headington+Shark/@51.7... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7589771,-1.2131488,3a,75y,252.54h,107.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCEr3DMh3_MWx-eVi9TPiHA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7589771,-1.2131488,3a,75y,...
- danielsokil 4y agoI came across Scott's Hut in Antarctica Really Cool! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%27s_Hut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%27s_Hut
- thinkling 4y agoScott's Hut: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=b2wMrU https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=b2wMrU
- grugagag 4y agoThis is so much fun. Hope to remember to visit more often
- wpietri 4y agoOk, today I learned something. This giant teapot in West Virginia has a window for "pop": https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=xMaHmC https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=xMaHmC Growing up as a Michigander, that's the term I learned for carbonated soft drinks. E.g., redpop: https://heartofmich.com/products/faygo-redpop https://heartofmich.com/products/faygo-redpop But I thought that was a pretty midwestern phenomenon. I thought the rest of the US was in the "soda" camp, except for the south, where I was horrified to learn that "coke" is the generic term. And an extremely enterprising soul, Alan McConchie, has produced an excellent map confirming this: https://popvssoda.com/ https://popvssoda.com/ So why is West Virginia talking about pop? It looks like WV is a linguistic battleground, with all three words having influence. But this particular thing is in an area I didn't know existed, WV's "Northern Panhandle", a territorial incursion which creeps up between Columbus and Pittsburgh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Panhandle_of_West_Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Panhandle_of_West_Vir... And it turns out that goes back to the Revolutionary War, where Virginia, Connecticut, and Massachusetts all tried to claim parts of the Midwest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_County,_Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_County,_Virginia
- DabbyDabberson 4y agoHaving grown up in the northern panhandle, you really have to look at is a tri state area. PA, OH, and WV. It’s extremely distinct from the rest of WV below the mason dixon line. The original capital of WV was actually Wheeling, in the northern panhandle, but it was eventually moved south to Charleston because of the disconnect. In the 19 years I lived there I never heard anyone say anything but “pop” to refer to carbonated soft drinks. It’s also part of my dialect that has stuck around. I think the most distinctive word used in the region is that shopping carts are referred to as “buggies”. I didn’t even realize that was unusual until I went shopping with friends in college…
- wpietri 4y agoThanks! I really appreciate the direct report. My dad, who grew up in Milwaukee, was shocked to learn that the thing he knew as a "bubbler" was everywhere else called a "water fountain". Like you, he didn't know until college.
- radiojasper 4y agoneal.fun is never not entertaining. Amazing work!
- gammarator 4y agoStreet View free solos: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=Scov79 https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=Scov79
- nl 4y agoNote this isn't the same climb as the "Free Solo" movie, and while Alex Honnold climbed much of the street view climb without ropes he (and the other climbers he was with) did use ropes in part. See eg https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7297919,-119.6368427,2a,75y,310.03h,35.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTW3rVQbj2cAAAAQo8ByvUA!2e0!7i12000!8i6000 https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7297919,-119.6368427,2a,75y,... (and you can follow his beta up the climb!) Also the stories of these climbs are great: https://blog.google/products/maps/vertical-street-view-of-worlds-most/ https://blog.google/products/maps/vertical-street-view-of-wo... and https://www.google.com.au/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/yosemite/ https://www.google.com.au/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/stree... My favorite bit is the picture of Lynn Hill on the Jardine Traverse: https://www.google.com.au/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/yosemite/#lynn-jardine-traverse https://www.google.com.au/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/stree...
- snug 4y agoFun fact, the home page shows a few places, these are called Ducks in architecture [0]. When I found out about Ducks, I've been pretty obsessed about them, and call them out anytime I see one. My favorite one that I found was a tooth at Mexico City Dentist [1] [0] - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-quirky-endearing-tradition-duck-architecture https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-quirky-endeari... [1] - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dental+office+%22La+Muelita+De+La+Condesa%22/@19.4151142,-99.1705893,3a,66.9y,136.63h,89.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sKTFc6xuHcVsMCc25aj0R2g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DKTFc6xuHcVsMCc25aj0R2g%26cb_client%3Dsearch.gws-prod.gps%26w%3D86%26h%3D86%26yaw%3D138.57837%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!4m10!1m2!2m1!1sDentist,+Colonia+Condesa!3m6!1s0x85d1ff4720ed7bb7:0xc9ec04e80b645611!8m2!3d19.4149442!4d-99.1704425!15sChhEZW50aXN0LCBDb2xvbmlhIENvbmRlc2GSAQdkZW50aXN04AEA!16s%2Fg%2F1tzgpkky https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dental+office+%22La+Muelit...
- ybot2 4y agoI like the Oracle buildings in California designed to look like UML databases. https://maps.app.goo.gl/U7TWkc5mrQMGzkgY6 https://maps.app.goo.gl/U7TWkc5mrQMGzkgY6
- snug 4y agoWow, driven by there several times, I never noticed that!
- throwbadubadu 4y agoUnrelated but LOL, you really cannot place a bicycle lane better and more inviting.. and it ends just in the nowhere into a giantic crossing. "Its a trap" comes to mind. (:
- jgrahamc 4y agoAnd the airport closest to Oracle is SQL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Carlos_Airport_(California) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Carlos_Airport_(California...
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- thefourthchime 4y agoDid this make anyone else sad becomes it reminds you of how magical and cool Google when it was young? What’s the last Street View Google did?
- joshsharp 4y agoIf you like this, you may enjoy this old blog of Street View images as art: https://9-eyes.com/ https://9-eyes.com/
- amake 4y agoNeat. This one[0], "Pink Moss", is not moss. 芝桜 is Phlox subulata[1], which has common names including the word "moss", but it is not moss. [0]: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=ZYorsh https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=ZYorsh [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlox_subulata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlox_subulata
- idk1 4y agoIt just fills me with joy that Neal Fun exists and makes these pages, this is just delightful, like all his stuff. Also a great example of nominative determinism with is name, doubly so if he codes them all kneeling.
- m4tthumphrey 4y agoCool! Would be nice if you could permalink to specific photos.
- hateful 4y agoClick the share button on the bottom right and it gives you a link to copy.
- sampo 4y agoOne of my first hits was the Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy. https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=wCvaAE https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=wCvaAE
- fisherjeff 4y agoBest one so far: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=AbCwoW https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=AbCwoW