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I loved the Google maps street view bit. I couldn’t exit street view and the road signs were in Cyrillic. Had to walk a long way before I could search for some

I loved the Google maps street view bit. I couldn’t exit street view and the road signs were in Cyrillic. Had to walk a long way before I could search for some landmarks and guess Belarus.

TomK32 3y ago
Didn't know you could move, but then, why would I when I was shown a beach in Israel.
Symbiote 3y ago
I was dropped into the ruin of an ancient amphitheatre (the tourist/foot StreetView thing): https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9520096,35.9393566,2a,75y,141.81h,96.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sARpwZi2C5KrVjWpAXnIcqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9520096,35.9393566,2a,75y,14... After a 'walk' I saw flags which confused me, but it turns out this country has a very similar flag to its neighbour.
WaxProlix 3y ago
Hah! I was wondering about that. Mine dropped me into what looks like a 3D modeled version of a real place, but sandboxed - there's no way to move around. (that iframe embed is: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m7!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcE11WHctWDNsYmNzRXN5LUh6bzhHZUQyOUtVZ2hTZmpDdGIyTFN6!2m2!1d25.08970734225568!2d51.18177794201669!3f266.9!4f-6.060000000000002!5f0.7820865974627469 https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m... ) It led me down the path of reverse engineering these URLs though, so that's fun.
- amaretto448 3y ago
  here is the street view link: https://www.google.de/maps/@25.0897073,51.1817779,3a,75y,268.41h,93.79t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMuXw-X3lbcsEsy-Hzo8GeD29KUghSfjCtb2LSz!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMuXw-X3lbcsEsy-Hzo8GeD29KUghSfjCtb2LSz%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya156.74544-ro-0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096?entry=ttu https://www.google.de/maps/@25.0897073,51.1817779,3a,75y,268...
  - WaxProlix 3y ago
    That's great! How did you get that?
stsourlidakis 3y ago
I walked around a lot but couldn't figure out the country. I refreshed and the next one was on some cliff that I couldn't move so I pasted a list of all countries and then started deleting in a binary search fashion until I was left with the correct one.
- anoncow 3y ago
  That’s excellent
StingyJelly 3y ago
I had openstreetmap redirect enabled and it broke it for me. I only got a blank iframe so I had to decode coordinates from its url.

I loved the Google maps street view bit. I couldn’t exit street view and the road signs were in Cyrillic. Had to walk a long way before I could search for some landmarks and guess Belarus.

TomK32 3y ago

Didn't know you could move, but then, why would I when I was shown a beach in Israel.

Symbiote 3y ago

I was dropped into the ruin of an ancient amphitheatre (the tourist/foot StreetView thing): https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9520096,35.9393566,2a,75y,141.81h,96.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sARpwZi2C5KrVjWpAXnIcqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9520096,35.9393566,2a,75y,14... After a 'walk' I saw flags which confused me, but it turns out this country has a very similar flag to its neighbour.

WaxProlix 3y ago

Hah! I was wondering about that. Mine dropped me into what looks like a 3D modeled version of a real place, but sandboxed - there's no way to move around. (that iframe embed is: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m7!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcE11WHctWDNsYmNzRXN5LUh6bzhHZUQyOUtVZ2hTZmpDdGIyTFN6!2m2!1d25.08970734225568!2d51.18177794201669!3f266.9!4f-6.060000000000002!5f0.7820865974627469 https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m... ) It led me down the path of reverse engineering these URLs though, so that's fun.

amaretto448 3y ago
here is the street view link: https://www.google.de/maps/@25.0897073,51.1817779,3a,75y,268.41h,93.79t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMuXw-X3lbcsEsy-Hzo8GeD29KUghSfjCtb2LSz!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMuXw-X3lbcsEsy-Hzo8GeD29KUghSfjCtb2LSz%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya156.74544-ro-0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096?entry=ttu https://www.google.de/maps/@25.0897073,51.1817779,3a,75y,268...
- WaxProlix 3y ago
  That's great! How did you get that?

stsourlidakis 3y ago

I walked around a lot but couldn't figure out the country. I refreshed and the next one was on some cliff that I couldn't move so I pasted a list of all countries and then started deleting in a binary search fashion until I was left with the correct one.

anoncow 3y ago
That’s excellent

StingyJelly 3y ago

I had openstreetmap redirect enabled and it broke it for me. I only got a blank iframe so I had to decode coordinates from its url.