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QR codes appearing in Google street view?
- gowld 3y agoUser submitted photos with QR codes? How would it get into Street View? Easter egg?
- its-summertime 3y agoIts not in Street View.
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- predictabl3 3y agoAh, indeed. Kind of a nothing-burger then if you ask me.
- ShamelessC 3y agoIt isn't? But the linked thread shows precisely that, and that is the title...?
- Gigachad 3y agoHad to look closely at this. This looks like user submitted photospheres which google shows in the street view interface. They show one screenshot of the same spot but from the google streetview car which has no QR codes.
- ShamelessC 3y agoAh gotcha that is very misleading.
- netsharc 3y agoGSV also shows user-submitted photos.. e.g. https://maps.app.goo.gl/wHQ3645j3EkaazC8A https://maps.app.goo.gl/wHQ3645j3EkaazC8A
- plorg 3y agoYou can submit your own 360⁰ photos to Google Maps and they will appear in Street View. You used to be able to submit whole tours with navigation through the Street View app, but that functionality is now mainly reserved for paid 3rd party services (which have much better software). You could possibly still do this via the API, but I haven't looked that far recently as it would involve building tools that I don't have the time to write.
- matsemann 3y agoI'm contributing bicycle trails to Google Street View (and CC-BY-SA to Mapillary). It's no longer done through the app, but through uploading a equirectangular videofile with either gps metadata or attaching a gpx file here: https://streetviewstudio.maps.google.com/ https://streetviewstudio.maps.google.com/ So no 3rd party services needed for plain old Street View. It's a bit opaque what's going on when you upload a video, though, they do all kinds of weird stuff with it. Try to align the track to a nearby road, when I'm not biking that road. Selecting intervals of pictures that doesn't make sense compared to how I would do manually etc. This one could perhaps control better through the API and uploading photo by photo and connect them.
- plorg 3y agoIf you don't mind me asking, what kind of camera/setup do you use? How do you find the results? I have been experimenting with this but the equipment I've been using (a mediocre 4k360 camera) gives pretty bad results, and I'm wary of spending a bunch of money and still getting images I'm not satisfied with. I have a bunch of my own street view contributions that were fun to make, but they look nice because they were taken with my phone and I had good control of the process.
- matsemann 3y agoA Gopro MAX on a pole on top of my bike helmet. The results raw are pretty OK when I view it locally. It's 5.6k. The problem is often whatever Google decides to do on their end with the video can be a bit funky. So you wont see the same quality as when uploading a photo sphere, but I can cover 40+ km in a ride, which I would never be able to do if I were to manually capture each spot with manual control.
- mdwalters 3y agoDidn't Google shut down this feature? Last I heard, someone "contributed" a image of the Android robot pissing on the Apple logo, which lead to the feature shutdown. Didn't know Street View allows this still.
- Ambroos 3y agoThat was Map Maker, which allowed you to actually draw map features (park areas, roads, building outlines, you name it). This is just submitting photos that will be shown in Street View if they are in 360 degrees. Photos are clearly user-submitted unlike map features.
- adrianmonk 3y agoCould be a sneaky recruiting trick. Stuff like this has happened before: https://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/11618060/puzzles-are-fun-search-on-google-admits-secret-recruiting-tool-in https://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/11618060/puzzles-are-fun-searc... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588080
- sva_ 3y agoCaught me by surprise when I first saw that black box emerge while doing a search.
- sambaumann 3y agoI saw it last year while I was doing a project for school - and clicked off the page as it was appearing. Never seen it again.
- xattt 3y agoYes, and the Mastadon post came up because it was too obscure.
- tripdout 3y agoI got a Google Foobar challenge back in 2022. Never ended up completing more than the first level, but would be interesting to know if they're still using it for hiring.
- kadoban 3y agoLast I heard they'd stopped it. The site still seems to exist though, maybe it came back. The last problem on mine was really interesting, took me days. I wonder if there's a list of the problems somewhere, I thought I remember hearing that they weren't all the same. I never did continue with the recruiting part of it, just had some fun.
- saagarjha 3y agoThe team behind it still exists.
- Tao3300 3y agoThe codes translate to series of billboards for "South of the Border" and "Burma Shave"
- wildrhythms 3y agoBe sure to drink your Ovaltine!
- fouc 3y agoWhat's the Ovaltine reference to?
- Curvature5868 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story
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- labster 3y agoIt’s the hip dough My friends love to hodl You’ll earn so much crypto It’ll make you yodel BurmaCoin
- mbg721 3y agoYears ago, Games magazine had a contest for the cleverest Burma Shave style slogan, and the winner was: To be a king Is not so fine. You cannot make A throne recline. (La-z-boy)
- tornato7 3y agoI spotted a series of signs posted near me (irl) that only contained hex characters. I was curious and thought it might be some sort of Cicada 3301-type nonsense, so I transcribed all of the signs and tested multiple combinations to discover a secret URL, and... It turned out to be a crypto scam!
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- function_seven 3y agoI love it. Ovaltine must be remaking themselves for the 21st century.
- fouc 3y agoWhat's the Ovaltine reference to?
- TylerE 3y agohttps://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/a-christmas-story-movie-facts/little-orphan-annie/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CBe%20Sure%20To%20Drink%20Your,Sure%20To%20Drink%20Your%20Ovaltine.%E2%80%9D https://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/a-christmas-story-movie...
- jrockway 3y agoFor some reason the quote "oh my god I shot my eye out" was stuck in my head yesterday. Topical.
- function_seven 3y agohttps://youtu.be/zdA__2tKoIU https://youtu.be/zdA__2tKoIU
- keyle 3y agoDamn I remember Cicada 3301. Good times. I think the source is always online though as it was to cast a wide net. IRL would be too narrow. Hope the Cicada crew pulls another one soon, although now that reddit is what it is...
- its-summertime 3y agoWorth noting its implemented mostly in JS, view-source on the page to get the whole list of photos and destinations.
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]
- ofou 3y agoI need to know what does it mean all of them: https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/107193335994695458225/photos/@-22.7687195,-63.7937012,2.92z/data=!4m3!8m2!3m1!1e1?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/107193335994695458225/ph...
- mdwalters 3y agoKinda off-topic, but this just reminded me of that story Paul Graham made about him being on Google Maps.
- klabb3 3y agoThat’s a curious domain, seems like it’s a meme/joke? (NSO group is the ones that helps shady governments put 0days in the phones of journalists etc). I guess it’s kinda fun to see this quirky and in-jokey vibe to the fediverse. Reminiscent of the pre-corporate internet era.
- e0zh6az27noua5k 3y agoIt's literally the location of Google Datacenters, maybe where-is-google-maps as in where is Google Maps hosted ?
- Zezima 3y agoAgeee. Was that the take away from this post? Is everyone else having a totally disconnected discussion here? I'm a bit confused
- saagarjha 3y agoI wonder if these are the actual data centers that power Google Maps?
- keirabee 3y agoIt seems like if I go to http://where-is-google-maps.com/?p={number} http://where-is-google-maps.com/?p={number} such as http://where-is-google-maps.com/?p=1 http://where-is-google-maps.com/?p=1, http://where-is-google-maps.com/?p=2 http://where-is-google-maps.com/?p=2, and so on, I get the locations of different google data centers around the world with qr codes on them. also worth noting the page title seems to be 'hide and seek' for all these pages. also the fence in p=2 seems to have a number on it? "4-20-11911191" or something.
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- davidw 3y agoMy favorite street view easter egg: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.6547428,-120.5744037,3a,75y,263.5h,86.39t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipO2Gwf6GuJfxJtGxWm4qgb9VpseaHEm3icwW9jA!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipO2Gwf6GuJfxJtGxWm4qgb9VpseaHEm3icwW9jA%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10-ya185.38664-ro0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@48.6547428,-120.5744037,3a,75y,... Technically, not actually street view I don't think, but the blue circle does show up on Google Maps if you drag the little yellow guy in search of imagery.
- KomoD 3y agoThe title is very misleading