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Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps
- mcantelon 14y agoYou can't move around under the sea. It just seems like a geolocation-specific panorama integrated into Google Maps. I want to move around like a submarine!
- oscilloscope 14y agoZoom out, there are white arrows that appear in the middle-bottom of the screen. Click those to travel in that direction. It's kind of like a choose your own adventure.
- artursapek 14y agoIndeed. Wow. http://goo.gl/maps/uCnD2 http://goo.gl/maps/uCnD2
- Paul_S 14y agoThanks for the link, the original link results in a graphic of gears turning forever and not loading anything.
- mayneack 14y agoHow does apple expect to beat this now?
- enraged_camel 14y agoLow Earth orbit panoramas.
- cryptoz 14y agoApple's 2011 net income significantly exceeded NASA's budget (About $25 billion to $18 billion). Orbital panoramas shouldn't be out of their reach.
- hcarvalhoalves 14y agoThe difference is that Apple is a for-profit company so they have to reinvest a portion of that back into the company, while NASA can - in fact, should - spend the entire budget :)
- cryptoz 14y agoFor sure - I wasn't advocating that Apple devote most resources to space travel, science and exploration. Just that they could afford to buy a launch or two from SpaceX like NASA does. It may even be in their financial interest to put up their own satellites with high-res cameras and telescopes. Mac desktop background images are celestial objects already. "Our latest innovation. Our best work. From Space." Plus we know that Apple Maps could use a little help.
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- snogglethorpe 14y agohaha, I can imagine the discussion in the google maps office. "Well, we've finished with all the planet's landmasses...can you make this thing waterproof?"
- mayneack 14y agoI'd personally vote for a tour of the trails in national parks.
- bartonfink 14y agoThat's actually not a bad idea - Google sponsored hikes.
- te_chris 14y agoI was at an arduino talk at last year's BaaCamp in Auckland, NZ and there was a guy who had made his own street view style cam for capturing hiking trails using arduino and some cameras. Very cool, imagine he's not the only one either.
- mahmud 14y ago"BaaCamp" excellent name. Can't beat kiwi humor, without a shepherd's staff.
- snogglethorpe 14y agoDo you have a link? (thanks!)
- dannyr 14y agoStreet View goes on a road trip through California's national parks http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/street-view-goes-on-road-trip-through.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/street-view-goes-on-r...
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- jtreminio 14y agoJust tried this on my android phone and it works beautifully.
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- mahmud 14y agoMost beautiful thing I have ever seen. We went diving there for our honeymoon. Spectacular.
- jarajelissa 14y agoGoogle added street view to the Great Barrier Reef. This is easily the coolest thing they've done since earth.
- bennyfreshness 14y agothe world is becoming so small, its great I guess but takes away from the mystery
- lclarkmichalek 14y agoAnd adds to it so much. At first glance, yes there is less of the world to explore, but there is suddenly so much more of the world to understand, and we've hardly touched the surface of that.
- bennyfreshness 14y agothe world is becoming so small, its great I guess but takes away from the mystery
- Magenta 14y agoFinally, they added it. Well I can tick that off of my list of dream holiday destinations!
- notlion 14y agoI can't wait til these are available via the API :)
- Tsagadai 14y agoAll that coral bleaching makes me pretty sad. The reef was much more colourful but it has been declining for a long time now. I wonder how much will be left in another 10 years.
- anonymous543 14y agoI might be missing something, but why is everyone so excited about this? If you want a great experience of the oceans and reefs out there, you could load up an HD video on YouTube of the Great Barrier Reef, and view something much more immersive. I'm a huge fan of street view, and I love being able to virtually drive to where I'm going, and find landmarks to help along the way, like for example, a large orange building next to the shop I'm planning to visit. How is ocean street view practical in anyway though? If it's for the user experiencing the ocean or planning their trip, they could upload a quick video of common snorkelling and diving points around coastlines and islands. It would give the user much more information. As of now, it's like flicking through a slideshow, and the navigation is brutal. I'm scratching my head here trying to come up with one thing this does well. As someone else said, I'd like to see more trails added to street view, or even more streets. Google, since you have free time, here are a couple of ideas... 1. Street view for different seasons. In certain countries, towns and streets look completely different depending on the month. I frequently use street view to browse areas I'm looking to live, or travelling. It would be useful if I could switch the images to summer, winter, etc. 2. Video street view. Much more time consuming to create, since the camera would need to stay in a single spot for a minute at a time, and blurring sensitive information would be more challenging. However, imagine choosing a location on the map, and feeling like you're in that area of the city, or on that quiet road in the middle of the forest where you rotate the camera and follow a bird flying by.
- jsankey 14y agoI look at it as another step towards s/street/everything in street view. It needs work, sure, but it's good to see they're expanding.
- stevenrace 14y agoI think it's important to map our (in the Global sense) undersea conditions over time. We hear a great deal about Global Warming - yet it's only the timelapse satellite imagery that concretes it for dismissive minds. The same can be said for coral reefs, rivers, etc. 'Coral bleaching' is a real problem and reflective of global weather events. Regarding #2 - In a more idealistic vision of 'Underwater Google Maps', the Voyager Project [1] made an interesting plea to Google to do something similar and provide HD video feeds from UAVs [2]. [1] http://www.underseavoyagerproject.org/ http://www.underseavoyagerproject.org/ [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4iDQsXIi3I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4iDQsXIi3I ------ Edit - Additionally, existing 'undersea documentaries' tend towards visual hyperbole (ooh a yellow fish, damn sharks are scary, etc) - rarely exploring the topography of the ecosystem they're covering. Being able to wander aimlessly underwater may prove more valuable to a student's imagination and provide a more lasting feel for far flung places and culture (or the life of a crab) - as apposed to from a TV, the deck of a cruise ship, or a car window.
- jonniekang 14y agoIt's breath-taking how amazing the Great Barrier Reef is underwater. I've always wanted to go see it.
- ilija139 14y agoGame over, apple maps.
- dasil003 14y agoThey didn't blur the face of the turtle.
- shreeshga 14y agoi demand a narrative about the turtle by David Attenborough in the background.