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Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoMy hands get prickly when I think about some of the places that could get the Street View treatment: Marrakech, Morocco; Venezia, Italy; the Great Pyramids; heck, even the sewers of Paris.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoI need never leave my chair again! Though, in fact, wandering through virtual Pompeii makes me really want to go back to Pompeii.
- ugh 17y agoStreet view is great for reliving your holiday and correctly sorting all those photos you took - a perfect memory aid. Also: (exact) post hoc GPS tagging.
- davidw 17y agoYeah, I've been curious about Venice for a while. That would be cool in so many ways.
- z8000 17y agoI don't think the google van would fit in most of the streets in Venice, and the van is too big to fit on a gondola :) Venice is beautiful. I was just there on September.
- davidw 17y agoExactly - they'd have to create something just for Venice, by putting their gear onto the right kind of boat. Which is one of the ways that it would be cool.
- drtse4 17y agoThey've increased the coverage A LOT, expecially in the area around Milan. Next step the north est? With Verona, Venice, Udine, etc...
- davidw 17y agoSperiamo di si`! I want to be able to send friends and relatives in the US pictures of where I live in Padova.
- AndrewO 17y agoA gold star to the first person who posts a link to Caecilius and Metella's house.
- Luc 17y agoSince I'm in withdrawal from gold star collection ever since I finished Super Mario Galaxy, I looked for it, and it turns out the street his villa is on hasn't been recorded in street view: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=40.751669,14.483532&sll=40.750736,14.484835&sspn=0.003129,0.004125&ie=UTF8&ll=40.751817,14.483532&spn=0.001556,0.002063&t=h&z=19 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
- AndrewO 17y agoAgh, sorry: out of gold stars. Does an upvote work? (BTW, that totally made my day. I love HN... :)
- noisedom 17y agoSpeaking of cool places on google maps, check out Tristan Da Cunha, one of the most remote, inhabited places on Earth. Link: http://tinyurl.com/y88rku4 http://tinyurl.com/y88rku4
- csytan 17y agoI wonder if the pictures were captured using this: http://gizmodo.com/5255361/google-street-view-employs-high+tech-tricycles-for-hard+to+reach-places http://gizmodo.com/5255361/google-street-view-employs-high+t...