Filed under: Google, Time-Wasters
Cottage industry pops up around unusual Google Street View sightings
by Brad Linder Jun 4th 2007 at 7:00PM
So it turns out Google Maps Street View is good for finding a lot more than aliens, cats in windows, and guys exiting porn shops. In fact, in the short time since Google launched its new service, finding oddball photos has become an addictive new way to kill time for some. But if you don't have the time to search the country street by street for photos of robots, you might want to check out Streetviewr (despite the hokey web 2.0 insistence on leaving the final "E" out of the site's title).
Streetviewr is a rather simple page where users can upload interesting or funny images found using Google Street View. A rather large number seem to be photos of people with missing heads and cars that don't look quite right because the 360 degree photos didn't line up very well. But some of the user-submitted coordinates and captions are good for a laugh.
[via Frantic Industries]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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gizmo said 10:21PM on 6-04-2007
how about these light arches?!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=atlantic+avenue+111st+queens&ie=UTF8&om=1&layer=c&cbll=40.691905,-73.835368&cbp=1,260.2124562937064,0.5,0&ll=40.695575,-73.835163&spn=0.007175,0.014591&z=16
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my98olds said 7:39AM on 6-05-2007
This site has a large selection of interesting StreetView finds:
http://www.mapmole.com
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aissa said 5:49PM on 11-09-2007
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Lou said 10:58AM on 6-05-2007
Here is the Google van driver with his hand out the window and you can see the camera sphere on top of the van...
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=540+maple+st.,+redwood+city,+ca&sll=37.489638,-122.220969&sspn=0.024653,0.054588&ie=UTF8&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.57915,-122.345275&cbp=1,217.473424719905,0.713296532691996,2&ll=37.592948,-122.343578&spn=0.041146,0.080338&z=14
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