Author Topic: Google streetview is now everywhere (Read 22525 times)

Zipperhead · « **Reply #125 on:** 02 April, 2010, 12:23:40 pm »

I see that streetview now has a 3d option (if you've got red & green 3d glasses)

Euan Uzami · « **Reply #126 on:** 05 April, 2010, 11:16:19 am »

what the bloody hell is this swirling plume of smoke

looks like some planes have been doing somersaults

woollypigs · « **Reply #127 on:** 05 April, 2010, 11:19:05 am »

If you zoom out you will see that this is the Red Arrows airfield.

clarion · « **Reply #128 on:** 05 April, 2010, 10:34:14 pm »

Just near where we were camping this weekend. Sadly, I believe the Red Arrows are off training abroad

Probably wouldn't have been flying in current conditions...

nuttycyclist · « **Reply #129 on:** 06 April, 2010, 12:51:42 am »

Quote from: clarion on 05 April, 2010, 10:34:14 pm

...Sadly, I believe the Red Arrows are off training abroad

Are they training again yet? They lost a plane and injured a pilot last month...
BBC News - Red Arrows pilot in hospital after mid-air crash

Salvatore · « **Reply #130 on:** 06 April, 2010, 08:02:23 am »

I often see them if I'm staying at my Mum's (a few miles from Scampton). This is what I snapped when I went for a bike ride when I was staying there in February:

rogerzilla · « **Reply #131 on:** 06 April, 2010, 08:14:17 am »

I think the StreetView car had fun here - it mapped the whole junction.

Swindon

Euan Uzami · « **Reply #132 on:** 07 April, 2010, 09:51:18 am »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 06 April, 2010, 08:14:17 am

I think the StreetView car had fun here - it mapped the whole junction.

Swindon

that looks a completely ridiculous roundabout, or should that be roundabouts, plural? Looks dangerous to me, purely on the grounds that there aren't many of them around so people are probably quite bad at dealing with it...

hellymedic · « **Reply #133 on:** 07 April, 2010, 11:03:26 am »

Quote from: Ben Taylor on 07 April, 2010, 09:51:18 am

Quote from: rogerzilla on 06 April, 2010, 08:14:17 am
I think the StreetView car had fun here - it mapped the whole junction.

Swindon

that looks a completely ridiculous roundabout, or should that be roundabouts, plural? Looks dangerous to me, purely on the grounds that there aren't many of them around so people are probably quite bad at dealing with it...

Hemel Hempstead has similar...

nuttycyclist · « **Reply #134 on:** 07 April, 2010, 12:18:12 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 07 April, 2010, 11:03:26 am

Quote from: Ben Taylor on 07 April, 2010, 09:51:18 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 06 April, 2010, 08:14:17 am
I think the StreetView car had fun here - it mapped the whole junction.

Swindon

that looks a completely ridiculous roundabout, or should that be roundabouts, plural? Looks dangerous to me, purely on the grounds that there aren't many of them around so people are probably quite bad at dealing with it...

Hemel Hempstead has similar...

Slightly better but still confusing for some.
Google Maps

Adam · « **Reply #135 on:** 28 April, 2010, 07:34:50 pm »

I've found someone in Kent whose face hasn't been blurred out!

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #136 on:** 28 April, 2010, 07:39:56 pm »

Quote from: Adam on 28 April, 2010, 07:34:50 pm

I've found someone in Kent whose face hasn't been blurred out!

Her arms are so long that it doesn't recognise her as a human.

andygates · « **Reply #137 on:** 29 April, 2010, 04:20:57 pm »

Quote from: Ben Taylor on 05 April, 2010, 11:16:19 am

what the bloody hell is this swirling plume of smoke

looks like some planes have been doing somersaults

Wow.

robbo6 · « **Reply #138 on:** 29 April, 2010, 09:02:54 pm »

It's near Scampton, where the Red Arrows hang out.

Andrij · « **Reply #139 on:** 12 May, 2010, 09:56:24 am »

xkcd: Going West

Adam · « **Reply #140 on:** 26 May, 2010, 08:49:47 pm »

Something went a bit wrong with their stitching software here. Don't look up, either.

Pingu · « **Reply #141 on:** 07 June, 2010, 11:17:56 pm »

Has anyone claimed to be this cyclist?

Pingu · « **Reply #142 on:** 24 June, 2010, 11:37:56 pm »

BBC News - Mystery surrounds 'horse-boy' on Google Street View

Hardgate, Aberdeen - Google Maps

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #143 on:** 30 June, 2010, 01:37:44 pm »

They've taken the big pic of Horse Boy off the site. You can still see him if you move a little bit though.

Euan Uzami · « **Reply #144 on:** 21 August, 2010, 09:45:35 pm »

seems to have more than just roads now
it can't have been a car that went down there...

PaulR · « **Reply #145 on:** 22 August, 2010, 09:32:11 am »

This chap's not been blurred out either..

JonBuoy · « **Reply #146 on:** 23 August, 2010, 08:29:10 pm »

I have just noticed that if you click to move forward from this position you teleport 4 km southeast to approximately here but another click forward then teleports you back to where you started.

Isn't that fascinating !

OK - maybe it is only vaguely interesting and I should get out more.

TimO · « **Reply #147 on:** 23 August, 2010, 08:35:20 pm »

Quote from: Ben T on 21 August, 2010, 09:45:35 pm

seems to have more than just roads now
it can't have been a car that went down there...

Presumably they used the Google Streetview Tricycle. We did talk about it in a thread somewhere, but I can't find it.

Interestingly, one of the places it seems to have gone around is Stonehenge. They were allowed right inside of the circle, pretty cool.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #148 on:** 23 August, 2010, 09:50:02 pm »

I was in Upminster the other day, parked by the side of the road.

An odd looking car, Smart car with a gadget mounted on top of a pole, came round the corner and parked up.

Ooh, I thought, my moment of fame.

It drove past me. Except it wasn't a Googlecar, it was an automatic parking enforcement car.

Bugger.

Adam · « **Reply #149 on:** 28 August, 2010, 06:30:22 am »

I wonder if someone famous lives in Queens Road, Kingston, and asked for a media blackout? I was proceeding along out of Richmond Park, checking out a route for Monday, when all of a sudden, it goes black with a comment that the image is no longer available. It's not the case that the camera car didn't cover that section, as it all shows up OK when you hover the little man over the road.

Very strange.

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