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Virtual "tourism"

JaredSeth — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:59:27 -0800

Inspired by this, does anyone know of other interesting locations that can be explored using Google Street View?

The undiscover'd Street View from whose bourn no Google Car returns...

Sova — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:30:19 -0800

Is it possible to create a Google Street View™, but with old photographs? Can old photographs of a city somehow be stitched together to create - more or less - a walkable street-level map? I understand that Google uses millions of images all taken close together in time but from a variety of angles to create an almost "seamless" view, and that nothing exactly like that would be possible. But if a large number of photographs from a wider time period (say 1895 to 1905) were plotted on an old city map for location/angle/height, would that manage to create something vaguely similar?

I understand that only for the city centers of large cities would a large number of photographs exist, and there would be greater changes from one image to the next.

Automated Streetview in Google Maps

TDIpod — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:15:23 -0800

Is there any app that will automate a 'walkthrough' of Google Street View, based on a to/from set of directions in Google Maps? Example: Assuming Google has 'streetviewed' all the roads from point A in Berkeley to point B in SF, is there a program or site that would show me the street view of my route without my having to click through the route myself? I realize the time scale is a determinant factor: I would not want to sit through the 'drive' in real time, but hope I could selectively 'fast forward' in a way analogous to the zoom function of Google Earth.

DIY Streetview?

yellowbkpk — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:04:21 -0800

I'd like to make a DIY Google StreetView clone. I have a computer in my car. What kind of camera(s) should I get and what's a creative way to take pictures once every 1-2 seconds, downloading them to the in-car computer afterwards? I can deal with the software to geo-reference the images, but I can't find a image capture source that works:

>2MP webcams will let me take still shots of their video quick enough, but I haven't really come up with any quality images. I can control point and shoot digicams with gPhoto2, but it takes 5-20 seconds to take the picture and download for every frame.

Can the hive mind think of any creative ideas to solve this DIY conundrum?

Well, I Was Walking Down the Street One Day

netbros — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:07:44 -0800

I find this to be fascinating and uncanny. Are there other documented cases of people finding themselves on Google Maps Street View? Heather was out walking in San Francisco a few months ago and noticed the Google Maps Street View vehicle. Fast forward to now, and the films from that day are online. Doing a search, she found herself on the street view map. Have you, or do you know anyone, or have you happened across anyone who has also be captured by Google Street View?