[HN Gopher] Wonders of Street View
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Wonders of Street View
Author : Amorymeltzer
Score : 114 points
Date : 2023-01-23 17:34 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| em-bee wrote:
| i don't think the street-view camera was meant to be taken here:
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| https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=rV6nxo
| alphabetting wrote:
| it's pretty funny the person went a decent way down the slide
| before the camera cuts off
| wwarner wrote:
| Sometimes I just get on street view and find a place I've been
| before that's far away and just cruise around clicking carets.
| slongfield wrote:
| If you've never done it, revisiting places you've been before
| in Google Earth VR is a kind of surreal experience. Whenever
| I've introduced friends to VR, letting them visit their old
| homes is always a hit.
| amelius wrote:
| I think Google could improve street view with these points:
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| - allow the user to drag little pawn to a different point, while
| in street view
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| - when the user asks for directions, allow the user to follow the
| path of the route in street view (let the user click "next" to
| move to the next important intersection, but still maintain
| streetview controls)
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| - when the user asks for directions, show an overlay on the
| streetview with an arrow pointing into the direction where you're
| going
| [deleted]
| TuringTest wrote:
| The first feature is available both on the browser version and
| mobile (click maximize button to enter a split view).
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| The second is more or less possible on the mobile app since
| recent versions, if you access the street view from the route
| steps. They have worked in improving this UI very recently, a
| few months ago it was unusable and now it's pretty intuitive.
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| The third one is also available on mobile, with the Live view
| feature that appears during walking routes.
| [deleted]
| moomoo11 wrote:
| Wow this made my day. Thank you
| kaldev wrote:
| Reminds of of the "Nine Eyes" project by Jon Rafman
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKtY943F_Qg
| abruzzi wrote:
| hmm, I get a splash screen then a mostly empty screen with a few
| icons around the edge, but nothing else. What is supposed to
| happen? If I click "Random" it just spins, and nothing else
| changes. (firefox, ublock origin)
| [deleted]
| coldpie wrote:
| It's embedding Google Maps stuff. Possibly you have Google
| blocked in some manner or another?
| pionar wrote:
| Stranded - https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=Vq3hmi
| drcongo wrote:
| Camera trick or super powers? https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-
| view/?v=b2wMrU
| philk10 wrote:
| what's up with these pipes/handrails on this one?
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| https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=5i0Gvy
| muti wrote:
| Looks like the image was stitched from multiple images taken by
| a single camera, but the camera moved around instead of
| panning/tilting in place. Closer objects (the rail) move more
| due to parallax and it becomes impossible to stitch perfectly
| callumprentice wrote:
| I created streetviewr.com a few days after Street View launched
| in 2007 and ended up with some pretty fun images. After a couple
| of years, it became too much work to update and the domain
| lapsed. Kind of wished I'd kept it going.
| rwmj wrote:
| https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=30vag3
|
| This one is known locally as the Magic Roundabout. (Wikipedia:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempst... )
| wyre wrote:
| This might be one of my favorite Neal.fun projects yet.
|
| Like GeoGeussr but without the guessing and everywhere is an
| interesting place. Would be nice if I could click on the location
| name and it would take to to it's Wikipedia page.
|
| The top of Mount Everest was incredible.
| [deleted]
| woobar wrote:
| Walking in the snow to get a perfect Aurora picture.
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| https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=hpkvgy
| josefresco wrote:
| Related: https://randomstreetview.com
| burkaman wrote:
| Anyone know how this works? I thought for a while it was picking
| a random Atlas Obscura location, but sometimes you just get an
| interesting temporary moment captured by the street view camera,
| like a bear eating some salmon or a guy riding in the bucket of a
| loader.
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| Did Neal actually just spend days browsing street view and
| manually curate a list?
| lastofthemojito wrote:
| Folks have linked to interesting finds on Google Street View
| for just about as long as Google Street View has existed. I'd
| imagine he probably borrowed locations from listicles like:
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| Crazy images caught on Google Street View:
| https://www.cnet.com/pictures/crazy-images-caught-on-google-...
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| 25 funny Google Street View pictures:
| https://www.techadvisor.com/article/725278/25-funny-google-s...
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| 48 Weird And Funny Images Caught On Google Maps Street View:
| https://www.journohq.com/blog/48-weird-and-funny-images-caug...
| function_seven wrote:
| I don't always read the link before the comments, but when I do,
| it's because "neal.fun"
|
| This one is fun [1]. Don't look at the name! Cover or avoid the
| top-right corner and see if you spot the reason this image made
| the list.
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| [1]: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=ZypGqK
| [deleted]
| ghostbrainalpha wrote:
| Neal.fun is the only blog I have subscribed to get new post
| notifications from in 10 years.
|
| If you do hit his subscribe button, there is a really cool
| animation too.
| NKosmatos wrote:
| Nice one, but I don't like the history/back button "hijack".
| cpeterso wrote:
| If you are a Street View fan, check out GeoGuessr, a game where
| you try to guess the location of a Street View. Some pros on
| YouTube can guess with scary accuracy.
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| https://www.geoguessr.com/
| Aeolun wrote:
| Why does a game like that need an account...
| chronogram wrote:
| Because it is based on Google Maps so needs to pay for that.
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