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I usually love me some FPS games but there's something off putting about fake shooting up the real world in Google Maps Street View with an assault rifle. Try it out yourself, put a location Pool Worldwide and start shooting fake real people and things in Google Maps. Is it weird for you? More »
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A man in Calhoun County, South Carolina collected so many used tires on his rural property his neighbors could see it from space using Google Maps Satellite View. How many tires does it take to make a dent in the planet's face? About 250,000. More »
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As part of their partnership with UNESCO to provide virtual tours of the designated World Heritage Sites, Google sent one of their Street View trikes to ride the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland to capture its stunning views of the Swiss Alps. More »
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Because the Internet is full of people anxious to prove or disprove events, even those supported by photographic evidence, we're following up on our earlier report about a Google Street View driver with an active middle finger. The guys who took the photo claim it's real and are peeved the Internet doesn't believe them. More »
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Google Street View drivers have a job to do. They're the Internet's eyes. But will they really flick you off in traffic? This photo being passed around the Internet indicates they will, but we think it's a Photoshop. More »
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It's not unusual to have neighborly disputes over what goes down on the other side of the fence, but one San Diego neighborhood has noticed an increasing eyesore ever since a Google Street View car started parking down the street. More »
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A Google Maps Street View car taking photos of roving artisanal grilled cheese-making wagons in Williamsburg made an unscheduled break in Crown Heights after their Subaru Impreza broke down on Kingston and East New York. Did you hear that — they're making grilled cheese. In the streets! Someone should do a story on that. Hat tip to my mishpacha, Doren! More »
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There was just something about this rusted old Mustang found while perusing car porn on Flickr. Although the photo's from 2006, we wondered if we could find it in Google Street View. Turns out we could. Now the only question is — is it still there? More »
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A team of gutsy Google Street View drivers tackled Alaska's daunting Dalton Highway, capturing images through the Arctic Circle to the Arctic Ocean. We animated the trip so you can enjoy it without becoming an ice road trucker. More »
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At a pace of 90 hours and 104,619 clicks, it turns out driving across the country in real life is faster than making a coast-to-coast click trip on Google Street View. More »
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This bizarre image of a naked man getting out of the trunk of his Mercedes was captured in Manheim, Germany by Google Street View. Removed upon it's discovery, the explanation of this picture may forever remain a mystery. More »
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A resident of Derbyshire, England was out one camper and the local police were out of leads. Until the victim noticed a peculiar sight on Google Street View: a dude in an SUV stealing his camper. More »
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Indie rock group Arcade Fire's teamed up with Google to incorporate Street View into a strange new music video that involves bombing your childhood street with birds. It's one of the more interesting and creepy uses of HTML5 to date. More »
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A survey of Google Street View habits has shown Steve Jobs' home and Apple's garage birthplace are the third most visited locations by Briton's. Jobs was bested only by the White House and Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. [CultofMac] More »
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When Google Street View was launched, it was mind-blowing technology, but scanning large distances is often tiresome. In response, Microsoft Research has debuted Street Slide, which stitches the panoramic images together to make one big, amazing, interactive world. More »
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Google Street View's cameras indicate Top Gear's tame racer The Stig has left the chilly shore of Loch Ness for the more exciting confines of LEGOLAND UK. Why did they blur the camel's hump? More »
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Google put a camera car into last years Woodward Dream Cruise and now the day's images are mixed in with the regular Street View scenery along Detroit's main drag. See if you can find the guy flipping off the camera. More »
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"Hello, 911? This weird-ass Chevy Cobalt is following me. I don't know who it is, but the dude keeps pulling alongside and asking if he can 'view' my 'street.' Is that slang for something dirty? Am I being assaulted?" More »
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This car is parked on the street in Honolulu. It can apparently be found at this location on a regular basis. So, to review: Guy lives in Hawaii and drives his 246 GT often. We want his life. More »
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Google Street View captured this truck — and its, er, pointed graphics — on the E65 motorway in the Czech Republic. Let's get this straight: Blurred-out serial numbers but intact NSFW? What? [Google Maps] More »
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Google Street View usually provides us with ground-level shots of the world's road network. What was Street View doing on a ski hill, and for that matter, how did it get there? More »
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When Google's Street View camera's found The Stig at Loch Ness we learned nothing of the identity of Top Gear's tame racing driver. Nevertheless, Google decided to blur the image of a fully covered man. (H/T to Matt!) [Google] More »
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Is the man in the back of this pickup passed out drunk or just relaxing while drinking? Either way, he forgot to wave at the Google Street View camera car as it drove past. More »
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Never seeing someone list a used car with pics taken from Google Street View, we couldn't trust them. So when we saw this ad listing a 1978 Lincoln with Street View pics we had to call the seller. More »
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One of the many interesting facets of life captured by the Google Street View cameras is the European roadside prostitute. Turns out there's lots and lots of them. Here's our Google Street View ladies of ill repute mega-gallery. More »
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This Google Street View image of a transient crapping on a D.C. sidewalk isn't funny. It's fundamentally sad. It seems the only one who notices or cares is the cat, which, for some reason, was blurred out. [FrozenTropics via dcist] More »
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Sure, you won't get the visceral sensation of tossing a Lotus Exige into a corner, but "driving" the Lotus test track in Hethel, UK on Google Street View is better than nothing. Plenty of fun machinery on the track, too. More »
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In what's perhaps the most cogent critique yet of Google's seen-by-some-as-privacy-invading Street View program, a bird crapped right on a surveillance vehicle's panoramic camera lens. Touche! More »
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A moment on Google Street View showing a Dutch fire truck driving away after allegedly knocking down a little old lady on her bike hit the internet yesterday, today Google's completely erased the moment. Too bad we kept the pictures. More »
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A Google Street View car on assignment in the Netherlands captured what looks like a fire truck bowling over a little old lady and driving away. Luckily, the Googlers stopped to help. Hey guys... where's the fire? More »
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Rather than just overlaying 2D street scene photos onto a map, what if you could virtually transport people there by showing them video? That's the premise of a new Microsoft system currently in testing. More »
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This Ontario van fire caught by a Google Street View car is so perplexing to us it's totally being added to our list of the ten most confusing Google Street View accidents. What the hell do you think happened? [Gizmodo] More »
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West Point grad Roy Ragsdale used eight cheap web-cams, a cheap GPS unit and his taxpayer-funded education to whip up the PhotoTrail, a home-brew camera that takes panoramas of his surroundings. Better yet, he tells how we can too. More »
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In honor of Crash Week, we're taking a look back at some of the stranger wrecks captured by the Google Street View team. Click below to see ten confusing Google Street View accidents. More »
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Leave it to Japan’s all-conquering distortion field of kawaii to immerse even a mundane technology demonstration video in vats of cute. Here, Google Japan explains how Street View works. More »
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If you're a Monopoly fan, Wednesday will be a big day, as Hasbro and Google will release "Monopoly City Streets" upon the world. It's a massive online game of Monopoly using Google Maps as the gaming board. More »
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Google Street View's added another track to their growing list of mapped racetracks. Now joining Laguna Seca is California's Thunderhill Raceway — and no, they didn't run it during a LeMons race. More »
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Since commie Parisians have closed many streets to cars, Google is using tricycles to map popular tourist destinations for Street View. Each trike hauls a generator and a pole with nine cameras on top. Yes, they look really weird. [GlobeandMail] More »
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I felt quite proud when I managed to find the location used by photorealist painter Robert Bechtle for his most famous painting, Gran Torino Alameda. But my accomplishment was nothing, it turns out. More »
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