#Microblog Monday 430: Street View
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Neal Agarwal makes fun things. I’ve shared a few things before, like his absurd trolley problems. In January, he released a new fun Internet toy allowing you to jump around the world seeing unusual moments captured by Google Street View.
Like a motorcycle and sidecar in the process of falling over in the Netherlands. Or glaciers in Greenland. Or the Internet Explorer grave in South Korea. You use the random button in the top right corner to jump to the next spot.
Have fun.
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That does look like fun! Oh dear.
Some interesting pictures there!
One of dh’s cousins was on Google Street View a few years ago, going up & down the streets of the family’s old hometown in southern Italy… and there, sitting on the step outside of the old family home, was his & dh’s aunt! She’d just died a few months earlier. Sad but sweet to see her there like that, frozen in time…!
That’s so cool. I clicked thru for a few minutes to see if any places I’d been came up and sure enough, they did! (Maybe not the exact location, but still)
Our Google story: the Google car happened to drive up our street 12 years ago when my husband was in the middle of painting our house. An image of our house half-painted (different colors) was on street view for years (I just checked and finally there is an updated picture).
I keep forgetting to come here and enter my posts for Microblog Mondays! Grrr… Anyway, neat tool. Bookmarked to check later.
I think our streetview still pictures me walking my daughter home from school – first grade or kindergarten, I think. We just saw another map service that had a streetview car driving around. Maybe Garmin? The kid had never heard of it.