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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: ben ji on January 28, 2013, 09:45:22 AM
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Is there anything better? I could spend all day looking at streetviews in random cities.
Why just today I was checking out an overhead view of Kansas State University and I noticed they now have street views of the quad and other paths around campus. Prospective EMAW Elites can now take a tour of our campus through google maps. I can only imagine how many jaws will drop when they turn the corner around Eisenhower hall and see the full beauty of Hale Library.
They have ski view cams on certain mountians that allow you to see what the slopes actually look like.
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I like to drive around my hotel in city's I'm going to visit that I've never been before. scope it out.
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I like to look at my neighborhood from above to see who has swimming pools.
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In my spare time I'm sort of a Google Earth junkie. Have even been quoted in a couple books and TV shows about some of the creative applications of Google Earth. I'm more of a dreamer than a code writer. But ya I love it, awesome program. Also it seems the platform has won favor and lots of independent parties are creating and hosting files that work on Google Earth.
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I'm a map fanatic, so I don't do the streetview much, but I will literally spend hours looking at the streetgrids of random cities. Also love to follow random highways and see what's along the way from start to finish.
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In my spare time I'm sort of a Google Earth junkie. Have even been quoted in a couple books and TV shows about some of the creative applications of Google Earth. I'm more of a dreamer than a code writer. But ya I love it, awesome program. Also it seems the platform has won favor and lots of independent parties are creating and hosting files that work on Google Earth.
Explain, please
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yes, great thread
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i started a Google Maps Club of Greater Kansas City about a year and a half ago. we meet once a month on saturday's at 8:00 am in the basement of a local church. there are 75 of us now. our meetings go for 24 hours. we spend the time feverishly examining different interesting things found on Google Maps like odd rock formations, or streets of cities that no one has been to. during one meeting we drove from LA to NYC via streetview, we had to keep switching out the person tasked with clicking forward when their fingers would get tired. we love Google Maps. i even made a t-shirt that says "Google Maps" on the front, then has my last name printed on the back, right above my Google Maps Club Team number (#24). it's a blue short sleeve. i'll usually break the club up into 8-10 man teams who are then tasked with finding the most interesting Google Map anomaly; we vote to see who the winner is. usually it's like a glitch where maybe Google Maps says there's an island there, but there's no island, or maybe it's a fight occuring on the sidewalk that someone finds when searching streetview. this month i'm going to surprise the club, dip into our treasury coffers, and order pizza hut. can not wait to see the looks on the club members' faces when the pizza hut guy shows up with 15 larges in tow and all the pepsi we can drink. pm for more details.
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if clams ever tried his hand at writing something more substantial i think i would read it and enjoy it
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was super pumped when they updated MHK a while back.
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Question-
Do you feel a bit creepy when you look at friends/people you know houses on google maps without their knowledge? This doesnt include getting directions.
For example I was included in a mass FB message to get addresses for someone to send out wedding invites. I saw a couple of people I knew from college that moved away had posted their new Addresses, i was bored and looked them up on google maps to see what kind of place they had.
I felt a little creepy afterwards
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I was in my front yard when the google map car drove by, I took a picture, I'll post it later if anyone is interested
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did you guys see where the street view camera car smoked that donkey in Mexico or whatever and then tried to deny it?
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fa.abcnews.go.com%2Fimages%2FTravel%2Fht_google_maps_donkey_mi_130116_ss_ssh.jpg&hash=ec37879eea7c2dc176c2455161dc146154379407)
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did you guys see where the street view camera car smoked that donkey in Mexico or whatever and then tried to deny it?
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fa.abcnews.go.com%2Fimages%2FTravel%2Fht_google_maps_donkey_mi_130116_ss_ssh.jpg&hash=ec37879eea7c2dc176c2455161dc146154379407)
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Question-
Do you feel a bit creepy when you look at friends/people you know houses on google maps without their knowledge? This doesnt include getting directions.
For example I was included in a mass FB message to get addresses for someone to send out wedding invites. I saw a couple of people I knew from college that moved away had posted their new Addresses, i was bored and looked them up on google maps to see what kind of place they had.
I felt a little creepy afterwards
Pretty sure this is why the nerds at Google invented this.
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I was in my front yard when the google map car drove by, I took a picture, I'll post it later if anyone is interested
Is there a picture of you on google maps?
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I was in my front yard when the google map car drove by, I took a picture, I'll post it later if anyone is interested
Is there a picture of you on google maps?
Eventually there will be, but I just checked and they haven't updated my neighborhood since the google car drove by
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my dad likes to "fly" on google earth a lot.
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sd, looks like you are a natural for my Google Maps club, move to KC and let's chat.
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keep posting more everybody! about time we had a master thread for interesting streetview captures :excited:
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haha, stud
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Jut learned the other day that you can street view Sunzet Zoo.
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i started a Google Maps Club of Greater Kansas City about a year and a half ago. we meet once a month on saturday's at 8:00 am in the basement of a local church. there are 75 of us now. our meetings go for 24 hours. we spend the time feverishly examining different interesting things found on Google Maps like odd rock formations, or streets of cities that no one has been to. during one meeting we drove from LA to NYC via streetview, we had to keep switching out the person tasked with clicking forward when their fingers would get tired. we love Google Maps. i even made a t-shirt that says "Google Maps" on the front, then has my last name printed on the back, right above my Google Maps Club Team number (#24). it's a blue short sleeve. i'll usually break the club up into 8-10 man teams who are then tasked with finding the most interesting Google Map anomaly; we vote to see who the winner is. usually it's like a glitch where maybe Google Maps says there's an island there, but there's no island, or maybe it's a fight occuring on the sidewalk that someone finds when searching streetview. this month i'm going to surprise the club, dip into our treasury coffers, and order pizza hut. can not wait to see the looks on the club members' faces when the pizza hut guy shows up with 15 larges in tow and all the pepsi we can drink. pm for more details.
:dubious:
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Can also walk around the field of BSFS
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my grandpa cruising down main street at the spry age of 97. :driving: he was headed for his morning coffee. he used to take a horse and buggy to school. can't even imagine what was going through his head when he saw that google car. :surprised:
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i started a Google Maps Club of Greater Kansas City about a year and a half ago. we meet once a month on saturday's at 8:00 am in the basement of a local church. there are 75 of us now. our meetings go for 24 hours. we spend the time feverishly examining different interesting things found on Google Maps like odd rock formations, or streets of cities that no one has been to. during one meeting we drove from LA to NYC via streetview, we had to keep switching out the person tasked with clicking forward when their fingers would get tired. we love Google Maps. i even made a t-shirt that says "Google Maps" on the front, then has my last name printed on the back, right above my Google Maps Club Team number (#24). it's a blue short sleeve. i'll usually break the club up into 8-10 man teams who are then tasked with finding the most interesting Google Map anomaly; we vote to see who the winner is. usually it's like a glitch where maybe Google Maps says there's an island there, but there's no island, or maybe it's a fight occuring on the sidewalk that someone finds when searching streetview. this month i'm going to surprise the club, dip into our treasury coffers, and order pizza hut. can not wait to see the looks on the club members' faces when the pizza hut guy shows up with 15 larges in tow and all the pepsi we can drink. pm for more details.
This may be one of the most amazing clubs I've ever heard of. The educational benefits must be awesome. Club gear and competition are certainly essential elements of its success. But Pizza Hut? No better pizza providers in your area? Not meaning to start a new pizza sub-thread here, of course. Just sayin'
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Thank god I didn't view this while at work, I just made a really weird shrieking noise while laughing.
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https://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.819153,-76.294192&hl=en&ll=36.81915,-76.294191&spn=0.003049,0.004823&geocode=+&t=h&z=18
:horrorsurprise:
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https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Badlands+Guardian&aq=0&oq=badlands+guar&sll=29.477608,-98.514404&sspn=0.97314,1.234589&vpsrc=6&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=Badlands+Guardian&hnear=&radius=15000&ll=50.010221,-110.113027&spn=0.011225,0.01929&z=16&iwloc=A&cid=17125746364182737758
:surprised:
the thousands of rectangular fields north of this (zoomed out) are rough ridin' weird too. i guess canadians don't know about center pivot irrigation.
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http://maps.google.es/maps?q=alameda.+ca&hl=en&ll=37.790795,-122.322464&spn=0.00112,0.001636&hnear=Alameda,+California,+United+States&gl=es&t=h&z=20
:sdeek:
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i started a Google Maps Club of Greater Kansas City about a year and a half ago. we meet once a month on saturday's at 8:00 am in the basement of a local church. there are 75 of us now. our meetings go for 24 hours. we spend the time feverishly examining different interesting things found on Google Maps like odd rock formations, or streets of cities that no one has been to. during one meeting we drove from LA to NYC via streetview, we had to keep switching out the person tasked with clicking forward when their fingers would get tired. we love Google Maps. i even made a t-shirt that says "Google Maps" on the front, then has my last name printed on the back, right above my Google Maps Club Team number (#24). it's a blue short sleeve. i'll usually break the club up into 8-10 man teams who are then tasked with finding the most interesting Google Map anomaly; we vote to see who the winner is. usually it's like a glitch where maybe Google Maps says there's an island there, but there's no island, or maybe it's a fight occuring on the sidewalk that someone finds when searching streetview. this month i'm going to surprise the club, dip into our treasury coffers, and order pizza hut. can not wait to see the looks on the club members' faces when the pizza hut guy shows up with 15 larges in tow and all the pepsi we can drink. pm for more details.
I want to open up a Dallas chapter.
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i started a Google Maps Club of Greater Kansas City about a year and a half ago. we meet once a month on saturday's at 8:00 am in the basement of a local church. there are 75 of us now. our meetings go for 24 hours. we spend the time feverishly examining different interesting things found on Google Maps like odd rock formations, or streets of cities that no one has been to. during one meeting we drove from LA to NYC via streetview, we had to keep switching out the person tasked with clicking forward when their fingers would get tired. we love Google Maps. i even made a t-shirt that says "Google Maps" on the front, then has my last name printed on the back, right above my Google Maps Club Team number (#24). it's a blue short sleeve. i'll usually break the club up into 8-10 man teams who are then tasked with finding the most interesting Google Map anomaly; we vote to see who the winner is. usually it's like a glitch where maybe Google Maps says there's an island there, but there's no island, or maybe it's a fight occuring on the sidewalk that someone finds when searching streetview. this month i'm going to surprise the club, dip into our treasury coffers, and order pizza hut. can not wait to see the looks on the club members' faces when the pizza hut guy shows up with 15 larges in tow and all the pepsi we can drink. pm for more details.
I want to open up a Dallas chapter.
let's chat!
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https://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.819153,-76.294192&hl=en&ll=36.81915,-76.294191&spn=0.003049,0.004823&geocode=+&t=h&z=18
:horrorsurprise:
What's so weird about this one? They're making submarines.
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http://maps.google.es/maps?q=alameda.+ca&hl=en&ll=37.790795,-122.322464&spn=0.00112,0.001636&hnear=Alameda,+California,+United+States&gl=es&t=h&z=20
:sdeek:
just a drill :dunno:
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seven's application to the Google Maps Club of Greater Kansas City has been denied
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https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Badlands+Guardian&aq=0&oq=badlands+guar&sll=29.477608,-98.514404&sspn=0.97314,1.234589&vpsrc=6&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=Badlands+Guardian&hnear=&radius=15000&ll=50.010221,-110.113027&spn=0.011225,0.01929&z=16&iwloc=A&cid=17125746364182737758
:surprised:
the thousands of rectangular fields north of this (zoomed out) are rough ridin' weird too. i guess canadians don't know about center pivot irrigation.
It's like 99% dry land ag up there. They might irrigate some hay (alfalfa) fields next to rivers but that's about it.
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http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/north-koreas-prison-camps-on-google-maps
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http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/north-koreas-prison-camps-on-google-maps
https://plus.google.com/102975085325512962183/about?gl=us&hl=en
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I have seen the horse head somewhere before just can't put my finger on it. on second thought maybe it was Jesse Jackson.
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Scuba Steve! Damn You!
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I have seen the horse head somewhere before just can't put my finger on it. on second thought maybe it was Jesse Jackson.
i think steve dave might have just google mapped my neighborhood because i've seen that horse around
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I have seen the horse head somewhere before just can't put my finger on it. on second thought maybe it was Jesse Jackson.
i think steve dave might have just google mapped my neighborhood because i've seen that horse around
:lol:
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https://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.819153,-76.294192&hl=en&ll=36.81915,-76.294191&spn=0.003049,0.004823&geocode=+&t=h&z=18
:horrorsurprise:
What's so weird about this one? They're making submarines.
it's not weird, it's cool!
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http://maps.google.es/maps?q=alameda.+ca&hl=en&ll=37.790795,-122.322464&spn=0.00112,0.001636&hnear=Alameda,+California,+United+States&gl=es&t=h&z=20
:sdeek:
just a drill :dunno:
movie set.
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https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Badlands+Guardian&aq=0&oq=badlands+guar&sll=29.477608,-98.514404&sspn=0.97314,1.234589&vpsrc=6&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=Badlands+Guardian&hnear=&radius=15000&ll=50.010221,-110.113027&spn=0.011225,0.01929&z=16&iwloc=A&cid=17125746364182737758
:surprised:
the thousands of rectangular fields north of this (zoomed out) are rough ridin' weird too. i guess canadians don't know about center pivot irrigation.
It's like 99% dry land ag up there. They might irrigate some hay (alfalfa) fields next to rivers but that's about it.
i know, it just looks really odd with thousands of stripes when you're zoomed out pretty good.
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seven's application to the Google Maps Club of Greater Kansas City has been denied
good, because your club sounds pretty stupid.
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http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/ (http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/)
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FANNING!!!!!! :shakesfist: :shakesfist: :shakesfist:
https://maps.google.fr/maps?q=Krakatoa&hl=fr&sll=44.883004,6.625085&layer=c&cid=5250865211998137208&panoid=uvzxz5gcpUvejlo68yh1ZQ&cbp=13,255.04,,0,16.55&gl=FR&hq=Krakatoa&t=m&cbll=44.883017,6.624978&ie=UTF8&hnear=&ll=44.883003,6.625019&spn=0.001555,0.004128&source=embed
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Now featuring.... PACMAN!!
http://www.businessinsider.com/play-pac-man-in-google-maps-with-this-april-fools-day-trick-2015-3
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yeah that is some unbelievable crap. computers, man.
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Guys open it right now and swipe up :love:
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What am I missing?
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What am I missing?
You can create a pacman game from whatever you are focused on
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ah, opened maps instead of "google" maps
that's fun.
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That's Ms. Pac-Man to you.
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Almost just got into a wreck because that pacman popped up and I couldn't resist.