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Worth mentioning also is Ryan Alexander's excellent Streetview Stereographic: http://notlion.github.com/streetview-stereographic/ (Try hitting the plus to edit the shader on the left)
Some places you might find interesting: scott's hut shackleton's hut Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
This is way too addicting. I've been typing in addresses one letter at a time, just to see what pops up: a beautiful metro station in Saint Petersburg, the graffitied walls surrounding an airport in Brazil, a neighborhood in South Africa, a wooded street in suburban North Carolina, a deserted country road in rural Iowa, the entrance to a gated community in Texas, and finally, my house. What a fun way to explore. Grea…
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Haha I just did the same thing except I typed 1600 Pennsylvania ave then I was taken inside the lobby looking at a picture of Bill Clinton.
The tour of the white house was pretty interesting. If you typed in "oval offi" it takes you to some gold room that I don't recognize, and if you step outside, there's a big portrait of Hillary Clinton. Do the first ladies all have their portraits?
Regarding TFA, well done. Though it's a little weird to look at my back door from a street over while typing in my address.
This project does something subtle, yet amazing with perception, including one's perception of technology. We've had Street View for half a decade now; the novelty of the fact that you can pull up an instant 360-degree panorama for a significant percentage of street addresses in the developed world has worn off. Yet this makes it new again – I found myself laughing like a child as I slowed down my typing, watching my…
This made me think of how awesome it would be to be teleported to a random place in the world like this, just walking on the street. You wouldn't know where at first, and you'd have 24 hours before being transported to a new location.
BTW, I've been meaning to ask for a while though: what sort of algorithm is running that detects edges and orientation so when the mouse is moved, the small white circle or quadrilateral seems to touch the objects in the image?
Well this is freaky, I typed in "white house" and I got an INTERNAL tour of the white house. Awesome. Also try "google campus". What's interesting is the real google streetview needs adobe flash to run, this works with flash disabled.
This is too much fun :)