Can we go by city? PLEASE. I think you could charge something for this. Maybe a one-time fee.
Show HN: Random Street View
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#92This would make an awesome wallpaper/screen saver.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got one from inside a store, not sure how they fit the car in there: http://randomstreetview.com/#c51wy_1aj9ay_48_a_-1
I believe they have Street View backpacks. Not sure of the specifics, but if I remember correctly you can walk around with the backpack and take pictures of places that cars can't get to and have them added to the map.
This may go some way to an explanation:
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#94Nice! So interesting. This is the kind of thing that, 30 years ago, you could only dream about. Stuff like this reminds me how much we take things like the Internet and Google Street View for granted, and sometimes you need to step back and think how amazing they are.
But stepping forwards to a minor detail... are there keyboard shortcuts? If you click on the image, you can already use Google controls to pan/walk around using the arrow keys and +/-..., so that all works...
But it would be awesome if there were another shortcut to move to the next/previous location, so I could move around, and between images, solely using the keyboard.
Anyways, great work!
[Edit: another thing, so many locations seem to have... not much going on. Instead of picking a random spot by area, it might be interesting to pick a random spot by population distribution... so that half the locations would wind up being urban, and you'd see a lot more people.]
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#95I don't know if others suggested this but it might be interesting to define a rectangular region and it would only return views from inside that rectangle. Let's see how well I actually know my hometown.
You can do this on www.mapcrunch.com
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#96I don't mean to gatecrash, but as I have been running a near identical site for a few years I feel compelled to comment.
The street views generated on this site are not really random; they are picked from a predefined list in a db. This is why duplicates appear after a number of clicks.
I run http://www.mapcrunch.com which also generates random street views, but with more options - you can define a region on a map (like a city) and generate street views from within it. You can also restrict the generated views to those taken within buildings, or within urban areas. The views generated are also totally random.
I don't have any objection to someone copying the concept of an existing site / service, but I feel that if you do so, you should at least try to differentiate it in some way - most easily done by making improvements or including superior functionality.
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#97Some interesting non-street views in there: http://randomstreetview.com/#fnso2_17h6mm_b0_a_-8 http://randomstreetview.com/#68vsh_19xpmm_100_a_-1 http://randomstreetview.com/#vbpgr_60bxi_b6_a_-1 http://randomstreetview.com/#953ql_19j07c_1ix_a_-g
Here is one on a train, I'm using the arrow keys to ride it through town. http://randomstreetview.com/#rkof5_5zmfd_-av_a_-a
I ended up on the same train, not far from where you are.
http://randomstreetview.com/#rklpm_5zotk_-k_a_3
Maybe I got the cached results of a prior search?
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got one from inside a store, not sure how they fit the car in there: http://randomstreetview.com/#c51wy_1aj9ay_48_a_-1
I believe they have Street View backpacks. Not sure of the specifics, but if I remember correctly you can walk around with the backpack and take pictures of places that cars can't get to and have them added to the map.
You can see their Street View stuff at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
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#99http://geoguessr.com/
Had a play.. nice site. I did feel slightly cheated than in 15 guesses 80% or so were in the US. A tiny bit less random and a bit more variety would be great :)
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#100Ok now I'll spend my entire day on this! However, my friend also visited the website and guess what? The same sequence of streets was showed to him. How this random works?