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I'm incredibly impressed with the streetview coverage including the classic Irish one-track, grass-down-the-middle roads like this one near my house: http://bit.ly/8XLSfU
And yet they still don't have my block, smack in the middle of the SF Bay Area.
When I saw this headline I was wondering how they managed to get pictures from Antarctica, but looking at Google Maps, it just looks like a geotagged photo-album
I was hoping they were going to haze a Noogler and force him into deep sub zero tundra.
When I saw this headline I was wondering how they managed to get pictures from Antarctica, but looking at Google Maps, it just looks like a geotagged photo-album
Right, taken on a vacation to Half Moon Island by the VP of Engineering for Maps. Not all of Antarctica, yet.
They could pretty much just use a couple of frames out of Empire Strikes Back and nobody would know the difference.
I'm incredibly impressed with the streetview coverage including the classic Irish one-track, grass-down-the-middle roads like this one near my house: http://bit.ly/8XLSfU
Having lived away from Ireland for years and not getting home too frequently, I find that Street View has the power to fully immerse me and make me nostalagic for places. It is up there with the list of Space Age Things I dreamed of as a kid and now almost take for granted. The future is arriving in wonderful ways and washing over us in waves. (But I'm still disappointed I can't hop into a suborbital hotel for a cheap 0g holiday)
i didn't know they had streets in Antarctica :-) great pictures.
They have bus drivers. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo... Interesting documentary. I've always wanted to go down there. There's even a few couchsurfers down there
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They have bus drivers. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo... Interesting documentary. I've always wanted to go down there. There's even a few couchsurfers down there
It isn't an impossible dream. There are regular jobs available at McMurdo base and Scott Base and they need IT staff. I know two people who spend 6 months or so every year working down there and they are addicted to it, constantly drawn back to the beauty. They have a lots of amazing stories. You can also of course just make the trip as a tourist.
i didn't know they had streets in Antarctica :-) great pictures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo-South_Pole_highway
I would pay money to cruise down that in Street View. I wonder if you could stick the Street View photo module on top of one of those Snow Cats and hit record next time they do a run?
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It isn't an impossible dream. There are regular jobs available at McMurdo base and Scott Base and they need IT staff. I know two people who spend 6 months or so every year working down there and they are addicted to it, constantly drawn back to the beauty. They have a lots of amazing stories. You can also of course just make the trip as a tourist.
That sounds interesting. How did your friends go about getting those jobs? It sounds like the kind of thing i'd do. I'd prefer not going down their as a tourist; I'd rather be involved in something if I were spending time there.
i didn't know they had streets in Antarctica :-) great pictures.
They have bus drivers. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo... Interesting documentary. I've always wanted to go down there. There's even a few couchsurfers down there
Many sincere thanks!
-Igor