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There are some great images here. I like how Google has been striving to document more beautiful places. The sheer amount of brainpower and processing that Google is putting into Streetview is truly staggering and unprecedented. Nobody else out there is doing it in this way. On a more hand-made note, my company, http://360cities.net , has been publishing user-generated 360º imagery since 2006. I have built a tour of…
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Its like they are saying "You are going there anyway, why not take a few pictures for us". I think they will post your copyright text somewhere in some corner, giving you some pixels of fame.
So essentially asking for idiots to give them stuff they will profit from for free...
Google can't wait to usher in a future where people stay in their rooms and eat Soylent while being entertained and exercised by their VR-enabled computers.
I use goog maps to plan hikes, to answer questions like "is this section of the trail kid / cub scout compatible"? Some trail sections are not. I can do a halfway good job with the satellite images and some topo knowledge but this new GOOG "streetview" trail UI is so close, yet so far from what I need. What I need is something like a youtube of a high speed (maybe 30 mph equiv?) run down the trail. I'm looking for st…
I'm going to do one on Compton, CA.
I see you got downvoted, but ruins of all kinds have always been popular, and a classic recent linkbait has been "pictures of the ruins of abandoned Detroit", seems like every popular magazine / website has tried that one as linkbait. It seems both inevitable, interesting, and on topic. Using census records I found the house some of my ancestors lived in about a century ago. The neighborhood has gone, uh, dramaticall…
I can't believe I'm typing this, but after the new Google map changes, it runs so slow on my home and office computer that I was forced to switch to bing. It still works on my mobile, but its just unbearable on the other systems. I hope they create a more streamlined version soon.
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I use goog maps to plan hikes, to answer questions like "is this section of the trail kid / cub scout compatible"? Some trail sections are not. I can do a halfway good job with the satellite images and some topo knowledge but this new GOOG "streetview" trail UI is so close, yet so far from what I need. What I need is something like a youtube of a high speed (maybe 30 mph equiv?) run down the trail. I'm looking for st…
Not to be snarky or anything, but have you tried calling the park office? US national park rangers, particularly in the parks with large backcountry area, are both very knowledgeable and very helpful.
On the other hand the city I live in has three separate rails-to-trails conversions within 2 miles of my house and a riverwalk. Every little county park seems to pride itself on having elaborate marked hiking trails. In a land with lots of rivers every "three taverns and a gas station" village hovel seems to have some kind of riverwalk, aside from the big one in my hometown. Just one of the state-level parks in my county has 29 miles of hiking trails. I wasn't kidding about just my little county (well, little county as in half the surface area of Rhode Island) having 100s of miles of hiking trails.
I would like to hike a national park someday, but its so much easier (and cheaper!) to visit a local trail.
There are some great images here. I like how Google has been striving to document more beautiful places. The sheer amount of brainpower and processing that Google is putting into Streetview is truly staggering and unprecedented. Nobody else out there is doing it in this way. On a more hand-made note, my company, http://360cities.net , has been publishing user-generated 360º imagery since 2006. I have built a tour of…
Upvoted, bookmarked and thanks! Always in the look for alternatives to Google.
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Partly a reality for cyclists. http://www.tacx.com/en/products/trainers/i-genius-multiplaye... http://www.cycleops.com/en/products/software/virtual-trainin... http://www.minoura.jp/english/trainer-e/option-e/cogmon-e.ht... Cycling on indoor trainers is boring without some sort of incentive.
iGenius + computer-controlled fan + Oculus Rift = give me NOW!
I can't believe I'm typing this, but after the new Google map changes, it runs so slow on my home and office computer that I was forced to switch to bing. It still works on my mobile, but its just unbearable on the other systems. I hope they create a more streamlined version soon.
Definetly slower. Also, there's some features I miss from the old maps, like navigation on the map while on StreetView and the measurement ruler (from labs). But you don't need to switch to Bing as you can still change to the classic google maps.
I love google's products and the fact that they all work together but everything seems to be running slower than it ever has before.
Looking at the comments below, it is pretty clear that other people are also having this issue.
It takes a lot for me to stop what I am doing, and move over to Bing so if I am doing it, other people are doing it as well.
They should put making all of their applications less CPU intensive at the top of their list, right away.
===Also, while I am complaining about Google products, the google news doesn't let me easily search by time anymore which has also forced me over to bing. Articles from 30 days ago are rarely useful.
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So essentially asking for idiots to give them stuff they will profit from for free...
How does Google profit from Street View?
Of course it's even better here: Street View is part of maps which is a real business for Google, and they even added ads to map searches recently. It's also part of the Android maps offering.
Plus they get to keep the data anyway, so they'll eventually use those for AR, Google Glasses, and what have you. Oh, and the GPS data recorded by the Street View equipment also add data to regular maps and fix mapping inconsistencies.