Show HN: Random Street View
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Show HN: Random Street View
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#2There's a guy on Twitch who livestreams "playing" a game with something like this, except there's no map. It's a similar site that shows you a random location and he basically "walks" around and tries to drop a pin on a map as close to the point as possible. Sounds kinda boring but I ended up watching an hour of it and it's interesting the sort of visual clues and techniques you can use to suss places out.
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#3There's a guy on Twitch who livestreams "playing" a game with something like this, except there's no map. It's a similar site that shows you a random location and he basically "walks" around and tries to drop a pin on a map as close to the point as possible. Sounds kinda boring but I ended up watching an hour of it and it's interesting the sort of visual clues and techniques you can use to suss places out.
Not sure if its the same one as the video you are referring to but here is a game that does exactly that.
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#4Strangely hypnotizing! Fun!
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#5I chose United Kingdom and on the second click it showed a street in my childhood hometown!
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#6kudos for the mobile support
that's what i'm going to do on my ride home today
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#7There's definitely something intriguing about seeing random mundane scenes (with occasional awesome exceptions) in far away locations.
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#8Neat! There was a similar project here a few years ago: http://www.mapcrunch.com/ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3215460
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#9There's a guy on Twitch who livestreams "playing" a game with something like this, except there's no map. It's a similar site that shows you a random location and he basically "walks" around and tries to drop a pin on a map as close to the point as possible. Sounds kinda boring but I ended up watching an hour of it and it's interesting the sort of visual clues and techniques you can use to suss places out.
Not sure if its the same one as the video you are referring to but here is a game that does exactly that. http://geoguessr.com/
Awesome, I was just about to comment that making a game out of it would be cool!
Re: Show HN: Random Street View
#10There's a guy on Twitch who livestreams "playing" a game with something like this, except there's no map. It's a similar site that shows you a random location and he basically "walks" around and tries to drop a pin on a map as close to the point as possible. Sounds kinda boring but I ended up watching an hour of it and it's interesting the sort of visual clues and techniques you can use to suss places out.
Not sure if its the same one as the video you are referring to but here is a game that does exactly that. http://geoguessr.com/
Geoguessr is actually awesome for social gatherings and stuff, its amazing how you can sometimes get pretty close just from the first glance