This would be pretty awesome as a screensaver.
Try http://randomstreetview.com/#slideshow , and switch your browser to fullscreen modus.
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#52I recall something similar that would show random places on street view and you had to guess where it was located on the map. The closer you were the more points you would get. Does anybody remember how that was callled, because that was way cool.
That's http://geoguessr.com/ !
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#53Some 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.
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#54I recall something similar that would show random places on street view and you had to guess where it was located on the map. The closer you were the more points you would get. Does anybody remember how that was callled, because that was way cool.
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#55Yes!!! I sometimes do this manually by zooming out the map and then dropping the Street View pin with my eyes only half open (can't drop him in the ocean).
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#56good idea!
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#57I 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.
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#58Wonderful ! The sites like yours remind me why I love Streetview, which is like a gift for me.
I take this opportunity to share one of my favorites blogs, "Dreamlands - Virtual Tour". It's a photograph blog, like every photograph blogs, except that all pictures are made with Streetview ! You don't have to speak french to enjoy it. Some places are incredible.
http://dreamlands-virtual-tour.blogspot.fr/
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#59How does it work without flash?? I was never able to use street view because in google maps when you zoom in it just says in a popup: To use street view, you need Adobe Flash Player version 10 or newer. Get the latest Flash Player.
It's a canvas element that they render to now. It's very similar to the previous Flash implementation, in that it's an area of the screen they can draw on. It just happens to be in Javascript instead of Actionscript now.
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#60Cool.
Within a few minutes of clicking NEXT I started getting duplicates.