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There's definitely something intriguing about seeing random mundane scenes (with occasional awesome exceptions) in far away locations.
One second I'm on a dusty, slippery looking dirt road in Peru. The next I'm about 15km NE of Monaco on a winding, single-ish lane mountain road.
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What about "Haha, Well you're certainly not going to create a 3D point cloud of every street in the world"... Google's self driving cars are just doing that. EDIT: I can't find the post I once read, but this post also makes some clear: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130502024505-99... EDIT 2: Here a video of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqtEQ0tk @ 3:30 you can see the generated (…
That bit blew my mind. I'd love to see some of those point clouds. Maybe Google has an artist-in-residence who could 3D print varies landmark locations?
I was surprised to see that most street-views in the world are rural.
What's your randomizer? Maybe it's just me or maybe a lot of France looks the same but I swear I'm seeing a lot of repeats, perhaps as much as 1 in 20.
Random street view locations are retrieved from a database (on-the-fly lookup is too slow); France had not so much records; that has changed over the last 5 minutes though. Try again :)
I might have found the most English looking location (also very beautiful) http://randomstreetview.com/#vmyhk_-2h1og_4l_a_-g