I would love to see a like feature here to aggregate the most amazing pics around the world.
Show HN: Random Street View
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here is one on a train, I'm using the arrow keys to ride it through town. http://randomstreetview.com/#rkof5_5zmfd_-av_a_-a
I ended up on the same train, not far from where you are. http://randomstreetview.com/#rklpm_5zotk_-k_a_3 Maybe I got the cached results of a prior search?
Yup, same train for me. Came back to this thread just to post it, only to find you two already had.
I recall some "random street view" site a while back having the same behavior. Not sure if it was a different site, or same one is just making the news cycle again.
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#103I might have found the most English looking location (also very beautiful) http://randomstreetview.com/#vmyhk_-2h1og_4l_a_-g
Who'd have thought the most English looking location would be in Wales ;)
Good catch - my UK/Great Britain/England geography is not great.
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#104I ended up shrinking the map/location bar and then clicked on the "next" button and tried seeing how long it would take me to figure out where I was. There are a lot of immediate clues, like what side of the street people are driving on, the ethnicity of people if they're at the side of the road, the condition and type of the cars/buildings and a lot of geographical features like mountains and red soil.
It reminded me of a thought exercise I used to do about what would I do if I were kidnapped and then drugged/blindfolded/disorientated/whatever and then dropped somewhere in the world. I'd come up with elaborate strategies to try and find my way back home.
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#105I built something similar for university. Though it uses location from Instagram, the photo, and description text to provide some context.
http://sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat/
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#106This would be pretty awesome as a screensaver.
Try http://randomstreetview.com/#slideshow , and switch your browser to fullscreen modus.
That's great and all, but a real screensaver provides a cheap way to lock a computer, and is functional and can be beautiful as well. This is beautiful, would love a screensaver of this to lock my computer when I step away from it.
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#107I would love to know how much Google spends on StreetView. When they first started sending those cars around, I think everyone collectively mocked, "Haha. Well you're certainly not going to photograph every street in the world."
I think they buy a fair bit of their data from third party vendors, but I'm not positive. Still, aggregating and organizing all that information is impressive.
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#108I don't mean to gatecrash, but as I have been running a near identical site for a few years I feel compelled to comment. The street views generated on this site are not really random; they are picked from a predefined list in a db. This is why duplicates appear after a number of clicks. I run http://www.mapcrunch.com which also generates random street views, but with more options - you can define a region on a map (l…
I like this, but I am getting a lot of weird behavior. Sometimes clicking the image so I can pan it moves me to the previous image. Using the arrow keys sometimes pans the image, sometimes it takes me to the previous image.
Firefox 26.0, Windows 7
Re: Show HN: Random Street View
#109I don't mean to gatecrash, but as I have been running a near identical site for a few years I feel compelled to comment. The street views generated on this site are not really random; they are picked from a predefined list in a db. This is why duplicates appear after a number of clicks. I run http://www.mapcrunch.com which also generates random street views, but with more options - you can define a region on a map (l…
I like this, but I am getting a lot of weird behavior. Sometimes clicking the image so I can pan it moves me to the previous image. Using the arrow keys sometimes pans the image, sometimes it takes me to the previous image. Firefox 26.0, Windows 7
Heh, well that will teach me for boasting about my site. I just did a big UI update and am ironing out the bugs.
When you say 'previous image' do you mean the same image that you would see by clicking the back arrow next to the address?
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#110My colleague just showed me http://geoguessr.com/, which is a pretty fun twist on the same concept.