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Re: Show HN: Random Street View

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I 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…

map crunch is awesome. I was totally obsessed with it for a while last year.

Re: Show HN: Random Street View

#142

Nice! So interesting. This is the kind of thing that, 30 years ago, you could only dream about. Stuff like this reminds me how much we take things like the Internet and Google Street View for granted, and sometimes you need to step back and think how amazing they are. But stepping forwards to a minor detail... are there keyboard shortcuts? If you click on the image, you can already use Google controls to pan/walk aro…

I might be cool to let user select which "type" of random street he/she will stumble upon. For example "random landscapes", "random city", "random village", etc.

Re: Show HN: Random Street View

#145

Nice! So interesting. This is the kind of thing that, 30 years ago, you could only dream about. Stuff like this reminds me how much we take things like the Internet and Google Street View for granted, and sometimes you need to step back and think how amazing they are. But stepping forwards to a minor detail... are there keyboard shortcuts? If you click on the image, you can already use Google controls to pan/walk aro…

No, no! Don't do it by population distribution! The rural areas are what I want to see! Ahem . . . I mean, the random distribution ensures that everyone gets to see things they weren't looking for, and that's good.

Lots of those, too. My random view put me on the North Slope Haul Road in Alaska. Even more strange, there was a second Google car in the picture!

http://randomstreetview.com/#13i9ir_-2hkyi5_-5r_a_-2

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