I don't see North Korea?
Show HN: Random Street View
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#152reminds me of a manager i worked for in 2000. he wrote a random lat/lang algo and actually used it for his vacation trips.
http://www.abulsme.com/trip/spottool.html
this is a clear upgrade :)
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#153Interesting! A few things:
- Some locations repeat after a short while - Not sure how the randomization is done, but some countries like Botswana and Bulgaria seem over-represented - Address language seems random (often English, sometimes other, not much relation to where location is -- e.g. some US locations had addresses shown in Czech etc.)
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#154I 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 ;)
It is very English looking though - doesn't even have araf written at the junction.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if it's fair to say he's copying - there's always the chance that they came up with it on their own. Are you really saying that you're the first person to come up with this idea? Anyways, I think your site is much better... thanks for sharing. This is cool.
I didn't say he copied my site directly (clearly the design is totally different), and even if he did I don't mind at all. My site wasn't the first, http://www.globegenie.com was. I liked the concept and built an improved version. My only point was that if you are going to take an existing idea, build something better.
That presupposes that he realizes the idea was already executed.
In any case, even if he did, I can think of a number of very good reasons why building something similar to another already executed idea is still a worthwhile endeavor. For example, maybe he wanted a new portfolio piece or maybe he wanted to learn some new technologies.
I like both. Yours is nicer though.
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#157You can use this to answer questions like below:
1. How much of the roads in the world passes through dessert?
2. What is the chance that you would see a person if you had been driving all over?
3. How much of the streets are in urban areas?
And so on...
All you need to do is just press next few times and count!
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#158You can use this to answer questions like below: 1. How much of the roads in the world passes through dessert? 2. What is the chance that you would see a person if you had been driving all over? 3. How much of the streets are in urban areas? And so on... All you need to do is just press next few times and count!
That assumes that Google hasn't prioritized areas with higher population for Street View photography.
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#159You can use this to answer questions like below: 1. How much of the roads in the world passes through dessert? 2. What is the chance that you would see a person if you had been driving all over? 3. How much of the streets are in urban areas? And so on... All you need to do is just press next few times and count!
That's a great idea. It'd make for a great education app, perhaps walking the user through the solution for their own town.
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#160This is fantastic. I've seen similar sites, but this kind of thing never gets old no matter how many sites there are. I'm from Australia and I find it highly comical that every street I was given was basically a dirt road in the bush, haha. I wasted a good while on this, not the kind of thing I should be doing when I've got work to do!