This would make an awesome wallpaper/screen saver.
http://randomstreetview.com/#slideshow
awesome, it would be sweet if the slideshow does a fade in/fade out.
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#112Amazing :)
An auto turner and a timmer would be nice.
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#113I 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…
Any thoughts to have the defined searched represented in the URL, so that I can link to say, my city's randomized street view?
By default Random Street View puts the country in the url, which is sort of what I'm talking about.
Also you should maybe do a full screen thing (aka minimize the UI), like Random Street View.
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#114Nice! 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.
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#115Some 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
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#116I 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…
Any thoughts to have the defined searched represented in the URL, so that I can link to say, my city's randomized street view? By default Random Street View puts the country in the url, which is sort of what I'm talking about. Also you should maybe do a full screen thing (aka minimize the UI), like Random Street View. http://randomstreetview.com/se#fullscreen
Thanks for the comments. I suppose I could represent the state in the URL, though it might be an ugly URL if many countries are selected.
I did already try to minimize the UI as much as possible - I'll see what else I can do.
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#117There's a guy on Twitch who livestreams "playing" a game with something like this, except there's no map. It's a similar site that shows you a random location and he basically "walks" around and tries to drop a pin on a map as close to the point as possible. Sounds kinda boring but I ended up watching an hour of it and it's interesting the sort of visual clues and techniques you can use to suss places out.
I played a game like that once and happened to land right next to a sign that said it was the border between 2 states.
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#119Wow, it only took me two clicks to get a glitched out shot : http://randomstreetview.com/#p6d4o_-4vsu8_93_a_4
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#120Some 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
http://9-eyes.com/
Cool site. Wonder why they don't link to the actual Google Maps Street View image. (Some of these make me question their authenticity.)