Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView

[Scott5114]

House is dangerously close to the highway

https://goo.gl/maps/aW9SpD1ihtDr2PiEA

... I've seen way worse than that.

It's about 70 feet. Not dangerous at all.

I thought this thread was for Google Street View specifically, i.e. if you went to the location in person, you wouldn't see it.

Since when has Tolbs ever cared about whether he should post something or not?

[dlsterner]

House is dangerously close to the highway

https://goo.gl/maps/aW9SpD1ihtDr2PiEA

... I've seen way worse than that.

Meh ... not really close enough to be dangerous.

Here is one that is a bit closer:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9775427,-76.1333849,3a,75y,311.34h,80.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKudKToN_k62Hy1PJSNDFjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Although it's not in North Carolina      and not really qualifying as "crazy".

[Max Rockatansky]

House is dangerously close to the highway

https://goo.gl/maps/aW9SpD1ihtDr2PiEA

... I've seen way worse than that.

Meh ... not really close enough to be dangerous.

Here is one that is a bit closer:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9775427,-76.1333849,3a,75y,311.34h,80.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKudKToN_k62Hy1PJSNDFjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Although it's not in North Carolina      and not really qualifying as "crazy".

Having posts not related to Google Map images of North Carolina is about as crazy as it gets. 

[tolbs17]

Have any of you seen this? Anti Vaxxers graffiti spray painted on the new noise walls which is part of the I-40 widening project from Raleigh to Chayton.

https://goo.gl/maps/5GHpfXGKZynKRQrSA

[Max Rockatansky]

Have any of you seen this? Anti Vaxxers graffiti spray painted on the new noise walls which is part of the I-40 widening project from Raleigh to Chayton.

https://goo.gl/maps/5GHpfXGKZynKRQrSA

Just the other day in fact.  Thought they could have used some more colors.

[andrepoiy]

Wondering what kind of traffic stop requires the officer to be pointing the wrong way... and stopped in a construction zone

[Rothman]

Wondering what kind of traffic stop requires the officer to be pointing the wrong way... and stopped in a construction zone

He could be just the assigned officer to that particular site and the other cars in the zone are laborers or otherwise associated with the project.

[empirestate]

Neither crazy nor StreetView, but I think more than worthy of the spirit of this thread:

Here is the outdoor set of HBO's The Gilded Age in Bethpage, NY, as rendered in Google's 3D aerial imagery:
https://goo.gl/maps/BjgFQ8DLR8vsqDk6A

I visited the location in Troy a couple of times, but that was not a set but rather a full period transformation of the Monument Square neighborhood. But that does not appear to have been captured by Google. The backlot at Bethpage, however, was used for the show's primary setting of Fifth Avenue and 61st Street in New York City.

While we're at it, here's another one: Google's aerial imagery near Pawling, NY shows the filming location not only for A Quiet Place but also its sequel. In fact, the latter is still shown in the current view, whereas you need Google Earth's historical imagery to find the much more expansive farmstead from the first movie.

[Ketchup99]

Don't get nabbed speeding...
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7486459,-111.7007705,3a,20.5y,121.58h,93.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s19cnagzbTNBBpxoTaVYafw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[tolbs17]

Does Google Street View frequently update now?

Feb 2022 imagery already!

https://goo.gl/maps/jJGUtmN7MmUh6aSz9

[Max Rockatansky]

Does Google Street View frequently update now?

Feb 2022 imagery already!

https://goo.gl/maps/jJGUtmN7MmUh6aSz9

Crazy how?

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Does Google Street View frequently update now?

Feb 2022 imagery already!

https://goo.gl/maps/jJGUtmN7MmUh6aSz9

Yep, since the September update they have been rolling new imagery as soon as they have it processed. They found February 2022 imagery already on February 8!

[tolbs17]

Does Google Street View frequently update now?

Feb 2022 imagery already!

https://goo.gl/maps/jJGUtmN7MmUh6aSz9

Crazy how?

Crazy that it has the Feb 2022 imagery already

[Max Rockatansky]

Does Google Street View frequently update now?

Feb 2022 imagery already!

https://goo.gl/maps/jJGUtmN7MmUh6aSz9

Crazy how?

Crazy that it has the Feb 2022 imagery already

Subjective measure sure, but perhaps we can muster something beyond efficiency as "crazy."  

[empirestate]

Aahh!
https://goo.gl/maps/Vqd2KA6gcyvMwoXz5

[Rothman]

Aahh!
https://goo.gl/maps/Vqd2KA6gcyvMwoXz5

Headed to Sudan?

[empirestate]

Aahh!
https://goo.gl/maps/Vqd2KA6gcyvMwoXz5

Headed to Sudan?

Maybe, if I can find a lookingglass to walk through...

[jakeroot]

Does Google Street View frequently update now?

Feb 2022 imagery already!

https://goo.gl/maps/jJGUtmN7MmUh6aSz9

Crazy how?

Crazy that it has the Feb 2022 imagery already

Subjective measure sure, but perhaps we can muster something beyond efficiency as "crazy."  

I do think it's rather impressive how quickly this imagery has rolled out. Barely two weeks from capture, to processing, to publishing is at least on the verge of crazy. Relatively speaking, to be sure; such a timeline seems unthinkable even a few years ago, when even the most major roads received updates every year at best, usually a much longer interval. I mean, sure, we're talking about Google here, so no surprise they have the ability (finally) to roll out this imagery at an incredible pace, but it's a pretty crazy pace compared to not that long ago.

I am seeing a lot of Jan 2022 imagery around the Seattle region, but can't recall seeing anything from Feb.

[Scott5114]

I want to be impressed by it, but at the same time, the more I think about it, the more I'm surprised they weren't running this fast years ago. With the amount of imagery they have, and it being Google, the processing and publishing process has to be highly automated, as there's simply no way that handling it manually works on the scale they're operating on. At the same time, acquiring that imagery costs money. Having it sitting in a processing queue means Google can't realize any return on that investment.

I wouldn't be surprised if imagery starts going up within days rather than weeks at some point, but we'd have no real way of knowing since they only show month and year.

[Scott5114]

I just checked, and apparently the Google car went by my house for the very first time last month. And of course it was right after trash day, so people's trash had blown into my yard and I hadn't had a chance to pick it up yet. Sigh.

[jakeroot]

I wouldn't be surprised if imagery starts going up within days rather than weeks at some point, but we'd have no real way of knowing since they only show month and year.

Definitely, I'm wondering the same thing -- and when they'll start showing exact dates!

What's incredible to me is how much data exists with Street View. It wasn't that much when it was a once-every-two-year span, but moving to several times a year or even more than once in the same month is just an immense amount of data.

I really hope that Google maintains the history function with every date well into the future (as opposed to just a single image set from a given year). It will be extremely helpful to be able to look back on 15, 20, or 25+ years of imagery with precise dates. Talk about a roadgeek dream...

[plain]

Nothing crazy about this at all, but Google happened to capture an image of a hawk perched on a US 301 trailblazer in MD

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7RmQH2ouW3Mk6ncS8

[Scott5114]

I wouldn't be surprised if imagery starts going up within days rather than weeks at some point, but we'd have no real way of knowing since they only show month and year.

Definitely, I'm wondering the same thing -- and when they'll start showing exact dates!

What's incredible to me is how much data exists with Street View. It wasn't that much when it was a once-every-two-year span, but moving to several times a year or even more than once in the same month is just an immense amount of data.

I really hope that Google maintains the history function with every date well into the future (as opposed to just a single image set from a given year). It will be extremely helpful to be able to look back on 15, 20, or 25+ years of imagery with precise dates. Talk about a roadgeek dream...

I'm more concerned about what happens if Google does the math and decides that they're investing more money into it than they make back off of it. Google Street View is the sort of product that, while it makes the Google Maps product more useful and valuable, doesn't really do so in an easily-quantifiable way. (Can increased investment in GSV reliably resort in increased traffic for Google Maps? Or are there other, less expensive ways to boost traffic? And does increased use of Maps and GSV translate to actual profit for Google?)

That means that two different analysts going over the numbers might well see different things. And if there's a downturn and someone wants to do a budget cut, GSV would be a pretty tempting target–it's undoubtedly expensive to store and serve that data, even more expensive to collect and process it, and it doesn't directly result in revenue. All of the data is a fantastic resource, for roadgeeks and historians alike, but because the copyright to it is owned by a for-profit company, it can all go up in smoke the moment someone decides it's not worth the money to keep around.

[dlsterner]

Nothing crazy about this at all, but Google happened to capture an image of a hawk perched on a US 301 trailblazer in MD

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7RmQH2ouW3Mk6ncS8

It's still crazier than some recent crapposts on this thread ...

[andrepoiy]

Meanwhile, there's still some places that have 2007 or 2009 imagery... and for some reason there are still towns that aren't that small nor remote that aren't fully documented (e.g. Ogdensburg, NY, despite the Canadian town on the other side of the river, Prescott, being smaller in population yet fully documented)