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Title: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: rickmastfan67 on April 07, 2010, 03:30:00 AM
Let's have some fun, now shall we? :)

May I introduce the gateway to Hell!! :P :biggrin:

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=31.928173,-81.330715&panoid=IELKybs8yXOzzVchbUSMLw&cbp=12,230.38,,0,-1.3&ll=31.928113,-81.330795&spn=0,359.993032&z=18
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Alex on April 07, 2010, 11:53:29 AM
 :wow: Credit for finding this (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=freeport,+fl&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.106236,77.519531&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Freeport,+Walton,+Florida&ll=30.524271,-86.195666&spn=0.051755,0.108404&t=h&z=14&layer=c&cbll=30.524169,-86.195668&panoid=vQwlyxGlmdBMspaab0FfOQ&cbp=12,22.98,,0,14.48) goes to flaroadgeek.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: shoptb1 on April 07, 2010, 12:00:43 PM
Let's have some fun, now shall we? :)

May I introduce the gateway to Hell!! :P :biggrin:

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=31.928173,-81.330715&panoid=IELKybs8yXOzzVchbUSMLw&cbp=12,230.38,,0,-1.3&ll=31.928113,-81.330795&spn=0,359.993032&z=18

Drive into the light Carol Anne...drive into the light!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SSOWorld on April 07, 2010, 02:07:32 PM
:wow: Credit for finding this (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=freeport,+fl&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.106236,77.519531&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Freeport,+Walton,+Florida&ll=30.524271,-86.195666&spn=0.051755,0.108404&t=h&z=14&layer=c&cbll=30.524169,-86.195668&panoid=vQwlyxGlmdBMspaab0FfOQ&cbp=12,22.98,,0,14.48) goes to flaroadgeek.
Evidence that gawking at the Google Truck can be hazardous to your health? :happy:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadgeek Adam on April 07, 2010, 02:34:16 PM

100 sightings in 2 minutes
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Ian on April 07, 2010, 09:32:35 PM

100 sightings in 2 minutes

Haha nice. I noticed Canary Wharf's traffic light tree was found in there.

If you want some good sightings, go to this sight (warning: it may slow down your computer):
http://www.streetviewfun.com/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Alps on April 07, 2010, 09:35:29 PM

100 sightings in 2 minutes
The Long Island Duck!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadgeek Adam on April 07, 2010, 09:45:34 PM

100 sightings in 2 minutes

Yeah, that caught my attention.


The Long Island Duck!

100 sightings in 2 minutes

Haha nice. I noticed Canary Wharf's traffic light tree was found in there.

If you want some good sightings, go to this sight (warning: it may slow down your computer):
http://www.streetviewfun.com/

Definitely did slow mine ;)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: WNYroadgeek on April 09, 2010, 09:34:39 PM
http://maps.google.com/maps?layer=c&cbll=52.472723,-2.086806&cbp=12,334.41,,0,-62.5&ved=0CBUQ2wU&ei=w2GaS8j9Ode2sgbzop2-Aw&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Cradley+Heath,+West+Midlands+B645BB,+United+Kingdom&t=h&panoid=Q0qmhOfkInXjBQ9hrwdjzw&ll=52.472749,-2.086791&spn=0,0.000862&z=20

EDIT:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=area+51&sll=36.514051,-115.708008&sspn=1.174358,1.766052&ie=UTF8&hq=Area+51&hnear=Area+51,+Rachel&ll=37.646116,-115.750843&spn=0.00226,0.003449&t=h&z=18

Who wants chicken?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: wphiii on December 19, 2013, 02:55:08 PM
Dunno if this really qualifies for "General Highway Talk," but I stumbled upon this the other day and it's pretty interesting. It's apparently been around for a while, some guy just trawls through Streetview all over the world and finds the weirdest/funniest/creepiest stuff that gets capture in the Google cameras.

http://9-eyes.com/

Some of it is downright chilling. This one is just great, though:

(http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/9eyes/604823569/1/tumblr_l2j7f1fGXv1qzun8o)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on December 19, 2013, 03:34:54 PM
Party on! That's some interesting stuff.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2y637lHOP1qzun8oo1_1280.jpg)

Nice...kitty...

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on December 19, 2013, 04:23:02 PM
The corner of Briggs Road and Mission Rock Road in Santa Paula, CA has a man looking straight into the camera.


where is this?  those two streets do not intersect.

Here: http://goo.gl/maps/b8glB  <--Pan the camera around after the page loads.

(I had the same problem you did)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on December 19, 2013, 05:19:28 PM
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Selkirk,+NY&hl=en&ll=42.50252,-73.748531&spn=0.006027,0.011373&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=7.407541,11.645508&oq=selki&t=h&hnear=Selkirk,+Albany,+New+York&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.50252,-73.748531&panoid=I5FIhiH2xIajdwgGy_NTpA&cbp=12,0,,0,0
How about this one?  It reminds me of the old tube tvs that had no transmission which indeed Google has no transmission of the Berkshire Thruway either.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on December 19, 2013, 05:34:23 PM
http://goo.gl/maps/MJN1i

Click north or south and it'll be day time. Click east or west and it suddenly turns into night.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BamaZeus on December 20, 2013, 12:35:05 PM
It's gone now, but the all-time greatest one was the one with the two guys swordfighting in Pittsburgh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000873/Google-Street-View-spots-Samurai-warriors-duelling-Pittsburgh.html
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1995hoo on December 20, 2013, 12:45:21 PM
It's gone now, but the all-time greatest one was the one with the two guys swordfighting in Pittsburgh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000873/Google-Street-View-spots-Samurai-warriors-duelling-Pittsburgh.html

If you put it in the right spot, you can still see those guys:

http://goo.gl/maps/Gui45


Somewhere there was an image of a guy taking a dump in an outhouse with the door open, I think somewhere in Australia on a very hot day. I do not remember where I saw that image.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on December 20, 2013, 06:33:45 PM
Remember that one Lipitor commercial with the guy on a bike?

http://goo.gl/maps/xcc19
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: txstateends on December 20, 2013, 08:08:53 PM
Remember that one Lipitor commercial with the guy on a bike?

http://goo.gl/maps/xcc19

Linkie goes to the main Google Maps page for me.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on December 21, 2013, 12:06:56 AM
Linkie goes to the main Google Maps page for me.

Fixed.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: signalman on December 21, 2013, 03:26:05 AM
Linkie goes to the main Google Maps page for me.

Fixed.
Still not fixed for me.  I clicked your link and got google maps main page.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Alps on December 21, 2013, 08:44:28 AM
Linkie goes to the main Google Maps page for me.

Fixed.
Still not fixed for me.  I clicked your link and got google maps main page.
It worked for me. Did you click the quoted link instead of the original? I've changed that too, just in case.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: txstateends on December 21, 2013, 07:21:03 PM
Remember that one Lipitor commercial with the guy on a bike?

http://goo.gl/maps/xcc19

Linkie goes to the main Google Maps page for me.

Saw the Street View (I remember seeing it before after a past reference somewhere) but there's no guy on a bike anywhere.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on December 22, 2013, 01:07:23 AM
Saw the Street View (I remember seeing it before after a past reference somewhere) but there's no guy on a bike anywhere.

True; aside from the main actor and his bicycle that are visible in that image, there's no guy on a bike anywhere. ;-)

http://goo.gl/maps/xl4Vs
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on December 22, 2013, 01:19:55 AM
Yeah, I don't think any of us saw or remember that commercial.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on December 22, 2013, 07:45:33 AM
I can't find the recent thread so bump.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.727031,-84.058628&spn=0.026506,0.056691&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=40.726884,-84.066027&panoid=uCnQk1uHO0iuKpYL-4E_Iw&cbp=12,329.49,,0,-0.75
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: hbelkins on December 22, 2013, 02:30:59 PM
Wasn't there a controversy recently where street view showed a body at a murder scene?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on December 22, 2013, 02:39:42 PM
[color="not purple"]mods, please merge with https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2648[/color]
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on January 04, 2014, 02:27:21 PM
Found this...thing (https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d-75.112116!3d39.931392!2m2!1f265.44!2f83.5!4f75!2m9!1e1!2m4!1sJ4fgw93WGpHxgVxoLTRWyQ!2e0!9m1!6sDoctor+Charles+Brimm+Boulevard!5m2!1sJ4fgw93WGpHxgVxoLTRWyQ!2e0&fid=5) on Google Streetview in Camden, NJ.

(If there was another thread for this, which I believe there was, please merge my post into that one. Thanks!)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on January 04, 2014, 11:44:43 PM
Probably a leaf on the windshield camera lens.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on January 05, 2014, 12:21:23 AM
Probably a leaf on the windshield.

Didn't think about that. It happens when you move north once as well, but then is gone after that.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on January 09, 2014, 12:23:49 PM
I can't find the recent thread so bump.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.727031,-84.058628&spn=0.026506,0.056691&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=40.726884,-84.066027&panoid=uCnQk1uHO0iuKpYL-4E_Iw&cbp=12,329.49,,0,-0.75
https://maps.google.com/maps?t=m&layer=c&cbll=40.727659,-84.051667&panoid=-B_RtTuSEyWvmvHTNhUeTw&cbp=11,88.83,,0,20.02&ie=UTF8&ll=40.727682,-84.051676&spn=0.023546,0.077162&z=14&vpsrc=6
Blown into place, or put there by some joker?

Also:
Batman. (https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.134496,-66.821852&spn=0.024189,0.038581&t=m&z=15&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=45.134364,-66.821795&panoid=zi6GjMbC5kKJ5F7s4XYf9A&cbp=12,125,,2,0)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ilvny on January 09, 2014, 06:47:13 PM
Found this...thing (https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d-75.112116!3d39.931392!2m2!1f265.44!2f83.5!4f75!2m9!1e1!2m4!1sJ4fgw93WGpHxgVxoLTRWyQ!2e0!9m1!6sDoctor+Charles+Brimm+Boulevard!5m2!1sJ4fgw93WGpHxgVxoLTRWyQ!2e0&fid=5) on Google Streetview in Camden, NJ.

(If there was another thread for this, which I believe there was, please merge my post into that one. Thanks!)

That definitely looks like a leaf.  The leaf looks huge!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: pghgal_90 on January 20, 2014, 10:19:53 PM
The craziest thing that I didn't find was myself. A friend of mine was looking for a mutual friend of ours' house address, and this friend happens to live on my same street. She used Street View to look for the other friend's house since she would recognize the house from a distinctive door, but went in the opposite direction toward where I live, and found me instead. My 10th grade self is immortalized on Google Maps forever, walking home from the bus stop with my backpack on and carrying my lunchbox.

I graduated high school in 2008 and I'm still there.  :-|
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on March 11, 2014, 01:49:19 PM
This is awesome!!   Interstate 0!!

https://maps.google.com/?ll=32.834226,-112.133377&spn=0.000002,0.001742&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=32.834123,-112.133494&panoid=UddmwST753D3jWvVs336Ig&cbp=12,194.63,,0,-1.68
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on March 11, 2014, 02:24:11 PM
I've seen spraypainted stuff on roadways before, but not across 3 lanes (plus a decel lane) on an interstate highway.

http://goo.gl/maps/Mczt9

(My guess: Rutgers University, Class of 2011...spraypainted near an exit for rival College of New Jersey)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brandon on March 11, 2014, 05:24:27 PM
Check out the detour signs being placed on I-70 in St Louis, Missouri: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.646355,-90.190834&spn=0.004835,0.010568&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=38.646271,-90.190793&panoid=sAkY5Rw5rv-sVFALQPijHg&cbp=12,212.6,,0,12.24
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on March 11, 2014, 06:08:40 PM
I've seen spraypainted stuff on roadways before, but not across 3 lanes (plus a decel lane) on an interstate highway.

http://goo.gl/maps/Mczt9

(My guess: Rutgers University, Class of 2011...spraypainted near an exit for rival College of New Jersey)

Or it could be Rider University as it's only a block south of here on 206.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on February 01, 2015, 12:48:15 PM
Reviving... because

http://goo.gl/maps/fMDGm

Didn't expect that. Not really crazy, but still very cool.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on February 01, 2015, 02:32:15 PM
Go to US 1 & 9 in Rahway, NJ and you will find that at the CR 514 partial interchange that the image goes from post construction to during construction and back to post construction of that interchange that was built in the mid to late 2000's as you move along SB US 1 & 9.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 02, 2015, 10:42:24 AM
How about a knocked down crossing signal?
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2bp0y3z1ox861z34qzjdz2u
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 02, 2015, 12:11:44 PM
Here's something pretty interesting, just browse around the area on street view for a while:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.48991,140.993756&ll=37.482131,141.038508&spn=0.001909,0.004128&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=37.482303,141.038243&panoid=L0CdKlmo7tkxJttRRB_4Xg&cbp=12,158.03,,0,4.21
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on February 02, 2015, 01:09:05 PM
Here's something pretty interesting, just browse around the area on street view for a while:
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2d4m5iz1r8wvuz1pkzmxz5p

Okay, I give up.  What's so crazy there?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 02, 2015, 02:00:46 PM
Here's something pretty interesting, just browse around the area on street view for a while:
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2d4m5iz1r8wvuz1pkzmxz5p

Okay, I give up.  What's so crazy there?

Mostly the fact that it's where a tsunami hit. It's just surreal, especially the mostly abandoned city nearby.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on February 02, 2015, 02:30:04 PM
A tsunami hit Huntsville, Alabama?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on February 02, 2015, 03:23:50 PM
I can't find the recent thread so bump.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.727031,-84.058628&spn=0.026506,0.056691&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=40.726884,-84.066027&panoid=uCnQk1uHO0iuKpYL-4E_Iw&cbp=12,329.49,,0,-0.75

I feel like I dropped Pegman in a laundromat.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 02, 2015, 07:34:01 PM
A tsunami hit Huntsville, Alabama?
It's a mostly deserted place in Japan. Because of that earthquake and tsunami a couple of years back.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on February 02, 2015, 07:38:32 PM
Try clicking your link, thick.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 02, 2015, 07:43:12 PM
Try clicking your link, thick.
Oh God. I though I had posted the correct link. Fixed it though!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: J Route Z on February 02, 2015, 08:28:51 PM
It's gone now, but the all-time greatest one was the one with the two guys swordfighting in Pittsburgh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000873/Google-Street-View-spots-Samurai-warriors-duelling-Pittsburgh.html

If you put it in the right spot, you can still see those guys:

http://goo.gl/maps/Gui45


Somewhere there was an image of a guy taking a dump in an outhouse with the door open, I think somewhere in Australia on a very hot day. I do not remember where I saw that image.

Click the arrow to the right, and the buildings demolish those two guys! (Images updated in 2014)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on February 02, 2015, 10:30:49 PM
Try clicking your link, thick.
Oh God. I though I had posted the correct link. Fixed it though!

That's 15 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KEK Inc. on February 03, 2015, 04:14:02 AM
Try clicking your link, thick.
Oh God. I though I had posted the correct link. Fixed it though!

That's 15 minutes of my life I'll never get back.


You know where he lives now. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 03, 2015, 09:28:30 AM
Try clicking your link, thick.
Oh God. I though I had posted the correct link. Fixed it though!

That's 15 minutes of my life I'll never get back.


You know where he lives now. 
Heh, I live in a different portion of Huntsville.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on February 10, 2015, 10:06:51 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.104338,-75.289666,3a,15y,14.11h,102.33t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sf4htBCqNTZa1UerHm0BdCw!2e0

Looks like a group of birds has found this group of signs a wonderful place to rest.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 10, 2015, 01:33:17 PM
So my best friend, the other day, sent me a link on my phone to a Google satellite view that supposedly shows someone dumping a body in the lake (Snopes debunking here (http://www.snopes.com/photos/crime/parkbody.asp)).  So I decided to have a little fun with him.  I kept entering somewhat-random coordinates into Google Maps until I had landed on a spot with GSV.  The location I picked was in Quebec.  I then sent him the following text message:

Quote
46.106, -71.2842 ... Switch to street view, go down the street just a little bit, and you can see a guy getting mugged in Quebec.

I could tell he was trying it out, because he sent me a screenshot of a location nearby, then asked me "Northwest or southeast?"  So I baited him with "Southeast, I think."  My wife and I couldn't stop laughing at that point.  (Shortly thereafter, I told him I was messing with him.)

Fun little prank!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Crazy Volvo Guy on February 21, 2015, 04:58:03 PM
Here's something pretty interesting, just browse around the area on street view for a while:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.48991,140.993756&ll=37.482131,141.038508&spn=0.001909,0.004128&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=37.482303,141.038243&panoid=L0CdKlmo7tkxJttRRB_4Xg&cbp=12,158.03,,0,4.21

So apparently Google is a sort of modern day KIDDofSPEED.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SD Mapman on February 23, 2015, 01:00:35 AM
Only in South Dakota would the Google Car get attacked by loose dogs.
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.426851,-97.293683,3a,75y,107.23h,51.66t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJ5fS6efjAKrIBH616kMSkg!2e0 (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.426851,-97.293683,3a,75y,107.23h,51.66t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJ5fS6efjAKrIBH616kMSkg!2e0)
Scroll east/west to show the dogs running after it, then giving up. The owners are just standing around talking.

I don't even know why the car was there in the first place... who the heck would want to go to Waubay?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US81 on February 23, 2015, 06:23:00 AM
Only in South Dakota would the Google Car get attacked by loose dogs.
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.426851,-97.293683,3a,75y,107.23h,51.66t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJ5fS6efjAKrIBH616kMSkg!2e0 (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.426851,-97.293683,3a,75y,107.23h,51.66t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJ5fS6efjAKrIBH616kMSkg!2e0)
Scroll east/west to show the dogs running after it, then giving up. The owners are just standing around talking.

I don't even know why the car was there in the first place... who the heck would want to go to Waubay?

There's plenty of places in Texas that would still happen. Now, once again, the question of "who would want to go there?" would arise.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 6a on February 23, 2015, 09:22:17 AM
Can't figure out how to get a link from a tablet, so here you go. I found...me, driving the truck in the right lane.

(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/02/23/513e4e50dc7fae1d001c19dcb1467a2a.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Crazy Volvo Guy on February 23, 2015, 09:32:04 AM
I would be on street view driving my truck on I-75, but they messed up the update of that imagery, so when you get right beside my truck, the imagery for that date is actually not taken on that date.

You can see me as you're approaching from behind.  Crete truck w/ trailer 225485 in a traffic jam.  Have to be on the new google maps to see it because you have to play around with the "time machine"
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rushmeister on February 23, 2015, 09:44:37 AM
Only in South Dakota would the Google Car get attacked by loose dogs.
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.426851,-97.293683,3a,75y,107.23h,51.66t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJ5fS6efjAKrIBH616kMSkg!2e0 (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.426851,-97.293683,3a,75y,107.23h,51.66t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJ5fS6efjAKrIBH616kMSkg!2e0)
Scroll east/west to show the dogs running after it, then giving up. The owners are just standing around talking.

I don't even know why the car was there in the first place... who the heck would want to go to Waubay?

Oh, man, I love this one.  Go back and check out the house where the people are standing about, presumably lauding the multitude of entertainment and employment options their municipality has blessed them with. 

Anyway, notice the air conditioner protruding from the front door, propped up by a board and a tire.  Maybe the tire is just a door stop or something -- whatever works, it doesn't matter.  I applaud their resourcefulness and ingenuity.  Hey, the back door still works, right?

This scene, in my opinion, should be added to the definition of "awesome".
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 23, 2015, 11:25:12 AM
I would have had the bus I rode last year be on Street View, but they didn't use any of the photos it would've been in as far as I'm aware.
You can actually see my van at a bank and my older bother mowing the front lawn on Street View. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Takumi on February 23, 2015, 03:40:41 PM
In the Virginia thread there was discussion about the Google car being pulled over on Street View in the town of Newsoms.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 6a on February 23, 2015, 08:38:33 PM

Only in South Dakota would the Google Car get attacked by loose dogs.
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.426851,-97.293683,3a,75y,107.23h,51.66t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJ5fS6efjAKrIBH616kMSkg!2e0 (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.426851,-97.293683,3a,75y,107.23h,51.66t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJ5fS6efjAKrIBH616kMSkg!2e0)
Scroll east/west to show the dogs running after it, then giving up. The owners are just standing around talking.

I don't even know why the car was there in the first place... who the heck would want to go to Waubay?

Oh, man, I love this one.  Go back and check out the house where the people are standing about, presumably lauding the multitude of entertainment and employment options their municipality has blessed them with. 

Anyway, notice the air conditioner protruding from the front door, propped up by a board and a tire.  Maybe the tire is just a door stop or something -- whatever works, it doesn't matter.  I applaud their resourcefulness and ingenuity.  Hey, the back door still works, right?

This scene, in my opinion, should be added to the definition of "awesome".

You're goddamn right about everything. My granddad was known as "Big Jim" because his head hit the corner of a window air conditioner...once. It was held up by a board wedged against the side of the house underneath the carport. Of course that means my dad was "Little Jim" and so he was.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: briantroutman on February 24, 2015, 10:18:24 PM
I haven’t seen anyone else comment on this...

Does anyone know why the Google Street View peg person is wearing a red and white skirt–or a cake, or a snare drum, depending on your point of view–when you pick him/her up?

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8646/16614348686_1e0f942724_o.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on February 24, 2015, 10:40:46 PM
Can't figure out how to get a link from a tablet, so here you go. I found...me, driving the truck in the right lane.

(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/02/23/513e4e50dc7fae1d001c19dcb1467a2a.jpg)

I found myself on the bus: I saw the GSV car passing by one morning. I'd never seen it to that day.

http://goo.gl/maps/ECXFo
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on February 25, 2015, 06:14:42 AM
Does anyone know why the Google Street View peg person is wearing a red and white skirt–or a cake, or a snare drum, depending on your point of view–when you pick him/her up?

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8646/16614348686_1e0f942724_o.png)
Because you're using the crappy new interface :bigass:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: spooky on February 25, 2015, 07:30:43 AM
I haven’t seen anyone else comment on this...

Does anyone know why the Google Street View peg person is wearing a red and white skirt–or a cake, or a snare drum, depending on your point of view–when you pick him/her up?

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8646/16614348686_1e0f942724_o.png)

didn't the Google just have a birthday?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: adventurernumber1 on February 25, 2015, 10:23:33 AM
I don't know if this would be considered "crazy," but definitely very odd for me and my family to find on GMSV, but on the original street view of my grandparents' neighborhood road in Rome, GA, at my grandparents' house, it actually showed my grandfather at the mailbox wearing his neck brace (he has neck & back trouble). A very rare sight indeed!  :wow: :-D
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on February 25, 2015, 01:05:02 PM
Does anyone know why the Google Street View peg person is wearing a red and white skirt–or a cake, or a snare drum, depending on your point of view–when you pick him/her up?

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8646/16614348686_1e0f942724_o.png)
Because you're using the crappy new interface :bigass:

I have been wondering the same thing! (And yes, the Street View interface has been behaving poorly for me as well, in Chrome, no less.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tchafe1978 on March 05, 2015, 12:11:01 AM
I can look at the Street View images of my house and see my two dogs outside in their pen during the day while we're away at work. They're both looking at the GSV car, ready to bark and pounce, but obviously can't do anything since they were fenced in. Not giving away my address, though...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 05, 2015, 01:55:58 PM
Not giving away my address, though...

That's right.  It's a dangerous place.  We might send you unwanted catalogs and newsletters.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on March 06, 2015, 10:26:55 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.609835,-93.79749,3a,75y,332.81h,61.33t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s0EXybDaGDFeNBMLMYhc0aw!2e0


The Google car has antlers?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on March 19, 2015, 09:26:47 PM
Rogue leaves!
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Henderson+tx&daddr=32.7752328,-94.1823722+to:atlanta+tx&hl=en&geocode=FYCe6gEd7HlZ-ikvU8vrQ8k3hjEC74Sb3sHlNw%3BFUAc9AEdHORi-imVWHhGBZE2hjFSFU4cYthuDA%3BFY5G-QEdfipj-imT0xoXaiQ0hjGyuNNHtah7-Q&sll=32.826519,-94.259949&sspn=0.922033,1.234589&vpsrc=6&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=10&via=1&ie=UTF8&ll=33.105769,-94.175041&spn=0.003253,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=33.105767,-94.175042&panoid=EtJ3dFAk55ccV_4N1k3SRA&cbp=11,11.15,,0,-12.99
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on March 19, 2015, 11:05:49 PM
Rogue leaves!
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Henderson+tx&daddr=32.7752328,-94.1823722+to:atlanta+tx&hl=en&geocode=FYCe6gEd7HlZ-ikvU8vrQ8k3hjEC74Sb3sHlNw%3BFUAc9AEdHORi-imVWHhGBZE2hjFSFU4cYthuDA%3BFY5G-QEdfipj-imT0xoXaiQ0hjGyuNNHtah7-Q&sll=32.826519,-94.259949&sspn=0.922033,1.234589&vpsrc=6&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=10&via=1&ie=UTF8&ll=33.105769,-94.175041&spn=0.003253,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=33.105767,-94.175042&panoid=EtJ3dFAk55ccV_4N1k3SRA&cbp=11,11.15,,0,-12.99
I see driving directions.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on March 20, 2015, 01:30:34 AM
There should be driving directions *and* streetview. You don't have both?
Try this:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=33.105769,-94.175041&cbp=12,0,,0,5&cbll=33.105769,-94.175041&layer=c
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on March 20, 2015, 10:33:47 AM
Y'all would've believe how many leaves I've found stuck on the Google camera lens while looking at traffic lights and railroad crossings on street view.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on March 20, 2015, 02:45:18 PM
It might b
There should be driving directions *and* streetview. You don't have both?
Try this:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=33.105769,-94.175041&cbp=12,0,,0,5&cbll=33.105769,-94.175041&layer=c
Maybe it's dropping the street view when it converts the URL from Old Maps to New Maps?  Second link works.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: davewiecking on March 20, 2015, 02:49:09 PM
Quote
Anyway, notice the air conditioner protruding from the front door, propped up by a board and a tire.  Maybe the tire is just a door stop or something -- whatever works, it doesn't matter.  I applaud their resourcefulness and ingenuity.  Hey, the back door still works, right?
Looks like the opening in the storm door is the only window wide enough for the AC unit. Or maybe they just didn't want to refer to it as their Window Shaker.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US71 on March 20, 2015, 02:58:47 PM
I've seen two of my friends working in their front yard ;)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: rickmastfan67 on March 22, 2015, 10:39:38 PM
StreetView caught the red lights on at the Inbound Ft Pitt Tunnels.
http://goo.gl/maps/wbVPI
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Pete from Boston on March 22, 2015, 11:28:06 PM

In the Virginia thread there was discussion about the Google car being pulled over on Street View in the town of Newsoms.

This was the case in an earlier version of the shots of Gauley Bridge, W.V., but it was re-shot.  Haven't used the GSV historical slider to see if the old one is still in there.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on March 24, 2015, 12:04:49 AM
http://goo.gl/maps/d9Jqw

Apparently, trees can grow through signs now (or at least it looks like it  :-D).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KG909 on March 24, 2015, 10:20:42 AM
In Chicago there's a Street View car getting a gun aimed at it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 22, 2015, 11:28:40 AM
Google street view caught a pair of signal maintainers at a crossing. One of the waved at the camera and the other flipped the street view car off:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1888004,-85.4098029,19z/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brandon on April 22, 2015, 11:41:40 AM
In Chicago there's a Street View car getting a gun aimed at it.

Why am I not surprised.  I'll bet the guy doesn't even have a FOID card.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on April 22, 2015, 12:39:15 PM
https://www.google.ca/maps/@40.237102,-74.799766,3a,15y,172.12h,81.28t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sOOieQaA8tKuhMGBMM3oaKQ!2e0!5s20110701T000000

Given the area this is in... I'm going to assume the gestures being made are not exactly friendly ones.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: akotchi on July 26, 2015, 09:42:03 PM
I have seen my wife's van in two different driveways at the same time.  Once at home; once in a family friend's driveway on the other side of Philadelphia.  StreetView shot at different times, obviously.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on July 27, 2015, 10:57:47 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.475129,-74.576528,3a,47.1y,171.82h,88.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxUIVlDkgkVlK839t1I2ywg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

This looks to be taken right after Hurricane Irene in 2011, as noticed by the very high level of the Millstone River as well as the damage that is clearly visible in the area.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 41 on July 28, 2015, 11:16:09 AM
Apparently I accidentally started a thread with the same topic a few days ago when there was this one here already.  :banghead:

I found this however.
https://goo.gl/maps/1psks
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: intelati49 on July 28, 2015, 12:33:35 PM
Google street view caught a pair of signal maintainers at a crossing. One of the waved at the camera and the other flipped the street view car off:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1888004,-85.4098029,19z/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&hl=en

Haha
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brandon on July 28, 2015, 01:26:35 PM
Apparently I accidentally started a thread with the same topic a few days ago when there was this one here already.  :banghead:

I found this however.
https://goo.gl/maps/1psks

Wow, there's one heck of a red streak on the road.  I'm hoping it's a deer, but I'm not so hopeful.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mrt90 on July 28, 2015, 01:37:41 PM
I found this one while looking for the 5-way intersection in my old neighborhood.  It falls under the juvenile humor category.



https://www.google.com/maps/@42.566,-87.855116,3a,15y,219.55h,89.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sysGZO3JEFHsylME3qQmr0A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: briantroutman on August 20, 2015, 10:22:25 PM
One Street View car following another: https://goo.gl/maps/nTTrc

Why? I have no idea.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Bruce on August 23, 2015, 03:01:38 PM
Here's a Street View driver blatantly breaking traffic laws by driving in a bus lane in Seattle: https://goo.gl/maps/hvQXZ

Note that the lane is for rush hour only, but looking around shows that there's buses on ST route 513, which only runs during rush hour in that direction. Also, there's no cars in the lane and the bus-only sign is lit (https://goo.gl/maps/pe0s2).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on August 23, 2015, 03:37:34 PM
Here's a Street View driver blatantly breaking traffic laws by driving in a bus lane in Seattle: https://goo.gl/maps/hvQXZ

Note that the lane is for rush hour only, but looking around shows that there's buses on ST route 513, which only runs during rush hour in that direction. Also, there's no cars in the lane and the bus-only sign is lit (https://goo.gl/maps/pe0s2).

The people who drive Google cars are still human, and still do illegal things. Getting pulled over is no exception.

http://gizmodo.com/5199154/google-street-view-gets-ticket-captures-self-getting-ticket-on-google-street-view
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on September 05, 2015, 02:11:12 PM
Not really crazy, just good timing:

https://goo.gl/maps/rttgE
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Bruce on September 06, 2015, 07:57:23 PM
The street view camera is turned sideways to fit under a low-clearance bridge:

https://goo.gl/maps/rycfQ
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Bruce on September 07, 2015, 02:50:04 PM
The streetview imagery for Wenatchee, WA was taken during one of its seasonal wildfires, so the entire city is covered in smoke:

https://goo.gl/maps/QRkLZ
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Bruce on September 07, 2015, 08:44:33 PM
I don't think this Streetview driver in Portland, OR got permission to be on the unopened busway on the MAX Orange Line:

https://goo.gl/maps/cRRek

Usually if a transit agency allows this, they'd have a crowd of personnel to greet the car.

I'd love to see Google Streetview coverage of busways, subways and railways eventually. Especially Seattle's, which has a few art installations in tunnels that you normally can't see as well as weird stubs and unused segments (especially when the bus tunnel converts to rail-only).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Bruce on September 09, 2015, 07:50:14 PM
On the Evergreen State College campus in Olympia, what looks to be a police exercise in full gear:

https://goo.gl/maps/0g9Vy
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on September 10, 2015, 08:22:48 AM
On the Evergreen State College campus in Olympia, what looks to be a police exercise in full gear:

https://goo.gl/maps/0g9Vy

Pfft.  It's Evergreen State.  Probably students just getting ready to protest the totalitarian state, oppression of the lower classes and to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: slorydn1 on September 10, 2015, 11:27:10 PM
My brother's car in my front yard (he lives 850 miles away) and neither of my cars were home.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: mrsman on September 11, 2015, 12:47:49 PM
I don't think this Streetview driver in Portland, OR got permission to be on the unopened busway on the MAX Orange Line:

https://goo.gl/maps/cRRek

Usually if a transit agency allows this, they'd have a crowd of personnel to greet the car.

I'd love to see Google Streetview coverage of busways, subways and railways eventually. Especially Seattle's, which has a few art installations in tunnels that you normally can't see as well as weird stubs and unused segments (especially when the bus tunnel converts to rail-only).

I agree.  It would be great to see public transportation on street view. 

I think it is a good idea to allow for GSV cars to photograph busways.  They can be allowed an exemption and they can go during non-peak hours so as not to disturb commuting traffic.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Bruce on September 15, 2015, 08:12:59 PM
A Streetview car captured Bertha (the TBM in Seattle that got stuck) during the lift to put its front face back into the recovery pit:

https://goo.gl/maps/xa8yl
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on November 04, 2015, 02:09:17 AM
Some kind of glitch, but what? It stays with the Google car for six clicks.
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.73894,-97.832088,3a,66.8y,89.16h,68.13t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1slGust_8cOGslE8ENYYvwUg!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Pete from Boston on November 04, 2015, 08:56:18 AM
Google car stops for pack of smokes and a turkey & bacon wrap:

https://goo.gl/maps/68r5LXTrNFH2
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: busman_49 on November 05, 2015, 06:59:01 AM
Google car stops for pack of smokes and a turkey & bacon wrap:

https://goo.gl/maps/68r5LXTrNFH2

In that same vein...
Google car was thinkin' Arby's:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2851936,-84.4461592,3a,75y,11.27h,72.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stNdXfP1KVQAs-ljaaBW8Yg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

Also, a WTF moment:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8433726,-82.3452367,3a,75y,21.16h,89.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTc28k23jO7qdC4RMzEX85g!2e0!7i3328!8i1664!6m1!1e1
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on November 05, 2015, 09:56:20 AM
Also, a WTF moment:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8433726,-82.3452367,3a,75y,21.16h,89.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTc28k23jO7qdC4RMzEX85g!2e0!7i3328!8i1664!6m1!1e1

Woo, psychedelic!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Pete from Boston on November 05, 2015, 10:01:14 AM
Looks like someone threw a sweater over the camera.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on November 05, 2015, 11:40:16 AM
Google car stops for pack of smokes and a turkey & bacon wrap:

https://goo.gl/maps/68r5LXTrNFH2

In that same vein...
Google car was thinkin' Arby's:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2851936,-84.4461592,3a,75y,11.27h,72.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stNdXfP1KVQAs-ljaaBW8Yg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

And the streetview car decided to go to Taco Bell here in Huntsville:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.691068,-86.579369,3a,66.8y,270.22h,82.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sm7G13jjBYARWuDjajZRCeA!2e0

And they made another stop at a gas station up in Huntland, TN:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.054468,-86.269712,3a,66.8y,91.47h,81.13t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sSPBZ-adMvRPZrPqzHOONMg!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on November 07, 2015, 12:46:39 AM
Google car stops for pack of smokes and a turkey & bacon wrap:

https://goo.gl/maps/68r5LXTrNFH2

In that same vein...
Google car was thinkin' Arby's:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2851936,-84.4461592,3a,75y,11.27h,72.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stNdXfP1KVQAs-ljaaBW8Yg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

And the streetview car decided to go to Taco Bell here in Huntsville:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.691068,-86.579369,3a,66.8y,270.22h,82.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sm7G13jjBYARWuDjajZRCeA!2e0

And they made another stop at a gas station up in Huntland, TN:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.054468,-86.269712,3a,66.8y,91.47h,81.13t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sSPBZ-adMvRPZrPqzHOONMg!2e0

Gas stations are, of course, common ones. You'd think they would turn off the camera before they went into the parking lot. I guess they forgot.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on November 09, 2015, 05:40:53 PM
Here are some people jump starting a car in South Carolina:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9844021,-81.8752711,3a,62.5y,274.35h,65.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXE31bTT77ylf-9wOD8uSrQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on November 14, 2015, 08:50:21 PM
The Street View camera is 8 feet high:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.622908,-79.67694,3a,66.8y,178.54h,93.21t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI1wZysceXYYYTSzioX1ePw!2e0 (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.622908,-79.67694,3a,66.8y,178.54h,93.21t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI1wZysceXYYYTSzioX1ePw!2e0)

I found this while playing GeoGuessr earlier.  I started at the intersection of South Perry and West Spring streets, and followed the Truck PA 8 signs.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Big John on November 21, 2015, 11:23:33 AM
A couple of protesters: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5189258,-88.0186274,3a,75y,48.9h,77.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9FaOOgfeqF9T34EdHLse0w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 41 on December 01, 2015, 02:35:00 PM
A semi trailer full of pigs in Queretaro, Mexico.
https://www.google.com/maps/@20.575605,-100.392849,3a,66.8y,124.07h,84.2t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sDewONCtEkMrh7A3itRIIvA!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on December 03, 2015, 02:30:10 PM
Not street view, but I did find this amusing: the NSA Flying Club:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nsa+Flying+Club,+7540+General+Aviation+Dr+%23+1,+Fort+Meade,+MD+20755/@39.0883844,-76.7577045,16z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b7e64296ca107b:0x46c6ca7cec5e9df1
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vtk on December 06, 2015, 12:06:15 AM
Via facebook

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/140929/nightmare-fuel-the-15-creepiest-images-capture-on-google-street-view/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on December 16, 2015, 03:11:20 PM
One wouldn't expect an ad like this one (https://www.google.es/maps/@40.4114006,-3.6691075,3a,18.9y,198.82h,90.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3hAqxaTATyYkGtj4R5yBZA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) that was there in January 2014 and was moved to another billboard down the street soon afterwards. It says "I'm Idaira, I'm 19 months old and I'm dying". Not to mention the little girl, who is currently 3 years old and suffers from spinal muscular atrophy, is still alive agaisnt all odds.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on December 20, 2015, 10:46:02 AM
Not crazy, but I'm not sure what the heck this is:

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.5706102,-114.9254291,3a,21.6y,79.15h,71.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1so9nAZ8a1EyLLuMdUeglxdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Big John on December 20, 2015, 11:08:13 AM
^^ ATVs running around a culvert flume?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on January 08, 2016, 09:18:40 PM
Either a horror scene or the remnants of some roadkill:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.4889953,-86.9182306,3a,53.3y,215.93h,85.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3oPiJh2Mf7__KC08inFjRA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on January 09, 2016, 10:26:56 AM
More Interesting than Crazy:

At one intersection:

Intersection prior to construction:  https://goo.gl/maps/Yd4edk6osL82

Intersection prior to lights installed:  https://goo.gl/maps/bRD9S23vF2N2

Intersection prior to lights turned on:  https://goo.gl/maps/LHwvzDfzNu52

Unfortunately, we may have to wait a while before seeing the GSV of the lights at the intersection in operation.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SSOWorld on January 09, 2016, 10:45:30 AM
Not crazy, but I'm not sure what the heck this is:

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.5706102,-114.9254291,3a,21.6y,79.15h,71.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1so9nAZ8a1EyLLuMdUeglxdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Certainly knows a few maneuvers just like Han Solo.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vtk on January 11, 2016, 12:34:41 PM
Either a horror scene or the remnants of some roadkill:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.4889953,-86.9182306,3a,53.3y,215.93h,85.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3oPiJh2Mf7__KC08inFjRA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Probably a deer hit.  I see red splashes like that from time to time in Ohio.  Sometimes they're at an angle, which points at a carcass to the side of the road.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on January 14, 2016, 09:18:51 AM
My mother-in-law lives with us.  On Bing's Street View, I can see her on the porch and her dogs in the yard, including one chasing the BSV vehicle (we have a fenced in front yard).  I'm guessing the BSV vehicle came down on a Monday in the spring, as I have some bags of mulch that I would've picked up during the weekend scattered in the front yard, my wife's vehicle is there (she doesn't work most Mondays), and my vehicle is missing, along with 2 vehicles of the guys that carpool with me are parked on the curb.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on January 15, 2016, 03:41:26 PM
Google Street View captured another street view car in Chicken, Alaska:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/64%C2%B004'15.0%22N+141%C2%B052'30.0%22W/@64.0729452,-141.9336536,3a,19y,207.13h,83.67t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1pC0TxmAA9t_v1hkO5_Khg!2e0?hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on January 15, 2016, 06:56:04 PM
Google Street View captured another street view car in Chicken, Alaska:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/64%C2%B004'15.0%22N+141%C2%B052'30.0%22W/@64.0729452,-141.9336536,3a,19y,207.13h,83.67t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1pC0TxmAA9t_v1hkO5_Khg!2e0?hl=en

I'd think it would be a lot closer to crazy if they were driving StreetView in remote Alaska without having a partner vehicle.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on January 15, 2016, 07:56:01 PM
Google Street View captured another street view car in Chicken, Alaska:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/64%C2%B004'15.0%22N+141%C2%B052'30.0%22W/@64.0729452,-141.9336536,3a,19y,207.13h,83.67t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1pC0TxmAA9t_v1hkO5_Khg!2e0?hl=en

I'd think it would be a lot closer to crazy if they were driving StreetView in remote Alaska without having a partner vehicle.

I've seen multiple cars, usually in the north. It's probably due to lack of roads to cover, so multiple cars travel on the only highway to the next community.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 41 on January 20, 2016, 10:09:54 PM
Big wreck on US 190 in Texas.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1673318,-98.3402367,3a,66.8y,7.68h,80.95t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1si7UBjTQyozIGJiOFYB0A0g!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: slorydn1 on January 21, 2016, 12:21:14 AM
Big wreck on US 190 in Texas.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1673318,-98.3402367,3a,66.8y,7.68h,80.95t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1si7UBjTQyozIGJiOFYB0A0g!2e0 (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1673318,-98.3402367,3a,66.8y,7.68h,80.95t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1si7UBjTQyozIGJiOFYB0A0g!2e0)

Ouch yeah it was a fatal wreck. (http://www.lampasasdispatchrecord.com/news/2013-08-23/Front_Page/County_road_worker_killed_in_wreck.html)  :/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 02, 2016, 02:13:40 PM
The pedestrian signal on the left appears to have been hit by a truck:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9002041,-77.0380828,3a,9.6y,148.15h,92.12t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sYbBWo_MsyXpZQ40SXtNyHA!2e0

This street view cart was captured on street view by another cart in the White House:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8975778,-77.0367521,3a,15.2y,92.77h,85.63t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sjeRxM-czD4HrB7WcBh0o4Q!2e0
And then there's this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8975866,-77.0367623,3a,15.2y,96.48h,85.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sdNd7GNRrv3dxP9seqOnXaQ!2e0
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8976329,-77.0367624,3a,12.1y,125.96h,84.6t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1st4KPWQRbG5bC9ojBJK3oFw!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on February 02, 2016, 08:54:03 PM
Downed yet functional traffic signal in Fairfield, IL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3787207,-88.3686142,3a,46.7y,191.21h,79.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stDte_LxfTPaAsf2MuLQpEg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: pumpkineater2 on February 02, 2016, 09:44:16 PM
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that something may have gone a wee bit wrong in this field in Imperial county:https://goo.gl/maps/UxReFBpEXCH2 (https://goo.gl/maps/UxReFBpEXCH2)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on February 02, 2016, 09:49:43 PM
Wow, the Googleplex hasn't been filmed since 2010! (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mountain+View,+CA/@37.4222497,-122.0860738,3a,75y,31.26h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sl3EqP7Pb_1gAuVlbUuoYag!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dl3EqP7Pb_1gAuVlbUuoYag%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D25.738373%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x808fb7495bec0189:0x7c17d44a466baf9b!6m1!1e1)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on February 02, 2016, 11:51:12 PM
Google Street View captured another street view car in Chicken, Alaska:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/64%C2%B004'15.0%22N+141%C2%B052'30.0%22W/@64.0729452,-141.9336536,3a,19y,207.13h,83.67t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1pC0TxmAA9t_v1hkO5_Khg!2e0?hl=en

I'd think it would be a lot closer to crazy if they were driving StreetView in remote Alaska without having a partner vehicle.

I've seen multiple cars, usually in the north. It's probably due to lack of roads to cover, so multiple cars travel on the only highway to the next community.

On many Alaska roads, you'd be stupid to go alone, especially in a car like that. This way, if one breaks down, they can get to a settlement. You'll also see a Google caravan on the Dalton Highway imagery.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on February 03, 2016, 08:19:23 AM
Google Street View captured another street view car in Chicken, Alaska:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/64%C2%B004'15.0%22N+141%C2%B052'30.0%22W/@64.0729452,-141.9336536,3a,19y,207.13h,83.67t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1pC0TxmAA9t_v1hkO5_Khg!2e0?hl=en

I'd think it would be a lot closer to crazy if they were driving StreetView in remote Alaska without having a partner vehicle.

I've seen multiple cars, usually in the north. It's probably due to lack of roads to cover, so multiple cars travel on the only highway to the next community.

On many Alaska roads, you'd be stupid to go alone, especially in a car like that. This way, if one breaks down, they can get to a settlement. You'll also see a Google caravan on the Dalton Highway imagery.

Exactly; so, definitely not a crazy thing found in Street View. :-)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: froggie on February 03, 2016, 11:24:31 AM
Mmmmmmmm...beer (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6062003,-72.2632544,3a,75y,15.87h,79.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjsqpPrV8TTHIHiRBiMSXVA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1)...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on February 03, 2016, 11:37:32 AM
Mmmmmmmm...beer (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6062003,-72.2632544,3a,75y,15.87h,79.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjsqpPrV8TTHIHiRBiMSXVA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1)...

They need a state blue tourist sign pointing you to it though!  https://goo.gl/maps/3pXkDHL27JU2
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on February 03, 2016, 12:08:10 PM
They need a state blue tourist sign pointing you to it though!  https://goo.gl/maps/3pXkDHL27JU2

What are the green things to the left of the beer mug?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TravelingBethelite on February 10, 2016, 03:30:22 PM
What IS this?

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1725458,-103.6490595,3a,75y,194.16h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s41AG7zAUqr83PZyHW0cMpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1725458,-103.6490595,3a,75y,194.16h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s41AG7zAUqr83PZyHW0cMpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1)  :wow: :confused: :no:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on February 10, 2016, 03:54:42 PM
They need a state blue tourist sign pointing you to it though!  https://goo.gl/maps/3pXkDHL27JU2

What are the green things to the left of the beer mug?


I'm guessing hops or something.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on February 10, 2016, 04:27:19 PM
What IS this?

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1725458,-103.6490595,3a,75y,194.16h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s41AG7zAUqr83PZyHW0cMpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1725458,-103.6490595,3a,75y,194.16h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s41AG7zAUqr83PZyHW0cMpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1)  :wow: :confused: :no:
I think that part was filmed late at night and for some reason the driver didn't turn on their headlights.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on February 10, 2016, 04:32:54 PM
What IS this?

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1725458,-103.6490595,3a,75y,194.16h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s41AG7zAUqr83PZyHW0cMpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1725458,-103.6490595,3a,75y,194.16h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s41AG7zAUqr83PZyHW0cMpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1)  :wow: :confused: :no:

I've seen that quite a bit.

What IS this?

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1725458,-103.6490595,3a,75y,194.16h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s41AG7zAUqr83PZyHW0cMpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1725458,-103.6490595,3a,75y,194.16h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s41AG7zAUqr83PZyHW0cMpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1)  :wow: :confused: :no:
I think that part was filmed late at night and for some reason the driver didn't turn on their headlights.

I always thought it was because there is a cap (or sheet) covering the camera or something.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 16, 2016, 02:50:53 PM
Street view, on water!
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5659631,-73.7522737,3a,66.8y,0.28h,77.97t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sipumYq9EpkG9JLYIYB0tZA!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on February 16, 2016, 02:54:12 PM
Street view, on water!
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5659631,-73.7522737,3a,66.8y,0.28h,77.97t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sipumYq9EpkG9JLYIYB0tZA!2e0

Speaking of that, I found this last night (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.784977,-73.6775591,3a,41y,-2.17h,87.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sRcQrVKtTzLuUr8RDhr-2jg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DRcQrVKtTzLuUr8RDhr-2jg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D49.871258%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656). The old sign was button copy.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on February 17, 2016, 05:35:11 PM
Street view, on water!
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5659631,-73.7522737,3a,66.8y,0.28h,77.97t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sipumYq9EpkG9JLYIYB0tZA!2e0

So the Port Authority (likely) raised a stink about GSV getting shots on the the GWB but now there's high-definition pics of the underside of it (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8516,-73.9542229,3a,79.3y,349.08h,122.4t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sfDhwerlqVU0r6ETVzW5FQA!2e0)... (plus some pics of the most famous nuclear plant built over an undetected fault line (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2721697,-73.9628876,3a,79.3y,107.56h,84.71t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCiytsTMDiJlDJXNgfG72vw!2e0))
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on February 18, 2016, 05:22:22 PM
That's a lot of Google car... (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6710616,-63.5022771,3a,90y,260.93h,68.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQBN5esQn3DmcKIvq63u7ng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
...And evidently nothing holding the camera up... (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6710616,-63.5022771,3a,90y,346.36h,1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQBN5esQn3DmcKIvq63u7ng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NJRoadfan on February 19, 2016, 03:40:43 PM
Multi-car accident on NJ-18: https://goo.gl/maps/z7qwiAJCSAp
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: briantroutman on February 23, 2016, 02:27:57 AM
Cars driving through floodwater on I-70 in New Stanton: https://goo.gl/maps/YBsYnuHCEas
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 23, 2016, 12:05:52 PM
Cars driving through floodwater on I-70 in New Stanton: https://goo.gl/maps/YBsYnuHCEas
What happened here? :confused:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2190555,-79.6031943,3a,66.8y,298.1h,70.3t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s5atkoOGVWKy4UuSUumAU7g!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on February 23, 2016, 12:42:38 PM
Cars driving through floodwater on I-70 in New Stanton: https://goo.gl/maps/YBsYnuHCEas

Kinda deep for a car.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on February 23, 2016, 06:51:56 PM
How many oxen were lost when the street view car decided to ford that stream?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on February 25, 2016, 12:42:38 AM
How many oxen were lost when the street view car decided to ford that stream?

Don't know, all the drivers died of dysentery (or "dentistry" as I called it when I played that game).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on February 25, 2016, 06:20:09 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9775464,-93.2451255,3a,75y,326.77h,104.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1u6HSABfj1jKQwhTdncgpw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664!6m1!1e1

I'm not gonna explain, you can figure it out by yourselves.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on February 26, 2016, 08:40:41 AM
I was poking around GSV before class and noticed that somebody put my building lobby on GSV (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7297583,-73.6799694,3a,75y,171.91h,84.56t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-bAwOt-_MVJc%2FVswAKvjpZbI%2FAAAAAAAA6Z8%2Fg7UDJ7sjLG4!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-bAwOt-_MVJc%2FVswAKvjpZbI%2FAAAAAAAA6Z8%2Fg7UDJ7sjLG4%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i8704!8i4352). Actually, the entire campus is on GSV. That's what happens at an engineering school where everyone is a nerd, I guess.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: spooky on February 26, 2016, 08:52:58 AM
I was poking around GSV before class and noticed that somebody put my building lobby on GSV (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7297583,-73.6799694,3a,75y,171.91h,84.56t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-bAwOt-_MVJc%2FVswAKvjpZbI%2FAAAAAAAA6Z8%2Fg7UDJ7sjLG4!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-bAwOt-_MVJc%2FVswAKvjpZbI%2FAAAAAAAA6Z8%2Fg7UDJ7sjLG4%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i8704!8i4352). Actually, the entire campus is on GSV. That's what happens at an engineering school where everyone is a nerd, I guess.

I see that it is largely unchanged in the 20 years since I was last in that building.

Check that - I attended a hockey game within the last 10 years where we did some post-game late night urban spelunking and may have ended up in the basement of that building.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on February 26, 2016, 09:01:36 AM
I was poking around GSV before class and noticed that somebody put my building lobby on GSV (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7297583,-73.6799694,3a,75y,171.91h,84.56t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-bAwOt-_MVJc%2FVswAKvjpZbI%2FAAAAAAAA6Z8%2Fg7UDJ7sjLG4!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-bAwOt-_MVJc%2FVswAKvjpZbI%2FAAAAAAAA6Z8%2Fg7UDJ7sjLG4%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i8704!8i4352). Actually, the entire campus is on GSV. That's what happens at an engineering school where everyone is a nerd, I guess.

I see that it is largely unchanged in the 20 years since I was last in that building.

Check that - I attended a hockey game within the last 10 years where we did some post-game late night urban spelunking and may have ended up in the basement of that building.

The tunnels under here are some of the few steam tunnels that you get into legally. Connection to the science center is creepy as hell (especially the elevator in that tunnel), but it's great if I need to get to the student services building in the rain.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on February 28, 2016, 10:58:18 AM
This one here of nothing in Saratoga Springs, NY.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Saratoga+Springs,+NY/@43.075677,-73.7722975,3a,75y,32.03h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCcSUSklOQvqdicTvGBinlw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DCcSUSklOQvqdicTvGBinlw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D24.560886%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x89de384ec75bd439:0x641d456a1b94a2a8!6m1!1e1
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on February 28, 2016, 11:38:32 AM
This one here of nothing in Saratoga Springs, NY.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Saratoga+Springs,+NY/@43.075677,-73.7722975,3a,75y,32.03h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCcSUSklOQvqdicTvGBinlw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DCcSUSklOQvqdicTvGBinlw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D24.560886%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x89de384ec75bd439:0x641d456a1b94a2a8!6m1!1e1

There are a bunch of those in the area. Berkshire Spur on the WB side is mostly black as well. The Berkshire Spur and western Mass Pike have no good imagery and what exists is from 2007.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on February 28, 2016, 01:04:36 PM
I have seen some in black and white too and not just black.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 29, 2016, 01:25:51 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9775464,-93.2451255,3a,75y,326.77h,104.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1u6HSABfj1jKQwhTdncgpw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664!6m1!1e1

I'm not gonna explain, you can figure it out by yourselves.
Call me slow, but I can't seem to figure it out.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on February 29, 2016, 03:42:25 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9775464,-93.2451255,3a,75y,326.77h,104.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1u6HSABfj1jKQwhTdncgpw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664!6m1!1e1

I'm not gonna explain, you can figure it out by yourselves.
Call me slow, but I can't seem to figure it out.
It's the old I-35W bridge prior to the collapse. If you fast forward the image past 2007 you see the new bridge.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on February 29, 2016, 04:44:44 PM
So crazy that an old bridge shows up on an old photo. My mind is fucking blown!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on March 04, 2016, 08:42:01 PM
Found at the intersection of NY 66 and NY 295: the circus train (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3617917,-73.5968096,3a,75y,317.67h,89.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svdUxo8LymaT1NybAZVR8DQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on March 05, 2016, 11:17:11 AM
Found at the intersection of NY 66 and NY 295: the circus train (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3617917,-73.5968096,3a,75y,317.67h,89.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svdUxo8LymaT1NybAZVR8DQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664).
On the topic of trains, street view caught their first heritage unit back in 2012, a few months after NS put theirs into service:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.94227,-81.074674,3a,15y,225.03h,89.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGEY2SLSv_0n9cn2-27C4sw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on March 05, 2016, 01:13:19 PM
What in the world?
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8263437,-84.937646,3a,75y,194.01h,86.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swvcs74N8TLSC8cxnhZ2xwQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on March 05, 2016, 01:38:27 PM
What in the world?
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8263437,-84.937646,3a,75y,194.01h,86.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swvcs74N8TLSC8cxnhZ2xwQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Pretty sure that's a glitch that happens on cameras. Colors distort or discolored pixels appear. Correct if wrong.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on March 05, 2016, 10:49:12 PM
The middle schooler in me giggles at this street name (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8870726,-73.769276,3a,49.5y,213.65h,82.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_QMXPc-9O8wfeJ5vLunSAQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on March 06, 2016, 12:09:43 AM
The middle schooler in me giggles at this street name (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8870726,-73.769276,3a,49.5y,213.65h,82.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_QMXPc-9O8wfeJ5vLunSAQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on March 14, 2016, 02:29:14 PM
What the... (https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3106942,-2.0595813,3a,66.8y,22.06h,84.4t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s3Yh3OXF9n57Pkz0Cx5_kuA!2e0) That was back in 2008, imagery from September 2014 (confirmed by my various visits there) shows this entrance was rebuilt. Further down the street there's something unknown in the USA.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on April 05, 2016, 03:00:43 PM
According to the Photosphere, this was taken in 1970....I know this wasn't here in 1970.

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7513708,-97.082205,3a,73y,277.96h,109.6t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-1Xr5d8IHcEE%2FUV8CcN-rxrI%2FAAAAAAABftI%2FEQt5jCDS7DQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-1Xr5d8IHcEE%2FUV8CcN-rxrI%2FAAAAAAABftI%2FEQt5jCDS7DQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i4000!8i2000

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on April 05, 2016, 03:14:49 PM
According to the Photosphere, this was taking in 1970....I know this wasn't here in 1970.

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7513708,-97.082205,3a,73y,277.96h,109.6t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-1Xr5d8IHcEE%2FUV8CcN-rxrI%2FAAAAAAABftI%2FEQt5jCDS7DQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-1Xr5d8IHcEE%2FUV8CcN-rxrI%2FAAAAAAABftI%2FEQt5jCDS7DQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i4000!8i2000

January 1970 is the default date for photos.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on April 05, 2016, 03:15:49 PM
According to the Photosphere, this was taking in 1970....I know this wasn't here in 1970.

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7513708,-97.082205,3a,73y,277.96h,109.6t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-1Xr5d8IHcEE%2FUV8CcN-rxrI%2FAAAAAAABftI%2FEQt5jCDS7DQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-1Xr5d8IHcEE%2FUV8CcN-rxrI%2FAAAAAAABftI%2FEQt5jCDS7DQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i4000!8i2000

January 1970 is the default date for photos.

I kinda figured it was a default.  Still though it was amusing.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: paulthemapguy on April 05, 2016, 04:29:26 PM
Oh man I just found this and hoped there would be a thread here for crazy stuff in GSV.  The forum delivered.
And now this! https://goo.gl/maps/7LjVJC7c3N72
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on April 05, 2016, 08:32:52 PM
Oh man I just found this and hoped there would be a thread here for crazy stuff in GSV.  The forum delivered.
And now this! https://goo.gl/maps/7LjVJC7c3N72
The amusing thing isn't the sign, it's the fact that they flipped a "W" upside down. Clever, but can someone also call Will Swith for the other type of cookie?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Big John on April 05, 2016, 08:35:33 PM
Oh man I just found this and hoped there would be a thread here for crazy stuff in GSV.  The forum delivered.
And now this! https://goo.gl/maps/7LjVJC7c3N72
The amusing thing isn't the sign, it's the fact that they flipped a "W" upside down. Clever, but can someone also call Will Swith for the other type of cookie?
and the M is flipped upside down 3 times.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: wxfree on April 06, 2016, 08:41:36 AM
In the "not crazy, but notable" column, I've found that Street View includes some hiking trails.  I'm referring to step-by-step progressive imagery, not single-point photographs.  In Texas, I've found this in the Guadalupe Mountains and Big Bend National Parks and in the Enchanted Rock, Palo Duro Canyon, and Caprock Canyons State Parks.

Here's the view from Guadalupe Peak.  It goes further west toward the escarpment.  For some reason, part of the trail just below the peak isn't there, but it shows up further down, near the campground trail.
https://goo.gl/maps/CoVSiZoVQZ92 (https://goo.gl/maps/CoVSiZoVQZ92)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 06, 2016, 12:13:10 PM
In the "not crazy, but notable" column, I've found that Street View includes some hiking trails.  I'm referring to step-by-step progressive imagery, not single-point photographs.  In Texas, I've found this in the Guadalupe Mountains and Big Bend National Parks and in the Enchanted Rock, Palo Duro Canyon, and Caprock Canyons State Parks.

Here's the view from Guadalupe Peak.  It goes further west toward the escarpment.  For some reason, part of the trail just below the peak isn't there, but it shows up further down, near the campground trail.
https://goo.gl/maps/CoVSiZoVQZ92 (https://goo.gl/maps/CoVSiZoVQZ92)
Yep. They've done it in the Grand Canyon too. What Google does is pay some guy to carry the Google Street View camera and related equipment on his back in a backpack: https://www.google.com/maps/streetview/understand/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 41 on April 06, 2016, 11:37:49 PM
In the "not crazy, but notable" column, I've found that Street View includes some hiking trails.  I'm referring to step-by-step progressive imagery, not single-point photographs.  In Texas, I've found this in the Big Bend National Park.

The Big Bend Nat'l Park is my favorite national park that I've visited. I've hiked some of the trails captured on street view. I love hiking in the canyons and seeing all the desert scenery. When I was there in February it appeared that there had been a wildfire of some sort southeast of Panther Junction based on all the burnt up cacti.

The coolest part of the park is that you can cross over into Mexico. I was surprised that my guide from Boquillas that I had back in February remembered me when I came back. It makes me wonder if Boquillas gets very many visitors. I've heard that the BBNP only gets 300K visitors per year and I can imagine that very few of those visitors cross over into Mexico.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: wxfree on April 07, 2016, 12:29:58 AM
In the "not crazy, but notable" column, I've found that Street View includes some hiking trails.  I'm referring to step-by-step progressive imagery, not single-point photographs.  In Texas, I've found this in the Big Bend National Park.

The Big Bend Nat'l Park is my favorite national park that I've visited. I've hiked some of the trails captured on street view. I love hiking in the canyons and seeing all the desert scenery. When I was there in February it appeared that there had been a wildfire of some sort southeast of Panther Junction based on all the burnt up cacti.

The coolest part of the park is that you can cross over into Mexico. I was surprised that my guide from Boquillas that I had back in February remembered me when I came back. It makes me wonder if Boquillas gets very many visitors. I've heard that the BBNP only gets 300K visitors per year and I can imagine that very few of those visitors cross over into Mexico.

I love the Big Bend.  I wonder how much Google's equipment weighs, because it would be really fun to hike much of the park with it and brag about getting the imagery.  If it's legal, I'd also take it to Boquillas.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 07, 2016, 10:59:52 AM
Speaking of Google Trekkers, here's one on Google Street View:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8263576,-122.4220995,3a,45.3y,167.3h,74.18t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sTXd_7mkEcgsN9yGGWzAYpg!2e0
And here's the equipment without anyone wearing it:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8263131,-122.42214,3a,29.6y,100.17h,63.54t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sDxzRhg1uXNkgBpDd_o--pg!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: bandit957 on April 08, 2016, 12:13:41 AM
At 11th & Russell in Covington KY, there's a guy riding a bike with his BUTT HANGING OUT...

https://goo.gl/maps/nAGGGT8JPUq
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on April 18, 2016, 12:01:22 AM
How about a town being destroyed:

June 2013:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture3_zps5p07itt6.jpg)

July 2015:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture4_zpsa4uhmagw.jpg)

It was caused by an explosion of a passing train carrying petroleum. The Streetview car showed the former downtown is closed to the public, as of that image date.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Pete from Boston on April 18, 2016, 07:57:34 AM
How about a town being destroyed:

June 2013:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture3_zps5p07itt6.jpg)

July 2015:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture4_zpsa4uhmagw.jpg)

It was caused by an explosion of a passing train carrying petroleum. The Streetview car showed the former downtown is closed to the public, as of that image date.

Wow.  I've been there since the explosion but the before and after is really chilling.  47 people in the "before" buildings died horrific deaths. 

There was a cleared part (destroyed in the explosion and fire) and an intact part when I was there in 2014.  The intact part was frozen in time, like people were there yesterday.  I believe that part had to be demolished anyway because contaminated soil had to be removed to a great depth.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: paulthemapguy on April 18, 2016, 09:37:33 AM
If you want to talk about towns being destroyed, take a look around the southern half of Joplin, Missouri, which was destroyed by a behemoth of a tornado (EF5, as high as the scale goes) in May 2011.  At this particular location, GSV shows October 2007 and June 2012.  I stopped there on a road trip in May 2012, a year after the storm, to see how the town was rebuilding.  I saw scenes a lot like the June 2012 imagery you see on GSV... Look at Oct 2007 and compare it with Jun 2012
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.0660922,-94.4879564,3a,75y,102.14h,84.33t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6X1ovr-bXArZZYYQa9nN9Q!2e0!5s20120601T000000!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on April 18, 2016, 01:07:44 PM
How about a town being destroyed:

June 2013:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture3_zps5p07itt6.jpg)

July 2015:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture4_zpsa4uhmagw.jpg)

It was caused by an explosion of a passing train carrying petroleum. The Streetview car showed the former downtown is closed to the public, as of that image date.

Wow.  I've been there since the explosion but the before and after is really chilling.  47 people in the "before" buildings died horrific deaths. 

There was a cleared part (destroyed in the explosion and fire) and an intact part when I was there in 2014.  The intact part was frozen in time, like people were there yesterday.  I believe that part had to be demolished anyway because contaminated soil had to be removed to a great depth.

Yeah, the entire downtown area had to be torn down due to soil contamination. Some parts of the area will take several years to clean. Some places may never be safe to build on again. Quite horrific that such a tragedy could happen in this day and age.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 18, 2016, 01:36:12 PM
How about a town being destroyed:

June 2013:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture3_zps5p07itt6.jpg)

July 2015:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture4_zpsa4uhmagw.jpg)

It was caused by an explosion of a passing train carrying petroleum. The Streetview car showed the former downtown is closed to the public, as of that image date.
Funnily enough, I had just recently posted about that on another forum I'm part of a few days ago (though I'm linking one of the responses to the post I had made, since the post I had made contained a lot of links to other areas):
http://rxrsignals.com/Phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=203&start=1320#p21052
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Pete from Boston on April 19, 2016, 12:08:18 PM
To put the impact of this event in context, a study of local residents a year later found that 54% suffered from conditions like depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Residents were also found to be four times more likely to drink to excess.

44 buildings were destroyed, 169 people made homeless.  27 children lost one or both parents.

Just awful.

I was there the day the new replacement supermarket opened, shortly after the new bridge opened that relieved a 12.5-km detour to cross the town.  So there's progress.

Beautiful area.  Go spend some money there if you have the chance.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on April 19, 2016, 12:36:07 PM
I want to get up there. Part of my mother's family is from the area. I just don't speak French.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on April 19, 2016, 01:11:55 PM
If you want to talk about towns being destroyed, take a look around the southern half of Joplin, Missouri, which was destroyed by a behemoth of a tornado (EF5, as high as the scale goes) in May 2011.  At this particular location, GSV shows October 2007 and June 2012.  I stopped there on a road trip in May 2012, a year after the storm, to see how the town was rebuilding.  I saw scenes a lot like the June 2012 imagery you see on GSV... Look at Oct 2007 and compare it with Jun 2012
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.0660922,-94.4879564,3a,75y,102.14h,84.33t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6X1ovr-bXArZZYYQa9nN9Q!2e0!5s20120601T000000!7i13312!8i6656

Wow.  I had to go back and forth a few times just to be convinced they were from the same spot.  Turn the camera around 180' or so and you'll still find a garage with a red X on it and numbers spray-painted on the house.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on April 20, 2016, 03:02:15 AM
How about a town being destroyed:

June 2013:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture3_zps5p07itt6.jpg)

July 2015:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture4_zpsa4uhmagw.jpg)

It was caused by an explosion of a passing train carrying petroleum. The Streetview car showed the former downtown is closed to the public, as of that image date.

Wow.  I've been there since the explosion but the before and after is really chilling.  47 people in the "before" buildings died horrific deaths. 

There was a cleared part (destroyed in the explosion and fire) and an intact part when I was there in 2014.  The intact part was frozen in time, like people were there yesterday.  I believe that part had to be demolished anyway because contaminated soil had to be removed to a great depth.

I think the most chilling part of this is that the town is gone, yet the railroad remains.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 20, 2016, 11:48:42 AM
How about a town being destroyed:

June 2013:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture3_zps5p07itt6.jpg)

July 2015:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture4_zpsa4uhmagw.jpg)

It was caused by an explosion of a passing train carrying petroleum. The Streetview car showed the former downtown is closed to the public, as of that image date.

Wow.  I've been there since the explosion but the before and after is really chilling.  47 people in the "before" buildings died horrific deaths. 

There was a cleared part (destroyed in the explosion and fire) and an intact part when I was there in 2014.  The intact part was frozen in time, like people were there yesterday.  I believe that part had to be demolished anyway because contaminated soil had to be removed to a great depth.

I think the most chilling part of this is that the town is gone, yet the railroad remains.
Well the Maine, Montreal, & Atlantic was shut down as a result of the explosion, though a new railroad took over the operations of their lines.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on April 20, 2016, 11:53:39 AM
How about a town being destroyed:

June 2013:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture3_zps5p07itt6.jpg)

July 2015:
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/slik_sh00ter/Capture4_zpsa4uhmagw.jpg)

It was caused by an explosion of a passing train carrying petroleum. The Streetview car showed the former downtown is closed to the public, as of that image date.

Wow.  I've been there since the explosion but the before and after is really chilling.  47 people in the "before" buildings died horrific deaths. 

There was a cleared part (destroyed in the explosion and fire) and an intact part when I was there in 2014.  The intact part was frozen in time, like people were there yesterday.  I believe that part had to be demolished anyway because contaminated soil had to be removed to a great depth.

I think the most chilling part of this is that the town is gone, yet the railroad remains.
Well the Maine, Montreal, & Atlantic was shut down as a result of the explosion, though a new railroad took over the operations of their lines.

It does appear two rail lines that broke off from the main line in the grassy field were completely removed though.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Pete from Boston on April 20, 2016, 12:04:29 PM
The tracks had to be rebuilt like everything else. As for speaking French, I don't speak French, but can fake a few phrases. You'll get along OK.  Go to the top of Mont Mégantic while you're there.  Lovely people, lovely area.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 21, 2016, 01:29:08 PM
Ski slope coverage at Monarch Mountain, Colorado (https://goo.gl/maps/PFqYUEeJ7W42)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on April 21, 2016, 02:29:32 PM
Ski slope coverage at Monarch Mountain, Colorado (https://goo.gl/maps/PFqYUEeJ7W42)

Wow, I want a job where I get paid to ski with a camera.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on April 21, 2016, 03:32:44 PM
Ski slope coverage at Monarch Mountain, Colorado (https://goo.gl/maps/PFqYUEeJ7W42)

At first glance I didn't get what you meant. There are a couple ski stations in my area covered by Street Ski Slope View: https://www.google.es/maps/@42.7884339,-0.5282,13z (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.7884339,-0.5282,13z). Good luck trying to stay out of the tunnel...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 21, 2016, 03:37:33 PM
Ski slope coverage at Monarch Mountain, Colorado (https://goo.gl/maps/PFqYUEeJ7W42)
Looks like they took a snow mobile down the slopes.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 25, 2016, 02:15:25 PM
Someone clearly didn't pay attention:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2074889,-74.7641484,3a,66.8y,1.01h,71.27t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s6HCnOSIyfFN0vQg_ss4JJw!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on April 25, 2016, 05:48:52 PM
Or they just don't care.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on April 25, 2016, 06:03:46 PM
It's Trenton. He gets a B+ for atleast crossing at an intersection.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Zeffy on April 25, 2016, 07:29:57 PM
It's Trenton. He gets a B+ for atleast crossing at an intersection.

At least he is along the STOP bar. But given that it's Trenton, yeah, it would be great if this was the only kind of thing you see daily.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: pumpkineater2 on May 29, 2016, 05:33:53 PM
I found a pretty bad looking crash on I-8 in California. It appears that the google car drove by while the victims were being pulled out of the car. I don't see any other cars that look like they were involved, and I think the car probably rolled many times. Interesting.
https://goo.gl/maps/2Q4vjb7xMrL2 (https://goo.gl/maps/2Q4vjb7xMrL2)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 31, 2016, 04:26:39 PM
This didn't end well.
(http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i410/kphoger/burnt_zps0mcg71a0.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on May 31, 2016, 05:19:06 PM
One wouldn't expect an ad like this one (https://www.google.es/maps/@40.4114006,-3.6691075,3a,18.9y,198.82h,90.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3hAqxaTATyYkGtj4R5yBZA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) that was there in January 2014 and was moved to another billboard down the street soon afterwards. It says "I'm Idaira, I'm 19 months old and I'm dying". Not to mention the little girl, who is currently 3 years old and suffers from spinal muscular atrophy, is still alive agaisnt all odds.

And unfortunately died last Saturday aged 4 :-(. Still, the most unexpected 'ad' ever. I have to search again that WTF situation I once found on C-32 tollway Northeast of Barcelona, Spain.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vtk on June 23, 2016, 01:07:58 PM
Pegman is wearing a rainbow cape today.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on June 23, 2016, 04:51:55 PM
Yeah. I missed it since I use the basic version of Google Maps, and I've gone from near Madrid to Zaragoza without touching A-2 at all in Street View today. The complete version stops working properly on my computer after a few steps in Street View.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on July 02, 2016, 05:00:52 PM
Not Street View but in a Google Maps/Earth satellite update in my area, I think I spotted me (the orangeish dot in the center of the screen, may need to turn 3D off):

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2565033,-74.6237872,20z/data=!3m1!1e3

The date matches the day I did a ride up to Kingwood, NJ and cars in nearby church parking lots indicate that the picture was taken around 9 AM so the timing makes sense (only about 7 miles into my ride). Unfortunately one of my coworkers beat me to an appearance in Google as she, her husband, and daughter were captured in Street View walking around Baltimore during one of their vacations.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 41 on July 03, 2016, 12:27:02 PM
Yeah. I missed it since I use the basic version of Google Maps, and I've gone from near Madrid to Zaragoza without touching A-2 at all in Street View today. The complete version stops working properly on my computer after a few steps in Street View.

Interesting. I traveled all of A2 from Madrid to Zaragoza about 3 months ago on GSV.

I took a high speed train from Madrid to Barcelona a little over 2 years ago (in real life  :D). I wish we (group trip) had taken the highway instead.

I almost starved in Spain that week as well. Thank God McDonalds and Burger King were close by. I was expecting the food to be "Mexican like" and it definitely is not. Lemonade, which is my favorite American drink, seemed to be non existent in Spain, so I settled for Coca Cola.

Overall though I had a good time in Spain. If I ever went back I'd probably rent a car for 2 weeks and drive all over Spain. I probably never will go back because the plane ride is just too long for me. My goal is to never fly again, so I think I'll just stick with Canada and Mexico :sombrero:.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on July 03, 2016, 06:00:18 PM
Then you should have passed by some interesting features on the way, like that section where space is distorted and things are closer than usual (Or at least the kmposts are closer than they should be). Or Ariza, a town that got stuck in my mind because of the exact same reason as the number 41, damn Pearson.
Not Street View but in a Google Maps/Earth satellite update in my area, I think I spotted me (the orangeish dot in the center of the screen, may need to turn 3D off):

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2565033,-74.6237872,20z/data=!3m1!1e3

The date matches the day I did a ride up to Kingwood, NJ and cars in nearby church parking lots indicate that the picture was taken around 9 AM so the timing makes sense (only about 7 miles into my ride). Unfortunately one of my coworkers beat me to an appearance in Google as she, her husband, and daughter were captured in Street View walking around Baltimore during one of their vacations.

I may also be on the satellite imagery, as they caught my orchard with some cars parked in it a couple years ago.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: slorydn1 on July 05, 2016, 01:56:34 AM
It's funny, talking about being caught on Street View or satellite imagery. Street view never caught me at my house or my job. In fact, the only vehicle at my house when Google came down my street was my little brother's car-and he lives 820 miles away in in Lehigh Acres, FL.

Looking at satellite imagery at my house, I think I may have found my wife's car sitting in the driveway, or it could just be a shadow from the tree, its really hard to tell. The last version of imagery they had which was a few years old for my area my old truck could be plainly seen in the driveway, hard to miss that burgundy beast sitting on the left side of the driveway out in the sun. But this latest version just doesn't have the clarity for me to discern the difference between a dark blue car or a blk shadow on the white concrete.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on July 05, 2016, 05:26:52 AM
Sometimes one can know in which direction the Google car was traveling, because the view forwards is fine, but the one backwards, on the other hand (https://www.google.es/maps/@44.2282527,10.7719084,3a,66.8y,172.97h,85.85t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sGRDNQTX8rntYsi6mZAhYZA!2e0)... I found this as I follow the route of this year's Giro d'Italia, I had to go for a while towards the crap imagery.

Edit: I thought it could not be worse. I was wrong (https://www.google.es/maps/@44.6985766,11.0541016,3a,55.4y,23.36h,91.26t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1suuINwiHKZHATIzT5mcMcuQ!2e0) :ded:.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on July 12, 2016, 01:40:26 AM
Glitched Google Street View makes for good nightmare fuel. (https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.3088725,149.1024259,3a,75y,108.98h,91.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snkkAi_ValMVexJfjI4HQrg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on July 12, 2016, 01:48:40 PM
Is it just me or does the rail crossing in the 2015 imagery look like a Confederate flag?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on July 12, 2016, 02:45:14 PM
Is it just me or does the rail crossing in the 2015 imagery look like a Confederate flag?
It's how Australia does their one-piece crossbucks. IDK why.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 41 on July 12, 2016, 09:58:41 PM
Not really crazy, but it's pretty awesome. An army semi truck in camo.

(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13606603_154198134989054_2559439720622652816_n.jpg?oh=ca553412802deb722c718cb60b92f282&oe=5827FEEC)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on July 17, 2016, 12:18:14 AM
Found this today. Have to wonder what happened:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7098426,-86.0522521,3a,15y,329.96h,90.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st-0HqIv8VzwLb0Rb6sd2Yw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Also, here's a crossing signal that got knocked over:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6553109,-85.9684757,3a,20.3y,8.25h,77.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZpvjjq1VloEHir6r1Ed5HQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6554262,-85.9683548,3a,46.6y,263.38h,75.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMaPltcYjHW63hle-4x8UcQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on July 17, 2016, 12:06:11 PM
Not really crazy, but it's pretty awesome. An army semi truck in camo.

(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13606603_154198134989054_2559439720622652816_n.jpg?oh=ca553412802deb722c718cb60b92f282&oe=5827FEEC)

What the driver was thinking:
It's Trenton. He gets a B+ for atleast crossing at an intersection.

At least he is along the STOP bar. But given that it's Trenton, yeah, it would be great if this was the only kind of thing you see daily.

Reminds me of what I saw when I had jury duty, at least it's captured for all to see, courtesy of the county workers: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2157354,-74.7620885,3a,36.8y,254.23h,89.62t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1saATkKEm5EnPtZlhU5a_oiQ!2e0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on July 18, 2016, 09:00:49 AM
Also, here's a crossing signal that got knocked over:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6553109,-85.9684757,3a,20.3y,8.25h,77.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZpvjjq1VloEHir6r1Ed5HQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6554262,-85.9683548,3a,46.6y,263.38h,75.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMaPltcYjHW63hle-4x8UcQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

And the signal appears to be activated; I assume that's a failover mode because of the damage?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: catch22 on July 18, 2016, 12:16:41 PM
Also, here's a crossing signal that got knocked over:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6553109,-85.9684757,3a,20.3y,8.25h,77.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZpvjjq1VloEHir6r1Ed5HQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6554262,-85.9683548,3a,46.6y,263.38h,75.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMaPltcYjHW63hle-4x8UcQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

And the signal appears to be activated; I assume that's a failover mode because of the damage?

The signal cabinet door is open, and the maintainer is walking from there towards the damage ... I would guess he's activated the signal manually and is walking over to assess the damage.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on July 18, 2016, 01:07:19 PM
Also, here's a crossing signal that got knocked over:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6553109,-85.9684757,3a,20.3y,8.25h,77.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZpvjjq1VloEHir6r1Ed5HQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6554262,-85.9683548,3a,46.6y,263.38h,75.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMaPltcYjHW63hle-4x8UcQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

And the signal appears to be activated; I assume that's a failover mode because of the damage?

The signal cabinet door is open, and the maintainer is walking from there towards the damage ... I would guess he's activated the signal manually and is walking over to assess the damage.

I noticed that when I was looking around there. I'm thinking that the maintainer manually activated the crossing as well, probably to see if anything on the knocked over signal was working.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on July 28, 2016, 02:23:44 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Admin note: NSFW!!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 41 on July 28, 2016, 02:27:47 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

 :wow:

I'm surprised that hasn't photo hasn't been removed from Google Maps yet. Definitely wasn't expecting to see that.  :bigass:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on July 29, 2016, 11:19:25 AM
Egads.  NSFW.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on July 29, 2016, 12:36:47 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Geez, is EVERYONE glued to their phones nowadays!?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 41 on July 29, 2016, 01:12:02 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Geez, is EVERYONE glued to their phones nowadays!?

I'm not. I have a Tracfone in my car that stays in my car. I only use it for road trips to make phone calls back home and if I ever broke down I could also call roadside assistance. It's not uncommon for me to go several days without checking my cell phone.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on July 29, 2016, 02:25:42 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Geez, is EVERYONE glued to their phones nowadays!?
Yep. Even me (sometimes). Also this should be labeled NSFW, considering my age...but whatever, I don't care.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on July 29, 2016, 09:57:26 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Geez, is EVERYONE glued to their phones nowadays!?
Well, it looks like they're resting at the moment, so it's make sense for them to be on their phones. Especially since they wouldn't be doing anything else.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on July 29, 2016, 11:10:41 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Geez, is EVERYONE glued to their phones nowadays!?
Yep. Even me (sometimes). Also this should be labeled NSFW, considering my age...but whatever, I don't care.

It's not NSFW in Greece. (Nor in New York, for that matter.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on July 30, 2016, 03:14:51 AM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Geez, is EVERYONE glued to their phones nowadays!?

No.  My phone just does voice and text, so there's no temptation to be glued to it for social media.  However, reception is good in marginal areas, so it's more likely to be useful if there's an incident while I'm out in the wilderness hiking.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on July 30, 2016, 06:18:36 AM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Geez, is EVERYONE glued to their phones nowadays!?
Well, it looks like they're resting at the moment, so it's make sense for them to be on their phones. Especially since they wouldn't be doing anything else.

Dude, did you pan around? If I were in that beautiful setting on a relaxing vacation, screw surfing the web!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on July 30, 2016, 09:41:09 AM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Geez, is EVERYONE glued to their phones nowadays!?
Well, it looks like they're resting at the moment, so it's make sense for them to be on their phones. Especially since they wouldn't be doing anything else.

Dude, did you pan around? If I were in that beautiful setting on a relaxing vacation, screw surfing the web!

A month ago, my family and I were at the beach, and I swear at least half of the people were on their phones. It's really sad when you see a family or group of friends and instead of talking to each other, their all looking at their phones :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on July 30, 2016, 02:36:50 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Geez, is EVERYONE glued to their phones nowadays!?
Well, it looks like they're resting at the moment, so it's make sense for them to be on their phones. Especially since they wouldn't be doing anything else.

Dude, did you pan around? If I were in that beautiful setting on a relaxing vacation, screw surfing the web!
lol. Two people surfing the web. In Atlantic City NJ, nobody was ever surfing the web. How things change in just one year.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: briantroutman on July 30, 2016, 03:09:48 PM
I loathe the “perpetually staring at phone”  culture as much as anyone else (and have complained to that effect in other posts on this forum), but I do have to say one thing in defense of the smartphone. Using one’s phone is not an activity in and of itself. You merely use the phone as a gateway to engage in other activities.

The beach-going phone gazer might be reading a novel–a time-honored seaside pastime–albeit in e-book form. Sure, she might not be reading Jane Eyre and could be wasting time on some horrid clickbait tripe (10 Shocking Things You Didn’t Know about Taylor Swift–#6 Will Make You Cry), but should could also be finding a restaurant for dinner that evening.

In other settings, a teenager of a few decades ago may have alternated between a paperback book, a radio, a magazine, a handheld game, an Instamatic camera, and a TV set. Today, all of those items could be replaced by one smartphone, and parents will wring their hands and whine about today’s kids “always being glued to a phone” . True, it would be impolite for them to be on their phones at a family meal and dangerous to use them while driving a car or walking down the street. But the mere fact that someone’s using a smartphone throughout the day is not a sign of cultural decay in itself. How its being used and how it fits into the person’s life and their interactions with others is more important.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: rickmastfan67 on August 02, 2016, 12:31:53 AM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Egads.  NSFW.

Agreed, this should have been marked as 'NSFW'.  I do have to remind EVERYBODY HERE, we do have some users under 18.  I've added the text to the original post.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on August 02, 2016, 01:46:37 AM
Also this should be labeled NSFW, considering my age...
Are there no child labor laws where you live?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on August 02, 2016, 06:26:03 AM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Egads.  NSFW.

Agreed, this should have been marked as 'NSFW'.  I do have to remind EVERYBODY HERE, we do have some users under 18.  I've added the text to the original post.

Not to mention users that may be using this forum on work computers, in public settings, etc...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on August 05, 2016, 06:18:32 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Egads.  NSFW.

Agreed, this should have been marked as 'NSFW'.  I do have to remind EVERYBODY HERE, we do have some users under 18.  I've added the text to the original post.

Not to mention users that may be using this forum on work computers, in public settings, etc...

Luckily no one was around when I opened this on my work computer :-D

I found this article that made me think of this thread.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/29/google-street-view-car-catches-itself-breaking-speed-limit/ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/29/google-street-view-car-catches-itself-breaking-speed-limit/)

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Google Street View car has captured itself speeding while driving down a quiet residential street in Glasgow.

The car appears to exceed the 30mph speed limit on St George's Road to the west of the city thanks to its own photograph of a speedometer reading 37mph shortly before it enters a 20mph zone.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/technology/2016/04/29/google-large_trans++jE4rHJRh55ptlvEMe93lY8GD6Khni0F2gT2FTu8BRhA.png)

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In August 2013 Police Scotland were called after someone spotted what appeared to be a murder on Edinburgh's Giles Street captured by Google Street View, complete with an  image of a man holding a pick axe handle standing over an apparently lifeless body.

Upon investigation they found mechanics Dan Thompson and Gary Kerr had staged the grisly scene after recognising the Google car all the way back in August 2012.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/technology/2016/04/29/GOOGLEMURDER_2928333b-large_trans++pJliwavx4coWFCaEkEsb3kvxIt-lGGWCWqwLa_RXJU8.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vtk on August 08, 2016, 08:30:48 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Admin note: NSFW!!

This should not be a big deal.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on August 08, 2016, 09:05:18 PM
While not Street View, but photosphere, and not crazy but completely awesome:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8783479,24.753754,3a,43.1y,28.85h,70.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-rp2WShnfhhg%2FVX6eFBqmQFI%2FAAAAAAAACdQ%2FQboC3jZzOA4UxXN3fNJhUpVRSct_uX6iQ%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i10240!8i5120

Admin note: NSFW!!

This should not be a big deal.

Not really, but it's still not appropriate here I would think. After all, we're here to talk about roads, not nudity (very easy to find that elsewhere). Not to play the role or anything but...

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Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on August 09, 2016, 04:24:39 AM
Not really, but it's still not appropriate here I would think. After all, we're here to talk about roads, not nudity (very easy to find that elsewhere). Not to play the role or anything but...

I don't think so. Then again, as a European I find the censorship of certain parts Americans do unnecessary, as I believe nudity doesn't necessarily mean pornography (I define the latter as the content that depicts sexual acts). In fact a few years ago we had a TV show were two naked subjects met in a beach. The show was a hit not because of nudity, but because of the ridiculous things they said.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on August 09, 2016, 12:36:16 PM
I posted this picture in the Roundabouts thread and jeffandnicole and kphoger pointed out that the one car is going the wrong way :wow: This roundabout is in Toledo, OH (Cherry St and W Manhattan Blvd): (https://www.google.ca/maps/@41.6848811,-83.5554986,19z)

(http://i.imgur.com/Pm3vklV.png)

An even better view, it doesn't look too good.

(http://i.imgur.com/jb8bEYR.png)

But it looks like the car stopped before causing an accident!

(http://i.imgur.com/NIEBQYE.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on August 09, 2016, 03:59:27 PM
Not really, but it's still not appropriate here I would think. After all, we're here to talk about roads, not nudity (very easy to find that elsewhere). Not to play the role or anything but...

I don't think so. Then again, as a European I find the censorship of certain parts Americans do unnecessary, as I believe nudity doesn't necessarily mean pornography (I define the latter as the content that depicts sexual acts). In fact a few years ago we had a TV show were two naked subjects met in a beach. The show was a hit not because of nudity, but because of the ridiculous things they said.
I think it's a cultural difference.  Americans tend to associate nudity exclusively with sex.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 09, 2016, 04:03:59 PM
Not really, but it's still not appropriate here I would think. After all, we're here to talk about roads, not nudity (very easy to find that elsewhere). Not to play the role or anything but...

I don't think so. Then again, as a European I find the censorship of certain parts Americans do unnecessary, as I believe nudity doesn't necessarily mean pornography (I define the latter as the content that depicts sexual acts). In fact a few years ago we had a TV show were two naked subjects met in a beach. The show was a hit not because of nudity, but because of the ridiculous things they said.
I think it's a cultural difference.  Americans tend to associate nudity exclusively with sex.

It's absolutely a cultural difference.

One day, when my boss was arguing that the female breast was a sexual organ, I asked if my wife was engaging in a sexual act with our baby every time she breastfed him.  That shut him up for sure.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KEVIN_224 on August 14, 2016, 11:48:30 PM
This...from Tyngsborough, MA:

https://goo.gl/maps/mdQJd1vZsrB2
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on August 19, 2016, 02:49:32 PM
The show was a hit not because of nudity, but because of the ridiculous things they said.

HA!

I only read the articles.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: wxfree on August 20, 2016, 01:21:48 AM
Here's some insight from a driver.  In common click-bait parlance, Number 4 is really interesting.  Number 4 and, to some extent, Number 3, are the only ones that are half-way on-topic, but I find Number 4 so interesting that I think it warrants mention on the forum.

According to the article, which areas are covered is up to the driver, who has to meet a quota.  They may choose a long straight drive, or may fill in the required data capture with minor streets and parking lots.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2334-the-5-weirdest-things-i-saw-driving-google-street-view.html (http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2334-the-5-weirdest-things-i-saw-driving-google-street-view.html)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: chays on August 23, 2016, 02:21:38 PM
Giant bear in a recliner: https://goo.gl/maps/AUjVJ1RpTqp
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on August 27, 2016, 06:19:41 PM
I swear this is not an indoor (https://www.google.es/maps/@40.360999,-3.5521116,3a,66.8y,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1szJwLr_FUq4wAAAQvOgF8xg!2e0), yet it is marked as such (orange circle). In Rivas Vaciamadrid, a suburb of (you guessed it) Madrid ES, there are four of them in the area.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on August 29, 2016, 10:19:51 PM
Count the number of Streetview cars in this hotel parking lot (including the one taking the picture):

https://goo.gl/maps/EUHpL5Kpr8M2
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on August 30, 2016, 01:39:58 PM
Don't Google Street View cars normally have a ton of Google Maps branding on them?  Just saw one today, and it definitely stood out for reasons not including the camera.

So check street view in a few months.  You might just find the NYSDOT parking lot in it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on August 30, 2016, 05:32:28 PM
I had not seen more that four Google Cars in a single shot before.

I remember in the first imagery they published of I-238 there was a huge tall thing near the I-580 interchange. I don't know what they were doing with that...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on August 30, 2016, 10:12:35 PM
Don't Google Street View cars normally have a ton of Google Maps branding on them?  Just saw one today, and it definitely stood out for reasons not including the camera.
Yes, but the ones in the link appear to have been the older ones before Google started putting their branding all over the cars. IIRC, they used to just have a magnet that said "Google Maps" or something like that on the sides.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on August 30, 2016, 10:39:22 PM
Don't Google Street View cars normally have a ton of Google Maps branding on them?  Just saw one today, and it definitely stood out for reasons not including the camera.
Yes, but the ones in the link appear to have been the older ones before Google started putting their branding all over the cars. IIRC, they used to just have a magnet that said "Google Maps" or something like that on the sides.

No, that's the Philly PD:
(http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/620*349/WCAU_000000015287769_1200x675_685495363864.jpg)
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Philadelphia-Police-Van-Disguised-as-Google-Maps-Vehicle-379418411.html (http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Philadelphia-Police-Van-Disguised-as-Google-Maps-Vehicle-379418411.html)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on August 31, 2016, 12:24:23 PM
Don't Google Street View cars normally have a ton of Google Maps branding on them?  Just saw one today, and it definitely stood out for reasons not including the camera.
Yes, but the ones in the link appear to have been the older ones before Google started putting their branding all over the cars. IIRC, they used to just have a magnet that said "Google Maps" or something like that on the sides.

No, that's the Philly PD:
(http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/620*349/WCAU_000000015287769_1200x675_685495363864.jpg)
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Philadelphia-Police-Van-Disguised-as-Google-Maps-Vehicle-379418411.html (http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Philadelphia-Police-Van-Disguised-as-Google-Maps-Vehicle-379418411.html)
Not just them. Here are some legitimate Street View cars that had just a "Google Maps" label on the sides, though from when they were gathering Street View up through 2010, it appears:
(http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/google-street-view-car.jpg)
Source for above. (https://www.fastcompany.com/1629408/google-street-view-knows-lot-about-you-your-id-safe)
(http://cdn.iphoneincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Google-Car.JPG)
Source for above. (http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/google-street-view-released-in-canada/)
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01376/googlecar_1376476c.jpg)
Source for above. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/5088509/Google-Street-View-cars-spotted-in-other-UK-cities.html)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KG909 on September 01, 2016, 10:46:12 PM
https://www.google.ca/maps/@40.237102,-74.799766,3a,15y,172.12h,81.28t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sOOieQaA8tKuhMGBMM3oaKQ!2e0!5s20110701T000000

Given the area this is in... I'm going to assume the gestures being made are not exactly friendly ones.
BLOOD GANG
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SSOWorld on September 05, 2016, 03:32:50 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/tBBUg5yTv1B2

2 to beam up.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on September 07, 2016, 01:43:22 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/tBBUg5yTv1B2

2 to beam up.

Wow, Google is so careful to blur anything that looks like a face, like the letters A and E, but they didn't blur those actual faces?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on September 07, 2016, 05:43:22 PM
Do they blur photo spheres?  I'm pretty sure those are user-uploaded, not done by Google.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on September 07, 2016, 07:37:30 PM
Do they blur photo spheres?  I'm pretty sure those are user-uploaded, not done by Google.

I don't think they blur faces on photo spheres, which is why you can see their faces here (I've seen many photo-spheres, given how much I love Google Maps!)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on September 15, 2016, 05:23:40 AM
It might be a good idea to post screenshots of anything really unusual that you find instead of just a link. Some of the images on previous pages (one of an accident, one of cars driving through flooding) have been taken down.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 41 on January 06, 2017, 04:32:33 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/Mv2iCNG1s272
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on January 06, 2017, 09:21:09 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/Mv2iCNG1s272
How does this fit the topic?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: rickmastfan67 on January 10, 2017, 05:52:48 AM
It's gone now, but the all-time greatest one was the one with the two guys swordfighting in Pittsburgh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000873/Google-Street-View-spots-Samurai-warriors-duelling-Pittsburgh.html

If you put it in the right spot, you can still see those guys:

http://goo.gl/maps/Gui45

Seems like Google has added the original surrounding images back.
https://goo.gl/maps/NNs1zVuph9D2
https://goo.gl/maps/WRwQydZhviS2
https://goo.gl/maps/znk282A1hoQ2
https://goo.gl/maps/heUkzSwgPEo

So, grab your screenshots while you can guys!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: doorknob60 on January 11, 2017, 06:24:59 PM
I found myself walking on the sidewalk. I remembered walking past the car (it was at a stoplight, so it only got one picture of me, my back) so a few weeks ago I looked in that spot and sure enough, there I was. Not going to post it, for obvious privacy reasons.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: froggie on January 15, 2017, 10:02:37 AM
Road related....a county work crew replacing a reassurance shield (https://www.google.com/maps/@47.8325376,-95.4273781,3a,75y,333.5h,65.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sE1up4u8TGa1CF9tpjwolLA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) in rural Minnesota.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on January 15, 2017, 05:14:44 PM
Also, Google has the whole town of Pripyat in GSV! Look! (https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4008074,30.0628769,3a,75y,284.34h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGCV4yjgvZcTrC9lz_WmG-Q!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DGCV4yjgvZcTrC9lz_WmG-Q%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D46.85688%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)

(I'm guessing the driver later died of radiation shortly after)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on January 15, 2017, 06:04:56 PM
(I'm guessing the driver later died of radiation shortly after)

Radiation levels are not that high, though I believe there is a recommendation for people visiting to not be in radioactive contact for more than a few hours (or a day?, something like that anyway).

In fact, there are still people who live within the exclusion zone permanently, though of course, that is not recommended:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/18/world/defying-radiation-elderly-residents-cling-on-in-chernobyl-exclusion-zone/#.WHv_3lUrLIU
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on January 16, 2017, 01:53:48 PM
I found myself walking on the sidewalk. I remembered walking past the car (it was at a stoplight, so it only got one picture of me, my back) so a few weeks ago I looked in that spot and sure enough, there I was. Not going to post it, for obvious privacy reasons.

Am I the only one to whom the privacy reasons are not obvious?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: doorknob60 on January 16, 2017, 02:19:39 PM
I found myself walking on the sidewalk. I remembered walking past the car (it was at a stoplight, so it only got one picture of me, my back) so a few weeks ago I looked in that spot and sure enough, there I was. Not going to post it, for obvious privacy reasons.

Am I the only one to whom the privacy reasons are not obvious?

Seems like a bad idea to link a picture of myself (with a location I might walk) to my semi-anonymous online avatar. I don't have any other pictures of myself publicly accessible online attached to this name (though plenty of other information), I don't need to add a final piece to the puzzle. A bit paranoid? Sure. But I'd rather not take the chance, once something's on the internet, it's there for good.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on January 16, 2017, 02:44:42 PM
Hmm.  I understand people not posting their exactly home location, but it was just hard to wrap my head around not wanting to people see where you were walking at an unknown time on an unknown date in a particular month.

(FWIW, where we live is generally a matter of public record, so I'm not all that concerned.  You can figure out my name from my username, and it's super easy to find out my address online.  The only possible issue I could see is that we often post on here when we're going on a trip, so  throwing our address out there ahead of time might be a bad idea.  However, we put ourselves at far more risk by posting pictures of our trips on Facebook, letting people who already know where we live learn firsthand that we're gone for the week.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: froggie on April 05, 2017, 03:00:49 PM
Dusting this thread off for an oddity I found today:

It appears that, this past October, one of the GMSV camera vehicles snagged a tree branch in D.C. which then became lodged/stuck to the camera pole. This was apparently missed by Google's QC folks, as the partially leaf-blocked imagery made it onto GMSV. You can see it starting at 3rd and L NE, heading up 3rd to Florida, then westbound along Florida to New York Ave, then eastbound along New York Ave to 4th St NE.

The start of it from 3rd and L NE here (https://goo.gl/maps/YhYGnCMkC2H2).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on April 06, 2017, 09:15:35 AM
You can figure out my name from my username

Kilometers per hour ogre?

So all this "nice" is just a brute-force facade for getting the US on the metric system?

(However, we put ourselves at far more risk by posting pictures of our trips on Facebook, letting people who already know where we live learn firsthand that we're gone for the week.)

Always post the pics after the vacation.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 06, 2017, 10:22:22 AM
Dusting this thread off for an oddity I found today:

It appears that, this past October, one of the GMSV camera vehicles snagged a tree branch in D.C. which then became lodged/stuck to the camera pole. This was apparently missed by Google's QC folks, as the partially leaf-blocked imagery made it onto GMSV. You can see it starting at 3rd and L NE, heading up 3rd to Florida, then westbound along Florida to New York Ave, then eastbound along New York Ave to 4th St NE.

The start of it from 3rd and L NE here (https://goo.gl/maps/YhYGnCMkC2H2).

I've seen that quite a bit elsewhere.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 10, 2017, 12:29:06 AM
Well this is quite a glitch...
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9221791,-84.6254598,3a,75y,270.61h,95.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s229QRZVEWaqE9cNxbDfWhA!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

I guess this song is relevant to the imagery...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on April 10, 2017, 02:37:47 PM
Good job, Georgia!
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.2600585,-83.735813,3a,75y,106.28h,75.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0n4VIICNoE6Inr5oefYw2A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: epzik8 on April 10, 2017, 03:22:57 PM
I caught the Google Street View car making rounds in my dad's neighborhood back in September 2013 at an intersection a couple of blocks from my dad's house. Sure enough, the Street View photos of that intersection from that date clearly show the car I was driving at the moments each photo at the intersection was taken.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on April 14, 2017, 09:31:57 AM
It might be a good idea to post screenshots of anything really unusual that you find instead of just a link. Some of the images on previous pages (one of an accident, one of cars driving through flooding) have been taken down.
I'm not so sure I want to do that. I saw a dead dog on the side of the road at Northbound Exit 59 on I-15 in Montana.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: bmorrill on April 14, 2017, 11:51:21 AM
There's a spoof video on YouTube of a woman peeing by the side of the road when a Google Street View car drives by.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jay8g on May 10, 2017, 12:56:37 AM
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4155/33724531364_839ae6555d_z.jpg)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4183/33724531354_0c077c2f5c_z.jpg)
(here) (https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5860178,-122.3299542,3a,71.6y,314.44h,66.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKM9B9IFSb2UTGajujN1_hA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US71 on May 25, 2017, 11:52:52 PM
"Naked Grandma"
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on May 26, 2017, 12:27:16 AM
Years ago when I was creating articles for Wikipedia on the trolley stops of the Media-Sharon Hill Line, I thought I saw something suspicious going on at one of the stops. It looked like a mugging. I sent an e-mail to the Media police an inquired about it, and they said it was just two people waiting for the SEPTA Route 101 trolley to come.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on May 27, 2017, 04:28:08 PM
Found a Key Deer running past the GSV looking at a random street on No Name Key:

https://www.google.com/maps/@24.7024712,-81.3325106,3a,37.5y,271.09h,83.66t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sQgaI_99GaXYdWXPXwXwKVw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DQgaI_99GaXYdWXPXwXwKVw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D359.33707%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Followed by veiled threats:

https://www.google.com/maps/@24.697757,-81.3212288,3a,15y,338.35h,72.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sioLLksJwtzdzWpebcMrtbw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on May 30, 2017, 01:15:22 PM
Also, it's worth noting that Google Street View turns 10 today. I wonder what's the oldest street view image on Google Maps?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on May 30, 2017, 06:19:17 PM
I know where some of the oldest Spanish imagery is. It turned 9 a couple weeks ago. Proof (https://www.google.es/maps/@41.6795211,-0.8671898,3a,37.5y,92.25h,95.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOQ5aX044qIh1rHYOyzgV2w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?). Since then the freeway has been widened, and what used to be the Eastbound direction are now local lanes, while what used to be the Westbound ones are now the Eastbound through lanes.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on November 01, 2017, 09:37:52 PM
Tonight, I was looking at a scan of the Queens Village MTA Bus Depot to see if I want to get a picture of it for Wikipedia or not. After checking it out, I decided to look a little further east long the LIRR Main Line. I finally got to Floral Park LIRR station and I saw this lost little doggie on the northwest corner of Atlantic and Carnation Avenues.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.724043,-73.7078572,3a,75y,331.14h,77.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1semzhgq0LnPRPgpME8-lzEw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en


 :paranoid:  :-(



Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SignGeek101 on November 01, 2017, 09:43:54 PM
Also, it's worth noting that Google Street View turns 10 today. I wonder what's the oldest street view image on Google Maps?

I think late 2006 is the earliest stuff. The oldest I have seen (from a very short look) is September 2007.

https://goo.gl/maps/ByadsUXNDUo
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on November 02, 2017, 10:54:34 AM
I cannot find any late 2006 pics, perhaps they have removed it. I remember the first time I spotted Street View, it was mid 2007 and I browsed several streets of San Francisco. But the oldest imagery I can find now is from late 2007. Funnily enough, this is also the first place where I found 2017 imagery.

Edit: I've found some July 2007 love along I-35W just North of Minneapolis: https://www.google.es/maps/@45.0100176,-93.1950832,3a,75y,73.03h,98.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOnK3AqdeDz_bMF0MyaDFng!2e0!7i3328!8i1664
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kdelrio on November 09, 2017, 11:22:39 AM
Free piggyback rides up a hill in Burlington, IA.   :spin:
https://goo.gl/maps/xuVhk83tAd42
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on December 14, 2017, 11:14:02 AM
Is it just me, or does this seem like a bad idea?

https://goo.gl/maps/1sZsi1ToD3K2 (https://goo.gl/maps/1sZsi1ToD3K2)
(https://i.imgur.com/1YYugCS.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SectorZ on December 14, 2017, 12:25:07 PM
Is it just me, or does this seem like a bad idea?

https://goo.gl/maps/1sZsi1ToD3K2 (https://goo.gl/maps/1sZsi1ToD3K2)
(https://i.imgur.com/1YYugCS.png)

Depends, what's the expected end result?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on December 27, 2017, 06:56:57 PM
Yesterday, I came across a stoplight east of Syracuse (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0618528,-76.0299278,3a,28.5y,317.7h,100.25t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s4lA3CZAaUbFzl3lJAS-uJQ!2e0) where the Street View car caught both the yellow and red lights lit.  I'm not sure if this is due to shutter speed, or the light being an incandescent and fading as the yellow went out.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Hurricane Rex on December 28, 2017, 03:48:38 AM
Apparently street view is also ski view as well.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on December 28, 2017, 10:59:19 AM
Is it just me, or does this seem like a bad idea?

https://goo.gl/maps/1sZsi1ToD3K2 (https://goo.gl/maps/1sZsi1ToD3K2)
(https://i.imgur.com/1YYugCS.png)

Depends, what's the expected end result?

I think the funny part is that he's playing on his phone.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on December 28, 2017, 01:41:53 PM
Yesterday, I came across a stoplight east of Syracuse (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0618528,-76.0299278,3a,28.5y,317.7h,100.25t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s4lA3CZAaUbFzl3lJAS-uJQ!2e0) where the Street View car caught both the yellow and red lights lit.  I'm not sure if this is due to shutter speed, or the light being an incandescent and fading as the yellow went out.
Looks to be that the yellows are incandescent and the red is LED, so the red was already completely on when the yellow light was turning off.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Hurricane Rex on December 29, 2017, 04:04:36 AM
Does "ski view" count?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on December 29, 2017, 06:29:55 AM
It has existed for several years now. I remember one ski resort in my area had it, but somehow it's gone.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on December 29, 2017, 01:30:06 PM
Yep, there has been ski view at Loveland (CO) since 2012.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on December 29, 2017, 02:21:54 PM
Yesterday, I came across a stoplight east of Syracuse (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0618528,-76.0299278,3a,28.5y,317.7h,100.25t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s4lA3CZAaUbFzl3lJAS-uJQ!2e0) where the Street View car caught both the yellow and red lights lit.  I'm not sure if this is due to shutter speed, or the light being an incandescent and fading as the yellow went out.

A shot before shows the light as just Yellow, and the shot after as just Red.  The camera captured the light at just the right moment to see both lights lit.  Crazy but cool!

I often see on walk signals that count down that it'll get to 0, then the 'walk' signal will show, with both the 0 and Walk showing at the same time. Normally not a permitted function; it's just a half-second overlap of both features of the sign.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SectorZ on December 30, 2017, 02:26:45 PM
Not Google SV, but in 2015 I was on a bike ride in Carlisle MA and some vehicle drove by me that was just like Google's for streetview, but it wasn't Google and I didn't see the name.

At the time, I was helping a rather large turtle out of the road that was attempting to sun itself into a future speed bump. It probably made for a bizarre visual.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Stephane Dumas on December 31, 2017, 12:49:17 PM
What happens when a Google Street View car meet a Bing Streetside car? http://bgr.com/2017/12/23/google-maps-car-vs-bing-street-view-streetside/

Or checking the gentrification of Brooklyn. https://petapixel.com/2014/06/26/google-street-view-offers-glimpse-incredible-rate-gentrification-brooklyn/

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: mrsman on January 02, 2018, 11:38:05 AM
I just spotted myself on GSV.  I was walking near the US Captiol about 3 months ago and I spotted the GSV car driving by.  Seeing this topic, I decided to see if the image got uploaded and sure enough, there I am.  My face is blotted out, but I was wearing some distinctive clothing.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on January 11, 2018, 09:08:38 PM
I noticed a 360° Street View circle on the Walmart near Fort Drum, NY, and wondered where in the store it was.  After turning around, I was surprised to see an extreme close-up of the face of the guy taking the picture (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0404295,-75.8445044,3a,100.7y,176.25h,99.13t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcFBiT2lDNVpkS2hpRkxIQ3JfdWxJZHY3LWZGbDQ1cm9KeDZTQXdq!2e0).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Hurricane Rex on January 11, 2018, 09:13:46 PM
I noticed a 360° Street View circle on the Walmart near Fort Drum, NY, and wondered where in the store it was.  After turning around, I was surprised to see an extreme close-up of the face of the guy taking the picture (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0404295,-75.8445044,3a,100.7y,176.25h,99.13t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcFBiT2lDNVpkS2hpRkxIQ3JfdWxJZHY3LWZGbDQ1cm9KeDZTQXdq!2e0).

*attempts to load street view* "Street view is not available here." Google?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on January 12, 2018, 12:55:29 PM
I noticed a 360° Street View circle on the Walmart near Fort Drum, NY, and wondered where in the store it was.  After turning around, I was surprised to see an extreme close-up of the face of the guy taking the picture (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0404295,-75.8445044,3a,100.7y,176.25h,99.13t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcFBiT2lDNVpkS2hpRkxIQ3JfdWxJZHY3LWZGbDQ1cm9KeDZTQXdq!2e0).

Ice cream isle, I guess!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US71 on January 12, 2018, 06:32:35 PM
I found my friend Seamas watering his lawn. His image was blurred, but I recognized the house ;)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on January 15, 2018, 01:27:55 PM
↑  I can only assume he never waters his lawn.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 04, 2018, 05:38:26 PM
When drought strikes: The view from a bridge (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.8958051,-5.8882156,3a,75y,345.86h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2u2xU_SCHpwDDTt9F5FgJA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D2u2xU_SCHpwDDTt9F5FgJA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D118.24311%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)...

... and from below the same bridge (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.8957939,-5.8881078,3a,75y,342.01h,83.12t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipP6rTGVIwxO2UFygwwNnn5lICDOUOm_ltac5UQX!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipP6rTGVIwxO2UFygwwNnn5lICDOUOm_ltac5UQX%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya291.5331-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352), just less than half-a-year later!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on February 04, 2018, 07:07:16 PM
When drought strikes: The view from a bridge (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.8958051,-5.8882156,3a,75y,345.86h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2u2xU_SCHpwDDTt9F5FgJA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D2u2xU_SCHpwDDTt9F5FgJA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D118.24311%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)...

... and from below the same bridge (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.8957939,-5.8881078,3a,75y,342.01h,83.12t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipP6rTGVIwxO2UFygwwNnn5lICDOUOm_ltac5UQX!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipP6rTGVIwxO2UFygwwNnn5lICDOUOm_ltac5UQX%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya291.5331-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352), just less than half-a-year later!
Looks like the water level there varies by a lot, judging by the historical street view!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Hurricane Rex on February 05, 2018, 01:23:50 AM
When drought strikes: The view from a bridge (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.8958051,-5.8882156,3a,75y,345.86h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2u2xU_SCHpwDDTt9F5FgJA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D2u2xU_SCHpwDDTt9F5FgJA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D118.24311%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)...

... and from below the same bridge (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.8957939,-5.8881078,3a,75y,342.01h,83.12t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipP6rTGVIwxO2UFygwwNnn5lICDOUOm_ltac5UQX!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipP6rTGVIwxO2UFygwwNnn5lICDOUOm_ltac5UQX%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya291.5331-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352), just less than half-a-year later!
Looks like the water level there varies by a lot, judging by the historical street view!

I don't know the area so could they have emptied it out mid season?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on March 14, 2018, 08:14:04 AM
Recently, I did some NYC Ferry research with GSV, and west of the India Street Ferry Pier in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, I saw something sunk beneath the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en)

Was it a boat? A ship? A barge? An old Dock? Anything I should've been familiar with when I still lived in the Tri-State Area?

url fix --sso
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dfilpus on March 14, 2018, 10:41:43 AM
Recently, I did some NYC Ferry research with GSV, and west of the India Street Ferry Pier in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, I saw something sunk beneath the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en)

Was it a boat? A ship? A barge? An old Dock? Anything I should've been familiar with when I still lived in the Tri-State Area?

url fix --sso
Appears to be a floating dock extension for the India Street pier. According to Google Earth, it was built in 2011. It appears in aerial imagery until 2017 and then under water in 2018.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on March 15, 2018, 11:09:05 PM
Recently, I did some NYC Ferry research with GSV, and west of the India Street Ferry Pier in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, I saw something sunk beneath the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en)

Was it a boat? A ship? A barge? An old Dock? Anything I should've been familiar with when I still lived in the Tri-State Area?

url fix --sso
Appears to be a floating dock extension for the India Street pier. According to Google Earth, it was built in 2011. It appears in aerial imagery until 2017 and then under water in 2018.


Do you actually know it to be underwater? It looks to me simply as though it's been erased from the imagery, as is the usual procedure with vehicles and other transient objects in Google's 3D imagery.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jp the roadgeek on March 16, 2018, 01:19:26 AM
I found my friend Seamas watering his lawn. His image was blurred, but I recognized the house ;)

Funny you mention that.  I saw my uncle outside at his house working in the garden.  Plus you see his little dog sitting in the driveway.

Also see the partially complete haunted house my neighbor builds in his front yard every year (we’re on great terms, so I never complain).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on March 16, 2018, 01:10:14 PM
Recently, I did some NYC Ferry research with GSV, and west of the India Street Ferry Pier in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, I saw something sunk beneath the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en)

Was it a boat? A ship? A barge? An old Dock? Anything I should've been familiar with when I still lived in the Tri-State Area?

url fix --sso
Looks like it's the ferry to me.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on March 20, 2018, 08:55:12 PM
Recently, I did some NYC Ferry research with GSV, and west of the India Street Ferry Pier in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, I saw something sunk beneath the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en)

Was it a boat? A ship? A barge? An old Dock? Anything I should've been familiar with when I still lived in the Tri-State Area?

url fix --sso
Looks like it's the ferry to me.
Hmm. I took a closer look, and I see a crane on the thing too.

It still looks like it's underwater.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on March 20, 2018, 11:49:01 PM
Recently, I did some NYC Ferry research with GSV, and west of the India Street Ferry Pier in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, I saw something sunk beneath the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en)

Was it a boat? A ship? A barge? An old Dock? Anything I should've been familiar with when I still lived in the Tri-State Area?

url fix --sso
Looks like it's the ferry to me.
Hmm. I took a closer look, and I see a crane on the thing too.

It still looks like it's underwater.



Right, that's the erasure. Look for cars on the roads–they look similarly underwater (or underasphalt).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Nanis on March 26, 2018, 04:32:21 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/place/D+St+%26+E+Cambria+St,+Philadelphia,+PA+19134/@39.9929203,-75.1220732,3a,75y,169.08h,71.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0scs2cpRxx9JpRxgMjg5NQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c6c8279fab2179:0xe27dd754501b8f15!8m2!3d39.9929362!4d-75.1222501 this
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on March 26, 2018, 10:47:44 PM
A few days ago, I came across someone who made a DIY Street View car on NY 5 between DeWitt and Fayetteville (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0283182,-76.038417,3a,66.8y,86.46h,82.36t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcE41eWFNV2JWN1FQXzdYZEMxNW12RjVUUHpvYWZJT0lobWhOaTlo!2e0).  Pan down to see their roof mount.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 26, 2018, 11:09:27 PM
this (https://www.google.com/maps/place/D+St+%26+E+Cambria+St,+Philadelphia,+PA+19134/@39.9929203,-75.1220732,3a,75y,169.08h,71.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0scs2cpRxx9JpRxgMjg5NQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c6c8279fab2179:0xe27dd754501b8f15!8m2!3d39.9929362!4d-75.1222501)

Wow  :wow:

I think that entire area qualifies for this thread.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on April 09, 2018, 01:51:29 AM
Weirdest traffic calming I've ever seen...
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.5946088,-99.6886105,3a,54.7y,205.46h,79.46t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sOoDjaWH2b0E-uAQT1HgX0A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DOoDjaWH2b0E-uAQT1HgX0A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D169.8255%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i51
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on April 09, 2018, 03:10:23 AM
Weirdest traffic calming I've ever seen...
[link snipped]

Reminds me of the security measures you might see at the entrance to a military installation (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5418506,-93.6613475,3a,37.6y,212.59h,83.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXLLm1MoNcfvsvN3OqFm-RA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KEVIN_224 on April 09, 2018, 09:22:54 AM
@ YAKRA: It looks like there's a closed-off bridge just after those traffic-calming planter things.

I've seen a couple of side streets off of Boulevard in West Hartford, CT (not far from the Hartford line) that were narrowed or bent to the sides to slow down traffic passing through.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on April 09, 2018, 07:40:53 PM
Weirdest traffic calming I've ever seen...
[link snipped]

Reminds me of the security measures you might see at the entrance to a military installation (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5418506,-93.6613475,3a,37.6y,212.59h,83.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXLLm1MoNcfvsvN3OqFm-RA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656).
Or at the border.  They even paved that way at the northern end of I-5.
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.9991748,-122.7541201,240m/data=!3m1!1e3
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on April 20, 2018, 10:38:25 AM
Here's something I've never seen in Street View before!  I just stumbled on a few trailers of new BGSes in a parking lot (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7994882,-76.124521,3a,24.1y,194.2h,84.43t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sg1lE-sKR_HKhzhVXyqS9Gg!2e0) on NY 80 just off of I-81 in Tully waiting to be installed.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on April 20, 2018, 11:20:35 AM
And I just saw an  erroneous NY 11 sign east of those trailers (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7992829,-76.1235055,3a,75y,108.52h,82.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjOIqZuKTxhHyUdi0ar5a9A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656).

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on April 20, 2018, 09:06:46 PM
Not so much "crazy" as "frighteningly common".  It was even mentioned in a presentation in the annual Highway Data Services workshop this year, complete with pictures showing both US 2 and NY 2 shields (this was one example where this wouldn't be erroneous, but that was so the presenter could show a picture of the End US 2 shield in Rouses Point with a joke about people making protest signs over the mixups).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on April 20, 2018, 11:50:58 PM
Not so much "crazy" as "frighteningly common".
Well, yes. But I just thought I'd point it out anyway.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on April 27, 2018, 07:13:47 PM
Last night, I found this (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1530648,-76.1234447,3a,100.7y,185.64h,108.36t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcE5URV9iMFR6RkVWNU4wSEdLWW1LaXpkLTVBYXJoLVdlYzNDUkE5!2e0) extreme face closeup while looking at the first Chick-fil-A in CNY.  While playing Geoguessr earlier this afternoon, I came across a spot (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.6353204,-106.6036997,3a,100.7y,204.49h,83.02t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s-ER1yE0XqWaIoU8YDlRm4g!2e0) where the Street View car was forced onto the shoulder to avoid a car passing a truck towing a camper in the other direction.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on April 28, 2018, 07:19:09 PM
I'm currently catching up on the Redesigning Interchanges thread, and while looking at the I-90/94 and I-39 interchange mentioned on this page (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=3618.1450), I came across a spot (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.491137,-89.4946976,3a,66.8y,341.82h,88.96t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1swRVtgTKjS1uKZqwlgivwsw!2e0) where the Street View car was in a traffic jam.  I can't recall ever seeing a traffic jam in Street View before.  Going further down the road, you can see a tractor-trailer that went off the road and flipped over (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5110529,-89.5217498,3a,66.8y,21.43h,80.15t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sC130B34oLc8pqv2eB1O_qw!2e0).  You can also see cans of spray paint on the hood of a police car and marks on the ground (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5105469,-89.5213944,3a,61.7y,130.06h,72.08t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1snjmKAnf9N-c-WQfOWV_Cww!2e0).  I'm assuming they were to mark the path of the truck as it went off the road.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on May 02, 2018, 08:48:25 PM
Last night, I found this (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1530648,-76.1234447,3a,100.7y,185.64h,108.36t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcE5URV9iMFR6RkVWNU4wSEdLWW1LaXpkLTVBYXJoLVdlYzNDUkE5!2e0) extreme face closeup while looking at the first Chick-fil-A in CNY.  While playing Geoguessr earlier this afternoon, I came across a spot (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.6353204,-106.6036997,3a,100.7y,204.49h,83.02t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s-ER1yE0XqWaIoU8YDlRm4g!2e0) where the Street View car was forced onto the shoulder to avoid a car passing a truck towing a camper in the other direction.
That first one really was crazy. The second one looks like it had a finish line superimposed there with CGI.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on May 03, 2018, 10:01:37 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7942335,-82.1666073,3a,37.5y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOWm1FVrl2dD4RRKiTkMONQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Why is US 301's RIGHT LANE placecard blurred out?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on May 03, 2018, 10:35:51 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7942335,-82.1666073,3a,37.5y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOWm1FVrl2dD4RRKiTkMONQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Why is US 301's RIGHT LANE placecard blurred out?
Because I touch myself at night.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on May 03, 2018, 10:47:32 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7942335,-82.1666073,3a,37.5y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOWm1FVrl2dD4RRKiTkMONQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Why is US 301's RIGHT LANE placecard blurred out?
Because I touch myself at night.
Tell us something we don't already know.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on May 04, 2018, 07:01:55 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7942335,-82.1666073,3a,37.5y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOWm1FVrl2dD4RRKiTkMONQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Why is US 301's RIGHT LANE placecard blurred out?

For a real answer, it's because Google's auto-blurring algorithm thinks it is a license plate (most likely) or some other form of "sensitive" information that they blur out in their imagery.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 04, 2018, 02:10:35 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7942335,-82.1666073,3a,37.5y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOWm1FVrl2dD4RRKiTkMONQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Why is US 301's RIGHT LANE placecard blurred out?

For a real answer, it's because Google's auto-blurring algorithm thinks it is a license plate (most likely) or some other form of "sensitive" information that they blur out in their imagery.

Yep.  All you have to do is scoot backward one step from the imagery linked to, and you'll see the directional banner blurred out instead.  Not at all crazy.  Almost ubiquitous.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on May 06, 2018, 03:03:25 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7942335,-82.1666073,3a,37.5y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOWm1FVrl2dD4RRKiTkMONQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Why is US 301's RIGHT LANE placecard blurred out?
For a real answer, it's because Google's auto-blurring algorithm thinks it is a license plate (most likely) or some other form of "sensitive" information that they blur out in their imagery.
Yep.  All you have to do is scoot backward one step from the imagery linked to, and you'll see the directional banner blurred out instead.  Not at all crazy.  Almost ubiquitous.

It's so ubiquitous for innocent things like this that it can become really annoying. Street blades frequently suffer from this problem too.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on May 16, 2018, 08:02:07 PM
I went to street view here to try and grab a shield error, but Google caught much more. Let's just say that driver was going waaaaay over the 20 mph ramp advisory speed.

NY 8/10 in Deposit, NY (https://goo.gl/maps/xqKnhz16PUA2).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: index on May 17, 2018, 02:36:39 AM
GSV is a godsend for us. We look at it a lot, so we'll see a lot more weird stuff than the average person. Often times, when looking at old GSV imagery, you'll find moderately discolored imagery or black and white imagery. GSVs at night are becoming more common for some reason, despite the exposure making everything virtually invisible. That's ordinary, we can all see and find that and not try. But then there's this absolutely insane kind of stuff:


https://www.google.com/maps/@31.3247682,-89.3288079,3a,66.2y,91.45h,82.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-Ybb9cZFKTdeyoDXYzcUsQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664


The whole camera is messed up. I've also found other really, really odd things on GSV. On one of them, a considerably large tree branch was stuck to the camera somehow, and on another, there were cracks all over the place, which means presumably the lens on one of the cameras cracked. I've seen severe thunderstorms and imagery that's been discolored to hell and back.


This thread is for that kind of stuff. Post anything here that you think would be meet the criteria for GSVs that are exceptionally weird.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GenExpwy on May 17, 2018, 03:35:22 AM
A different angle of one that I posted a few weeks ago in the New York thread:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6908594,-73.5874455,3a,60y,111.01h,176.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sB_xjQ3hyeDnNRYSGeOhlfA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: abefroman329 on May 17, 2018, 09:29:53 AM
Removed - had nothing to do with GSV.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on May 17, 2018, 11:50:33 AM
Isn't this topic basically the same? (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2648.0)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on May 17, 2018, 12:01:20 PM
Isn't this topic basically the same? (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2648.0)

Yep.  We already have 14 pages of what the OP is looking for.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 17, 2018, 01:09:16 PM
A different angle of one that I posted a few weeks ago in the New York thread:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6908594,-73.5874455,3a,60y,111.01h,176.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sB_xjQ3hyeDnNRYSGeOhlfA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I got a little bit of motion sickness panning around there....
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on May 17, 2018, 01:21:08 PM
Yes this thread is redundant, but considering the OP is a user with just over 300 posts we cannot expect him to go through every post that this forum has.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: froggie on May 17, 2018, 01:25:57 PM
^ We're not expecting everyone to go through every thread.  But using the search function to check existing threads is NOT an unreasonable thing to ask.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on May 17, 2018, 02:01:17 PM
Plus the existing thread wasn't even off the first page.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on May 17, 2018, 02:52:08 PM
I thought this thread was for camera errors, while the other thread was for unusual sights on the road; they were not the same thing.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: index on May 17, 2018, 03:32:03 PM
Please, you all. I get it, I screwed up on this one. This is the only time I've done it in quite a very long time. One person telling me there's already a thread is fine. But the entire population of the Earth tearing into me over it is pointless.


Even then, as 1 had stated, this thread could very well be used to discuss camera errors.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 17, 2018, 03:36:31 PM
I thought this thread was for camera errors, while the other thread was for unusual sights on the road; they were not the same thing.

this thread could very well be used to discuss camera errors.

I agree that unusual sightings belong only in the other thread.  However, any posts from this one could very well fit in the other thread.

So I suggest a merge.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: index on May 17, 2018, 07:40:59 PM
I thought this thread was for camera errors, while the other thread was for unusual sights on the road; they were not the same thing.

this thread could very well be used to discuss camera errors.

I agree that unusual sightings belong only in the other thread.  However, any posts from this one could very well fit in the other thread.

So I suggest a merge.


That's fair enough. At this point, I'm fine with anything as long as this individual thread ceases to exist because I look like an idiot now...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on May 22, 2018, 09:01:18 AM
A user submitted photo that's on GSV on the closed portion of Chain of Craters Rd on the big Island of Hawaii. Spin the view around and you'll see more of this person! https://goo.gl/maps/PbK6biaUVau

Side note: I was here last in about 2006; the first time being in 2000.  The lava flow pictured above had flowed in this area between those two visits.  The 'road' shown in the image above must've been created after that, as I don't recall it being graded at the time.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on October 31, 2018, 01:54:07 PM
Just found this truck roll-over from July 2013.

I found because I had dropped the pegman a little bit to the north and wondered why a semi-trailer was driving on a bumpy dirt road next to the highway.

(https://i.imgur.com/j1Gk3nI.jpg)
https://goo.gl/maps/DUSESTkPyjN2 (https://goo.gl/maps/DUSESTkPyjN2)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on October 31, 2018, 09:21:24 PM
^Wow! Incredible, I have never seen thru interstate traffic use a dirt road like that, and not to mention the truck rollover! :-o
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on October 31, 2018, 10:13:35 PM
^Wow! Incredible, I have never seen thru interstate traffic use a dirt road like that, and not to mention the truck rollover! :-o

One winter a fatal crossover accident closed 295 North. Traffic was directed far into the grassy median, which was basically frozen and thus could easily handle the traffic without rutting.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on November 01, 2018, 11:37:32 AM
^Wow! Incredible, I have never seen thru interstate traffic use a dirt road like that, and not to mention the truck rollover! :-o

That's only an Interstate if your username is TheAlan360 (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=7720.msg171521#msg171521) or FritzOwl (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=19108.msg2184494#msg2184494).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on November 01, 2018, 01:43:53 PM
^Wow! Incredible, I have never seen thru interstate traffic use a dirt road like that, and not to mention the truck rollover! :-o
That's only an Interstate if your username is TheAlan360 (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=7720.msg171521#msg171521) or FritzOwl (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=19108.msg2184494#msg2184494).

Oops. I figured San Luis Potosi was the name of the town, or something. It looks very much like a typical Southwestern interstate until you pan up- or down-stream a ways.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on November 13, 2018, 08:19:58 AM
Not crazy, but one can figure the Google car, including the camera mast, is shorter than 11 ft 8 in because it fits below the Norfolk Southern/Gregson St overpass (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9991094,-78.9101499,3a,75y,128.5h,101.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf5Tw7cZModhbf7jZhDjesQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) :sombrero:.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on November 13, 2018, 03:13:41 PM
I post shit.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on November 13, 2018, 03:20:03 PM
I post shit.

FTFY.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brandon on November 13, 2018, 03:20:41 PM
I post shit.

Thanks for the admission, SPUI.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brandon on November 13, 2018, 03:24:40 PM
Not crazy, but one can figure the Google car, including the camera mast, is shorter than 11 ft 8 in because it fits below the Norfolk Southern/Gregson St overpass (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9991094,-78.9101499,3a,75y,128.5h,101.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf5Tw7cZModhbf7jZhDjesQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) :sombrero:.

One can also see the camera locations, here (https://goo.gl/maps/xALvohq1ZZL2) and here (https://goo.gl/maps/waW8yUczxkF2).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on November 13, 2018, 03:33:00 PM
Posteo mierda.

LCPT. (http://bfy.tw/KqRq)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GaryV on January 15, 2019, 05:00:42 PM
I just noticed my house - the empty trash barrel is out front.  Must have been a Friday.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jp the roadgeek on January 15, 2019, 08:28:28 PM
I found me driving.  Had a feeling I might be in there when I saw the Google car drive across the intersection about 50 yards in front of me.  Sure enough, when I panned to the cross street when viewing the street it was on, there I am.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GaryV on February 07, 2019, 05:00:05 PM
The viewing stand for the Woodward Dream Cruise (at 13 Mile Rd):

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5176818,-83.1857707,3a,75y,74.08h,77.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSVLoUptjoSuiz2KhIyu6Fw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 12, 2019, 04:39:04 AM
While searching for targets for my great American Street View trip (So far it will include the 11 foot 8 Bridge and I-366 with an speed limit of 85, and it may launch from Hamlin, Maine), I came across this (https://www.google.es/maps/@38.0303192,-78.4946391,3a,22.9y,209.52h,76.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCR8Vpu-Xv9sPh_j_JYHlWg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656). Isn't that "JUST Married!" blocking the rear view? Although if both wing mirrors are present then that is a moot point.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 12, 2019, 01:04:35 PM
While searching for targets for my great American Street View trip (So far it will include the 11 foot 8 Bridge and I-366 with an speed limit of 85, and it may launch from Hamlin, Maine), I came across this (https://www.google.es/maps/@38.0303192,-78.4946391,3a,22.9y,209.52h,76.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCR8Vpu-Xv9sPh_j_JYHlWg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656). Isn't that "JUST Married!" blocking the rear view? Although if both wing mirrors are present then that is a moot point.

This is a very, very common practice here in the USA.  Pretty much everybody who gets married ends up with decorations on their car like that.  It's usually something done by the groomsmen.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on February 13, 2019, 07:51:50 AM
Recently, I did some NYC Ferry research with GSV, and west of the India Street Ferry Pier in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, I saw something sunk beneath the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en)

Was it a boat? A ship? A barge? An old Dock? Anything I should've been familiar with when I still lived in the Tri-State Area?

url fix --sso
Looks like it's the ferry to me.
Hmm. I took a closer look, and I see a crane on the thing too.

It still looks like it's underwater.



Right, that's the erasure. Look for cars on the roads–they look similarly underwater (or underasphalt).
I just found out what it really was by going a block north.

It's a sunken dock that you can see from Huron Street.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7324098,-73.9616035,3a,75y,264.68h,93.53t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sG9iqzxZkeu4_DuAOsxDatA!2e0!5s20150901T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

So, that problem is solved.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on February 13, 2019, 02:57:01 PM
Recently, I did some NYC Ferry research with GSV, and west of the India Street Ferry Pier in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, I saw something sunk beneath the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°43'54.0%22N+73°57'48.7%22W/@40.7316508,-73.9631579,355m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.731667!4d-73.963528?hl=en)

Was it a boat? A ship? A barge? An old Dock? Anything I should've been familiar with when I still lived in the Tri-State Area?

url fix --sso
Looks like it's the ferry to me.
Hmm. I took a closer look, and I see a crane on the thing too.

It still looks like it's underwater.



Right, that's the erasure. Look for cars on the roads–they look similarly underwater (or underasphalt).
I just found out what it really was by going a block north.

It's a sunken dock that you can see from Huron Street.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7324098,-73.9616035,3a,75y,264.68h,93.53t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sG9iqzxZkeu4_DuAOsxDatA!2e0!5s20150901T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

So, that problem is solved.



I think the URL being fixed is what solved it–that doesn't look to me like what I was originally looking at. (I can't find what that is at the moment, but I wouldn't have confused an erased ferry from the actual sunken structure we can now see.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: english si on February 15, 2019, 04:32:57 PM
The Newtown bypass (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5003033,-3.3483564,3a,75y,109.95h,89.35t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipNwA9VTaK6tJwgZDop8rW3_kjTkuZyud56cv2c!2e10!3e11!7i5376!8i2688), which opened yesterday and isn't even on the map yet. Whole thing, and the surrounding/bypassed roads has streetview imagery done by an individual.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kevinb1994 on February 15, 2019, 05:12:56 PM
The Newtown bypass (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5003033,-3.3483564,3a,75y,109.95h,89.35t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipNwA9VTaK6tJwgZDop8rW3_kjTkuZyud56cv2c!2e10!3e11!7i5376!8i2688), which opened yesterday and isn't even on the map yet. Whole thing, and the surrounding/bypassed roads has streetview imagery done by an individual.

I thought you meant the bypass of Newtown, PA.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on February 17, 2019, 07:48:31 PM
I'd like to believe this is a real bee, (https://goo.gl/maps/AqN1hkDQhLD2) but it may be Photoshopped in.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 07, 2019, 08:37:31 PM
I have found a mcblonads!

This Mcdonald's has black arches!

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.599893,-121.8879794,3a,64.3y,200.26h,90.41t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1speNnzcW3GKmhhzTSBUee6A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DpeNnzcW3GKmhhzTSBUee6A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D144.59485%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 08, 2019, 01:15:55 PM
WOW!!!!  ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!!!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Takumi on March 08, 2019, 01:56:40 PM
It’s a McDowell’s, obviously.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 08, 2019, 03:43:25 PM
Well yeah, that was definitely my first thought.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 10, 2019, 10:27:20 PM
WOW!!!!  ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!!!

If you're talking about the McDonalds when i went here they were serving garlic fries too!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 11, 2019, 03:00:55 PM
want some thing crazy i'll give you something crazy the number of abandoned gas stations in Ticumcari NM

abandoned shell

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1598354,-103.769722,3a,41y,229.57h,93.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0JE2gcegUzeBmEPqZ_8O_Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

i don't know the name of the other abandoned gas stations.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717228,-103.7401586,3a,41.3y,130.01h,93.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sybKEuX4jYnSShzmKyuAQOA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717228,-103.7401586,3a,41.3y,130.01h,93.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sybKEuX4jYnSShzmKyuAQOA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717303,-103.7375282,3a,66.9y,145.45h,101.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swovXXAdO4bG2-xeiG0Hz_Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717358,-103.7312469,3a,51.2y,243.84h,90.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTaxmz5wpJMD-APZT922xgA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717632,-103.7309023,3a,51.2y,74.39h,90.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJ_YNHG7yKrgleT4zTPqf-w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717449,-103.7298189,3a,66.7y,153.29h,84.64t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIVwW5ifV-bsr7Bxo-NXcBQ!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717463,-103.7257962,3a,24.2y,62.07h,90.34t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sUwGAv86PfUZi8SfclAOgYQ!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717445,-103.724318,3a,57.3y,341.18h,88.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1scEtbejklk1ku8noZUnXbag!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717401,-103.7224593,3a,51.1y,225.07h,93.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s-bBojU-_01OHMiwvXH084g!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717349,-103.7217891,3a,24.8y,20.83h,90.2t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s17FMPE-_GFKeSjpuS89XSg!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

this was definitely an old shell

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717348,-103.7214644,3a,90y,144.71h,83.71t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1szAG2x3pbxI-vHmwSK6t0Ag!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

now back to gas stations i don't what they were.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717235,-103.7177978,3a,55.1y,248.03h,83.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sshc1PPZZQleu8z-rhmsQMA!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717235,-103.7177978,3a,55.1y,57.6h,91.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sshc1PPZZQleu8z-rhmsQMA!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717116,-103.7170282,3a,24.8y,18.5h,90.49t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sehz_NuOsdvuEOqaxHWnnZg!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1718674,-103.712854,3a,51.2y,336.19h,84.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPZqlYm8GsOMz5H8gNkm9xQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

this one has the texaco logo on it but it has been restored to a texaco so no telling if it was originaly a texaco

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.171738,-103.7119706,3a,25.2y,22.01h,89.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2S2YD3grMskJ7C2zBGV9cQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

back to stations i don't what they are

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717425,-103.7110009,3a,41.6y,82.3h,85.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saEMBUM92wKCsWPbx16N-RQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717564,-103.7082377,3a,75y,61.53h,89.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEyFz1bXoDRYWIEimdPPAhg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717649,-103.7060817,3a,53y,74.32h,93.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1semSNa_gNCuavluXZmsGzRw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717762,-103.7025799,3a,28.7y,289.69h,91.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFGAOiZSQ1MYM-B9bLW70Tw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DFGAOiZSQ1MYM-B9bLW70Tw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D340.46115%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

yes each of these links is to a different abandoned gas station inT icumcariNM
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 89 on March 11, 2019, 03:22:01 PM
I have found a mcblonads!

This Mcdonald's has black arches!

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.599893,-121.8879794,3a,64.3y,200.26h,90.41t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1speNnzcW3GKmhhzTSBUee6A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DpeNnzcW3GKmhhzTSBUee6A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D144.59485%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

I mean, this isn't an entirely new thing. The one in Sedona has turquoise arches (https://goo.gl/maps/WZH2LqncVkA2) -- and more interestingly, I'm fairly sure that was mandated by local law.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 11, 2019, 06:06:24 PM
want some thing crazy i'll give you something crazy the number of abandoned gas stations in Ticumcari NM

abandoned shell

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1598354,-103.769722,3a,41y,229.57h,93.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0JE2gcegUzeBmEPqZ_8O_Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

i don't know the name of the other abandoned gas stations.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717228,-103.7401586,3a,41.3y,130.01h,93.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sybKEuX4jYnSShzmKyuAQOA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717228,-103.7401586,3a,41.3y,130.01h,93.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sybKEuX4jYnSShzmKyuAQOA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717303,-103.7375282,3a,66.9y,145.45h,101.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swovXXAdO4bG2-xeiG0Hz_Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717358,-103.7312469,3a,51.2y,243.84h,90.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTaxmz5wpJMD-APZT922xgA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717632,-103.7309023,3a,51.2y,74.39h,90.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJ_YNHG7yKrgleT4zTPqf-w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717449,-103.7298189,3a,66.7y,153.29h,84.64t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIVwW5ifV-bsr7Bxo-NXcBQ!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717463,-103.7257962,3a,24.2y,62.07h,90.34t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sUwGAv86PfUZi8SfclAOgYQ!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717445,-103.724318,3a,57.3y,341.18h,88.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1scEtbejklk1ku8noZUnXbag!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717401,-103.7224593,3a,51.1y,225.07h,93.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s-bBojU-_01OHMiwvXH084g!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717349,-103.7217891,3a,24.8y,20.83h,90.2t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s17FMPE-_GFKeSjpuS89XSg!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

this was definitely an old shell

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717348,-103.7214644,3a,90y,144.71h,83.71t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1szAG2x3pbxI-vHmwSK6t0Ag!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

now back to gas stations i don't what they were.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717235,-103.7177978,3a,55.1y,248.03h,83.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sshc1PPZZQleu8z-rhmsQMA!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717235,-103.7177978,3a,55.1y,57.6h,91.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sshc1PPZZQleu8z-rhmsQMA!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717116,-103.7170282,3a,24.8y,18.5h,90.49t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sehz_NuOsdvuEOqaxHWnnZg!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1718674,-103.712854,3a,51.2y,336.19h,84.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPZqlYm8GsOMz5H8gNkm9xQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

this one has the texaco logo on it but it has been restored to a texaco so no telling if it was originaly a texaco

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.171738,-103.7119706,3a,25.2y,22.01h,89.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2S2YD3grMskJ7C2zBGV9cQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

back to stations i don't what they are

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717425,-103.7110009,3a,41.6y,82.3h,85.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saEMBUM92wKCsWPbx16N-RQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717564,-103.7082377,3a,75y,61.53h,89.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEyFz1bXoDRYWIEimdPPAhg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717649,-103.7060817,3a,53y,74.32h,93.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1semSNa_gNCuavluXZmsGzRw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1717762,-103.7025799,3a,28.7y,289.69h,91.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFGAOiZSQ1MYM-B9bLW70Tw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DFGAOiZSQ1MYM-B9bLW70Tw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D340.46115%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

yes each of these links is to a different abandoned gas station inT icumcariNM

found another gas station that's been demolished but you can clearly tell it was a gas station!

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.17093,-103.7425254,127a,35y,359.4h,45t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

here's another i missed!

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.17093,-103.7425254,127a,35y,359.4h,45t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0


Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 12, 2019, 12:08:16 PM
wan't something crazy delano has an operating original 1950s jcpenny! the front says JcPenny co. and there is a green sign that has golden letters that says penny's!

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7724514,-119.2464532,3a,75y,35.68h,89.64t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sb_kSepoKBI_e1eAU6JGDfA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Db_kSepoKBI_e1eAU6JGDfA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D25.982552%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 12, 2019, 02:00:20 PM
... you can clearly tell it was a gas station!

here's another i missed!

... has an operating original 1950s jcpenny!

... golden letters that says penny's!

Be still, my freaking heart.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 89 on March 12, 2019, 02:13:28 PM

Can you please use the shortened URLs when posting a Google Street View, or include them as hyperlinks within other text, like this:

Code: [Select]
[url=url_goes_here]your text here[/url]
The full street view URLs are nearly unclickable because a horizontal scroll bar blocks the link when you move your mouse pointer over it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 12, 2019, 04:46:11 PM
if you thought the sager wigwag getting a e-bell and two pairs of lights were sad. iv'e got even sadder news! both the cherry st. and  van ness ave wigwags in fresno had two pairs of 8-inch lights added to the mast of the wigwags!

cherry st.

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7243592,-119.7817501,3a,75y,12.3h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sOYxjXn0lS-wb_rDJuDTFWA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DOYxjXn0lS-wb_rDJuDTFWA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D9.908973%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

van ness ave.

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7212775,-119.7790998,3a,49.2y,1.67h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOJ0aNuAEDdziIutkUqUkAQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

this is sad news!

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 12, 2019, 04:47:19 PM
Van Ness ave#2 crossing used to have a wishbone gate but it was removed but when it did have it's wishbone gate google street view caught it in action!

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7256835,-119.7793963,3a,75y,297.23h,90.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sV25S_LbK56z1yhMvW4ApUQ!2e0!5s20080101T000000!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en&authuser=0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on March 12, 2019, 05:48:50 PM
None of this stuff is crazy.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 12, 2019, 10:11:40 PM
None of this stuff is crazy.

No kidding.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 12, 2019, 11:12:12 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.658133,-79.565675,3a,75y,133.79h,86.38t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sXt_AZy6Y-RPxZ7WhfBhlIg!2e0?hl=en

Man i hope the person who owned this van has auto insurance!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Takumi on March 13, 2019, 01:15:26 AM
None of this stuff is crazy.
The old JC Penney is fairly interesting, but yeah.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on March 13, 2019, 01:40:49 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.658133,-79.565675,3a,75y,133.79h,86.38t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sXt_AZy6Y-RPxZ7WhfBhlIg!2e0?hl=en

Man i hope the person who owned this van has auto insurance!

What the fuck are you talking about? I would think the Goog has insurance.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brandon on March 13, 2019, 01:54:29 PM
None of this stuff is crazy.

If you think this is crazy, I just saved a google by switching to Geico.
/s
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 13, 2019, 02:32:49 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.658133,-79.565675,3a,75y,133.79h,86.38t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sXt_AZy6Y-RPxZ7WhfBhlIg!2e0?hl=en

Man i hope the person who owned this van has auto insurance!

What the fuck are you talking about? I would think the Goog has insurance.

Unless that's what has been blurred out, I don't even see a van in view.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 13, 2019, 07:59:56 PM
almost everyone has been in a car. and anybody who has been has at one point or another been stuck in traffic. however i dout many can say they were stuck in traffic due to a horse drawn carrige.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5333144,-0.5434412,3a,28.7y,94.93h,87.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAdfm_RUd1L5MgUhMHZpNmA!2e0!5s20080801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 13, 2019, 08:29:07 PM

Can you please use the shortened URLs when posting a Google Street View, or include them as hyperlinks within other text, like this:

Code: [Select]
[url=url_goes_here]your text here[/url]
The full street view URLs are nearly unclickable because a horizontal scroll bar blocks the link when you move your mouse pointer over it.

LOL at the last couple of pages of this thread.
I figured I might as well quote this for truth.  :D
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: danthecatrafficlightfan on March 14, 2019, 03:26:03 AM
nice google caught when my dad used his trailer as a makeshift fence after he crashed his boat into the old one.

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7788828,-119.6722734,3a,15y,313.05h,87.19t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sJ05sPUrams3lls4L92eoOQ!2e0!5s20150801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 14, 2019, 01:42:26 PM
danthecatrafficlightfanc

Here is how to get the short address people are wanting:

(A)  In Street View...
 1.  Click on the stack of 3 dots in the upper-left corner.
 2.  Click on 'Share or embed image.'
 3.  Click on 'Copy link'.
 4.  Paste into your thread post.

(B)  On the regular map...
 1.  Click on the stack of 3 horizontal bars in the upper-left corner.
 2.  Click on 'Share or embed map'.
 3.  Click on 'Copy link'.
 4.  Paste into your thread post.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kurumi on March 15, 2019, 11:28:20 AM
Sept. 2008, before GSV perfected horizon leveling, NY 97 at NY 55 and PA 434, Barryville, NY: https://goo.gl/maps/KpNM2amXEP62
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 15, 2019, 01:46:22 PM
Sept. 2008, before GSV perfected horizon leveling, NY 97 at NY 55 and PA 434, Barryville, NY: https://goo.gl/maps/KpNM2amXEP62

I see that stuff all over GSV.  Not crazy at all.
Title: Re: Tame things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on March 15, 2019, 07:41:43 PM
I see that stuff all over GSV.  Not crazy at all.

Might as well update the thread title.
Title: Re: Tame things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 15, 2019, 07:50:13 PM
I see that stuff all over GSV.  Not crazy at all.
Might as well update the thread title.

Are you suggesting that quote should be the new title, or did you have something else in mind?  :D
Title: Re: Tame things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on March 15, 2019, 08:43:07 PM
I see that stuff all over GSV.  Not crazy at all.
Might as well update the thread title.
Are you suggesting that quote should be the new title, or did you have something else in mind?  :D

Check the title of your post. (or this post, or my previous post) :)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on March 17, 2019, 10:53:27 PM
I just saw a post (https://imgur.com/gallery/1qJXGyr) from someone on Imgur of a guy falling backwards off a set of stairs in Hoboken, NJ.

Here's (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7464973,-74.0319483,3a,37.8y,115.66h,87.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srFnbhJH3f5lIQnMnwW713Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) the guy starting to fall, and here's (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7464074,-74.0319765,3a,21.4y,58.27h,83.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0NG3qLYMAZP0tms84A0JKg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) the guy at the bottom of the stairs.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on March 25, 2019, 04:09:54 PM
I knew the pro-independence thing in Catalonia was crazy, but not to the point of filling the streets of a whole village with painted yellow ribbons (https://www.google.es/maps/@41.8486984,2.3904868,3a,75y,116.52h,80.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st5L_1L6kRccq9dCkY7sO2Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). Notice also that sign showing the distances (in km) to several prisons around Madrid. I won't go further, as I would get banned (too political).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 25, 2019, 04:11:20 PM
I knew the pro-independence thing in Catalonia was crazy, but not to the point of filling the streets of a whole village with painted yellow ribbons. (https://www.google.es/maps/@41.8486984,2.3904868,3a,75y,116.52h,80.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st5L_1L6kRccq9dCkY7sO2Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) I won't go further, as I would get banned.

Tree in the central island!!!  Crash-prone roundabout!!!  Death and destruction!!!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on March 25, 2019, 04:13:14 PM
I won't go further, as I would get banned (too political).

Most of us don't have a strong opinion either way, as it's not that relevant to the US (or Canada, for Canadian members here), and it's not nearly as publicized as Brexit around here.  I don't think it would be much of a problem.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on March 27, 2019, 01:47:38 PM
msn.com's content is sometimes suspect, and generally filled with some clickbait thrown in.

On one of today's stories, it talks about what someone found in Google StreetView. 

And the story is about...

...someone's dog on their front lawn.

Seriously.

Oh, the head of the dog is blurred.  And there's a whole portion of the story about that.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/woman-checks-her-house-on-google-street-view-and-sees-something-hilarious/ar-BBVgzuD?ocid=ientp
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 27, 2019, 02:01:29 PM
1.  This sounds like something straight out of a small-town newspaper, not a national news site.  And a good time was had by all!

2.  What's really crazy, though, is the existence of an oviparous dog.

Quote
“He absolutely loves laying out in the grass..."
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on March 27, 2019, 04:34:43 PM
I just saw a post (https://imgur.com/gallery/1qJXGyr) from someone on Imgur of a guy falling backwards off a set of stairs in Hoboken, NJ.

Here's (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7464973,-74.0319483,3a,37.8y,115.66h,87.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srFnbhJH3f5lIQnMnwW713Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) the guy starting to fall, and here's (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7464074,-74.0319765,3a,21.4y,58.27h,83.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0NG3qLYMAZP0tms84A0JKg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) the guy at the bottom of the stairs.

To put a damper on everyone's fun, here's the follow up to this scene. (http://newjersey.news12.com/story/40181692/when-mocking-goes-viral-falling-man-of-hoboken-is-a-cautionary-tale) (It's News12 so it might be blocked if you don't have a cable login)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 27, 2019, 04:37:31 PM

I just saw a post (https://imgur.com/gallery/1qJXGyr) from someone on Imgur of a guy falling backwards off a set of stairs in Hoboken, NJ.

Here's (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7464973,-74.0319483,3a,37.8y,115.66h,87.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srFnbhJH3f5lIQnMnwW713Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) the guy starting to fall, and here's (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7464074,-74.0319765,3a,21.4y,58.27h,83.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0NG3qLYMAZP0tms84A0JKg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) the guy at the bottom of the stairs.

To put a damper on everyone's fun, here's the follow up to this scene. (http://newjersey.news12.com/story/40181692/when-mocking-goes-viral-falling-man-of-hoboken-is-a-cautionary-tale) (It's News12 so it might be blocked if you don't have a cable login)

Thanks for posting that!  It didn't put a damper on my fun, but rather I enjoyed reading a little bit about his life and that he mattered to people.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: catch22 on April 10, 2019, 07:26:45 PM
I bet this was an interesting phone call:

https://goo.gl/maps/vTwzVNQwrLR2
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: davewiecking on April 10, 2019, 09:03:55 PM
I bet this was an interesting phone call:

https://goo.gl/maps/vTwzVNQwrLR2
If you go back under the bridge and up Gabouri (not Main) a click, you can see the peeled truck off in the distance. Bridge batted it off with barely a scratch!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 11, 2019, 02:28:06 PM
I bet this was an interesting phone call:
https://goo.gl/maps/vTwzVNQwrLR2


I worked for a delivery company where a driver tore off a drive-through awning, but the damage wasn't on the truck.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on June 25, 2019, 08:26:00 AM
Drive west on FL 100 in Bunnell before you reach the overlap with US 1, and Google Maps points you to THE SKY!!!

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.4665436,-81.2569365,3a,60y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBdTtiQfzNscYBHtcdMNBKw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@29.4665436,-81.2569365,3a,60y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBdTtiQfzNscYBHtcdMNBKw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en)

Did one of the Google Cars get into some kind of accident that wasn't reported, or something like that?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kevinb1994 on June 25, 2019, 02:41:56 PM
Drive west on FL 100 in Bunnell before you reach the overlap with US 1, and Google Maps points you to THE SKY!!!

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.4665436,-81.2569365,3a,60y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBdTtiQfzNscYBHtcdMNBKw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@29.4665436,-81.2569365,3a,60y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBdTtiQfzNscYBHtcdMNBKw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en)

Did one of the Google Cars get into some kind of accident that wasn't reported, or something like that?
I’ve seen that on more than one occasion.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on July 03, 2019, 06:47:11 AM
I suppose the Google StreetView car clipped a low branch in West Palm Beach, carrying some foliage along Tuxedo Avenue: Link (https://www.google.com/maps/@26.6900157,-80.0716609,3a,90y,181.22h,62.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUFTAqJmc-06KlXWwoYFiqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kevinb1994 on July 03, 2019, 07:32:41 AM
I suppose the Google StreetView car clipped a low branch in West Palm Beach, carrying some foliage along Tuxedo Avenue: Link (https://www.google.com/maps/@26.6900157,-80.0716609,3a,90y,181.22h,62.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUFTAqJmc-06KlXWwoYFiqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
I didn’t know that a Tuxedo Avenue existed there.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on July 03, 2019, 06:38:22 PM
I suppose the Google StreetView car clipped a low branch in West Palm Beach, carrying some foliage along Tuxedo Avenue: Link (https://www.google.com/maps/@26.6900157,-80.0716609,3a,90y,181.22h,62.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUFTAqJmc-06KlXWwoYFiqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
I didn’t know that a Tuxedo Avenue existed there.
I didn't know that you should fuck off. Wait...I did.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on July 03, 2019, 06:43:58 PM
I suppose the Google StreetView car clipped a low branch in West Palm Beach, carrying some foliage along Tuxedo Avenue: Link (https://www.google.com/maps/@26.6900157,-80.0716609,3a,90y,181.22h,62.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUFTAqJmc-06KlXWwoYFiqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
I didn’t know that a Tuxedo Avenue existed there.
I didn't know that you should fuck off. Wait...I did.

 :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :popcorn:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Verlanka on July 04, 2019, 05:18:05 AM
I suppose the Google StreetView car clipped a low branch in West Palm Beach, carrying some foliage along Tuxedo Avenue: Link (https://www.google.com/maps/@26.6900157,-80.0716609,3a,90y,181.22h,62.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUFTAqJmc-06KlXWwoYFiqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
I've seen that happen before.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on July 12, 2019, 02:29:49 PM

I didn't know that you should fuck off. Wait...I did.

 :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :popcorn:

I've seen that happen before.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on July 19, 2019, 09:11:00 PM
Here's (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6368991,-73.7838113,3a,49.4y,311.33h,78.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAAZL0y93iIgWL9jq07pwBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) a box truck that had its rear door replaced with doors for a house.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on August 26, 2019, 10:55:03 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/o4xwxASQFV6f4qfc6 (https://goo.gl/maps/o4xwxASQFV6f4qfc6)

Unintentional photoshop by Google Street View: "SOW CHILDREN". What's amazing is not what the message says but that it happened entirely accidentally. It even has reasonable kerning.

(I'm pretty sure this is Google, not the sign itself.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on August 26, 2019, 03:11:27 PM
Not crazy, but one can figure the Google car, including the camera mast, is shorter than 11 ft 8 in because it fits below the Norfolk Southern/Gregson St overpass (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9991094,-78.9101499,3a,75y,128.5h,101.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf5Tw7cZModhbf7jZhDjesQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) :sombrero:.

We can further constraint the size of the Google car. In addition to the above, we can figure the Google Car is (barely) narrower than 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) because it managed to squeeze through the "Physically impossible entry" street (https://www.google.es/maps/@37.1796014,-3.5925476,3a,75y,238.5h,65.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0BQxwHoPsdvyHw8e9dGexw!2e0!5s20160601T000000!7i13312!8i6656) in Granada, Spain (unless they have done that with the Trike, in which case the previous statement is null and void).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on August 28, 2019, 09:40:57 PM
Not crazy, but one can figure the Google car, including the camera mast, is shorter than 11 ft 8 in because it fits below the Norfolk Southern/Gregson St overpass (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9991094,-78.9101499,3a,75y,128.5h,101.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf5Tw7cZModhbf7jZhDjesQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) :sombrero:.

We can further constraint the size of the Google car. In addition to the above, we can figure the Google Car is (barely) narrower than 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) because it managed to squeeze through the "Physically impossible entry" street (https://www.google.es/maps/@37.1796014,-3.5925476,3a,75y,238.5h,65.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0BQxwHoPsdvyHw8e9dGexw!2e0!5s20160601T000000!7i13312!8i6656) in Granada, Spain (unless they have done that with the Trike, in which case the previous statement is null and void).

As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on August 29, 2019, 11:37:31 PM
Not crazy, but one can figure the Google car, including the camera mast, is shorter than 11 ft 8 in because it fits below the Norfolk Southern/Gregson St overpass (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9991094,-78.9101499,3a,75y,128.5h,101.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf5Tw7cZModhbf7jZhDjesQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) :sombrero:.

We can further constraint the size of the Google car. In addition to the above, we can figure the Google Car is (barely) narrower than 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) because it managed to squeeze through the "Physically impossible entry" street (https://www.google.es/maps/@37.1796014,-3.5925476,3a,75y,238.5h,65.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0BQxwHoPsdvyHw8e9dGexw!2e0!5s20160601T000000!7i13312!8i6656) in Granada, Spain (unless they have done that with the Trike, in which case the previous statement is null and void).

As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).

I kept seeing the Apple Maps car driving around the neighborhood for several days in a row a few weeks ago.  Shame I can't see the images.  :confused:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KEVIN_224 on September 10, 2019, 06:55:04 PM
I saw this in Havertown, PA. Immediately over the city line from Philadelphia. It looks like somebody's house was fuzzed out for whatever reason:

https://goo.gl/maps/oUhke1SMfkj6Xncx7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on September 11, 2019, 09:27:19 AM
If you're one of those crazy privacy types, you can request that Google blur out your house.

Here's one I knew of (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6146119,-93.8914052,3a,75y,258.25h,77t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1svO0Yf1luz9uypmhbXBA-6g!2e0!5s20110801T000000!7i13312!8i6656), although that house has since been torn down.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on September 12, 2019, 12:24:26 PM
If you're one of those crazy privacy types, you can request that Google blur out your house.

Here's one I knew of (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6146119,-93.8914052,3a,75y,258.25h,77t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1svO0Yf1luz9uypmhbXBA-6g!2e0!5s20110801T000000!7i13312!8i6656), although that house has since been torn down.

Oddly enough, if you go to the far side of US 6 there, it's not blurred. Should the GSV drive by again, do they just blur out the rubble?

(EDIT: Nevermind, they didn't (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6149927,-93.8916639,3a,75y,200.06h,71.76t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s8M7Daapc18C07pD6zPZQPA!2e0!5s20180601T000000!7i13312!8i6656))
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on September 12, 2019, 11:19:01 PM
I saw this in Havertown, PA. Immediately over the city line from Philadelphia. It looks like somebody's house was fuzzed out for whatever reason:

https://goo.gl/maps/oUhke1SMfkj6Xncx7

Happens more often in Europe where images of buildings can be copyrighted.  For some reason, The Berlin Wall Museum (https://goo.gl/maps/ddqJLyRTQRH8g4737) by Checkpoint Charlie is fuzzed out in some views, but not others.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on September 13, 2019, 08:28:08 AM
If you're one of those crazy privacy types, you can request that Google blur out your house.

Here's one I knew of (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6146119,-93.8914052,3a,75y,258.25h,77t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1svO0Yf1luz9uypmhbXBA-6g!2e0!5s20110801T000000!7i13312!8i6656), although that house has since been torn down.

It may have been blurred because it has been demolished. Google also routinely blurs houses of well known people and crime scenes, for example this one (https://www.google.es/maps/@50.7120536,4.3847033,3a,75y,19.24h,90.13t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sSpVD0dapWJSmT0yfierknQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DSpVD0dapWJSmT0yfierknQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D39.448822%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100).

I actually have one photo of a house that is censored in Google Maps. I won't say which one nor show that pic due to privacy and/or security concerns.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on September 13, 2019, 02:52:19 PM
If you're one of those crazy privacy types, you can request that Google blur out your house.

Here's one I knew of (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6146119,-93.8914052,3a,75y,258.25h,77t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1svO0Yf1luz9uypmhbXBA-6g!2e0!5s20110801T000000!7i13312!8i6656), although that house has since been torn down.
It may have been blurred because it has been demolished. Google also routinely blurs houses of well known people and crime scenes, for example this one (https://www.google.es/maps/@50.7120536,4.3847033,3a,75y,19.24h,90.13t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sSpVD0dapWJSmT0yfierknQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DSpVD0dapWJSmT0yfierknQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D39.448822%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100).

Unlikely, since the house was removed to turn the lot and adjacent property into a car dealership, and it was blurred before that even happened.

Also, no one of any import is going to live in Waukee, Iowa. :-D
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on September 13, 2019, 06:50:43 PM
Ironically, since so few houses are blurred like this, doing so draws more attention to them. What do they have to hide? After all, we wouldn't be discussing that house in Iowa if they hadn't blurred it, it'd be just another house in Iowa.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on September 14, 2019, 03:29:47 AM
Obviously you haven't seen Belgium. The inaugural stage of this year's Tour de France holds the record of most censored houses I've seen on a single cycling stage: I counted more than 50 in 121 miles. By contrast, I counted a grand total of about 10 blurred houses on the entire Vuelta a España.

Then I know the case of a house somewhere in Catalonia, which is censored in earlier photos (https://www.google.es/maps/@41.4452427,1.246079,3a,75y,238.97h,83.06t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4RDRcaeceT-6FsnJKH-eAQ!2e0!5s20170701T000000!7i13312!8i6656), but not in later (https://www.google.es/maps/@41.4452699,1.2458739,3a,75y,170.17h,86.77t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxaK9nhQ7reQ3T0gYrDgPzw!2e0!5s20170701T000000!7i13312!8i6656). Maybe the house changed hands and the new owners asked Mr. Google to stop blurring it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: DAL764 on September 15, 2019, 08:35:26 AM
You'll find a sh!tload of blurred houses in Germany as well, because we are so concerned about privacy (unless it's CCTV, selfies from every room in our house, etc), which is also why StreetView is limited to only a few metropolitan areas with imagery that is almost a decade old.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KEVIN_224 on September 15, 2019, 11:09:58 AM
Odd! It's just that the one I came across in Havertown, PA (just over the city line from Philadelphia) was the first time I had ever seen the blurring.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on September 16, 2019, 03:59:51 AM
You'll find a sh!tload of blurred houses in Germany as well, because we are so concerned about privacy (unless it's CCTV, selfies from every room in our house, etc), which is also why StreetView is limited to only a few metropolitan areas with imagery that is almost a decade old.

Also the reason Mr. Google decided not to take Street View images in Germany anymore. There's nothing beyond the initial rollout.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on September 16, 2019, 08:08:08 AM
Serious question: how do all these people prevent their houses from being looked at in real life?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on September 16, 2019, 12:25:29 PM
Serious question: how do all these people prevent their houses from being looked at in real life?

The internet has an exponentially bigger potential audience, and it's a lot easier to "look at houses", if that interests you, without arousing suspicion. The argument could be made that, if you get your house blurred on Google, then people are curious, and if they live nearby maybe they'll drive by to see what's up. But that might be 5 or 10 people that have now seen your house. Doesn't even touch the billions that could see it online if they wanted to.

So if your objective is maintaining your privacy and reducing the overall number of people viewing your home and property, it's a guaranteed win. I don't think anybody with that attitude cares that much about their own neighbors seeing them - more just random people snooping from thousands of miles away - but I could be wrong.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on September 16, 2019, 01:34:20 PM
I suppose the other question would be: who cares if some random person online can see what the road-facing side of your house looks like?  Especially if they have no idea of who you are and/or that you live in that house?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on September 16, 2019, 07:52:20 PM
Serious question: how do all these people prevent their houses from being looked at in real life?

The internet has an exponentially bigger potential audience, and it's a lot easier to "look at houses", if that interests you, without arousing suspicion. The argument could be made that, if you get your house blurred on Google, then people are curious, and if they live nearby maybe they'll drive by to see what's up. But that might be 5 or 10 people that have now seen your house. Doesn't even touch the billions that could see it online if they wanted to.

But those billions don't want to–only a very view persons will be interested, if any (assuming they even realize what there is to be interested in). On the other hand, the many fewer people who can see the house in person, for the most part, can see it any time the want–once, or even several times, per day.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on September 18, 2019, 12:15:57 PM
I suppose the other question would be: who cares if some random person online can see what the road-facing side of your house looks like?  Especially if they have no idea of who you are and/or that you live in that house?

I suspect in many cases it's the other way around.
That is, they're not worried about you happening to see their house, being curious with what you see, and trying to find out who they are. They're worried about you already knowing information about them (and/or their home/property), possibly from an online presence, from run-ins with the law, from their license plate, etc, and using that to try to track down where they live.


But those billions don't want to–only a very view persons will be interested, if any (assuming they even realize what there is to be interested in). On the other hand, the many fewer people who can see the house in person, for the most part, can see it any time the want–once, or even several times, per day.

Adding to the above point: you're likely to feel safe in your own neighborhood, having shared knowledge about the people who live there and being fairly aware of what is and isn't suspicious relative to normal. Online, though, there's a lot more unknowns. You don't know who's looking at what, when they're doing it, and with what motive. Sure, it's usually benign, but you have no way of knowing, tracking, or controlling it if it isn't.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on September 19, 2019, 09:55:22 PM
But those billions don't want to–only a very view persons will be interested, if any (assuming they even realize what there is to be interested in). On the other hand, the many fewer people who can see the house in person, for the most part, can see it any time the want–once, or even several times, per day.

Adding to the above point: you're likely to feel safe in your own neighborhood, having shared knowledge about the people who live there and being fairly aware of what is and isn't suspicious relative to normal. Online, though, there's a lot more unknowns. You don't know who's looking at what, when they're doing it, and with what motive. Sure, it's usually benign, but you have no way of knowing, tracking, or controlling it if it isn't.

So those two points don't go together well. But regardless, the question is just what do these people do to prevent their house from being looked at in real life? I'm not really looking at how safe people feel, because that's something that's probably statistically measurable, independent of feelings.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on September 20, 2019, 12:33:05 PM
Quote
But those billions don't want to–only a very view persons will be interested, if any (assuming they even realize what there is to be interested in). On the other hand, the many fewer people who can see the house in person, for the most part, can see it any time the want–once, or even several times, per day.
Adding to the above point: you're likely to feel safe in your own neighborhood, having shared knowledge about the people who live there and being fairly aware of what is and isn't suspicious relative to normal. Online, though, there's a lot more unknowns. You don't know who's looking at what, when they're doing it, and with what motive. Sure, it's usually benign, but you have no way of knowing, tracking, or controlling it if it isn't.
So those two points don't go together well. But regardless, the question is just what do these people do to prevent their house from being looked at in real life? I'm not really looking at how safe people feel, because that's something that's probably statistically measurable, independent of feelings.

Fixed quote for you.
I think the answer is, they don't try to stop people from looking at it in real life, because they're probably an internet rando that doesn't care about real life as much as whatever's going on in the far and/or extreme corners of the internet. I could be wrong, though.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on September 20, 2019, 11:06:45 PM
I think the answer is, they don't try to stop people from looking at it in real life, because they're probably an internet rando that doesn't care about real life as much as whatever's going on in the far and/or extreme corners of the internet. I could be wrong, though.

Well, that can't be*. There's no way somebody would go to such lengths to prevent their house being seen by evildoers who are a great physical distance removed, but not by evildoers who are literally standing right next to it.

*(It might be, but it can't be.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: planxtymcgillicuddy on September 21, 2019, 04:46:23 PM
Psychedelic GSV in rural southeast Alabama (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.2830581,-85.1678047,3a,75y,206.2h,71.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svxKyCK2zyO4BRe0PgwqJCg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: DAL764 on September 22, 2019, 07:15:44 AM
Psychedelic GSV in rural southeast Alabama (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.2830581,-85.1678047,3a,75y,206.2h,71.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svxKyCK2zyO4BRe0PgwqJCg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)

So that's where D12 did the outside shots for their 'Purple Hills' music video.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tchafe1978 on September 23, 2019, 08:16:23 PM
Psychedelic GSV in rural southeast Alabama (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.2830581,-85.1678047,3a,75y,206.2h,71.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svxKyCK2zyO4BRe0PgwqJCg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LM117 on October 20, 2019, 12:50:57 PM
At the Stagecoach Road/North Parker Street intersection in Elm City, NC.

WTF?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on October 21, 2019, 02:11:36 AM
At the Stagecoach Road/North Parker Street intersection in Elm City, NC.

WTF?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38)

Well, that's one way to move a utility pole.

Also, do you think they have enough stop ahead signs (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8227223,-77.8579413,3a,22.2y,20.64h,89.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slTEBgFwhk2V3n3mLkMbC-Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)? Jesus.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on October 21, 2019, 08:01:37 AM
Also, do you think they have enough stop ahead signs (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8227223,-77.8579413,3a,22.2y,20.64h,89.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slTEBgFwhk2V3n3mLkMbC-Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)? Jesus.

https://goo.gl/maps/kv1iTSsynKx9hoQi9

At least they're giving plenty of warning for it!  I'm mostly used to no advanced notice of a new traffic pattern whatsoever!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: inkyatari on October 23, 2019, 09:30:03 AM
Not technically streetview, but I love this.  Glacier National Park, near Apgar. Rotate the image clockwise...

https://goo.gl/maps/awtXsnCXA11biBNX6
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brandon on October 23, 2019, 10:20:01 AM

Cue Jeff Foxworthy!

You might be a redneck if...

At the Stagecoach Road/North Parker Street intersection in Elm City, NC.

WTF?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on October 23, 2019, 12:51:41 PM
I suppose the other question would be: who cares if some random person online can see what the road-facing side of your house looks like?  Especially if they have no idea of who you are and/or that you live in that house?

I suspect in many cases it's the other way around.
That is, they're not worried about you happening to see their house, being curious with what you see, and trying to find out who they are. They're worried about you already knowing information about them (and/or their home/property), possibly from an online presence, from run-ins with the law, from their license plate, etc, and using that to try to track down where they live.

Wouldn't that be easier to do from the county assessor's website, rather than Google Street View?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LM117 on October 23, 2019, 01:26:16 PM

Cue Jeff Foxworthy!

You might be a redneck if...

At the Stagecoach Road/North Parker Street intersection in Elm City, NC.

WTF?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38)

:-D

I grew up not far from there and during my 14 years there, I've seen some shit, but I've never seen a pole moved like that!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on October 24, 2019, 02:13:40 PM
I suppose the other question would be: who cares if some random person online can see what the road-facing side of your house looks like?  Especially if they have no idea of who you are and/or that you live in that house?
I suspect in many cases it's the other way around.
That is, they're not worried about you happening to see their house, being curious with what you see, and trying to find out who they are. They're worried about you already knowing information about them (and/or their home/property), possibly from an online presence, from run-ins with the law, from their license plate, etc, and using that to try to track down where they live.
Wouldn't that be easier to do from the county assessor's website, rather than Google Street View?

Maybe, but you just can't be too cautious.  ;-)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on October 26, 2019, 05:34:03 PM
The image stitching algorithm that Google uses duplicated this no parking sign (https://goo.gl/maps/fYd31wPRaGjYcoDG6). Move backward or forward, and you'll see that there is, in fact, only one sign there. It's nuts how real the error looks.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: planxtymcgillicuddy on October 26, 2019, 09:01:24 PM
The cameras found a wasp (https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0323572,-78.9634216,3a,75y,279.75h,71.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7LQp5TCBFKWgx1Tf4g3iXA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) in Durham
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brandon on November 01, 2019, 02:19:38 PM
Why look for an entrance ramp when you can enter via the exit slip ramp!
https://goo.gl/maps/FkpfDFCnnnFmwwAU9 followed by
https://goo.gl/maps/e5j3n4feVG1359Tg7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on December 12, 2019, 01:06:42 AM
I found something new that's crazy. It's called "Google Timeline," and they make it impossible to fix any errors.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on December 12, 2019, 02:10:35 PM
I found something new that's crazy. It's called "Google Timeline," and they make it impossible to fix any errors.
Yeesh.  Checked out mine and it is quite wrong with routes and sometimes locations due to my visiting, say, a regional office of some sort and Google says I went all the way to HQ.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ozarkman417 on December 12, 2019, 07:40:07 PM
The camera was tilted (https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2035817,-93.4083985,3a,75y,121.94h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOyPCgVZIBw3pPXiuCJMY4g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192), and therefore the road ahead cannot be seen. The other side of the highway has below-average image quality.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on December 12, 2019, 08:49:35 PM
At the Stagecoach Road/North Parker Street intersection in Elm City, NC.

WTF?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tajUewYUHgqiHYp38)

Well, that's one way to move a utility pole.

Also, do you think they have enough stop ahead signs (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8227223,-77.8579413,3a,22.2y,20.64h,89.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slTEBgFwhk2V3n3mLkMbC-Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)? Jesus.

I for one, would like additional warning that an impromptu caber toss may occur.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on December 14, 2019, 10:05:15 PM
The image stitching algorithm that Google uses duplicated this no parking sign (https://goo.gl/maps/fYd31wPRaGjYcoDG6). Move backward or forward, and you'll see that there is, in fact, only one sign there. It's nuts how real the error looks.

I came across one on NY 481 (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1734207,-76.2102094,3a,75y,2.67h,89.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siaxtglL9d513mDphSosjfw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) last night.  I thought of your post when I saw it, so I clicked around a bit to see if there were actually two signs or not.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on December 14, 2019, 10:34:13 PM
The image stitching algorithm that Google uses duplicated this no parking sign (https://goo.gl/maps/fYd31wPRaGjYcoDG6). Move backward or forward, and you'll see that there is, in fact, only one sign there. It's nuts how real the error looks.
I came across one on NY 481 (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1734207,-76.2102094,3a,75y,2.67h,89.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siaxtglL9d513mDphSosjfw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) last night.  I thought of your post when I saw it, so I clicked around a bit to see if there were actually two signs or not.

What's amazing is that if you move forward one spot, you can see where it almost did it again (https://goo.gl/maps/noEuxNr9FGqYjyVx8).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brian556 on December 19, 2019, 12:49:26 AM
Here, it looks like a driver is about to be hit by a train. However, if you move back or forward you can see that the train is moving away from the crossing. It has 2 locos at the rear, which is odd. The driver just went the second the trailing loco cleared the crossing

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0186666,-86.0742041,3a,25.3y,359.46h,91.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd627fdeaQBk1oO9IX4WB7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0186666,-86.0742041,3a,25.3y,359.46h,91.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd627fdeaQBk1oO9IX4WB7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on December 19, 2019, 08:10:31 AM
It has 2 locos at the rear, which is odd.

Not weird at all. A lot of trains nowadays have locomotives at the rear, called "distributed power units" (DPUs). They help keep the slack minimal, especially on hilly rail lines, which reduces the load on the leading units (and couplings) by pushing the train from behind.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on December 19, 2019, 08:24:17 AM
Here, it looks like a driver is about to be hit by a train. However, if you move back or forward you can see that the train is moving away from the crossing. It has 2 locos at the rear, which is odd. The driver just went the second the trailing loco cleared the crossing

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0186666,-86.0742041,3a,25.3y,359.46h,91.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd627fdeaQBk1oO9IX4WB7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0186666,-86.0742041,3a,25.3y,359.46h,91.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd627fdeaQBk1oO9IX4WB7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

A different animal, but NJ Transit's Corridor lines (and I imagine others) run either push or pull, so the engine can be either at the front or the back.  There's generally about 10 passenger cars for one engine.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on December 19, 2019, 01:50:11 PM
Do train engines work just as well in reverse as forwards?  It looks like they're pointed backwards.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MNHighwayMan on December 19, 2019, 06:08:29 PM
Do train engines work just as well in reverse as forwards?  It looks like they're pointed backwards.

Yes. Diesel-electric locomotives are not the same as a car, since they don't have a transmission. The engine in a locomotive produces energy that runs a generator, which supplies electricity to traction motors to turn the axles. These work just as well either forwards or backwards.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on December 19, 2019, 10:49:44 PM
Always wondered why a locomotive is turned backwards behind the lead one or whatnot.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: catch22 on December 20, 2019, 02:38:40 PM
Always wondered why a locomotive is turned backwards behind the lead one or whatnot.

It's so they never have to turn the locomotive pair around in a switchyard, either on a y-track or turntable.  They can connect them to the head end of a train going, say, either east or west out of the yard and then configure the pair so that whichever is the lead loco has control of both.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Ben114 on December 21, 2019, 11:12:14 PM
Not super crazy, but when NY was numbering the exits on the Taconic, they drove by.

https://goo.gl/maps/zsUrso8XKYacXPkbA
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Terry on December 22, 2019, 09:03:07 PM
Bison/Buffalo on and by the road along the MacKenzie Highway/NWT-3:

https://goo.gl/maps/vgiEmkzPJkK2x1kw8 (2 more on the other side)
https://goo.gl/maps/xEhjuqwKmSyngnct6 (this one's acting as a road block)

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KEVIN_224 on December 23, 2019, 09:23:43 PM
Not super crazy, but when NY was numbering the exits on the Taconic, they drove by.

https://goo.gl/maps/zsUrso8XKYacXPkbA

I note the other signs on the truck near them. Pan forward like 2 frames.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ozarkman417 on December 26, 2019, 07:47:33 PM
I found what could be This (https://www.kfvs12.com/story/30482079/1-dead-in-hwy-60-rollover-crash-near-morehouse/) fatal crash near Morehouse, MO on US-60. Satellite Image of the crash (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Morehouse,+MO/@36.8385295,-89.7226742,168m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8878420d397c7003:0x8cbb09d065b3d58e!8m2!3d36.8472748!4d-89.6853599)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Terry on December 27, 2019, 01:07:59 AM
The roadside memorial for the Humboldt Broncos after a collision at the intersection of SK-35 and SK-335, where 16 people were killed when a semi carrying peat moss blew through the stop sign on 335 going W/B and in front of the team bus going N/B.

Turn to the SE corner of the intersection and you'll see 6 crosses in memory of a family of 6 killed in 1997, when their pickup blew through the intersection going E/B and slammed into a grain truck going S/B.

https://goo.gl/maps/vqEZWG5aFrt3GiTX8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/humboldt-broncos-crash-site-intersection-1.4610707
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: mrsman on December 27, 2019, 11:44:32 AM
The roadside memorial for the Humboldt Broncos after a collision at the intersection of SK-35 and SK-335, where 16 people were killed when a semi carrying peat moss blew through the stop sign on 335 going W/B and in front of the team bus going N/B.

Turn to the SE corner of the intersection and you'll see 6 crosses in memory of a family of 6 killed in 1997, when their pickup blew through the intersection going E/B and slammed into a grain truck going S/B.

https://goo.gl/maps/vqEZWG5aFrt3GiTX8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/humboldt-broncos-crash-site-intersection-1.4610707

How very sad.  Two large collisions in the same corner, obviously because the stop sign was ignored by an errant driver.

Are there visibility issues in bad weather?

Has the local gov't looked into safety improvements? 4-way stop? Roundabout?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Terry on December 27, 2019, 01:16:46 PM
The roadside memorial for the Humboldt Broncos after a collision at the intersection of SK-35 and SK-335, where 16 people were killed when a semi carrying peat moss blew through the stop sign on 335 going W/B and in front of the team bus going N/B.

Turn to the SE corner of the intersection and you'll see 6 crosses in memory of a family of 6 killed in 1997, when their pickup blew through the intersection going E/B and slammed into a grain truck going S/B.

https://goo.gl/maps/vqEZWG5aFrt3GiTX8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/humboldt-broncos-crash-site-intersection-1.4610707

How very sad.  Two large collisions in the same corner, obviously because the stop sign was ignored by an errant driver.

Are there visibility issues in bad weather?

Has the local gov't looked into safety improvements? 4-way stop? Roundabout?

In both cases, the weather seemed to be good. The first crash happened in June 1997 and the Broncos crash in April 2018. The GSV photo is dated August 2018, which is why there are wreaths, flowers and people appearing in the shot.

In the 1997 crash, there was a service station at the pullout, which was torn down after that. But the driver of the grain truck saw the pickup coming but never expected it to not stop. In the 2018 crash, there's a stand of trees on the SE corner that would've blocked both drivers from seeing each other until just before the intersection. But, there was nothing blocking the stop signs or any "Stop Ahead" warnings in either direction on 335. Just plain old driver inattention.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/scene-of-broncos-crash-haunted-sask-truckers-for-decades-1.4612253
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BamaZeus on January 08, 2020, 04:22:29 PM
We were finally catching up on the Brady Bunch house renovation show on HGTV.  Just for jollies, I pulled up the address on street view just to see, and the camera car went by in the midst of construction in January and May 2019.

You can definitely tell the difference from pre-construction to 2019 and the subtle differences of what we saw on tv.  No sign of any of the actors or the Property Brothers in any of the pics.

https://goo.gl/maps/sxaWN5imWqFjqbNm7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Chris on January 17, 2020, 01:23:51 PM
Flying rabbit in Poland: https://www.google.com/maps/@49.9179922,19.9373163,3a,42.9y,246.74h,99.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqky8dDlC-sQk6JPk_WK7Yw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


(https://i.imgur.com/jnlJNAZ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/35rQSrN.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on January 17, 2020, 01:38:07 PM
That's INSANE!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on January 17, 2020, 02:09:19 PM
That's INSANE!

It appears the bunny was launched by the Google Car.  It appears in one of the images strewn upon the ground as if it just took a hard landing.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on January 17, 2020, 03:43:36 PM
I don't know, man.  The European hare can jump 10 to 15 feet in the air.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on January 17, 2020, 03:50:50 PM
I don't know, man.  The European hare can jump 10 to 15 feet in the air.

If that’s the case he didn’t stick the landing.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on January 17, 2020, 08:38:36 PM
That's INSANE!

It appears the bunny was launched by the Google Car.  It appears in one of the images strewn upon the ground as if it just took a hard landing.
If you look at the sequence of images, that's between being on the ground and being in the air.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 12, 2020, 05:17:02 PM
In the Spanish-speaking internet there is a well known meme of a graffiti saying "Emosido engañado", a badly written form of Hemos sido engañados ("We have been tricked"). Mr. Google managed to get a photo of the original (https://www.google.es/maps/@37.3399896,-5.8502686,3a,46.7y,120.56h,85.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sski03mT779DVIxaTwc5-nA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) before it was removed.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on February 16, 2020, 11:09:38 PM
I found something new that's crazy. It's called "Google Timeline," and they make it impossible to fix any errors.
Yeesh.  Checked out mine and it is quite wrong with routes and sometimes locations due to my visiting, say, a regional office of some sort and Google says I went all the way to HQ.
Mine is telling me I went all around Jacksonville, when in reality I got off at US Alternate 1 as well as US 17 over the Trout River, and it's not letting me eliminate roads I didn't go anywhere near.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 22, 2020, 06:35:56 PM
Truckers' jackpot (https://www.google.es/maps/@33.9317089,-116.8293527,3a,65.8y,290.63h,95.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSML2fwN8qHehWP2RhPpRnA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). Any closed weigh station is like lottery won for truckers, but the Banning scales are noriously infamous among them, as they will issue a fine for the most minor scratch.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: cl94 on February 22, 2020, 09:26:12 PM
Truckers' jackpot (https://www.google.es/maps/@33.9317089,-116.8293527,3a,65.8y,290.63h,95.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSML2fwN8qHehWP2RhPpRnA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). Any closed weigh station is like lottery won for truckers, but the Banning scales are noriously infamous among them, as they will issue a fine for the most minor scratch.

What? Weigh stations are closed more often than not in much of the United States.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 24, 2020, 02:10:11 PM

Truckers' jackpot (https://www.google.es/maps/@33.9317089,-116.8293527,3a,65.8y,290.63h,95.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSML2fwN8qHehWP2RhPpRnA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). Any closed weigh station is like lottery won for truckers, but the Banning scales are noriously infamous among them, as they will issue a fine for the most minor scratch.

What? Weigh stations are closed more often than not in much of the United States.

Yeah, I could count on two hands the number of open weigh stations I've seen in the last dozen years.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Throckmorton on February 26, 2020, 08:06:22 AM
The wreck of the Costa Concordia shortly after she was stranded in January, 2012.   
   
https://goo.gl/maps/3pvLcm31vXmdeWwGA (https://goo.gl/maps/3pvLcm31vXmdeWwGA)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 26, 2020, 03:58:08 PM
What? Weigh stations are closed more often than not in much of the United States.

Yeah, I could count on two hands the number of open weigh stations I've seen in the last dozen years.

Wow, I guess I had a bad impression from watching too much Big Rig Travels. There's one weigh station down the road from me (although very rare, they aren't unknown here in Europe), and last week I saw it open for the first time ever.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on February 29, 2020, 06:08:19 PM
As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).

Ego stroke update, I was nowhere to be found in the latest rollout (the former location still has 2013 imagery, the latter does have August 2019 but I'm not there).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Verlanka on March 01, 2020, 05:08:17 AM
As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).

Ego stroke update, I was nowhere to be found in the latest rollout (the former location still has 2013 imagery, the latter does have August 2019 but I'm not there).
Guess Google must have edited you out or something.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on March 01, 2020, 07:12:27 AM
As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).

Ego stroke update, I was nowhere to be found in the latest rollout (the former location still has 2013 imagery, the latter does have August 2019 but I'm not there).
Guess Google must have edited you out or something.

Or had gone down the street a few times, especially to get from point A to point B. If the GSV driver lived in the neighborhood or nearby they could possibly be going down the same streets dozens of times to commute to where they need to start recording.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on March 05, 2020, 09:05:37 PM
Here, it looks like a driver is about to be hit by a train. However, if you move back or forward you can see that the train is moving away from the crossing. It has 2 locos at the rear, which is odd. The driver just went the second the trailing loco cleared the crossing

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0186666,-86.0742041,3a,25.3y,359.46h,91.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd627fdeaQBk1oO9IX4WB7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0186666,-86.0742041,3a,25.3y,359.46h,91.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd627fdeaQBk1oO9IX4WB7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
I'm not exactly pleased with the fact that they have a railroad crossing at the ramps of an interchange. I was struggling to get FDOT to avoid that once they put an interchange with US 41 and FL 54 in Land O'Lakes.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 89 on March 06, 2020, 09:22:10 AM
Isn’t this kind of thing normally against interstate standards? I wonder if ALDOT was able to get away with the I-59 example above because the railroad there is between the at-grades at Cleveland and 5th.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on March 06, 2020, 09:35:19 AM
Isn’t this kind of thing normally against interstate standards? I wonder if ALDOT was able to get away with the I-59 example above because the railroad there is between the at-grades at Cleveland and 5th.

I would suspect that was very specifically designed to avoid violations here.  The street between the two local roadways means it's not part of the ramp system for the interchange, even though it clearly functions as part of it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on March 06, 2020, 04:37:17 PM
I found an August 2007 image of a truck carrying a BGS for the Garden State Parkway. (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.5358774,-74.3440161,3a,75y,117.81h,108.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOi8lBhlxGk5z3m-z8PRheg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on March 22, 2020, 03:38:32 AM
"Crazy?" I don't know. But odd, I guess. Unusual for sure.

In Bellevue, WA: a white "Apple Maps Look Around" Subaru Impreza Hatchback. Judging by the imagery, the Street View vehicle was waiting for a green light when the Impreza pulled up.

(street view image (https://goo.gl/maps/RBQ8Cqs1Mu5sU6oT6))

I don't have an Apple device, but it would be interesting if someone could pull up the Apple Maps "look around" imagery for this location, to see what was captured. Address (roughly) is 15899 SE 63rd St, Bellevue, WA (though it's at the corner of SE 63rd St, Cougar Mountain Way, & Lakemont Blvd SE).

(https://i.imgur.com/c3h6Bk5.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on March 23, 2020, 05:43:24 PM
This also happened at 85 Sloane Avenue in Toronto in the Jun 2019 streetview. (The Apple Maps Impreza is on the right of the image)

(https://i.imgur.com/ZJvbyGr.png)

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7297442,-79.3096386,3a,15.1y,11.58h,85.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sfYXUagT6ZhzVJafXYZQIoQ!2e0!5s20190601T000000!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on March 23, 2020, 05:46:15 PM
I see absolutely nothing unusual in that image.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on March 23, 2020, 07:15:09 PM
I see absolutely nothing unusual in that image.

Usually you see a similar thing when the car goes by a mirrored window.  Great algorithms think alike.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on March 23, 2020, 09:02:59 PM
I see absolutely nothing unusual in that image.

It's just the two competing services running into each other. I've only seen one Street View car in my entire life, and I walk every day; gotta be fairly unusual for Apple Maps and Google Maps to run into each other while taking photos.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on March 24, 2020, 04:26:35 AM
I remember seeing this happening with Bing Streetside instead in New York City. Both images were published, and Microsoft blurred out Mr. Google's car.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on March 28, 2020, 06:39:41 AM
I just found something really weird. An image of somewhere in the Persian Gulf in a gallery related to Middle Island, New York!
https://goo.gl/maps/R1msE6ZZWEsZaCyJA

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on March 28, 2020, 02:48:47 PM
Two GSVs street racing (though probably at the speed limit and not recklessly (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4095001,-71.5316837,3a,75y,96.96h,81.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D197.23184%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on April 02, 2020, 05:54:12 PM
New Jersey Turnpike: You can see Google Car driver's hand taking a ticket. (https://goo.gl/maps/VuKZzgZ6ncrREyKp8)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on April 02, 2020, 06:10:57 PM
New Jersey Turnpike: You can see Google Car driver's hand taking a ticket. (https://goo.gl/maps/VuKZzgZ6ncrREyKp8)

Hippie!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on April 05, 2020, 12:28:31 PM
Two GSVs street racing (though probably at the speed limit and not recklessly (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4095001,-71.5316837,3a,75y,96.96h,81.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D197.23184%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)

I spy a small step ladder in the back seat, presumably for inspecting, cleaning, or adjusting the camera and apparatus.

I wonder how easy it is to remove that assembly? No, my first thought was servicing the vehicle on a lift or low bridge, not the street value of the Street View gear.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on April 05, 2020, 12:45:02 PM
Two GSVs street racing (though probably at the speed limit and not recklessly (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4095001,-71.5316837,3a,75y,96.96h,81.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D197.23184%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)

Or... "One vehicle passing another", which happens billions of times a day.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on April 05, 2020, 12:46:56 PM
Two GSVs street racing (though probably at the speed limit and not recklessly (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4095001,-71.5316837,3a,75y,96.96h,81.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D197.23184%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)

Or... "One vehicle passing another", which happens billions of times a day.
...both of which happen to be GSV. I dare you to find another example.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ozarkman417 on April 05, 2020, 01:41:30 PM
Two GSVs street racing (though probably at the speed limit and not recklessly (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4095001,-71.5316837,3a,75y,96.96h,81.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D197.23184%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)
Google's logo updated in mid 2015 and here is this vehicle in 2018 using the logo from prior to that date.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on April 05, 2020, 04:24:24 PM
Two GSVs street racing (though probably at the speed limit and not recklessly (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4095001,-71.5316837,3a,75y,96.96h,81.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DepyoZEoHNirGMQzAwN_pxg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D197.23184%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)
Google's logo updated in mid 2015 and here is this vehicle in 2018 using the logo from prior to that date.

True, but the Impreza hatch that the cameras are attached to were made prior to 2011. I'm guessing they just haven't got around to repainting them yet.

The newer Hyundai Elantra hatch models that they are now using have the new paint job with the new logo.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on April 18, 2020, 05:18:25 PM
Here's something crazy; I think this might be the lowest clearance of any bridge in the country:

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.008879,-85.331907,3a,75y,165.11h,86.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spi5PgTD73Np-19Bcxtb64Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.008879,-85.331907,3a,75y,165.11h,86.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spi5PgTD73Np-19Bcxtb64Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

Forget about driving a truck under that thing. There are people who couldn't fit underneath it!

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on April 19, 2020, 04:35:55 AM
Sorry, that is too high: https://www.google.es/maps/@49.4408942,1.0828414,3a,15y,262.44h,78.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shtVAACxqonQYX_0zZgWR_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.es/maps/@49.4408942,1.0828414,3a,15y,262.44h,78.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shtVAACxqonQYX_0zZgWR_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) (Okay, it's not in the USA but in France. For reference, this underpass has a clearance of 5' 11", and the bridge in the post above is 1.9 m)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on April 20, 2020, 09:51:50 PM
Sorry, that is too high: https://www.google.es/maps/@49.4408942,1.0828414,3a,15y,262.44h,78.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shtVAACxqonQYX_0zZgWR_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.es/maps/@49.4408942,1.0828414,3a,15y,262.44h,78.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shtVAACxqonQYX_0zZgWR_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) (Okay, it's not in the USA but in France. For reference, this underpass has a clearance of 5' 11", and the bridge in the post above is 1.9 m)
5'11"? I'd have to bend down a bit.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on April 20, 2020, 11:36:56 PM
Sorry, that is too high: https://www.google.es/maps/@49.4408942,1.0828414,3a,15y,262.44h,78.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shtVAACxqonQYX_0zZgWR_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.es/maps/@49.4408942,1.0828414,3a,15y,262.44h,78.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shtVAACxqonQYX_0zZgWR_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) (Okay, it's not in the USA but in France. For reference, this underpass has a clearance of 5' 11", and the bridge in the post above is 1.9 m)
5'11"? I'd have to bend down a bit.

My hair would breeze the ceiling! It's rare that I get to say that.

Good thing Europe has reasonably-sized vehicles. 100% chance of that ceiling being struck in America within an hour of opening. Though, yes, I can see that the bloody French have hit it too :-D No country is exempt from idiots unable to read signs or know how tall their car is.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on April 21, 2020, 03:54:32 PM
Sorry, that is too high: link (https://www.google.es/maps/@49.4408942,1.0828414,3a,15y,262.44h,78.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shtVAACxqonQYX_0zZgWR_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) (Okay, it's not in the USA but in France. For reference, this underpass has a clearance of 5' 11", and the bridge in the post above is 1.9 m)
5'11"? I'd have to bend down a bit.
My hair would breeze the ceiling! It's rare that I get to say that.

Not quite so rare for me. At 6'3", I've had to duck through doorways a few times :D
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on April 23, 2020, 02:26:20 AM
Sorry, that is too high: link (https://www.google.es/maps/@49.4408942,1.0828414,3a,15y,262.44h,78.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shtVAACxqonQYX_0zZgWR_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) (Okay, it's not in the USA but in France. For reference, this underpass has a clearance of 5' 11", and the bridge in the post above is 1.9 m)
5'11"? I'd have to bend down a bit.
My hair would breeze the ceiling! It's rare that I get to say that.

Not quite so rare for me. At 6'3", I've had to duck through doorways a few times :D

I got a cousin who's just shy of 7'. Most of my life, it seems like he's been ducking down :-D. But the man is very modest, driving a Nissan Cube and all. I feel for him, since I know the world was designed closer to my height (5'10").
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SoDakInterstateEnthusiast on April 23, 2020, 12:24:25 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8419352,-103.5646282,3a,75y,111.89h,75.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOkMjTCG2f4qTc5po7ixkww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Just... pan slightly to the left.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on April 23, 2020, 09:13:14 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8419352,-103.5646282,3a,75y,111.89h,75.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOkMjTCG2f4qTc5po7ixkww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Just... pan slightly to the left.

Move around a bit and you can experience "streaming" media.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KEVIN_224 on April 27, 2020, 11:36:19 AM
The Black Hills are streaming with...liquid gold? :paranoid:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on April 28, 2020, 09:34:45 PM
There is a famous 11' 8'' bridge on YouTube with box trucks crashing into it
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on April 29, 2020, 12:36:22 PM
This one:
Not crazy, but one can figure the Google car, including the camera mast, is shorter than 11 ft 8 in because it fits below the Norfolk Southern/Gregson St overpass (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9991094,-78.9101499,3a,75y,128.5h,101.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf5Tw7cZModhbf7jZhDjesQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) :sombrero:.

It has recently been raised to 12' 4" (3.75 m), though.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on April 29, 2020, 09:13:21 PM
As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).

Ego stroke update, I was nowhere to be found in the latest rollout (the former location still has 2013 imagery, the latter does have August 2019 but I'm not there).

Scratch that: I did finally make it
(https://i.imgur.com/BdOaRAe.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on April 30, 2020, 07:07:54 PM
Streetview imagery of 4th Avenue in Anchorage (https://goo.gl/maps/rWLGvsAoeJXijm8f8) is taken by a sled dog racer on trucked-in snow.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SectorZ on May 01, 2020, 11:54:25 AM
As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).

Ego stroke update, I was nowhere to be found in the latest rollout (the former location still has 2013 imagery, the latter does have August 2019 but I'm not there).

Scratch that: I did finally make it
(https://i.imgur.com/BdOaRAe.png)

I've had two pass me cycling in my life and for some reason those didn't make the cut.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on May 01, 2020, 01:49:24 PM
I've also passed a Streetview car and I got captured.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 01, 2020, 02:00:41 PM
You crazy things.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on May 02, 2020, 12:54:59 AM
Here's a good one that I posted to another thread that fits here as well:

Depends on your idea of "scenery" (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1086429,-79.04599,3a,75y,359.93h,88.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sN81YJqS567eJpgU5Wl2Jdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1)...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadrunner75 on May 02, 2020, 01:26:51 PM
As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).

Ego stroke update, I was nowhere to be found in the latest rollout (the former location still has 2013 imagery, the latter does have August 2019 but I'm not there).

Scratch that: I did finally make it
Enjoy it while you can.  I made it sitting in my car waiting for a site meeting in Jersey City a few years ago, but alas another Streetview car eventually came by and erased me from existence.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 02, 2020, 02:03:17 PM
I made it sitting in my car

Hey, keep things PG rated, OK?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadrunner75 on May 02, 2020, 02:16:13 PM
I made it sitting in my car

Hey, keep things PG rated, OK?
No worries....Google blurred everything out.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 02, 2020, 02:45:39 PM


I made it sitting in my car

Hey, keep things PG rated, OK?

No worries....Google blurred everything out.

:bigass:  Nice comeback!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on May 02, 2020, 11:40:31 PM
As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).

Ego stroke update, I was nowhere to be found in the latest rollout (the former location still has 2013 imagery, the latter does have August 2019 but I'm not there).

Scratch that: I did finally make it
Enjoy it while you can.  I made it sitting in my car waiting for a site meeting in Jersey City a few years ago, but alas another Streetview car eventually came by and erased me from existence.
You're not even in the historical imagery?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadrunner75 on May 03, 2020, 03:05:57 PM
As of this past Saturday, I can confirm the Streetview car, at least the one driving around western Monmouth County, NJ, is just a tealish CR-V. It passed by me whilst I was out on my bike twice (once on Millstone Road south of 33 and again on 527 near Millhurst).

Ego stroke update, I was nowhere to be found in the latest rollout (the former location still has 2013 imagery, the latter does have August 2019 but I'm not there).

Scratch that: I did finally make it
Enjoy it while you can.  I made it sitting in my car waiting for a site meeting in Jersey City a few years ago, but alas another Streetview car eventually came by and erased me from existence.
You're not even in the historical imagery?
You're right, I'm still there.  But I've been demoted to archive status.  Bummer.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on May 07, 2020, 01:28:10 AM
I've also passed a Streetview car and I got captured.
I drove behind one a few years ago. I don't know if I was captured, but I really don't care.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 07, 2020, 11:45:48 AM

I've also passed a Streetview car and I got captured.

I drove behind one a few years ago. I don't know if I was captured, but I really don't care.

Should have rammed him.  THEN we'd have something crazy to talk about!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on May 07, 2020, 04:11:42 PM
Well, GSV got me once...it's only on historical images for a few moments, then it found another neighborhood to drive into.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49868604412_44fdfdd3a4_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iYHCGm)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on May 07, 2020, 06:48:15 PM
Well, GSV got me once...it's only on historical images for a few moments, then it found another neighborhood to drive into.

[clipped]

Not sure we have access to that link.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on May 08, 2020, 02:46:07 PM

I've also passed a Streetview car and I got captured.

I drove behind one a few years ago. I don't know if I was captured, but I really don't care.

Should have rammed him.  THEN we'd have something crazy to talk about!
Nope. Sorry. The closest thing to a crazy story was the fact that I was driving one of my brothers and my father to a nearby Rural King, and told my brother about how a GSV image of the 167th Street el station on the 4 train inspired me to take this picture (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:167th_Street_(IRT_Jerome_Avenue_Line)_from_Gerard_Avenue.JPG). One mention of the location and my brother asked why with slight revulsion, and my father laughed at me out of pity.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on May 15, 2020, 04:49:52 PM
Uhh. . . that's a way to attract attention.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.0818675,-91.9394867,3a,15.6y,101.23h,90.21t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sw4EMMQncsjfpPo9f-pNMSQ!2e0!5s20190401T000000!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ozarkman417 on May 15, 2020, 04:56:38 PM
GSV captured my track team in a certain location, but I did not appear in it. Even though the faces were blurred out, its not enough to make them completely unrecognizable.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on May 19, 2020, 09:44:49 PM
On Royal Brougham Way over the railroad tracks by Safeco Field they took a picture of a bicyclist.  The software fuzzed out the center of both bicycle wheels but left the rider's face fully visible.  They've since built a bridge over the tracks, and the old imagery is unavailable.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on May 20, 2020, 04:04:33 AM
On Royal Brougham Way over the railroad tracks by Safeco Field they took a picture of a bicyclist.  The software fuzzed out the center of both bicycle wheels but left the rider's face fully visible.  They've since built a bridge over the tracks, and the old imagery is unavailable.

You can still get to it with some careful clicking. Is this around the timeframe you are referring? I don't see any cyclists:

https://goo.gl/maps/9eACndW7DhXpd9EFA
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on May 20, 2020, 11:22:06 PM
On Royal Brougham Way over the railroad tracks by Safeco Field they took a picture of a bicyclist.  The software fuzzed out the center of both bicycle wheels but left the rider's face fully visible.  They've since built a bridge over the tracks, and the old imagery is unavailable.

You can still get to it with some careful clicking. Is this around the timeframe you are referring? I don't see any cyclists:

https://goo.gl/maps/9eACndW7DhXpd9EFA

I believe he was right at the railroad crossing, and this image isn't old enough.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on May 21, 2020, 10:53:34 AM
You should see the complaint I saw about the Google Timeline:
https://support.google.com/maps/thread/11757668?hl=en&msgid=22947789

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on June 03, 2020, 11:45:37 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/P3tN2QzUTPQLKFd7A

Even though it is the side of a truck, much of the text is blurred out, but the things that sort-of look like human faces are left visible.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 12, 2020, 10:36:07 PM
Not sure what's going on here (https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8108077,-96.8393609,3a,17.2y,346.15h,83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWo2cIdSigJLfzGkAfWagdw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1), but those are some pretty massive knapsacks, and they're on the interstate heading south, so anything's possible, really!!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on June 13, 2020, 02:00:49 PM
I found this rainbow on I-10 east of Van Horn, TX, against a massive 2015 rainstorm. The sun coming from behind just makes it all better.

https://www.google.pl/maps/@31.0446664,-104.7712242,3a,75y,79.08h,96.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfsWHaAB2BEklz94d5lIWMA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Any other great Street View weather captures?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on June 13, 2020, 02:02:43 PM
Not sure what's going on here (https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8108077,-96.8393609,3a,17.2y,346.15h,83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWo2cIdSigJLfzGkAfWagdw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1), but those are some pretty massive knapsacks, and they're on the interstate heading south, so anything's possible, really!!

Illegal immigrants from Canada! With a dog on a major interstate corridor...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 15, 2020, 11:17:59 AM
Not sure what's going on here (https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8108077,-96.8393609,3a,17.2y,346.15h,83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWo2cIdSigJLfzGkAfWagdw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1), but those are some pretty massive knapsacks, and they're on the interstate heading south, so anything's possible, really!!

You've seriously never seen hitchhikers before?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 15, 2020, 12:31:01 PM
Not sure what's going on here (https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8108077,-96.8393609,3a,17.2y,346.15h,83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWo2cIdSigJLfzGkAfWagdw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1), but those are some pretty massive knapsacks, and they're on the interstate heading south, so anything's possible, really!!

You've seriously never seen hitchhikers before?

Sure, I've seen hitchhikers, but these guys don't appear to be hitchhiking.
Also, I've never seen hitchhikers with that much luggage, or between exits on the interstate.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 15, 2020, 12:44:13 PM


Not sure what's going on here (https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8108077,-96.8393609,3a,17.2y,346.15h,83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWo2cIdSigJLfzGkAfWagdw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1), but those are some pretty massive knapsacks, and they're on the interstate heading south, so anything's possible, really!!

You've seriously never seen hitchhikers before?

Sure, I've seen hitchhikers, but these guys don't appear to be hitchhiking.
Also, I've never seen hitchhikers with that much luggage, or between exits on the interstate.

There is sizable subset of hitchhikers who walk along the highway instead of standing in one place with their thumb or sign out.  One possibility is that these folks are that type of hitchhiker.

Another possibility is that they were hassled by local cops.  I say this because they are walking away from an excellent hitchhiking location:  a ParClo interchange with multiple truck stops and a low-speed on-ramp with space for drivers to pull over on the side of town that's towards their destination.  No hitchhiker in his right mind would leave that location up unless told to leave by a police officer.

As for baggage, it all depends on how far they're going and how they sleep along the way.  If they're traveling cross-country and sleeping outside, then I can easily see their needing packs that big.  I've personally shared an on-ramp (Peotone, IL) with another hitchhiker who had a pack that large.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 15, 2020, 08:28:37 PM
There is sizable subset of hitchhikers who walk along the highway instead of standing in one place with their thumb or sign out.  One possibility is that these folks are that type of hitchhiker.

I dunno, not doubting that's true, but it seemed like a pretty rare sight to me. Maybe I just haven't been around enough, but around here, walking right down the interstate like that with a dog and those size knapsacks would turn more than a few heads and probably attract the authorities.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 16, 2020, 10:18:04 AM

There is sizable subset of hitchhikers who walk along the highway instead of standing in one place with their thumb or sign out.  One possibility is that these folks are that type of hitchhiker.

I dunno, not doubting that's true, but it seemed like a pretty rare sight to me. Maybe I just haven't been around enough, but around here, walking right down the interstate like that with a dog and those size knapsacks would turn more than a few heads and probably attract the authorities.

That's true.  However, it would also attract the attention of authorities if they were just standing or sitting at the on-ramp.  In my own experience, all local cops care about is that you leave their jurisdiction:  they'll tell you to leave town but tell you to hitchhike to your heart's content once you're past the city limit and no longer their concern.

It's also worth mentioning that three guys and a dog hitchhiking together would make for some long wait times.  I remember once dropping a hitchhiker and his dog off one exit down the highway (https://goo.gl/maps/38sQmxiVALmHpFPg8) from where I saw him because I thought I was doing him a favor by putting him past an Interstate split and therefore weeding out all the traffic not going his direction.  By the time I realized it probably wasn't actually an improvement due to the lower traffic volume and more local traffic patterns there, it was too late and I was a couple of counties away.  Three days later–the next time I was going his way–he was still there, so I took him another 50 miles down the highway (https://goo.gl/maps/LEDBiyibg3Q3jyja7).  In contrast, as a well-dressed guy with no dog, I've never waited longer than 90 minutes for a ride.  People are already less likely to pick up a man than a woman, less likely still to pick up someone with a dog, and even less likely still to pick up more than one man.  That group ticked all the wrong boxes.  But I can't doubt they knew that.  Even if my assumption about police hassle is wrong, it's still possible they figured their chances were better walking down the highway.  Drivers might take more pity on travelers who are away from services, and even police officers would be more likely to give them a ride to the county line or whatever.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on June 16, 2020, 02:15:09 PM
I'm still encountering bodies of water east of the Peconic River that are still incorrectly labeled as being part of the Peconic River... and I'm still trying to take them out.


Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on June 16, 2020, 02:40:31 PM
All this talk of hitchhiking makes me think of this guy:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jmacswimmer on June 16, 2020, 03:03:30 PM
Not necessarily crazy like some of the other posts in this thread, but...

StreetView seems to acknowledge the existence of I-595 in MD (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9466898,-76.8196048,3a,75y,107.33h,81.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqHXAA0vGJl34GZVmrdoYUg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?hl=en)!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadrunner75 on June 16, 2020, 06:23:51 PM
Not necessarily crazy like some of the other posts in this thread, but...

StreetView seems to acknowledge the existence of I-595 in MD (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9466898,-76.8196048,3a,75y,107.33h,81.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqHXAA0vGJl34GZVmrdoYUg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?hl=en)!
There were actually some 595 signs up at one point - probably "Future 595" signs.  I seem to remember them at one point a long time ago.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on June 17, 2020, 02:05:07 PM
It's not the only one: I-305 (https://www.google.es/maps/@38.5696997,-121.5141657,3a,75y,133.83h,76.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssYmfgARX2hEQPL5sFomCZA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on June 17, 2020, 04:58:39 PM
Even if my assumption about police hassle is wrong, it's still possible they figured their chances were better walking down the highway.  Drivers might take more pity on travelers who are away from services, and even police officers would be more likely to give them a ride to the county line or whatever.

Well, if you're moving down the highway, you're at least making slow progress, which you aren't if you're staying in one spot waiting for a ride that may never come. With packs that big, they may well have food and supplies to make camp in an area with no services, so not as much of a concern to them.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 17, 2020, 05:15:37 PM
Well, if you're moving down the highway, you're at least making slow progress, which you aren't if you're staying in one spot waiting for a ride that may never come. With packs that big, they may well have food and supplies to make camp in an area with no services, so not as much of a concern to them.

When hitchhiking on even a two-day trip, I always made sure to pack food, drink, and either a tent or else a sleeping bag and tarp.  And I've never even hitched farther than 600 miles per trip.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 17, 2020, 10:34:00 PM
I guess I wonder if you can really call it "hitchhiking" if you end up - and maybe even plan on - walking more than driving.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 18, 2020, 01:13:43 PM
I guess I wonder if you can really call it "hitchhiking" if you end up - and maybe even plan on - walking more than driving.

1.  Note the last half of the compound word hitchhike.  Some people put more emphasis on the "hike" part, and that has a long history.

2.  If you spend 3½ hours hiking ten miles down the side of the highway, then get a ride that takes only 1½ hours to get you a further 90 miles–I still have a hard time claiming you walked "more than driving".  Even though you spent 70% of the time walking, 90% of the distance covered was in someone's car.  When you get down to it, there's little difference between standing in one spot for an hour waiting for someone to stop and walking for an hour waiting for someone to stop.



For what it's worth, I've hitchhiked while walking a few times.  The one I remember specifically is when a local police officer in Macomb, IL, gave me grief.  A passing driver called the police to report me hitchhiking.  I explained the state law and that it didn't prohibit hitchhiking from the shoulder or off pavement, but he didn't agree with that assessment and told me to walk past the city limit so he didn't have to worry about me anymore.  As I walked, I stuck my thumb out whenever I heard a motor approaching from behind me.  A trucker stopped and got me to Galesburg (https://goo.gl/maps/khfMsnn53cwz875v9).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 18, 2020, 03:12:50 PM

 If you spend 3½ hours hiking ten miles down the side of the highway, then get a ride that takes only 1½ hours to get you a further 90 miles–I still have a hard time claiming you walked "more than driving".  Even though you spent 70% of the time walking, 90% of the distance covered was in someone's car.  When you get down to it, there's little difference between standing in one spot for an hour waiting for someone to stop and walking for an hour waiting for someone to stop.

Well, right, obviously it doesn't take much driving at all to exceed the ground you've covered while walking. But, it just doesn't seem like actual hitchhiking if you're not standing there with your thumb out actively looking for a ride. Would somebody really offer a person a ride if they're just walking along normally without their thumb out? I wouldn't. And even if you do stick your thumb out while walking, as you mentioned doing, it seems unlikely to be as effective as just standing on a corner or an entrance ramp.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 18, 2020, 03:36:35 PM
Would somebody really offer a person a ride if they're just walking along normally without their thumb out? I wouldn't.

Yes, people do.  I would stop, at least outside of a town.

Heck, I've been given a ride twice by police officers, once when I had my thumb out and once when I didn't.  The time that I didn't, I was just walking down the sidewalk with a suitcase the day after heavy snowfall.  A Wheaton (IL) police officer stopped, picked me up, and drove me 1¼ miles to the commuter rail station.

Different people hitchhike in different ways.  I think it's pretty obvious to most drivers that someone walking down the highway, four miles outside of town, with a frame pack, is a hitchhiker.

And even if you do stick your thumb out while walking, as you mentioned doing, it seems unlikely to be as effective as just standing on a corner or an entrance ramp.

As already mentioned, it's possible the ones you spotted on GSV were told to leave.  What then?  But, anyway, what happens if you're dropped off at a bad spot?  The aforementioned spot I was dropped off at in Galesburg (IL) is a good example of that:  I was dropped off at a prison exit, complete with signs on the highway (https://goo.gl/maps/ybZ2ZCFvPxx4z3U69) saying "DO NOT PICK UP HITCH HIKERS".  I didn't even try hitching a ride from that location.  I started walking in search of a better spot.  (I ended up walking almost all the way across town and then deciding to take a city bus down to the Amtrak station instead.)

Or here's another example.  One snowy winter evening, I needed to go from Wheaton to River Forest (IL) for a concert band rehearsal, and my Pace bus never showed up–presumably due to the weather conditions.  I decided to walk up to the Metra station instead, even though that ticket would cost more money.  While I was walking through a residential neighborhood along the way, I stuck my thumb out as a car approached from behind.  That driver stopped and gave me a 14-mile ride (https://goo.gl/maps/m52NhxvrD9ax7AMr7) (route approximate) across the Chicago suburbs to Melrose Park, from which I could catch a different bus to my final destination.  I'd say that was pretty effective!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 18, 2020, 05:36:07 PM
Wow, interesting stories. I have zero experience hitchhiking, so I'm just learning here.

I guess if I saw someone walking down the highway with a suitcase in a rural area, I might offer to pick them up. It's definitely something I'd be more inclined to do in the middle of nowhere than in a large city.

The NY Thruway has signs near the Dunkirk/Fredonia exit stating that there's a correctional facility in the area and don't pick up hitchhikers (or something similar). Couldn't find them quickly but will look more extensively later.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadrunner75 on June 18, 2020, 07:25:26 PM
I guess if I saw someone walking down the highway with a suitcase in a rural area, I might offer to pick them up. It's definitely something I'd be more inclined to do in the middle of nowhere than in a large city.
Not me.  My wife always has Forensic Files on or some other similar show, and I'm not interested in being featured next season...

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The NY Thruway has signs near the Dunkirk/Fredonia exit stating that there's a correctional facility in the area and don't pick up hitchhikers (or something similar). Couldn't find them quickly but will look more extensively later.
Here's one for you on 95 in Connecticut...
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.332741,-72.2436008,3a,75y,70.1h,92.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8gkvCoXB3ZmYa99n26hBLw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.332741,-72.2436008,3a,75y,70.1h,92.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8gkvCoXB3ZmYa99n26hBLw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Hitchhiker's gude to the AA Roads Forum
Post by: ErmineNotyours on June 18, 2020, 11:09:24 PM
This thread took a turn.

I was picked up as a hitchhiker without asking.  I didn't learn to bicycle until I was 12.  My dad simply gave me a tire patch kit and didn't tell me how to use it.  I ran over a piece of metal and it started getting a fast leak.  Not knowing any better, I simply placed the patch over the tire.  I don't think I even had a pump with me.  Of course, the tire went flat, but I tried riding it anyway.  Soon the tire fell off the rim and wrapped around the chain.  Disaster.  I managed to untangle it enough so I could push the bike, and started to make the uncomfortable four and a half mile walk home.  Someone offered me a ride home, and I was so frustrated that I took the offer.  My parents had always given the lecture about not hitchhiking, but I didn't care any more.

Later when I finally got a car, someone requested a ride when I stopped to buy gas.  Still with my parents' "stranger danger" thoughts in my mind, I turned him down and continued waiting for the tank to fill.  He offered to pay me, and I reconsidered.  I didn't need the money, but he seemed well dressed, and he said he needed to get to a job interview.  I drove him to a mall nearby that was on my way.

Something surprising I found out when I drove through Canada in 1999 was that they still have hitchhikers.  I was planning on taking the new toll road from the Vancouver area to Kamloops, but the pass report said that way was snowy, so I stayed on the free Trans Canada instead.  As soon as I got off the freeway and out of the city, there were hitchhikers.  In astonishing ways, Canada sometimes seems like a time warp.  It was on the way home the next morning when I was watching bits of snow falling off the truck in front of me in regular intervals.  Very hypnotic.  I passed by one hitchhiker in jeans and a jean jacket out on this cold, grey morning.  As I continued looking at the bits of fallen snow on the road, I passed THE SAME EXACT HITCHHIKER AGAIN!!!   Wha????  Oh, I stopped for gas a few minutes ago, and he must have passed me.  Maybe the driver wasn't going where he was going, or he smelled bad.

Getting back on topic (sort of): Correctional center, do not pick up hitchhikers sign, (https://goo.gl/maps/eX4uoSu7hub9pSRh9) Purdy, Washington.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 18, 2020, 11:37:15 PM
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The NY Thruway has signs near the Dunkirk/Fredonia exit stating that there's a correctional facility in the area and don't pick up hitchhikers (or something similar). Couldn't find them quickly but will look more extensively later.
Here's one for you on 95 in Connecticut...
[link snipped]

Yes, the one on the Thruway is similar. No luck finding it yet; I've searched through several miles and everywhere I thought it was, it isn't.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadrunner75 on June 19, 2020, 12:44:57 AM
Quote
The NY Thruway has signs near the Dunkirk/Fredonia exit stating that there's a correctional facility in the area and don't pick up hitchhikers (or something similar). Couldn't find them quickly but will look more extensively later.
Here's one for you on 95 in Connecticut...
[link snipped]

Yes, the one on the Thruway is similar. No luck finding it yet; I've searched through several miles and everywhere I thought it was, it isn't.
Here you go...
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4141341,-79.4151308,3a,75y,286.12h,83.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKQp1P3PRJNHDqgLgzOAUKw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4141341,-79.4151308,3a,75y,286.12h,83.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKQp1P3PRJNHDqgLgzOAUKw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4038987,-79.4458623,3a,75y,73.11h,90.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-6kBL4wbT6_ExmYlamQa2A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4038987,-79.4458623,3a,75y,73.11h,90.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-6kBL4wbT6_ExmYlamQa2A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 19, 2020, 08:13:30 AM
Quote
The NY Thruway has signs near the Dunkirk/Fredonia exit stating that there's a correctional facility in the area and don't pick up hitchhikers (or something similar). Couldn't find them quickly but will look more extensively later.
Here's one for you on 95 in Connecticut...
[link snipped]
Yes, the one on the Thruway is similar. No luck finding it yet; I've searched through several miles and everywhere I thought it was, it isn't.
Here you go...
[links snipped]

Yes, thank you!! I was looking too far east, for some reason I had in my head that it was much closer to Exit 59.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on June 20, 2020, 08:32:20 PM
A truck on I 35E SB north of Dallas that obviously has some kind of smoky problem:
https://www.google.pl/maps/@33.0122514,-96.978559,3a,64y,273.57h,86.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLBQuKZ9QrlsdjM4eBwLGKw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 22, 2020, 10:58:58 AM
I had never thought of using a child's pack-and play as a rooftop cargo box (https://goo.gl/maps/MYniYQfShETYK7fw6), had you?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on June 24, 2020, 06:27:34 AM
With Street View extending coverage through most of Austria, I went out on a hunt for a Fucking sign (https://www.google.es/maps/@48.0790057,12.8270182,3a,15y,126.43h,88.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP64ey4vCenZCkvtaEroAfg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) :sombrero:. Unfortunately Mr. Google hasn't visited the village yet.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on June 24, 2020, 12:03:30 PM
Some areas of a camera are often blurred out.  I am not talking either about car tags or stuff the NSA or Homeland Security often have blurred.  Spots in photos hiding nothing, I am referring to are sometimes scene. 

Then there is that black screen with white bars that often comes up.  Example of that is the NYSTA Berkshire Thruway WB across the Hudson River for a while anyway.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on June 24, 2020, 03:44:28 PM
Streetview car entering a bus-only road:
(https://i.imgur.com/xHDyKgz.png)

Link: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.803172,-79.3972751,3a,90y,6.92h,87.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sF5qlP4t4IVPiioDDgEtzLQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MrManlet on June 25, 2020, 01:55:41 PM
Guy shooting airsoft rifle on old IL-29 alignment.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0019292,-89.7167032,3a,46.8y,137.9h,65.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0Hk2VSpPdzGtyaftvLkLQg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on June 30, 2020, 11:28:29 AM
Decrepit beached yacht in Des Allemands, LA:

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.8171907,-90.4867506,3a,25.8y,120.47h,85.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMx5cRN7y-FauLo_D4xwU2Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Wonder if Katrina put it here.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 30, 2020, 01:16:15 PM
Not exactly "crazy", but fun to watch this semi (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.863833,-96.3725537,3a,75y,173.34h,70.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suChWFEAS3zZG0uXfwzG9Uw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e4?hl=en) churn past the street view car on a narrow two-laner with no shoulder.
(Thanks kphoger for the find... found it thanks to this post (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=27125.msg2512677#msg2512677).)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on June 30, 2020, 03:17:57 PM
This weather on I-40 west of Amarillo:
https://www.google.pl/maps/@35.2719271,-102.6409363,3a,61.1y,84.57h,94.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_7QfcMiYwKSLrRxNOAlRIw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on July 01, 2020, 12:24:40 AM
Not super crazy, but people getting a food pickup at a YMCA in a poor part of my home city:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6643319,-90.2783658,3a,43.1y,61.58h,92.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1so0XOXlQsySiCNSDN7C59tQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on July 01, 2020, 11:00:10 AM
Bug!
https://goo.gl/maps/MEKCDjfJF2WVg11XA (https://goo.gl/maps/MEKCDjfJF2WVg11XA)

Looking back at it
https://goo.gl/maps/xKSxh5iaxMm6e1ju7 (https://goo.gl/maps/xKSxh5iaxMm6e1ju7)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on July 02, 2020, 11:47:18 PM
Not super crazy, just disappointing; this infamous billboard (https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1931206,-93.0342076,3a,16.9y,336.99h,94.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1staeGXH-wDxJnATtvrVuzeA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) near Harrison, Arkansas.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: planxtymcgillicuddy on July 03, 2020, 12:23:21 AM
Not super crazy, just disappointing; this infamous billboard (https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1931206,-93.0342076,3a,16.9y,336.99h,94.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1staeGXH-wDxJnATtvrVuzeA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) near Harrison, Arkansas.

That and Vidor, Texas are still white supremacy hotspots.......though one could argue that title for the entire states of Texas and Arkansas......
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on July 03, 2020, 12:25:09 AM
Not super crazy, just disappointing; this infamous billboard (https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1931206,-93.0342076,3a,16.9y,336.99h,94.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1staeGXH-wDxJnATtvrVuzeA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) near Harrison, Arkansas.

That and Vidor, Texas are still white supremacy hotspots.......though one could argue that title for the entire states of Texas and Arkansas......

Nah, Texas is pretty damn nice (as is most of Arkansas). Hotspots are rapidly shrinking pockets of MS and AL.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on July 03, 2020, 11:07:16 AM
Not super crazy, just disappointing; this infamous billboard (https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1931206,-93.0342076,3a,16.9y,336.99h,94.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1staeGXH-wDxJnATtvrVuzeA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) near Harrison, Arkansas.

That and Vidor, Texas are still white supremacy hotspots.......though one could argue that title for the entire states of Texas and Arkansas......

Nah, Texas is pretty damn nice (as is most of Arkansas). Hotspots are rapidly shrinking pockets of MS and AL.

Indeed. I'm not even sure if Vidor is much of a hotspot anymore; they had a well attended protest recently, and I'm not aware that anybody opposed it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on July 03, 2020, 01:34:47 PM
The Parkersburg-Belpre bridge over the Ohio River between Ohio and West Virginia, carrying OH 32 and WV 618.  It is also a former routing of US 50.

The railing is lined with ... a series of bras.  To be fair, this was for an event to raise breast cancer awareness, so good for them!

Parkersburg-Belpre Bridge, lined with bras (https://goo.gl/maps/h9WEbXtG2b9xcZnx5)

I will note that the picture is the StreetView from September 2019, in case visitors in the future stumble across this post.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on July 05, 2020, 03:06:38 PM
Google takes a jaunt down an "authorized vehicles only" ramp near Cookeville, TN (https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1441833,-85.3724073,3a,75y,271.03h,89.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1so2lxobeUg3V9x9JkSSsysQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en/).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Brian556 on July 05, 2020, 11:54:40 PM
Building constructed under old gas station canopy. OLD US 45 near TN /MS state line
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0001593,-88.5144517,3a,45.7y,51.48h,87.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqfp_CPbkvrP0CLqTRL-5Dg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0001593,-88.5144517,3a,45.7y,51.48h,87.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqfp_CPbkvrP0CLqTRL-5Dg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on July 06, 2020, 11:33:51 PM
Building constructed under old gas station canopy. OLD US 45 near TN /MS state line
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0001593,-88.5144517,3a,45.7y,51.48h,87.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqfp_CPbkvrP0CLqTRL-5Dg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0001593,-88.5144517,3a,45.7y,51.48h,87.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqfp_CPbkvrP0CLqTRL-5Dg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

In street-view, move a couple of notches to see the other side of the sign.  The place is called "I 45 Mini Mart" even though it is on an old alignment of US 45 which is paralleled by a limited access US 45.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on July 14, 2020, 07:16:28 PM
Flood (https://www.google.pl/maps/@48.3083011,-97.1891686,3a,69.4y,92.05h,86.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQIYbzRgy84OyQBB9n8cdxw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) off I-29 in ND, near the Canadian border. The bridge (https://www.google.pl/maps/@48.3083011,-97.1891686,3a,69.4y,302.6h,84.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQIYbzRgy84OyQBB9n8cdxw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) to the left is at risk of being flooded.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ozarkman417 on July 14, 2020, 07:26:51 PM
I would feel sorry for anyone who wanted to clinch MO 94 at this (https://www.google.pl/maps/@38.8615623,-90.2232265,3a,65.4y,15.78h,79.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPaO19jv0dDUjiYtXl73oeQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DPaO19jv0dDUjiYtXl73oeQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D47.67287%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192) time..
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on July 14, 2020, 11:18:06 PM
I would feel sorry for anyone who wanted to clinch MO 94 at this (https://www.google.pl/maps/@38.8615623,-90.2232265,3a,65.4y,15.78h,79.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPaO19jv0dDUjiYtXl73oeQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DPaO19jv0dDUjiYtXl73oeQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D47.67287%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192) time..

That's an extremely common occurrence on US 67 and all of 94 between there and 370 (basically the north St Charles County floodplain between the Missouri and Mississippi). I feel like it gets closed every 2 years or so. That said, virtually no suburb-dwellers in St Louis County go up there, unless to get to Alton.

Notice how they put another signal on the back (https://www.google.pl/maps/@38.8618421,-90.2230419,3a,46.3y,225.74h,101.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYVXKXV1K1qniOUbvyaJ_mQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) of the wire, activated during two-lane traffic. The southbound carriageway's lower elevation means that flooding puts cars onto the NB carriageway during flooding.

Unrelated traffic oddity; immediately after beginning at US 67, 94 goes under this (https://www.google.pl/maps/@38.8619913,-90.2243559,3a,75y,297.83h,90.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-CBO9l0YSzS6asN81YMFOw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) old one-lane bridge, followed by a tight 15 mph curve.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on July 16, 2020, 03:55:17 PM
Does anyone know what's up with some road segments being labeled in another language?

For example, here's a state highway in Mexico that thinks it's in Ethiopia.

(https://i.imgur.com/YXaruI7.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on July 16, 2020, 04:04:44 PM
I remember seeing both Russian (or another cyrillic script language) and Japanese while going around Spain. Example (https://www.google.es/maps/@39.6368073,-0.433409,3a,75y,20.35h,87.04t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s8xlc48k1Zmqzqv6XOOPYtA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D8xlc48k1Zmqzqv6XOOPYtA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D105.471085%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MrManlet on July 19, 2020, 02:00:18 PM
I remember seeing both Russian (or another cyrillic script language) and Japanese while going around Spain. Example (https://www.google.es/maps/@39.6368073,-0.433409,3a,75y,20.35h,87.04t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s8xlc48k1Zmqzqv6XOOPYtA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D8xlc48k1Zmqzqv6XOOPYtA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D105.471085%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
Now its in Japanese!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on July 24, 2020, 02:28:43 PM
Has anyone spent time looking at GSV in Nigeria?  I can't find a single location at which the Google car wasn't being tailed by an escort vehicle–either a police truck or a civilian-looking SUV–even on city streets.

Well, technically, I did find a really rough/bumpy stretch of residential street, but the other streets in the neighborhood showed the escort vehicle, so perhaps they just decided that one block was too rough for the escort vehicle.


Edited to add:  Similar situation in Kenya, apparently.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on July 27, 2020, 10:04:20 PM
Has anyone spent time looking at GSV in Nigeria?  I can't find a single location at which the Google car wasn't being tailed by an escort vehicle–either a police truck or a civilian-looking SUV–even on city streets.

I hadn't... but you got me feeling inspired. No escort here (https://www.google.com/maps/@7.6978886,6.4408926,3a,76.8y,223.36h,69.69t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVaWpeAQAW0CNFGVKviRe7g!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DVaWpeAQAW0CNFGVKviRe7g%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D127.145515%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1) or here (https://www.google.com/maps/@9.0836441,7.4130195,3a,75y,90.2h,64.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stZSDi_nU-E_EMiyDHiip7Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1), but I see what you're talking about for the most part, though.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on July 28, 2020, 01:52:27 PM

Has anyone spent time looking at GSV in Nigeria?  I can't find a single location at which the Google car wasn't being tailed by an escort vehicle–either a police truck or a civilian-looking SUV–even on city streets.

I hadn't... but you got me feeling inspired. No escort here (https://www.google.com/maps/@7.6978886,6.4408926,3a,76.8y,223.36h,69.69t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVaWpeAQAW0CNFGVKviRe7g!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DVaWpeAQAW0CNFGVKviRe7g%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D127.145515%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1) or here (https://www.google.com/maps/@9.0836441,7.4130195,3a,75y,90.2h,64.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stZSDi_nU-E_EMiyDHiip7Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1), but I see what you're talking about for the most part, though.

Try again, bud.  Police escort in both cases.

(https://i.imgur.com/HQdrwYU.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/a8ebH2V.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on July 28, 2020, 08:28:02 PM

Has anyone spent time looking at GSV in Nigeria?  I can't find a single location at which the Google car wasn't being tailed by an escort vehicle–either a police truck or a civilian-looking SUV–even on city streets.

I hadn't... but you got me feeling inspired. No escort here (https://www.google.com/maps/@7.6978886,6.4408926,3a,76.8y,223.36h,69.69t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVaWpeAQAW0CNFGVKviRe7g!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DVaWpeAQAW0CNFGVKviRe7g%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D127.145515%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1) or here (https://www.google.com/maps/@9.0836441,7.4130195,3a,75y,90.2h,64.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stZSDi_nU-E_EMiyDHiip7Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1), but I see what you're talking about for the most part, though.

Try again, bud.  Police escort in both cases.

Not close enough to be considered an escort IMO.
Anything could happen with that much distance between them (in both cases), to the point where I question if it's really serving any purpose at all.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on July 29, 2020, 01:07:41 PM
Not close enough to be considered an escort IMO.

Christ, they don't have to ride their bumper for it to be an escort. Point is, it's always the same Toyota Hilux with the same lightbar. And it is very interesting; I've not seen another country with GSV have some form of escort service (not that kind).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on July 29, 2020, 01:23:13 PM
There's actually two different cars. The other is a black Toyota 4-Runner.

I'm not going to argue extensively about whether or not it is, indeed, an escort, but it is quite far away in many cases. The street view car could easily make a few turns and accidentally lose them.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on July 29, 2020, 01:24:57 PM
The street view car could easily make a few turns and accidentally lose them.

And I'm sure they'd be punished for doing so! :-D
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Throckmorton on July 31, 2020, 02:26:20 PM
   
https://goo.gl/maps/YvBQ3PQnHGE8BsiD8
   
   
Wreckage from the train derailment sequence in the 1993 film The Fugitive.   
   
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Throckmorton on August 03, 2020, 07:58:37 PM
   
This one may or may not be well known but in a San Francisco apartment building that was one of the locations in the Humphrey Bogart movie, Dark Passage, the occupants of the unit where Lauren Bacall's character lived used to keep a cardboard cutout of Bogart in the window.   
   
It's visible in the pic from 2011.   
   
   
https://goo.gl/maps/ZoXo4XPCPo8yvcf3A (https://goo.gl/maps/ZoXo4XPCPo8yvcf3A)
   
   
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheHighwayMan394 on August 04, 2020, 04:44:25 PM
The camera shots created a perfect ghost image of the JCT sign.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6403356,-93.139562,3a,30y,152h,90.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3fcpHlIF7kzFWzVW_fw15Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 04, 2020, 04:47:07 PM
The camera shots created a perfect ghost image of the JCT sign.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6403356,-93.139562,3a,30y,152h,90.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3fcpHlIF7kzFWzVW_fw15Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Are you sure someone didn't just steal both the other route shield and mounting post?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on August 04, 2020, 11:58:49 PM
   
This one may or may not be well known but in a San Francisco apartment building that was one of the locations in the Humphrey Bogart movie, Dark Passage, the occupants of the unit where Lauren Bacall's character lived used to keep a cardboard cutout of Bogart in the window.   
   
It's visible in the pic from 2011.   
   
   
https://goo.gl/maps/ZoXo4XPCPo8yvcf3A (https://goo.gl/maps/ZoXo4XPCPo8yvcf3A)

It's nice to see homeowners (or renters) who embrace film culture. Not enough of them.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadrunner75 on August 05, 2020, 12:34:10 AM
The camera shots created a perfect ghost image of the JCT sign.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6403356,-93.139562,3a,30y,152h,90.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3fcpHlIF7kzFWzVW_fw15Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Are you sure someone didn't just steal both the other route shield and mounting post?
That scenario seems most likely here.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GenExpwy on August 05, 2020, 03:18:36 AM
The camera shots created a perfect ghost image of the JCT sign.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6403356,-93.139562,3a,30y,152h,90.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3fcpHlIF7kzFWzVW_fw15Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Are you sure someone didn't just steal both the other route shield and mounting post?
That scenario seems most likely here.

Back one step:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6403367,-93.1396864,3a,48.3y,110.09h,87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQY3legRH8_VaoGr5Z4PlrA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on August 05, 2020, 01:18:40 PM
The camera shots created a perfect ghost image of the JCT sign.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6403356,-93.139562,3a,30y,152h,90.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3fcpHlIF7kzFWzVW_fw15Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Are you sure someone didn't just steal both the other route shield and mounting post?
That scenario seems most likely here.

Back one step:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6403367,-93.1396864,3a,48.3y,110.09h,87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQY3legRH8_VaoGr5Z4PlrA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/339/265/bb8.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on August 06, 2020, 10:29:03 AM
Move over, Fucking, Austria...
(http://i.imgur.com/MewM7w2.png?1)

https://www.google.com/maps/@-26.7076892,-50.2925682,3a,16y,99.47h,86.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sorwEX_YkM7p_PqtMq6EAmg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on August 07, 2020, 01:05:26 AM
Google Street View is a great way to experience places you may never get to see otherwise...like the inside of this dude's car. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.7842507,-56.1699874,3a,75y,190.08h,98.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfqA6UM0foMyuPXS6-3bFlg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheHighwayMan394 on August 07, 2020, 01:12:09 AM
Google Street View is a great way to experience places you may never get to see otherwise...like the inside of this dude's car. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.7842507,-56.1699874,3a,75y,190.08h,98.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfqA6UM0foMyuPXS6-3bFlg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)


At least the inside of his car doesn’t look like a landfill, like 95% of car interiors you’re not meant to see.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GreenLanternCorps on August 11, 2020, 06:39:25 AM
Well South Boardman, Michigan takes traffic control seriously...

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6412909,-85.2808919,3a,15y,245.13h,86.1t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2CfPMpYYUcd1hMPsIyPcnA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D2CfPMpYYUcd1hMPsIyPcnA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D290.50555%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

(I simply never expected to see a complete M4 Sherman tank parked in small town by the road.  Even by an American Legion Post)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 11, 2020, 01:58:07 PM
(I simply never expected to see a complete M4 Sherman tank parked in small town by the road.  Even by an American Legion Post)

My friends and I grew up playing on this tank (https://goo.gl/maps/659aGWPtywQRrW8d6).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on August 11, 2020, 10:10:40 PM
(I simply never expected to see a complete M4 Sherman tank parked in small town by the road.  Even by an American Legion Post)

The locals use it to blow up invasive Priuses.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on August 12, 2020, 05:31:05 AM
(I simply never expected to see a complete M4 Sherman tank parked in small town by the road.  Even by an American Legion Post)

The locals use it to blow up invasive Priuses.

You know those "speed limit enforced by aircraft" signs? They're doing it with tanks now.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GreenLanternCorps on August 12, 2020, 06:16:31 AM
(I simply never expected to see a complete M4 Sherman tank parked in small town by the road.  Even by an American Legion Post)

My friends and I grew up playing on this tank (https://goo.gl/maps/659aGWPtywQRrW8d6).

Appears to be an M41 Walker Bulldog, cool...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M41_Walker_Bulldog
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on August 12, 2020, 01:35:43 PM
Another duplication glitch

https://goo.gl/maps/vJJkqh8zJNkxQ4NY9
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ftballfan on August 13, 2020, 09:42:49 AM
Another duplication glitch

https://goo.gl/maps/vJJkqh8zJNkxQ4NY9
This comes to mind when I see a duplication glitch:
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EJo11Wxxx3M/hqdefault.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on August 14, 2020, 12:19:52 AM
Google Street View is a great way to experience places you may never get to see otherwise...like the inside of this dude's car. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.7842507,-56.1699874,3a,75y,190.08h,98.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfqA6UM0foMyuPXS6-3bFlg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

Until this moment, I did not know about Saint Pierre and Miquelon, or that any such French territory outside Canada or the United States existed around there.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on August 14, 2020, 01:14:26 AM
Google Street View is a great way to experience places you may never get to see otherwise...like the inside of this dude's car. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.7842507,-56.1699874,3a,75y,190.08h,98.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfqA6UM0foMyuPXS6-3bFlg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

Until this moment, I did not know about Saint Pierre and Miquelon, or that any such French territory outside Canada or the United States existed around there.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

It came up in some other thread, so I decided to see what the roads look like. Instead I got this guy's car.

(I did eventually find out that they seem to use French specifications for signs and such.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on August 14, 2020, 08:59:14 AM
Google Street View is a great way to experience places you may never get to see otherwise...like the inside of this dude's car. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.7842507,-56.1699874,3a,75y,190.08h,98.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfqA6UM0foMyuPXS6-3bFlg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

Until this moment, I did not know about Saint Pierre and Miquelon, or that any such French territory outside Canada or the United States existed around there.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

It came up in some other thread, so I decided to see what the roads look like. Instead I got this guy's car.

(I did eventually find out that they seem to use French specifications for signs and such.)

Yet, they use North American sized license plates:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.7747401,-56.1776937,3a,46.3y,108.45h,73.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sR64N6Gid-tBTAyRzZdBgMQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en (https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.7747401,-56.1776937,3a,46.3y,108.45h,73.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sR64N6Gid-tBTAyRzZdBgMQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

Looks like they are European style, hard to tell, blurry.

Same here, I had no idea there was a French colony there.  Now I want to go!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on August 14, 2020, 10:29:11 AM
I went to St. Pierre last year.  I thought they did use European-style plates -- there are a lot of different plates on the island (Canadian and U.S.).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 14, 2020, 11:22:15 AM
I went to St. Pierre last year.  I thought they did use European-style plates -- there are a lot of different plates on the island (Canadian and U.S.).

They use both sizes.  The prevalence of US-sized ones is due to the prevalence of NAFTA vehicles.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on August 14, 2020, 07:32:00 PM
This made me laugh:

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3935055,-88.9487328,3a,21y,29.04h,84.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbfd4jKtFRS-gPpV3OXFAMA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Duplication glitch results in VW Beetle convertible limousine (with eyelashes on the headlights, too!)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on August 15, 2020, 04:23:14 AM
Many eons ago I took advantage of that glitch to renumber a section of A-2 (in Spain) to a crazy extension of A-22: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3097719,-2.1162107,3a,50.1y,155.29h,86.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCp7t7UwJXiHHGcdS7eKqtQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 18, 2020, 01:53:10 PM
This made me laugh:

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3935055,-88.9487328,3a,21y,29.04h,84.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbfd4jKtFRS-gPpV3OXFAMA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Duplication glitch results in VW Beetle convertible limousine (with eyelashes on the headlights, too!)

(https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/new-beetle-limousine-for-sale-28792_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on August 21, 2020, 03:37:34 PM
Rare, unobscured face on a Street View. (https://goo.gl/maps/FgXvHLsATDLTKgUB7)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on August 21, 2020, 07:59:40 PM
An Idaho state trooper (https://www.google.pl/maps/@47.6232182,-116.5293847,3a,26y,130.58h,87.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shj9RvR-1m0zrEnb8RIKBgw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) pulling over a Target truck at 4th of July Pass on I-90.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on August 24, 2020, 01:31:31 PM
Google maps truck barges (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8257549,-86.0534948,3a,75y,252.55h,89.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLcGD20sn3ymyfozjGU81LQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) past a road closed sign onto an under construction bridge.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on August 24, 2020, 11:04:53 PM
Google Map car barges (https://goo.gl/maps/B6aLoku39L9ydN2q8) past a road closed sign to construction vehicles.  In fairness, it did turn out to be a local traffic trip.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on August 26, 2020, 09:36:00 PM
Strange contrails looping above Portland, Oregon. (https://goo.gl/maps/61nYikuvjR1sNvvv7)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on August 26, 2020, 11:42:00 PM
Hang loose. (https://goo.gl/maps/ZmysWdGVhY5S6iJU9)

(In middle school, the authorities thought that was an obscene gesture and forbade its use.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 27, 2020, 10:38:35 AM
An Idaho state trooper (https://www.google.pl/maps/@47.6232182,-116.5293847,3a,26y,130.58h,87.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shj9RvR-1m0zrEnb8RIKBgw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) pulling over a Target truck at 4th of July Pass on I-90.

That's not a Target truck (https://goo.gl/maps/6SeDxA98Cvp97b999).  That's an LTI (https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=MC_MX&query_string=718266) truck pulling a Target trailer.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadrunner75 on August 29, 2020, 02:44:19 PM
An Idaho state trooper (https://www.google.pl/maps/@47.6232182,-116.5293847,3a,26y,130.58h,87.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shj9RvR-1m0zrEnb8RIKBgw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) pulling over a Target truck at 4th of July Pass on I-90.

That's not a Target truck (https://goo.gl/maps/6SeDxA98Cvp97b999).  That's an LTI (https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=MC_MX&query_string=718266) truck pulling a Target trailer.
Clearly you have not read Section 37q(ii) of the Truck Identification Manual, which states in part that "for persons other than those directly involved in the trucking and transportation industry, tractor trailer trucks shall be identified by the corporate logos or text on the trailer unit".

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 31, 2020, 12:23:37 PM


An Idaho state trooper (https://www.google.pl/maps/@47.6232182,-116.5293847,3a,26y,130.58h,87.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shj9RvR-1m0zrEnb8RIKBgw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) pulling over a Target truck at 4th of July Pass on I-90.

That's not a Target truck (https://goo.gl/maps/6SeDxA98Cvp97b999).  That's an LTI (https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=MC_MX&query_string=718266) truck pulling a Target trailer.

Clearly you have not read Section 37q(ii) of the Truck Identification Manual, which states in part that "for persons other than those directly involved in the trucking and transportation industry, tractor trailer trucks shall be identified by the corporate logos or text on the trailer unit".

Keep reading.  That section is further qualified by sub-section q(iii), which states in part, "...such shall not be construed as to pertain to persons identifying tractor trailer trucks in a non-professional, hobby, or amateur context such as an online Internet forum or..."
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on August 31, 2020, 02:27:06 PM
Smokiest truck (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5277685,-83.6369366,3a,58.8y,4.98h,89.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1se39uiw7jL6nK3se7TBCkxQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/)?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 31, 2020, 02:47:02 PM
Smokiest truck (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5277685,-83.6369366,3a,58.8y,4.98h,89.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1se39uiw7jL6nK3se7TBCkxQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/)?

not even close
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Throckmorton on August 31, 2020, 05:28:53 PM
Hang loose. (https://goo.gl/maps/ZmysWdGVhY5S6iJU9)

(In middle school, the authorities thought that was an obscene gesture and forbade its use.)

When I was young that was known as the 'bullshit' sign. Obviously the meaning has changed.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 31, 2020, 05:34:15 PM
When I was a kid, I was told it represented Satan's horns.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tchafe1978 on August 31, 2020, 06:54:14 PM
When I was a kid, I was told it represented Satan's horns.

It's the Devil's Horns, as commonly seen at rock and metal concerts.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on August 31, 2020, 07:50:34 PM


An Idaho state trooper (https://www.google.pl/maps/@47.6232182,-116.5293847,3a,26y,130.58h,87.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shj9RvR-1m0zrEnb8RIKBgw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) pulling over a Target truck at 4th of July Pass on I-90.

That's not a Target truck (https://goo.gl/maps/6SeDxA98Cvp97b999).  That's an LTI (https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=MC_MX&query_string=718266) truck pulling a Target trailer.

Clearly you have not read Section 37q(ii) of the Truck Identification Manual, which states in part that "for persons other than those directly involved in the trucking and transportation industry, tractor trailer trucks shall be identified by the corporate logos or text on the trailer unit".

Keep reading.  That section is further qualified by sub-section q(iii), which states in part, "...such shall not be construed as to pertain to persons identifying tractor trailer trucks in a non-professional, hobby, or amateur context such as an online Internet forum or..."

I believe that's sub-section qu(i(2b)ili)ng, whereby one comments right after the other one, usually in a big wall of quoted text to buttress the argument.

Quindaro Hall was closed in honor of Aftermath Day, so I can't verify this in person.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on September 01, 2020, 09:48:16 AM
I believe that's sub-section qu(i(2b)ili)ng, whereby one comments right after the other one, usually in a big wall of quoted text to buttress the argument.

Quindaro Hall was closed in honor of Aftermath Day, so I can't verify this in person.

To find that sort of information, you have to attack it from a different angle.  (Note that attacking Quinadro Hall from a different angle is expressly required by law, but the related fines and punishments vary by a complicated calendar based on astrology, the viscosity of bitumen, and the half-life of hircinium.)

After a little bit of digging, I was able to find confirmation in a list of Goat State Alliance (gas.gov) facilities (https://www.gsa.gov/governmentwide-initiatives/emergency-response/facilities-status-and-information-overview), which of course includes Quindaro Hall.  After navigating a series of links, I eventually found a slideshow about buttressing arguments (https://image.slidesharecdn.com/archandbuttressdams-140128033933-phpapp01/95/arch-and-buttress-dams-39-638.jpg).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on September 01, 2020, 11:30:45 AM
I believe that's sub-section qu(i(2b)ili)ng, whereby one comments right after the other one, usually in a big wall of quoted text to buttress the argument.

Quindaro Hall was closed in honor of Aftermath Day, so I can't verify this in person.

To find that sort of information, you have to attack it from a different angle.  (Note that attacking Quinadro Hall from a different angle is expressly required by law, but the related fines and punishments vary by a complicated calendar based on astrology, the viscosity of bitumen, and the half-life of hircinium.)

After a little bit of digging, I was able to find confirmation in a list of Goat State Alliance (gas.gov) facilities (https://www.gsa.gov/governmentwide-initiatives/emergency-response/facilities-status-and-information-overview), which of course includes Quindaro Hall.  After navigating a series of links, I eventually found a slideshow about buttressing arguments (https://image.slidesharecdn.com/archandbuttressdams-140128033933-phpapp01/95/arch-and-buttress-dams-39-638.jpg).

Is it bad that I couldn't detect the sarcasm until I was most of the way through?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on September 01, 2020, 11:39:29 AM
Is it bad that I couldn't detect the sarcasm until I was most of the way through?

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on September 04, 2020, 09:09:19 PM
Signal being opened up (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8117588,-77.1122747,3a,73.1y,103.45h,101.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjy8n52BBBgUIc4AWuRXucw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) in Virginia.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on September 07, 2020, 08:59:26 AM
I wonder how photospheres clearly taken in land get placed in the middle of the sea (https://www.google.es/maps/@40.3106832,1.672248,3a,75y,31.89h,87.5t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNel7_W1NrG7ARjgJAgObH6LGnmJM0Ic0bLSyjx!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNel7_W1NrG7ARjgJAgObH6LGnmJM0Ic0bLSyjx%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-20-ya172.00002-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on September 07, 2020, 05:12:53 PM
Signal being opened up (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8117588,-77.1122747,3a,73.1y,103.45h,101.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjy8n52BBBgUIc4AWuRXucw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) in Virginia.

Near your link: Being followed by another camera car. (https://goo.gl/maps/G3ZmTyAzpgdNNTmaA)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on September 07, 2020, 06:33:48 PM
I wonder how photospheres clearly taken in land get placed in the middle of the sea (https://www.google.es/maps/@40.3106832,1.672248,3a,75y,31.89h,87.5t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNel7_W1NrG7ARjgJAgObH6LGnmJM0Ic0bLSyjx!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNel7_W1NrG7ARjgJAgObH6LGnmJM0Ic0bLSyjx%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-20-ya172.00002-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120).

It was the freakin' mermaids again.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: thspfc on September 07, 2020, 10:07:11 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9825546,-78.7714579,3a,75y,277.74h,93.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slMaTS46HxrsV_oStWlYEQQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Truck in the left lane right next to a "left lane no trucks" sign
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on September 07, 2020, 10:22:12 PM
   
This one may or may not be well known but in a San Francisco apartment building that was one of the locations in the Humphrey Bogart movie, Dark Passage, the occupants of the unit where Lauren Bacall's character lived used to keep a cardboard cutout of Bogart in the window.   
   
It's visible in the pic from 2011.   
   
   
https://goo.gl/maps/ZoXo4XPCPo8yvcf3A (https://goo.gl/maps/ZoXo4XPCPo8yvcf3A)
   
   

Cool!  I like that movie a lot, never knew the occupants put up a cutout of Bogart but it's a very S.F. thing to do.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on September 08, 2020, 06:51:37 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9825546,-78.7714579,3a,75y,277.74h,93.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slMaTS46HxrsV_oStWlYEQQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Truck in the left lane right next to a "left lane no trucks" sign

No parking {bike lane, any time, loading zone, tow away zone} (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.215765,-74.7620349,3a,22.1y,242.23h,85.8t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1si3TN1Agl1yHUTGrId8FSgQ!2e0!5s20190701T000000!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on September 14, 2020, 07:06:21 PM
Here's another swollen river (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.3104547,-94.6972257,3a,75y,281.96h,80.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjkr953M5IVMRRzn7zylSEQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) on GSV. This time it's the Sulphur, below I-30 near Texarkana.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on September 16, 2020, 09:12:04 AM
The Very Large Array (https://www.google.es/maps/@34.1040137,-107.6209557,3a,75y,170.84h,76.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sg6gJ0p7WV7JiKP_ahydEyw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656). I noticed something weird in the middle of New Mexico on OpenStreetMap (three railways radiating from a common origin), and thus I had to search what was going in the area.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on September 16, 2020, 12:24:20 PM
The Very Large Array (https://www.google.es/maps/@34.1040137,-107.6209557,3a,75y,170.84h,76.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sg6gJ0p7WV7JiKP_ahydEyw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656). I noticed something weird in the middle of New Mexico on OpenStreetMap (three railways radiating from a common origin), and thus I had to search what was going in the area.

Yes, I just recently learned that the VLA moves on a pair of parallel standard gauge railroad tracks that actually have an at grade crossing!  I don't know why, but I had always envisioned them to use a specialized rail design.  I still haven't made it out there.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on September 16, 2020, 09:06:58 PM
The Very Large Array (https://www.google.es/maps/@34.1040137,-107.6209557,3a,75y,170.84h,76.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sg6gJ0p7WV7JiKP_ahydEyw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656). I noticed something weird in the middle of New Mexico on OpenStreetMap (three railways radiating from a common origin), and thus I had to search what was going in the area.
I can see lots of thought went into naming that.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on September 20, 2020, 07:12:23 PM
Here's a  pickup truck towing a pickup truck towing a pickup truck. (https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5353805,-88.243198,3a,15y,264.13h,86.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjzoG8_NQIA9QyFV8jB5T7A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on October 07, 2020, 05:50:02 PM
Here's an unblurred license plate (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7049032,-74.1472781,3a,55.9y,135.88h,77.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2ZbaGIqpG1KbvAHw7g5AXg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) on I-78 in Newark.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on October 15, 2020, 10:11:58 AM
Anyone wanna call this random LA number (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0526922,-118.2915911,3a,38.4y,137.99h,91.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szqeaAN54DKF112WPNPxIug!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) for $99 Hawaii airfare?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on October 15, 2020, 02:36:46 PM
Very rudimentary state line labeling.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0008111,-123.5352408,3a,73.7y,137.89h,70.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stIkAITfc9HLmz7WQHnDk2w!2e0!7i3328!8i1664 (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0008111,-123.5352408,3a,73.7y,137.89h,70.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stIkAITfc9HLmz7WQHnDk2w!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on October 15, 2020, 03:21:59 PM
Hang loose. (https://goo.gl/maps/ZmysWdGVhY5S6iJU9)

(In middle school, the authorities thought that was an obscene gesture and forbade its use.)

When I was young that was known as the 'bullshit' sign. Obviously the meaning has changed.



Not changed, just a different sign. The sign seen here, on its own, can be taken to mean "rock on"; and in combination with the other hand, it forms the "bull" part of "bullshit" in ASL.

"Hang loose", on the other (figurative) hand, uses the thumb rather than the index finger. So that's just a misconstruction (and one that it would not be surprising to learn was made by some middle school authorities at some point in history).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on October 15, 2020, 10:20:04 PM
Anyone wanna call this random LA number (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0526922,-118.2915911,3a,38.4y,137.99h,91.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szqeaAN54DKF112WPNPxIug!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) for $99 Hawaii airfare?

Never mind the cheap air fare ... take a look at the gasoline prices at the 76 gas station across the street!

One of many reasons I am happy to not live in Los Angeles.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on October 16, 2020, 08:39:15 AM
When I was a kid, I was told it represented Satan's horns.

i always understood it as 'surf naked' when i lived in VA...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on October 16, 2020, 08:42:55 AM

Never mind the cheap air fare ... take a look at the gasoline prices at the 76 gas station across the street!

One of many reasons I am happy to not live in Los Angeles.

it'd almost be cheaper to run your car on cigarettes...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on October 16, 2020, 09:14:34 AM
The average cost to drive a car is 59¢ per mile, and most of this is maintenance and depreciation. A $1 increase in gasoline costs results in a 4¢ increase per mile. In addition, this particular station is gouging by about $1.50 per gallon; the average price in LA at the time was in the high $3.xx range.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on October 16, 2020, 01:57:15 PM
The average cost to drive a car is 59¢ per mile, and most of this is maintenance and depreciation. A $1 increase in gasoline costs results in a 4¢ increase per mile. In addition, this particular station is gouging by about $1.50 per gallon; the average price in LA at the time was in the high $3.xx range.

In February 2020 GSV, the next 76 station down the road was selling Regular for $1.07 less per gallon than that one was.  Insane!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on October 16, 2020, 02:47:54 PM
Just posted this in another thread and figured I might as well throw it in here as well:
Who needs red light cameras when you've got Street View? (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1767264,-77.5437207,3a,46.5y,78.12h,85.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKHEgp3of_Qr8EKTEtvaDjw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on October 16, 2020, 04:16:49 PM
Just posted this in another thread and figured I might as well throw it in here as well:
Who needs red light cameras when you've got Street View? (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1767264,-77.5437207,3a,46.5y,78.12h,85.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKHEgp3of_Qr8EKTEtvaDjw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1)

Judging by how quickly that Escape is blowing by the GSV car, I'm thinking he only snuck in barely after the yellow (maybe like a quarter second or something).

Though I know you're only joking, I would be cautious to assume guilt entirely through Street View, as there typically isn't enough imagery to tell whether someone entered on yellow or not (even in states where you are required to stop on yellow, it's still not illegal per se to enter on yellow).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on October 16, 2020, 04:51:07 PM

Just posted this in another thread and figured I might as well throw it in here as well:
Who needs red light cameras when you've got Street View? (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1767264,-77.5437207,3a,46.5y,78.12h,85.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKHEgp3of_Qr8EKTEtvaDjw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1)

Judging by how quickly that Escape is blowing by the GSV car, I'm thinking he only snuck in barely after the yellow (maybe like a quarter second or something).

Though I know you're only joking, I would be cautious to assume guilt entirely through Street View, as there typically isn't enough imagery to tell whether someone entered on yellow or not (even in states where you are required to stop on yellow, it's still not illegal per se to enter on yellow).

The light turned red at about 2-3 car lengths.

yellow (https://goo.gl/maps/7dTqZ8awmxkoHLBj8)
red (https://goo.gl/maps/UvLt9D4cxQAcMToY6)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on October 16, 2020, 05:57:24 PM

Just posted this in another thread and figured I might as well throw it in here as well:
Who needs red light cameras when you've got Street View? (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1767264,-77.5437207,3a,46.5y,78.12h,85.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKHEgp3of_Qr8EKTEtvaDjw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1)

Judging by how quickly that Escape is blowing by the GSV car, I'm thinking he only snuck in barely after the yellow (maybe like a quarter second or something).

Though I know you're only joking, I would be cautious to assume guilt entirely through Street View, as there typically isn't enough imagery to tell whether someone entered on yellow or not (even in states where you are required to stop on yellow, it's still not illegal per se to enter on yellow).

The light turned red at about 2-3 car lengths.

yellow (https://goo.gl/maps/7dTqZ8awmxkoHLBj8)
red (https://goo.gl/maps/UvLt9D4cxQAcMToY6)

Right, I saw that (barely after the yellow = after it turned red). 45 feet (about three car lengths) at 40mph (speed limit is 40) means he would have entered about 0.76 seconds after the red light came on. This seems fairly reasonable. Even less time if you consider the possibility that they were travelling in excess of 40mph, although not significantly (0.6 seconds at 50mph).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on October 16, 2020, 06:40:18 PM

Just posted this in another thread and figured I might as well throw it in here as well:
Who needs red light cameras when you've got Street View? (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1767264,-77.5437207,3a,46.5y,78.12h,85.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKHEgp3of_Qr8EKTEtvaDjw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1)

Judging by how quickly that Escape is blowing by the GSV car, I'm thinking he only snuck in barely after the yellow (maybe like a quarter second or something).

Though I know you're only joking, I would be cautious to assume guilt entirely through Street View, as there typically isn't enough imagery to tell whether someone entered on yellow or not (even in states where you are required to stop on yellow, it's still not illegal per se to enter on yellow).

The light turned red at about 2-3 car lengths.

yellow (https://goo.gl/maps/7dTqZ8awmxkoHLBj8)
red (https://goo.gl/maps/UvLt9D4cxQAcMToY6)

Right, I saw that (barely after the yellow = after it turned red). 45 feet (about three car lengths) at 40mph (speed limit is 40) means he would have entered about 0.76 seconds after the red light came on. This seems fairly reasonable. Even less time if you consider the possibility that they were travelling in excess of 40mph, although not significantly (0.6 seconds at 50mph).

If the yellow is timed properly, he had enough time to stop.

After all, the GSV vehicle managed to do so.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on October 16, 2020, 08:12:56 PM
Yeah, I was only joking about using GSV as an alternate to red light cameras, but I mean, that light turned yellow all the way back here (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1767287,-77.5445214,3a,75y,38.5h,77.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqm0KsMkGZ0kZcHe6bwAXcA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). It was just too egregious not to throw in here.

The timing is interesting too.. this happened to be captured in July 2019, right when this very interchange was the epicenter of one of the area's biggest construction nightmares (https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/traffic-construction-and-the-overpass-connecting-rt-104-to-i-590/) in a decade, as evidenced by the detour signs and the traffic waiting to turn backed up all the way on to the freeway.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GenExpwy on October 17, 2020, 03:12:17 AM

And especially when you can plainly see a whole line of vehicles in the other direction turning left in front of them. Lucky it wasn’t a trailing green left arrow.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on October 17, 2020, 01:15:36 PM

And especially when you can plainly see a whole line of vehicles in the other direction turning left in front of them. Lucky it wasn’t a trailing green left arrow.

Actually, there is a trailing (lagging) green arrow at this location. After the street view car turned onto the freeway ramp, you can see those left-turning cars proceeding as the Escape continues under the overpass, shown here (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1765576,-77.5435391,3a,50y,42.32h,85.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBMvG_IkeQyB536q-2SFnhA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). I might even venture that the Escape blowing the red light is the reason the street view car turned instead of yielding to the left-turning traffic!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on October 20, 2020, 12:35:32 AM

Just posted this in another thread and figured I might as well throw it in here as well:
Who needs red light cameras when you've got Street View? (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1767264,-77.5437207,3a,46.5y,78.12h,85.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKHEgp3of_Qr8EKTEtvaDjw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1)

Judging by how quickly that Escape is blowing by the GSV car, I'm thinking he only snuck in barely after the yellow (maybe like a quarter second or something).

Though I know you're only joking, I would be cautious to assume guilt entirely through Street View, as there typically isn't enough imagery to tell whether someone entered on yellow or not (even in states where you are required to stop on yellow, it's still not illegal per se to enter on yellow).

The light turned red at about 2-3 car lengths.

yellow (https://goo.gl/maps/7dTqZ8awmxkoHLBj8)
red (https://goo.gl/maps/UvLt9D4cxQAcMToY6)

Right, I saw that (barely after the yellow = after it turned red). 45 feet (about three car lengths) at 40mph (speed limit is 40) means he would have entered about 0.76 seconds after the red light came on. This seems fairly reasonable. Even less time if you consider the possibility that they were travelling in excess of 40mph, although not significantly (0.6 seconds at 50mph).

If the yellow is timed properly, he had enough time to stop.

After all, the GSV vehicle managed to do so.

There's almost always enough time to stop. You're not asking the right question, which is, "if you're going to enter on red, how red will it be by the time you enter?"

There's a big difference between blowing through a stale red light (10+ seconds of red, give or take), and a red light that turned red less half a second before you entered. In the eyes of the law, it's the same thing. Practically speaking, totally different.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: mrsman on October 22, 2020, 06:36:39 AM
I would surmise to guess that part of the reason the SUV ran the red light was to get away from the GSV car.  There are many people out there who are afraid of being tracked down by "big tech" or government, so this guy knew that he would be captured and decided that this was his opportunity to escape.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on October 22, 2020, 08:26:16 AM
... this guy knew that he would be captured and decided that this was his opportunity to escape.

I see what you did there!  :biggrin:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on October 26, 2020, 01:42:52 AM
I haven't seen any Google Maps coverage showing how life has changed in the past seven months.  It may exist, but I haven't found it.  I did see this theater marquee in WSDOT SRweb:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50530887668_e55e586358_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jZf1rb)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on October 26, 2020, 03:19:33 PM
I haven't seen any Google Maps coverage showing how life has changed in the past seven months.  It may exist, but I haven't found it.  I did see this theater marquee in WSDOT SRweb:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50530887668_e55e586358_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jZf1rb)

Glove Actually sounds like a great movie!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on October 27, 2020, 01:33:13 PM
Car on its side. Eastbound 105 Freeway in Los Angeles just before the 110: https://goo.gl/maps/CXPRqhQYxwrnbPV88
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on October 30, 2020, 06:55:29 PM
One of the first crazy things, if not the first, I noticed on Street View was this towering crane (https://www.google.es/maps/@37.6885722,-122.1137682,3a,75y,233.39h,119.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1soilAcnxeVnpo4ls7EhKLjw!2e0!5s20070801T000000!7i3328!8i1664) on, of all numbered routes, I-238! I found it soon after that Interstate was added to Street View, thus back when I was a teenager, and before my own country (Spain) had even a single picture.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on November 06, 2020, 03:59:05 PM
Anyone seen a rural intersection lit quite like this (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.2278527,-99.4032576,3a,75y,253.89h,100.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOdQ4EC0EHu5kRxpFBITKlw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/)?

Edit: Apparently there are more (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7665256,-99.5891335,3a,33.8y,288.17h,93.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sO_wecXUSRxQI1JSuJFgDFA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) like this in Texas.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US71 on November 07, 2020, 09:19:28 AM
Anyone seen a rural intersection lit quite like this (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.2278527,-99.4032576,3a,75y,253.89h,100.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOdQ4EC0EHu5kRxpFBITKlw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/)?

Edit: Apparently there are more (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7665256,-99.5891335,3a,33.8y,288.17h,93.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sO_wecXUSRxQI1JSuJFgDFA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) like this in Texas.

Solar powered Flashing Reds on a STOP sign

Then you have solar powered LED's on the sign itself:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/2108/2282412014_81ace50b66_z_d.jpg)


Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on November 07, 2020, 01:09:44 PM
Anyone seen a rural intersection lit quite like this (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.2278527,-99.4032576,3a,75y,253.89h,100.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOdQ4EC0EHu5kRxpFBITKlw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/)?

Edit: Apparently there are more (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7665256,-99.5891335,3a,33.8y,288.17h,93.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sO_wecXUSRxQI1JSuJFgDFA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) like this in Texas.

Solar powered Flashing Reds on a STOP sign

Then you have solar powered LED's on the sign itself:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/2108/2282412014_81ace50b66_z_d.jpg)
I was actually talking about the overhead lighting.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on November 09, 2020, 02:10:05 PM
Here's a  pickup truck towing a pickup truck towing a pickup truck.
 (https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5353805,-88.243198,3a,15y,264.13h,86.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjzoG8_NQIA9QyFV8jB5T7A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

I haven't found a Street View of it, but trucks towing trucks are a daily occurrence right outside the Kenworth factory in Renton, Washington.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50584371796_4804640f69_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2k4Y8pj)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: frankenroad on November 09, 2020, 04:00:55 PM
Not Google Streetview - but....

Sometime about 15 years ago, I was exploring a website with satellite views - not Google or Google Earth, but something similar that was popular at the time.  (Maybe MapQuest ??)

Anyhow, the driveway of our house had all these large colored rectangles on it - as if we had been drying out a bunch of blankets, or someone had gotten carried away with sidewalk chalk.  We never could figure out what it was.   We did occasionally spread camping gear out to dry, but this array was much more colorful than our camping gear. At the time, our kids were too old for sidewalk chalk, and this covered 2/3 of a driveway that was probably 12 feet wide by 25 feet long.

To this day, I can't figure out what it was.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on November 12, 2020, 01:54:47 PM
Oh man, you need to check out this (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7775118,-118.3793781,3a,16.5y,322.79h,84.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4ijlEm7B08KldG7oTMTTiQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) GSV from Palos Verdes, CA. Unblurred license plates galore.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on November 12, 2020, 09:32:44 PM
Good, I have written those all down and stolen all of their identities already. I will be vacationing at an undisclosed tropical location without an extradition treaty to the U.S. for the forseeable future. :sombrero:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on November 13, 2020, 01:34:57 PM
Good, I have written those all down and stolen all of their identities already. I will be vacationing at an undisclosed tropical location without an extradition treaty to the U.S. for the forseeable future. :sombrero:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees the humour in "hiding" plate numbers :-D
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on November 14, 2020, 11:13:07 AM
Stitching error. (https://goo.gl/maps/MEs9Nza9Y4cAmtdp9)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on November 30, 2020, 09:58:03 AM
Clouds spilling over the mountains (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.6846673,0.604468,3a,80.9y,35.93h,99.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sk_sK3xqjN-WCbFqLela_zg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on December 01, 2020, 07:35:57 PM
If you're in the Seattle SR 99 tunnel and you look up, (https://goo.gl/maps/kZwY4c8qB4cvTzjG9) you will see those annoying business and destination symbols that Google imposes on Street View, only you can't get there from here.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on December 04, 2020, 03:17:11 PM
slater road lol (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6683121,-72.8265567,3a,75y,87.03h,87.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGS-kksB5DLfZazyz4qAtIA!2e0!5s20181001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on December 04, 2020, 04:00:17 PM
slater road lol (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6683121,-72.8265567,3a,75y,87.03h,87.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGS-kksB5DLfZazyz4qAtIA!2e0!5s20181001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

So...  a sign replacement in progress?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on December 04, 2020, 11:07:00 PM
slater road lol (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6683121,-72.8265567,3a,75y,87.03h,87.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGS-kksB5DLfZazyz4qAtIA!2e0!5s20181001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

Not sure exactly what is "crazy" here?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on December 04, 2020, 11:26:41 PM
slater road lol (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6683121,-72.8265567,3a,75y,87.03h,87.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGS-kksB5DLfZazyz4qAtIA!2e0!5s20181001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

Not sure exactly what is "crazy" here?

The Grass, Guy!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 89 on December 05, 2020, 01:31:35 AM
slater road lol (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6683121,-72.8265567,3a,75y,87.03h,87.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGS-kksB5DLfZazyz4qAtIA!2e0!5s20181001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

Not sure exactly what is "crazy" here?

All I see is a button copy sign being replaced. :(
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KEVIN_224 on December 05, 2020, 05:36:19 PM
Slater Road, like Corbin Avenue, is the other long north/south road on the west side of New Britain, CT. The long road for the east side is, far and away, Stanley Street. Besides, New Britain did host Slater in 2017...kinda. Mario Lopez from "Saved By The Bell" filmed parts of a Christmas movie here with Melissa Joan Hart. :-/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on December 06, 2020, 01:46:07 AM
This sign in Portland gives frighteningly little context:
(https://i.imgur.com/e66FwVH.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on December 07, 2020, 07:38:15 AM
France already has post-"End of the World (as we knew it)" imagery. I'd like to see Spain, where mandatory mask usage was in force from early on. That surely will be dramatic.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheCatalyst31 on December 13, 2020, 11:20:27 PM
Upside down camera (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5389171,-114.4407836,3a,75y,184.88h,118.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sn0PnHbS7YjgChKActMPNgQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on December 15, 2020, 09:39:24 AM
Upside down camera (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5389171,-114.4407836,3a,75y,184.88h,118.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sn0PnHbS7YjgChKActMPNgQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Twin Falls Skyway
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Route66Fan on December 16, 2020, 03:13:16 AM
Rock Creek Farms Maze near Broomfield, CO. (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9563145,-105.1031358,1078a,35y,270h/data=!3m1!1e3)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on December 27, 2020, 10:32:51 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0763106,-86.6897901,3a,75y,262.62h,84.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGqqLCilaKxE5POoAWBb7HA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DGqqLCilaKxE5POoAWBb7HA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D47.290558%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

An address in Antioch, TN, that the FBI searched yesterday, with an RV parked in the yard.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on December 27, 2020, 03:21:09 PM
Street view has come out from Sept-Oct 2020 in the Bay Area, when the fires were raging. It's pretty shocking.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6751029,-122.0818001,3a,75y,307.66h,94.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sa18IRbLZ_vRH0wEguUd95w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on December 30, 2020, 08:23:27 PM
Looks like some weird reflection off the car's windshield on this satellite image...
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.679363,-95.0303252,58m/data=!3m1!1e3

Also appears 3 more times just to the north, but it still looks odd.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on January 04, 2021, 09:14:08 AM
"Bad Cops" (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6066604,-73.0581536,3a,75y,354.73h,87.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLodaUGxlx-MbtLoxxrz7yw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on January 08, 2021, 11:07:26 AM
Someone doing the bunny ears hand symbol out of the window on a freeway.

(https://i.imgur.com/Sf56I2f.png).

This is on California SR60 in LA.
Link: https://www.google.ca/maps/@34.0329276,-118.1370364,3a,54.1y,10.78h,73.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSxIU3FTJKcolFthTgJkVyg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on January 09, 2021, 07:29:37 PM
Someone doing the bunny ears hand symbol out of the window on a freeway.

(https://i.imgur.com/Sf56I2f.png).

This is on California SR60 in LA.
Link: https://www.google.ca/maps/@34.0329276,-118.1370364,3a,54.1y,10.78h,73.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSxIU3FTJKcolFthTgJkVyg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Nicest hand signal I've ever seen on a California freeway.

In other news, is this (https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5238949,-114.0970531,3a,75y,200.1h,98.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syv85rPqTrOvrmnnMddkPVw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664/) the last thing you see before entering hell? On the Flathead Rez.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on January 12, 2021, 10:07:36 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/ioS2agwutmfgh7m7A
Not crazy but interesting double image of a signal head that looks cool.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on January 13, 2021, 12:13:33 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0763106,-86.6897901,3a,75y,262.62h,84.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGqqLCilaKxE5POoAWBb7HA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DGqqLCilaKxE5POoAWBb7HA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D47.290558%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

An address in Antioch, TN, that the FBI searched yesterday, with an RV parked in the yard.

What's crazy about it?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on January 13, 2021, 02:52:51 PM
I believe that might be the RV that exploded in Nashville around Christmas time, but I may be wrong.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on January 13, 2021, 02:55:57 PM
I believe that might be the RV that exploded in Nashville around Christmas time, but I may be wrong.

'Tis.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Bruce on January 13, 2021, 07:52:25 PM
If you're in the Seattle SR 99 tunnel and you look up, (https://goo.gl/maps/kZwY4c8qB4cvTzjG9) you will see those annoying business and destination symbols that Google imposes on Street View, only you can't get there from here.

Google Maps constantly wants me to turn left into the tunnel from random streets in Belltown. Maybe I should try it someday.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CapeCodder on January 23, 2021, 10:11:06 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6705662,-90.2024642,3a,75y,331.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbAdIqXTJpLmv9M_1tvG0iw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6705662,-90.2024642,3a,75y,331.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbAdIqXTJpLmv9M_1tvG0iw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

Batten down the hatches
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US71 on January 23, 2021, 10:12:51 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6705662,-90.2024642,3a,75y,331.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbAdIqXTJpLmv9M_1tvG0iw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6705662,-90.2024642,3a,75y,331.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbAdIqXTJpLmv9M_1tvG0iw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

Batten down the hatches

When I say run........
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on January 23, 2021, 10:23:47 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6705662,-90.2024642,3a,75y,331.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbAdIqXTJpLmv9M_1tvG0iw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6705662,-90.2024642,3a,75y,331.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbAdIqXTJpLmv9M_1tvG0iw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

Batten down the hatches

When I say run........
I remember we had some crazy storms in summer 2019.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CapeCodder on January 23, 2021, 10:26:25 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6705662,-90.2024642,3a,75y,331.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbAdIqXTJpLmv9M_1tvG0iw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6705662,-90.2024642,3a,75y,331.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbAdIqXTJpLmv9M_1tvG0iw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

Batten down the hatches

When I say run........
I remember we had some crazy storms in summer 2019.

You guys did. My grandmother who lives in the CWE told me that he lost a few shingles off of her roof. My mom, who lives out in St. Peters lost a few branches off of the cottonwood tree in the back yard.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on January 27, 2021, 11:07:13 PM
Looks like someone has a false stereotype of White Castle, LA... (look at the left side of the screen)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/White+Castle,+LA+70788/@30.1593379,-91.1670611,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x862154dfdea93545:0x5cc013f2fe763e12!8m2!3d30.1699144!4d-91.1470413
Not streetview, but plenty enough for this thread.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadrunner75 on January 28, 2021, 12:44:45 AM
Looks like someone has a false stereotype of White Castle, LA... (look at the left side of the screen)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/White+Castle,+LA+70788/@30.1593379,-91.1670611,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x862154dfdea93545:0x5cc013f2fe763e12!8m2!3d30.1699144!4d-91.1470413
Not streetview, but plenty enough for this thread.
How is there not a White Castle in White Castle?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on January 28, 2021, 11:14:48 AM
Looks like someone has a false stereotype of White Castle, LA... (look at the left side of the screen)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/White+Castle,+LA+70788/@30.1593379,-91.1670611,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x862154dfdea93545:0x5cc013f2fe763e12!8m2!3d30.1699144!4d-91.1470413
Not streetview, but plenty enough for this thread.
How is there not a White Castle in White Castle?

Boring answer is White Castle doesn't exist in the south/southwest.  Out in Texas, the White Castle market is covered by a joint called Krystal's.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on January 28, 2021, 02:55:33 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a Krystal's in Texas. The furthest west I think I've seen one was Mississippi.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on January 28, 2021, 07:53:33 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a Krystal's in Texas. The furthest west I think I've seen one was Mississippi.

Not sure if they are still there, but there was one on I-410 in San Antonio just north of Culebra, and there was one in Killeen.  I don't remember where exactly.  When I say there was one, I mean I saw them within the past 10 years.  Now, Austin used to have a few Krystals, but that was like 30-35 years ago. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on February 02, 2021, 09:00:51 AM
This is not exactly "crazy", but it's certainly a unique perspective (https://www.google.com/maps/@29.8361659,-94.7674131,3a,24.6y,4.36h,96.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbLSi649GSboHnVe9niUeDw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 04, 2021, 08:53:45 AM
Our friends in Mexico drove to Torreón yesterday to buy some lumber, and I was following their GPS track out of curiosity.  Along the way, I found this GSV imagery (https://goo.gl/maps/WsPoDecCuzbPPsMx9).  Is this a common sight at gas stations near you??   :-o
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on February 04, 2021, 11:58:11 AM
Is this a common sight at gas stations near you??   :-o

Uh... no. That's really weird. There's not even any cars at the pumps, and only one in the lot.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 04, 2021, 12:07:08 PM
I just texted him about it.  He joked that it was their pastor's idea (who was along with them because he's the one who will be using the lumber) to stop there, then he immediately felt guilty for joking like that.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on February 04, 2021, 12:19:45 PM
I just texted him about it.  He joked that it was their pastor's idea (who was along with them because he's the one who will be using the lumber) to stop there, then he immediately felt guilty for joking like that.

I guess I'm confused. Even if they did stop at that gas station, the Street View is over six years old.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 04, 2021, 12:38:13 PM

I just texted him about it.  He joked that it was their pastor's idea (who was along with them because he's the one who will be using the lumber) to stop there, then he immediately felt guilty for joking like that.

I guess I'm confused. Even if they did stop at that gas station, the Street View is over six years old.

Yeah.  It was a joke.  It's not even a Pemex anymore.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on February 05, 2021, 02:37:55 PM
What do pastors even have to do with any of this? All I see are a bunch of women.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 05, 2021, 02:59:48 PM
The joke is now dead.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on February 05, 2021, 10:28:40 PM
Our friends in Mexico drove to Torreón yesterday to buy some lumber, and I was following their GPS track out of curiosity.  Along the way, I found this GSV imagery (https://goo.gl/maps/WsPoDecCuzbPPsMx9).  Is this a common sight at gas stations near you??   :-o
Oh Mexico. It sounds so simple, I just gotta go.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on February 06, 2021, 08:31:41 PM
Well, I guess someone missed their turn (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9304846,-86.5713303,3a,75y,54.73h,79.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sThIqF_5i1KPvt8ntCQ6hOw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1). Yikes!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on February 11, 2021, 12:16:01 AM
Preparing to film a news segment in Phoenix (https://goo.gl/maps/oFPGC7eT73bckiBZ7).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on February 16, 2021, 05:10:31 PM
Let's have some fun, now shall we? :)

May I introduce the gateway to Hell!! :P :biggrin:

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=31.928173,-81.330715&panoid=IELKybs8yXOzzVchbUSMLw&cbp=12,230.38,,0,-1.3&ll=31.928113,-81.330795&spn=0,359.993032&z=18
I dont get this. What does this have to do with craziness?  :confused:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on February 16, 2021, 05:19:51 PM
Let's have some fun, now shall we? :)

May I introduce the gateway to Hell!! :P :biggrin:

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7219028,-97.1614824,3a,75y,168.51h,92.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPMEOrxMd0lhPfFm47Vsr_w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

Fixed the link.

(In all seriousness, my guess is since that post is from 2010, that Google has re-imaged the route since then, so that the original link no longer shows anything particularly hellish. Unlike mine.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 16, 2021, 05:44:10 PM
Let's have some fun, now shall we? :)

May I introduce the gateway to Hell!! :P :biggrin:

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9282179,-81.3307711,3a,75y,230.38h,91.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sx8dhRqQih-jDXnL6hQEHng!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en
I dont get this. What does this have to do with craziness?  :confused:

Correctly fixed the link to the original image that was in place back when the original post was made.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on February 16, 2021, 06:23:50 PM
Let's have some fun, now shall we? :)

May I introduce the gateway to Hell!! :P :biggrin:

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9282179,-81.3307711,3a,75y,230.38h,91.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sx8dhRqQih-jDXnL6hQEHng!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en
I dont get this. What does this have to do with craziness?  :confused:

Correctly fixed the link to the original image that was in place back when the original post was made.
ELI5: All I see is a bridge with palm trees. What's that got to do with hell (excuse my language)?  :confused:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DDlfGNC9SzkYEh_brvVEHi0askvcptNie8tK8yYmuNaK5-NLrYJZRpywmKBee-Rt-xsmwQsYxD-7ytlVCFZFfkz1tkz4WXK0aUrGSRaLuPlHT7zjOvLg7jcF44kpx_hZfa_eBE5MDt9uo4SovSCG_NGT2_qQz6mVnyfJeorNOdknA2UNjmTgIgPxDhrJddTIlOcbaYupdAk6fP91rqghrgwi9ccbIIVfNVjvXBDCpLb3Ga5ODS92kCXS26co69GfbUqCc6jYPtjFgxd_i5kOMzDWmPQjqvOEck4Z_IcX1t-R_Q5wDkhQ7aa9AVGKAOgDgQzVUv8ifDLl9eRRILj2MvRCaMWfTzzTghfncMN7lSgFqyvXbhoiYe-Vwrc1rpbCztYC1m7zef0AaOaGzKKVMepZJg7tyX7bxdi_v-vXV7HnRCdZ8ROm_sXAuAB_6DVQOKD8gNluJmFRrkPjhlMh3hFXckqKjO62dJleGmfuBIdInXdYq5qYmzDGWyHw4WEMSPS4CcJTJMsk1MsKjEbR34P0HovqD9Zd-mdOyWgwLkFMbMlaWlL_Hr2wpY22vELY1bTdOJOWlhpyPq_mOdeAuZPt7z94dGzZlRffMt0JsqHxFVqo1d6t4VxhRFh6AErnn_lqnzJArjn6OXCc9XkxNbr-aVBLGe6AQoZqBHyE6zrLyhwLoqCGFWbEQIUzMw=w1240-h698-no?authuser=0)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 16, 2021, 07:14:05 PM
I only vaguely remember the OP shot as it was originally.  What I remember is not apparent in any of the "fixed" links.  It was all whacked-out imagery, which has apparently since been removed or replaced with something else.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on February 16, 2021, 07:48:09 PM
I only vaguely remember the OP shot as it was originally.  What I remember is not apparent in any of the "fixed" links.  It was all whacked-out imagery, which has apparently since been removed or replaced with something else.
I see now. Thanks!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on February 23, 2021, 06:29:26 AM
Trans-dimensional purple gateway (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0431466,-85.8431548,3a,75y,129.22h,85.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4umG0alMaiHTq_JpupyuBw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664) in Geneva, Alabama.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 23, 2021, 11:36:01 AM
Trans-dimensional purple gateway (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0431466,-85.8431548,3a,75y,129.22h,85.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4umG0alMaiHTq_JpupyuBw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664) in Geneva, Alabama.

That is super awesome!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on February 23, 2021, 11:38:44 AM
 Scary photo stitching error (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.217275,-76.5280111,3a,75y,287.62h,116.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suRtWtIoVzpwHMXWQtc1Rzw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on February 23, 2021, 12:47:18 PM
A future thing you might find soon is a cop pulling over the Official Street Car

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2749313065334259&id=1635740483358195
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kenarmy on February 26, 2021, 12:16:45 AM
This strange photosphere in the middle of the ocean... Turn around and you'll see a person with no legs and two identical people.

https://www.google.com/maps/@23.2565826,-81.1602082,3a,90y,6.78h,83.99t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-17.33119-ya1.4629991-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on February 26, 2021, 10:27:32 AM
This strange photosphere in the middle of the ocean... Turn around and you'll see a person with no legs and two identical people.

https://www.google.com/maps/@23.2565826,-81.1602082,3a,90y,6.78h,83.99t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-17.33119-ya1.4629991-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120

It seems like this is taken using a cellphone and then stitched together (hence why there's two identical people, since the photos were not taken at the same time)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on February 26, 2021, 01:56:24 PM
This strange photosphere in the middle of the ocean... Turn around and you'll see a person with no legs and two identical people.

https://www.google.com/maps/@23.2565826,-81.1602082,3a,90y,6.78h,83.99t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-17.33119-ya1.4629991-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120

It isn't quite the middle of the ocean.  It's just off the northern coast of Cuba, and indeed that car has a Cuban license plate.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GenExpwy on March 03, 2021, 04:31:54 AM
Not quite sure how a truck ended up like this (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4353797,-74.5910522,3a,75y,334.49h,78.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sHUiuG6-1dt0VwTPhHgL4BQ!2e0!5s20191001T000000!7i16384!8i8192) at an Atlantic City Expressway toll booth.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Avalanchez71 on March 03, 2021, 11:55:36 AM
This strange photosphere in the middle of the ocean... Turn around and you'll see a person with no legs and two identical people.

https://www.google.com/maps/@23.2565826,-81.1602082,3a,90y,6.78h,83.99t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-17.33119-ya1.4629991-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120

It isn't quite the middle of the ocean.  It's just off the northern coast of Cuba, and indeed that car has a Cuban license plate.

My guess it was pinned in the sea as to avoid Cuban law.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 03, 2021, 12:09:35 PM


This strange photosphere in the middle of the ocean... Turn around and you'll see a person with no legs and two identical people.

https://www.google.com/maps/@23.2565826,-81.1602082,3a,90y,6.78h,83.99t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-17.33119-ya1.4629991-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120

It isn't quite the middle of the ocean.  It's just off the northern coast of Cuba, and indeed that car has a Cuban license plate.

My guess it was pinned in the sea as to avoid Cuban law.

What law would he have been avoiding?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Avalanchez71 on March 03, 2021, 12:27:43 PM


This strange photosphere in the middle of the ocean... Turn around and you'll see a person with no legs and two identical people.

https://www.google.com/maps/@23.2565826,-81.1602082,3a,90y,6.78h,83.99t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-17.33119-ya1.4629991-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120

It isn't quite the middle of the ocean.  It's just off the northern coast of Cuba, and indeed that car has a Cuban license plate.

My guess it was pinned in the sea as to avoid Cuban law.

What law would he have been avoiding?

I don't know.  I don't follow Cuba law.  Just thought the reason for posting it where he did was to avoid some Cuban privacy law. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on March 03, 2021, 12:28:16 PM


This strange photosphere in the middle of the ocean... Turn around and you'll see a person with no legs and two identical people.

https://www.google.com/maps/@23.2565826,-81.1602082,3a,90y,6.78h,83.99t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOyT0RwobdXvmGpRD_TWjwaOBHFKaX7Y5r8urOW%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-17.33119-ya1.4629991-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120

It isn't quite the middle of the ocean.  It's just off the northern coast of Cuba, and indeed that car has a Cuban license plate.

My guess it was pinned in the sea as to avoid Cuban law.

What law would he have been avoiding?

I don't know.  I don't follow Cuba law.  Just thought the reason for posting it where he did was to avoid some Cuban privacy law.
LOL.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on March 03, 2021, 12:41:40 PM
Not quite sure how a truck ended up like this (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4353797,-74.5910522,3a,75y,334.49h,78.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sHUiuG6-1dt0VwTPhHgL4BQ!2e0!5s20191001T000000!7i16384!8i8192) at an Atlantic City Expressway toll booth.

Even dump truck drivers need to take joy rides sometimes.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tchafe1978 on March 03, 2021, 10:06:38 PM
Not quite sure how a truck ended up like this (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4353797,-74.5910522,3a,75y,334.49h,78.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sHUiuG6-1dt0VwTPhHgL4BQ!2e0!5s20191001T000000!7i16384!8i8192) at an Atlantic City Expressway toll booth.

Even dump truck drivers need to take joy rides sometimes.

He crashed, obviously.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 04, 2021, 09:25:29 AM


Not quite sure how a truck ended up like this (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4353797,-74.5910522,3a,75y,334.49h,78.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sHUiuG6-1dt0VwTPhHgL4BQ!2e0!5s20191001T000000!7i16384!8i8192) at an Atlantic City Expressway toll booth.

Even dump truck drivers need to take joy rides sometimes.

He crashed, obviously.

Or it's an art installation.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SoDakInterstateEnthusiast on March 08, 2021, 09:26:00 AM
i love these duplication glitches

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5655986,-96.8309005,3a,26.4y,230.87h,91.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFk5hdOolhgNKKiYGWaNi7w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Ellis Rlis Road
WALNUT SALNUT STREET LMAO
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on March 13, 2021, 12:21:09 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/gNdawzs6fhhQunLG7
No traffic entering the US from the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

This is usually one of the busiest ports of entry to our nation from Canada.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on March 13, 2021, 06:29:39 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/gNdawzs6fhhQunLG7
No traffic entering the US from the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

This is usually one of the busiest ports of entry to our nation from Canada.

October 2020, border closed to non-essential travel
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on March 16, 2021, 07:20:50 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/gNdawzs6fhhQunLG7
No traffic entering the US from the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

This is usually one of the busiest ports of entry to our nation from Canada.

October 2020, border closed to non-essential travel

Of course, but to actually see this captured is crazy. Covid or no Covid, it’s a rare sight to be captured in the moment.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on March 16, 2021, 07:22:52 PM
Not quite sure how a truck ended up like this (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4353797,-74.5910522,3a,75y,334.49h,78.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sHUiuG6-1dt0VwTPhHgL4BQ!2e0!5s20191001T000000!7i16384!8i8192) at an Atlantic City Expressway toll booth.

Driving too fast and probably looking at his phone.  I had one come through my toll lane yesterday packing at least 50 mph. I was glad he didn’t loose control.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on March 17, 2021, 09:30:09 AM
Welcome to Mnhattan. Mayor Miael R. Bloomberg. (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7179966,-73.9863358,3a,32.8y,282.52h,91.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGkhdrSjisFNn3_5baNoI-A!2e0!5s20090601T000000!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 17, 2021, 11:16:30 AM
Welcome to Mnhattan. Mayor Miael R. Bloomberg. (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7179966,-73.9863358,3a,32.8y,282.52h,91.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGkhdrSjisFNn3_5baNoI-A!2e0!5s20090601T000000!7i13312!8i6656)

So, just a bit of stitching humor?  actual sign (https://goo.gl/maps/UVxFBVSyeV63yqJBA)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 17, 2021, 12:31:05 PM
Welcome to Mnhattan. Mayor Miael R. Bloomberg. (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7179966,-73.9863358,3a,32.8y,282.52h,91.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGkhdrSjisFNn3_5baNoI-A!2e0!5s20090601T000000!7i13312!8i6656)

So, just a bit of stitching humor?  actual sign (https://goo.gl/maps/UVxFBVSyeV63yqJBA)

Also the fact that Google apparently thought the seal on the left was someone's face, based on how they blurred it out.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheHighwayMan394 on March 17, 2021, 12:38:09 PM
Welcome to Mnhattan. Mayor Miael R. Bloomberg. (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7179966,-73.9863358,3a,32.8y,282.52h,91.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGkhdrSjisFNn3_5baNoI-A!2e0!5s20090601T000000!7i13312!8i6656)

So, just a bit of stitching humor?  actual sign (https://goo.gl/maps/UVxFBVSyeV63yqJBA)

Also the fact that Google apparently thought the seal on the left was someone's face, based on how they blurred it out.

Being a roadgeek must be the worst when it comes to GSV because of the algorithm blurring stuff it shouldn't.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on March 17, 2021, 02:17:06 PM
i love these duplication glitches

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5655986,-96.8309005,3a,26.4y,230.87h,91.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFk5hdOolhgNKKiYGWaNi7w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Ellis Rlis Road
WALNUT SALNUT STREET LMAO
Love how the stop sign is elongated
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on March 17, 2021, 02:22:26 PM
Welcome to Mnhattan. Mayor Miael R. Bloomberg. (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7179966,-73.9863358,3a,32.8y,282.52h,91.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGkhdrSjisFNn3_5baNoI-A!2e0!5s20090601T000000!7i13312!8i6656)

So, just a bit of stitching humor?  actual sign (https://goo.gl/maps/UVxFBVSyeV63yqJBA)

Also the fact that Google apparently thought the seal on the left was someone's face, based on how they blurred it out.

Being a roadgeek must be the worst when it comes to GSV because of the algorithm blurring stuff it shouldn't.

I find the old resolution (midway between current high resolution and the awful 2007/2008 imagery) was only so-so at correct blurring.

On the other hand, the current super-res or whatever is exceptionally good at correct blurring. The extra resolution clearly makes a big difference for the algorithm. I rarely see incorrect blurring. When I do see it, another click around and it's gone.

Good example: that "Welcome to Manhattan" sign has no blurring (https://goo.gl/maps/9BfedeBAPSTQnJN29) in current imagery, no matter how far away (https://goo.gl/maps/3uLf6jtoaAhn6izHA).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 18, 2021, 11:15:09 AM
A leaf cruising along at freeway speeds (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4027231,-90.0727842,3a,90y,240.18h,65.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLFacMpoSe-d2H81ym_tV4w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 18, 2021, 11:16:29 AM
A leaf cruising along at freeway speeds (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4027231,-90.0727842,3a,90y,240.18h,65.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLFacMpoSe-d2H81ym_tV4w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

That's so cool!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 18, 2021, 02:40:39 PM
How about this (https://www.google.com/maps/@8.0954923,-76.7286161,3a,52.4y,165.23h,89.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1se50I3NTvxBM_fpFyMMBJpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1)?  Seems crazy to me, but I defer to the audience.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on March 18, 2021, 02:47:53 PM
How about this (https://www.google.com/maps/@8.0954923,-76.7286161,3a,52.4y,165.23h,89.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1se50I3NTvxBM_fpFyMMBJpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1)?  Seems crazy to me, but I defer to the audience.

Lots to unpack there. The unblurred bloke (https://goo.gl/maps/Me5r83ZNzMzNYJ1K7) going southbound certainly strikes me as crazy, given how coocoo Google is with that.

But then there's the guy with the horse. Don't see that too often. Or maybe you do in Colombia.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 18, 2021, 02:48:59 PM
How about this (https://www.google.com/maps/@8.0954923,-76.7286161,3a,52.4y,165.23h,89.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1se50I3NTvxBM_fpFyMMBJpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1)?  Seems crazy to me, but I defer to the audience.

Other than what appears to be a fondness of motorcyclists for running red lights, what in particular looks crazy?  People are on the correct side of the road.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 18, 2021, 03:00:57 PM
Crazier than Cambodia (https://goo.gl/maps/CKJJ6Tuf9cmiJqTe8) or Ghana (https://goo.gl/maps/vJHei28o31uVhTmZ8)?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 18, 2021, 03:10:06 PM
Other than what appears to be a fondness of motorcyclists for running red lights, what in particular looks crazy?  People are on the correct side of the road.

People being on the correct side of the road is about the only thing that isn't crazy. The guy with the horse sharing the road with regular cars, as jakeroot mentions. The unbelievable volume of motorcycles (also seen here (https://www.google.com/maps/@8.0926477,-76.7278028,3a,90y,199.71h,74.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9NKXjSIciUv0aYSkw65S-A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1)). The weird ridge in the middle of the road. The buildings. The people. Maybe "crazy" is a high bar, but I'm intrigued by all of it!


Crazier than Cambodia (https://goo.gl/maps/CKJJ6Tuf9cmiJqTe8) or Ghana (https://goo.gl/maps/vJHei28o31uVhTmZ8)?

Uh... no... Well, maybe crazier than Cambodia, but not Ghana. What is even going on there? Looks like a lot to explore when I get a chance.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 18, 2021, 03:38:28 PM

Other than what appears to be a fondness of motorcyclists for running red lights, what in particular looks crazy?  People are on the correct side of the road.

People being on the correct side of the road is about the only thing that isn't crazy. The guy with the horse sharing the road with regular cars, as jakeroot mentions. The unbelievable volume of motorcycles (also seen here (https://www.google.com/maps/@8.0926477,-76.7278028,3a,90y,199.71h,74.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9NKXjSIciUv0aYSkw65S-A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1)). The weird ridge in the middle of the road. The buildings. The people. Maybe "crazy" is a high bar, but I'm intrigued by all of it!

meh.

I probably share the road with horse-drawn carts, and even mounted riders, probably every single time I go to Mexico.

And I'm used to things sort of like that ridge both in town (https://goo.gl/maps/hmZgZnuUkG3C9X226) and on the highway (https://goo.gl/maps/HYiRcE46pXApwrag7).

So I guess I have a different baseline for "normal" than most others on here.

If you haven't watched these, then click on the links below for a typical day of driving:

(http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i410/kphoger/Mex7_zpsmuwrdqt7.png)
Heading to our ministry location in the Ojo de Agua neighborhood on the south side of town. (https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPg3Z7E9pQreGsQYPUcUkVAUQKZW0BEXll8_7eBuNmol1baxwoqyROLREShIRkY-Q/photo/AF1QipM3JzY-kT10tbx6QLM2eWU3KsnL_UzCNGmELu8L?key=dlBuaXVqUjJNVDc0MVV5a1RqRHp6eUM0d1BEZGhB)
(Sorry about the massive amount of dashboard visible)

(http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i410/kphoger/Mex8_zpsq6eaep24.png)
Heading back again, with a side trip into town. (https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPg3Z7E9pQreGsQYPUcUkVAUQKZW0BEXll8_7eBuNmol1baxwoqyROLREShIRkY-Q/photo/AF1QipMEqtBF710f9HCK8jK4BdsnMeEgFyuBesvskks1?key=dlBuaXVqUjJNVDc0MVV5a1RqRHp6eUM0d1BEZGhB)
(The video skips briefly at 8:51, while I parallel parked and ran in to grab a restaurant menu.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 18, 2021, 05:11:40 PM
meh.

It's very hard for me to take a post too seriously when this is how it begins. But I will try to get around to watching the videos sometime.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 18, 2021, 05:19:03 PM

meh.

It's very hard for me to take a post too seriously when this is how it begins. But I will try to get around to watching the videos sometime.

meh.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 18, 2021, 06:19:42 PM
meh.

bleh (https://www.google.com/maps/@6.4594265,3.2823815,3a,63.7y,308.73h,79.1t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sotLdpAtq_4QdUtvmbsYDJA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DotLdpAtq_4QdUtvmbsYDJA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D13.625339%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on March 20, 2021, 09:46:38 PM
Illegal dumping caught in action?
(https://i.imgur.com/3hrC6VK.png)

Link: https://goo.gl/maps/DdEB5xTV2kXiHUaF8
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Avalanchez71 on March 22, 2021, 01:34:37 PM
So are they expanding this to a divided highway?
https://www.google.com/maps/@7.0624042,3.7139259,3a,83.5y,16.91h,75.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D98.03169%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@7.0624042,3.7139259,3a,83.5y,16.91h,75.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D98.03169%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on March 22, 2021, 04:13:18 PM
So are they expanding this to a divided highway?

I don't know, but:
https://www.google.com/maps/@6.4520329,3.3972204,3a,20.5y,189.01h,78.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjvGITC0xn1RnW99wb8OZJw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
 :-o
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 23, 2021, 01:19:34 PM
So are they expanding this to a divided highway?
https://www.google.com/maps/@7.0624042,3.7139259,3a,83.5y,16.91h,75.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D98.03169%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@7.0624042,3.7139259,3a,83.5y,16.91h,75.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D98.03169%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)

Uh.  Yeah.  The road is even marked as a divided highway on the Map view (https://goo.gl/maps/XSAit5phbHHnexMf9).  And it's pretty obvious just a bit up the road (https://goo.gl/maps/os4KT1X8PAzH83B27).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on March 27, 2021, 04:31:39 PM
This house (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.8369933,-108.7406917,3a,75y,282h,94.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOH4B2NwJ4L3Bha48nGOMiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) in Lander, Wyoming is amazing. There are 18 photospheres supposedly showing its inside, but they wildly change between them.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 30, 2021, 09:37:04 AM
This house (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.8369933,-108.7406917,3a,75y,282h,94.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOH4B2NwJ4L3Bha48nGOMiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) in Lander, Wyoming is amazing. There are 18 photospheres supposedly showing its inside, but they wildly change between them.

Here's my favorite view of the house. (https://goo.gl/maps/guK8y34BuNQsL6ys7)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on March 31, 2021, 08:36:54 PM
For some reason, WQBQ 1410 AM in Leesburg, Florida is incorrectly located on the north end of the FL 19 bridge over the Cross Florida Barge Canal north of Ocala National Forest.

I've never seen any radio stations there (https://imgur.com/a/1FbKNSR). Maybe the station themselves (https://wqbq1410.com/) should complain about it.



Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 01, 2021, 01:42:48 PM
For those of you who use a VPN, let me know if this is normal:

One of the MSOs my company works for has been having trouble with the VPN we use to access their sites.  Because of this, we've been using a different VPN access instead.  Today, while I was connected to that VPN, Google Maps in Chrome (incognito) thought I was in Maryland Heights, MO.  I noticed that my supposed location was several miles north of the MSO's corporate office there, in a retail business district just west of I-270 and Dorsett Road.  I called our KC regional manager and had him check his own computer just for kicks, and Google Maps thought he too was in Maryland Heights rather than North Kansas City.

When I disconnected from the VPN, Google Maps went back to thinking I was only about a quarter-mile from where I'm actually sitting.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on April 01, 2021, 02:07:30 PM
For those of you who use a VPN, let me know if this is normal:

One of the MSOs my company works for has been having trouble with the VPN we use to access their sites.  Because of this, we've been using a different VPN access instead.  Today, while I was connected to that VPN, Google Maps in Chrome (incognito) thought I was in Maryland Heights, MO.  I noticed that my supposed location was several miles north of the MSO's corporate office there, in a retail business district just west of I-270 and Dorsett Road.  I called our KC regional manager and had him check his own computer just for kicks, and Google Maps thought he too was in Maryland Heights rather than North Kansas City.

When I disconnected from the VPN, Google Maps went back to thinking I was only about a quarter-mile from where I'm actually sitting.

When I am on my work laptop connected via VPN, Google Maps thinks I'm at my office, which is 250ish miles away. My personal laptop thinks I'm pretty close to where I actually am.

As for the several miles difference, the company may have servers in a different location than their offices.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jmacswimmer on April 01, 2021, 03:22:59 PM
For those of you who use a VPN, let me know if this is normal:

One of the MSOs my company works for has been having trouble with the VPN we use to access their sites.  Because of this, we've been using a different VPN access instead.  Today, while I was connected to that VPN, Google Maps in Chrome (incognito) thought I was in Maryland Heights, MO.  I noticed that my supposed location was several miles north of the MSO's corporate office there, in a retail business district just west of I-270 and Dorsett Road.  I called our KC regional manager and had him check his own computer just for kicks, and Google Maps thought he too was in Maryland Heights rather than North Kansas City.

When I disconnected from the VPN, Google Maps went back to thinking I was only about a quarter-mile from where I'm actually sitting.

When I am on my work laptop connected via VPN, Google Maps thinks I'm at my office, which is 250ish miles away. My personal laptop thinks I'm pretty close to where I actually am.

As for the several miles difference, the company may have servers in a different location than their offices.

Either when I'm on VPN at home or in the office, Google Maps thinks I'm at the company headquarters (which must be related to how the servers are structured).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: interstatefan990 on April 01, 2021, 03:28:24 PM
There's been times when I used a VPN that Google thought I was in Saudi Arabia. When I opened a new google search and started typing, the characters appeared from right to left, as is with the Arabic language.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on April 06, 2021, 05:44:04 PM
In commemoration of the 11th anniversary of this thread (happening tomorrow), I introduce the true gateway to Hell (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.7387734,-0.521508,3a,75y,53.5h,88.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sleLwL0nsYHGISmDU_OAlzA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) :sombrero:.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on April 08, 2021, 12:31:05 AM
In commemoration of the 11th anniversary of this thread (happening tomorrow), I introduce the true gateway to Hell (https://www.google.es/maps/@42.7387734,-0.521508,3a,75y,53.5h,88.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sleLwL0nsYHGISmDU_OAlzA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) :sombrero:.
Really? Because that looks like it might be a fun drive.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Big John on April 08, 2021, 12:38:16 AM
^^ Read the signs.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 08, 2021, 09:31:56 AM
I'm always amused that people think 666 has anything to do with hell.  It's just a number that refers to a person in the book of Revelation.  Debate all you want what person it refers to, but Satan isn't a person.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on April 08, 2021, 09:37:37 AM
I'm always amused that people think 666 has anything to do with hell.  It's just a number that refers to a person in the book of Revelation.  Debate all you want what person it refers to, but Satan isn't a person.

Even worse are those who think any number of sixes does. The number is exactly 666, as in 2*3*3*37, which is also the sum of integers from 1 to 36. 6666 and 66666 do not mean anything, nor do three separate sixes in a row (such as June 6, 2006 in shorthand format), and two thirds is right out.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on April 08, 2021, 09:46:00 AM
True story: my wife and I like to play poker, and Catholic churches often host poker tournaments as fund raisers. The first time we went to one particular church, she got in a hand with the priest where she had pocket aces, he had pocket sixes, and he knocked her out of the tournament after a 6 came on the flop.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on April 08, 2021, 10:07:26 AM
^^ Read the signs.
Ahh, yes. I missed that.


Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on April 08, 2021, 12:15:35 PM
I'm always amused that people think 666 has anything to do with hell.  It's just a number that refers to a person in the book of Revelation.  Debate all you want what person it refers to, but Satan isn't a person.

I thought it was the "number of the beast"? Not anything to do with satan.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 08, 2021, 12:52:07 PM

I'm always amused that people think 666 has anything to do with hell.  It's just a number that refers to a person in the book of Revelation.  Debate all you want what person it refers to, but Satan isn't a person.

I thought it was the "number of the beast"? Not anything to do with satan.

Well, yeah.  But the beast in Revelation 13 "rose out of the earth", and everything it's described as doing occurs on earth.  The context is not in hell, but on earth.  And yet no one thought it was strange for "km 666" to signify "the true gateway to Hell".  That's what amuses me.
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Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on April 08, 2021, 01:03:06 PM

I'm always amused that people think 666 has anything to do with hell.  It's just a number that refers to a person in the book of Revelation.  Debate all you want what person it refers to, but Satan isn't a person.

I thought it was the "number of the beast"? Not anything to do with satan.

Well, yeah.  But the beast in Revelation 13 "rose out of the earth", and everything it's described as doing occurs on earth.  The context is not in hell, but on earth.  And yet no one thought it was strange for "km 666" to signify "the true gateway to Hell".  That's what amuses me.
[/religion]

It makes sense based on the following definition of gateway: a means of access or entry to a place.

But not the more common definition: a frame or arch built around or over a gate.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on April 08, 2021, 01:09:09 PM
Satan's a fallen angel.  So, I suppose he isn't a person of flesh and blood, but I still think the number pertains to him.  I think the number is pretty meaningless, but John said what he did.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 08, 2021, 01:17:40 PM
[religion]

Satan's a fallen angel.  So, I suppose he isn't a person of flesh and blood, but I still think the number pertains to him.  I think the number is pretty meaningless, but John said what he did.

Revelation 20:10 says refers to the devil and the beast separately.  How can they be the same?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on April 08, 2021, 11:21:02 PM
[religion]

Satan's a fallen angel.  So, I suppose he isn't a person of flesh and blood, but I still think the number pertains to him.  I think the number is pretty meaningless, but John said what he did.

Revelation 20:10 says refers to the devil and the beast separately.  How can they be the same?
I think those references are to generic beasts and false prophets.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 09, 2021, 12:01:36 AM
What I don't get is when people freak the hell out over the number 666 occurring either randomly (like if their change is $6.66) or methodically (i.e. it occurs naturally after 665). I had a coworker who was employee number 667, and was processed through human resources as part of a cohort with a dozen employees or so. She said the lady ahead of her in line got badge number 666, got very upset, and demanded that HR assign her a different number. HR refused to do so, because casino badges are controlled documents and they cannot leave an unaccounted-for gap in the numbering sequence, and they also cannot assign two badges to one person. So the woman quit.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: interstatefan990 on April 09, 2021, 01:05:46 AM
What I don't get is when people freak the hell out over the number 666 occurring either randomly (like if their change is $6.66) or methodically (i.e. it occurs naturally after 665). I had a coworker who was employee number 667, and was processed through human resources as part of a cohort with a dozen employees or so. She said the lady ahead of her in line got badge number 666, got very upset, and demanded that HR assign her a different number. HR refused to do so, because casino badges are controlled documents and they cannot leave an unaccounted-for gap in the numbering sequence, and they also cannot assign two badges to one person. So the woman quit.

One time a few years ago, I looked at one of my bank accounts after making a large purchase, and there was exactly $666.13 left in it. I agree that triple-6 isn't something to freak out over, but that spooked me a little.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 09, 2021, 01:19:02 AM
Would you have been just as spooked if it was $789.46?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: interstatefan990 on April 09, 2021, 01:24:01 AM
Would you have been just as spooked if it was $789.46?

No, because those aren't "unlucky" or "haunted" numbers, I guess.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 09, 2021, 01:43:18 AM
Would you have been just as spooked if it was $789.46?

No, because those aren't "unlucky" or "haunted" numbers, I guess.

How can you tell?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: interstatefan990 on April 09, 2021, 02:31:10 AM
Would you have been just as spooked if it was $789.46?

No, because those aren't "unlucky" or "haunted" numbers, I guess.

How can you tell?

Human belief and tradition?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 09, 2021, 02:34:06 AM
Perhaps 789 and 46 are both unlucky but nobody has noticed yet? How could you prove that they were more or less lucky than 666 and 13?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on April 09, 2021, 08:06:26 AM
Perhaps 789 and 46 are both unlucky but nobody has noticed yet? How could you prove that they were more or less lucky than 666 and 13?

I don't think it's an unlucky number, just a bad one.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 09, 2021, 12:25:28 PM
What I don't get is when people freak the hell out over the number 666 occurring either randomly (like if their change is $6.66) or methodically (i.e. it occurs naturally after 665). I had a coworker who was employee number 667, and was processed through human resources as part of a cohort with a dozen employees or so. She said the lady ahead of her in line got badge number 666, got very upset, and demanded that HR assign her a different number. HR refused to do so, because casino badges are controlled documents and they cannot leave an unaccounted-for gap in the numbering sequence, and they also cannot assign two badges to one person. So the woman quit.

Just today, I ran a billing audit for one of our contract regions, and the point total added up to 666.  I thought of this thread.  No, I didn't take pay away from a tech or give a tech extra pay.  The audit was clean (actually, the positives and negatives balanced each other out), so I approved the total.  :)

With your co-worker, I still chuckle, but at least it's a little more understandable, in that perhaps she viewed her badge number as a part of her identity.  It's one number for to see a number somewhere, it's another thing to be identified by that number.  The number of the beast is 666, and her number was 666.  I don't know, maybe that's just me always trying to understand where someone else is coming from.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on April 10, 2021, 09:55:08 PM
In Winganon OK there is a remnant of a crashed cement truck that was too heavy to move, so it was left there.  Years later, locals painted it to make it look like a crashed NASA space capsule.

Google Street View:  http://www.google.com/maps/@36.5826984,-95.6517633,3a,90y,44.7h,86.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZI-nwnFRvY8izhdmCy_ZSw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (http://www.google.com/maps/@36.5826984,-95.6517633,3a,90y,44.7h,86.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZI-nwnFRvY8izhdmCy_ZSw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 10, 2021, 10:22:39 PM
With your co-worker, I still chuckle, but at least it's a little more understandable, in that perhaps she viewed her badge number as a part of her identity.  It's one number for to see a number somewhere, it's another thing to be identified by that number.  The number of the beast is 666, and her number was 666.  I don't know, maybe that's just me always trying to understand where someone else is coming from.

Particularly true in the casino, where you have to write the badge number any time you sign a document, so that the responsible party for a signature is clear even if you have a signature that isn't recognizable as your name. (So for example, I had to sign every document as "Scott Nazelrod 104485".) But, still, it's a pretty silly reason to quit before having even worked a day.

As an aside, my coworker with badge number 667 asked HR if they could claim 666 since it was newly freed up (and she's the sort of person who thought having the number 666 would be pretty cool), but they of course couldn't do that either, for the same reasons they gave for not being able to change 666. If only they had known to swap places in line!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on April 18, 2021, 07:06:55 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/Z59XdEUdGFV8En53A

Not crazy but the tail of a United Airlines passenger jet crossing I-190 at O’’Hare.

Here is another one full plane.
https://goo.gl/maps/ecfC4Ka5ZRZX32uT6
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: mrsman on April 19, 2021, 01:53:40 PM
With your co-worker, I still chuckle, but at least it's a little more understandable, in that perhaps she viewed her badge number as a part of her identity.  It's one number for to see a number somewhere, it's another thing to be identified by that number.  The number of the beast is 666, and her number was 666.  I don't know, maybe that's just me always trying to understand where someone else is coming from.

Particularly true in the casino, where you have to write the badge number any time you sign a document, so that the responsible party for a signature is clear even if you have a signature that isn't recognizable as your name. (So for example, I had to sign every document as "Scott Nazelrod 104485".) But, still, it's a pretty silly reason to quit before having even worked a day.

As an aside, my coworker with badge number 667 asked HR if they could claim 666 since it was newly freed up (and she's the sort of person who thought having the number 666 would be pretty cool), but they of course couldn't do that either, for the same reasons they gave for not being able to change 666. If only they had known to swap places in line!

I can't speak to the casino you work for in OK, but I can tell you that the world of gambling is EXTREMELY SUPERSTITIOUS.  There is probably no hotel in the entire state of Nevada with a 13th floor.  Conversely, in Chinese culture 8 is considered an extermely lucky number and gambling sites that cater to the Chinese (especially Macao) make heavy use of the number 8.

Given that, it is interesting that the casino wouldn't do more to avoid an unlucky number like 666.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on April 19, 2021, 02:07:13 PM
With your co-worker, I still chuckle, but at least it's a little more understandable, in that perhaps she viewed her badge number as a part of her identity.  It's one number for to see a number somewhere, it's another thing to be identified by that number.  The number of the beast is 666, and her number was 666.  I don't know, maybe that's just me always trying to understand where someone else is coming from.

Particularly true in the casino, where you have to write the badge number any time you sign a document, so that the responsible party for a signature is clear even if you have a signature that isn't recognizable as your name. (So for example, I had to sign every document as "Scott Nazelrod 104485".) But, still, it's a pretty silly reason to quit before having even worked a day.

As an aside, my coworker with badge number 667 asked HR if they could claim 666 since it was newly freed up (and she's the sort of person who thought having the number 666 would be pretty cool), but they of course couldn't do that either, for the same reasons they gave for not being able to change 666. If only they had known to swap places in line!

I can't speak to the casino you work for in OK, but I can tell you that the world of gambling is EXTREMELY SUPERSTITIOUS.  There is probably no hotel in the entire state of Nevada with a 13th floor.  Conversely, in Chinese culture 8 is considered an extermely lucky number and gambling sites that cater to the Chinese (especially Macao) make heavy use of the number 8.

Given that, it is interesting that the casino wouldn't do more to avoid an unlucky number like 666.



I don't know if this extends beyond poker players to all gamblers, but poker players will not accept $50 bills when cashing out. I used to run charity poker tournaments, and I made sure all $50 bills were put into the charity's take and not the payouts.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on April 19, 2021, 10:04:29 PM
With your co-worker, I still chuckle, but at least it's a little more understandable, in that perhaps she viewed her badge number as a part of her identity.  It's one number for to see a number somewhere, it's another thing to be identified by that number.  The number of the beast is 666, and her number was 666.  I don't know, maybe that's just me always trying to understand where someone else is coming from.

Particularly true in the casino, where you have to write the badge number any time you sign a document, so that the responsible party for a signature is clear even if you have a signature that isn't recognizable as your name. (So for example, I had to sign every document as "Scott Nazelrod 104485".) But, still, it's a pretty silly reason to quit before having even worked a day.

As an aside, my coworker with badge number 667 asked HR if they could claim 666 since it was newly freed up (and she's the sort of person who thought having the number 666 would be pretty cool), but they of course couldn't do that either, for the same reasons they gave for not being able to change 666. If only they had known to swap places in line!

I can't speak to the casino you work for in OK, but I can tell you that the world of gambling is EXTREMELY SUPERSTITIOUS.  There is probably no hotel in the entire state of Nevada with a 13th floor.  Conversely, in Chinese culture 8 is considered an extermely lucky number and gambling sites that cater to the Chinese (especially Macao) make heavy use of the number 8.

Given that, it is interesting that the casino wouldn't do more to avoid an unlucky number like 666.
Very few skyscrapers have 13th floors in the U.S.  That's not solely because of a gambler's superstition.

The gambler's superstition that bugs me is when people get mad when you bet against the roller in craps.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on April 19, 2021, 10:25:41 PM
Very few skyscrapers have 13th floors in the U.S.  That's not solely because of a gambler's superstition.

Surprisingly, my 14 story office building *does* have a 13th floor!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 19, 2021, 10:30:46 PM
I don't know if this extends beyond poker players to all gamblers, but poker players will not accept $50 bills when cashing out. I used to run charity poker tournaments, and I made sure all $50 bills were put into the charity's take and not the payouts.

It does. We didn't even carry $50s. If anyone actually wanted them (which happened sometimes) we had to tell them we didn't have them. (I always said $50s were probably good luck, because that would explain why the casino wouldn't let anyone have them, but nobody ever listened.)

But I did get them sometimes from clueless people who came in with them from outside and changed them out for $5s or something, and then you'd end up stuck with one or two, which would be very irritating, since the end-of-shift paperwork that we had to do for most of my time there would require you to break out each denomination on its own line, so it was obnoxious to have a couple hundred bills of every other denomination and have to write "1×$50=$50" or something dumb like that.

So I made it a game to try to get rid of them before the shift ended so I wouldn't have to do that. I'd do stuff like try to drop a $20 on top of the $50 and count really fast: "$375. One hundred, two, three, fiftyseventy, seventy-five, good luck." Or if someone had an $80 ticket or something I'd ask "Do you want a large bill?" and you'd see this spark in their eyes like "This dumbass cashier is about to give me a $100 bill for an $80 ticket," and they'd say yeah. Then you could see all the wind go out of their sails when I laid the $50 down. But they'd always take it because there was no way to reject it without making it obvious they were hoping to scam you out of $20.

The easiest way to get rid of them was to put them into jackpots, since the slot attendant took the cash to the patron and paid them at the machine. If they didn't want the $50 bill, the attendant had no change on them, so they would have to wait five or ten minutes while the attendant came back to the cage to swap it out, so most of them just dealt with it. We did get $50 tips out of it a few times since it was either that or put it in the machine. (Or bring it home, but god forbid anyone think to take any money outside of the casino.)

Of course it's all bullshit anyway, because the only thing that happens when you put a $50 in a slot machine is the machine gets a signal from the bill acceptor to add $50 worth of credits to the meter, and then the RNG works exactly the same as if you put in five $10s or 50 $1s.

(This is all terrible customer service, but the customers were going to be pissed off about something stupid no matter what I did, so I gradually had my capacity to care crushed out of me like the life was crushed out of Giles Corey in the Salem witch trials. Which is a good metaphor for what it's like to work in that casino, incidentally.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Big John on April 19, 2021, 11:22:09 PM
The Chicago office of a former employer was on the 13th of 19 floors.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on April 20, 2021, 09:13:04 AM
So I made it a game to try to get rid of them before the shift ended so I wouldn't have to do that.

I remember doing stuff like that when I worked the cashier shift in a grocery store; if you got a $50 or $2 bill, I'd try to pass it off as soon as possible. Getting rid of the two-dollar-bills wasn't too difficult, since they're generally perceived as "lucky", but usually you wanted to give it to a customer who was getting a little more than $2.04 in change back.

There always seemed to be at least one customer a day that bought $4.57 of items and paid for it with a $100 bill. I'd usually hand over some obnoxious amount of change near the end of the shift just to mess with them. "Okay, 50-60-70-75-80-85-90-91-92-(8 quarters)-(8 dimes)-(10 nickels)-(13 pennies)...have a nice day!" (Sometimes, that's literally all you had left towards the end of your shift; other times, you just had to make a game out of people.)

I usually preferred to be away from the front of the store, but when they later told me my till was never off by more than five cents, I knew why I was sent up front for half a shift whenever someone was out or it became busy.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on April 20, 2021, 09:33:29 AM
I always thought $50 was a pointless denomination anyway. Bills have virtually no weight. It's not an inconvenience to have to carry $20s and $10s instead of $50s.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 20, 2021, 11:12:15 AM
I always thought $50 was a pointless denomination anyway. Bills have virtually no weight. It's not an inconvenience to have to carry $20s and $10s instead of $50s.

I love $50 bills when traveling, because a tank of gas usually costs me around $35-$45 or so.  Fill up with a $50, get change back, and use that to pay for the family's snacks at the next pit stop.

I also love $2 bills while traveling for a similar reason.  If it's just me buying a small snack, then chances are good my total is between $1 and $2.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 20, 2021, 01:30:52 PM
I always thought $50 was a pointless denomination anyway. Bills have virtually no weight. It's not an inconvenience to have to carry $20s and $10s instead of $50s.

$50s were less pointless back when we were on the gold standard. In 1928, a $20 bill was worth about $310 today and a $50 was worth $774 today. That's a big enough difference in value to make it worth having.

These days the pointlessness of $50s isn't due to anything inherent about the denomination itself (as kphoger points out, they're convenient for gas fill-ups, and they can make amounts of $70-79 or $90-99 less cumbersome since they replace 3 bills, or 4 if $10s aren't available) but because of the awkward spot they fall in as regards acceptance. $50s are large enough they get the suspicion and non-acceptance that $100s do ("no bills over $20 accepted") and yet $50 is really not a whole lot of money.

With a $100 at least you have the utility of being good for large purchases...although it still would take more than one of them to cover a grocery run for me and my wife. $100 isn't what it once was. I wish they'd bring back the $500.

I also love $2 bills while traveling for a similar reason.  If it's just me buying a small snack, then chances are good my total is between $1 and $2.

I love $2s in general, and when I have the money to do so, will buy them a strap at a time from the bank. It's nice to not have to deal with a bunch of $1s. A lot of people don't realize they're still printed, though in much smaller quantities than $1s. It's kind of fun watching people in drive thrus with them–cashiers will invariably hold them up to the light, see nothing (because $2s are printed on the same stock as $1s, so no watermark or anything), and then accept them anyway.

People at the casino didn't like them because some of the machines weren't configured to accept them, so you had to sneak those out the same way as the $50s. (Again, why would you take money home from the casino??)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 20, 2021, 01:41:33 PM
What I dislike on my trips to Mexico is this:

I pay cash for my vehicle import permit deposit, which runs $200-$400 depending on the model year of your vehicle.  Before leaving Mexico, I then cancel my permit and reclaim my deposit.  No matter how I paid for it, Banjercito refunds me in 100-dollar bills.  By that point in the trip, the only thing I'm going to pay for that costs more than $100 is a motel room.  So I have to do one of two things:

1.  Start out my trip with an extra couple of hundred dollars' worth of small bills to cover gas and lunch and stuff on the northbound trip.  This solution is undesirable because it involves carrying extra cash for no good reason.  (I won't bother getting into why I use cash instead of plastic on these trips.)

2.  Plan on paying for something small with a 100-dollar bill, and hope that establishment accepts bills larger than $20.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 20, 2021, 01:46:12 PM
Why not stop at a bank somewhere in Texas and have them break the bills for you? (Yes, it's an extra stop, but it would avoid the awkwardness of trying to break a bill at a business that may not have much of an interest in doing so.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 20, 2021, 01:54:25 PM
Why not stop at a bank somewhere in Texas and have them break the bills for you? (Yes, it's an extra stop, but it would avoid the awkwardness of trying to break a bill at a business that may not have much of an interest in doing so.)

We cross the border after the banks have already closed in Del Rio, and we leave our motel in Sonora before the bank there opens in the morning.  By the time I could find an open bank convenient to our route, I would already have made half the purchases I'm talking about.

Also, it's a 600-mile drive from Sonora to Wichita, we don't stop for supper before going home, and we hate unloading the car as it is.  Making an extra stop isn't exactly appealing.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 20, 2021, 02:03:47 PM
If you crossed at Eagle Pass, there's a casino there you could make change at. But that would probably be even more of a hassle than dealing with the $100s, because that would entail crossing the border and going south for a bit.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 20, 2021, 02:16:30 PM
If you crossed at Eagle Pass, there's a casino there you could make change at. But that would probably be even more of a hassle than dealing with the $100s, because that would entail crossing the border and going south for a bit.

...and add 18 miles to my trip, even without the jaunt to the casino.  It's usually pushing 8:30 or 9:00 PM when we get to the motel as it is.

Besides, my point is that it's annoying.  As I said, there are solutions.  I just wish it weren't a problem to begin with.

While we're on the subject...  It seems pretty unreasonable for some places to not accept any bills over $20.  I mean, even a family of five spending $8 each at a fast food joint gets close to the $50 mark.  I understand not accepting 100s, but 50s?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 20, 2021, 06:15:05 PM
Usually, when you see such a thing, it's for a number of reasons:

I wish bank ATMs were like casino ATMs that let you insert a bill into them and it dispenses the next denomination down.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 20, 2021, 06:35:39 PM
Not that it's too hard to spot a counterfeit–every one I've ever seen has been so obvious that anyone with eyeballs would be able to see it...but based on the number of people who said they got the counterfeit from 7-Eleven or something.

Late one morning in March 2009, I stopped at the Subway attached to the Chevron station in Devine, TX (Exit #122).  The cashier marked my $20 bill, handed it back to me, and told me it was counterfeit, that I might want to talk to whomever had given it to me.  I thought about it for a few seconds.  I had gotten it from the bank.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 20, 2021, 07:02:40 PM
I thought about it for a few seconds.  I had gotten it from the bank.

Well, did you see the bank teller check it? :P

Those counterfeit pens are total garbage anyway. You wanna know how I know?
(https://i.imgur.com/JUXbYCz.jpg?1)

You'll notice, of course, there is no such place as the "Kingdom of Tanrylonia"–that's the fictional country my D&D games take place in (capital: Quindaro, cause I have a problem). This is play money, but it marks good with the pen. How? The pen just reacts to the starch in wood pulp. So if you use cotton-fiber paper like the kind I got off of Amazon and printed this on, the pen marks good. Likewise, you can get genuine bills to fail by spraying them with starch.

The best way to check if a bill is real is to put it under UV light. The security strip will glow if the bill is genuine.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: mrsman on April 22, 2021, 09:43:42 PM
While we are on the topic of money, ideally each next level of currency should be either 2x or 2.5x the previous level of currency.  US does a pretty good job on it:

.05
.10
.25 [to really be ideal, the quarter would be replaced with a 20c piece, but 25c is also OK]
.50
1
2
5
10
20
50
100

That being said, the next sets of currency to be made available should be 200, 500, 1000.  $1000 may be too much of a problem for counterfeiting and money laundering.

With a little research, I was able to discover that there were once 500-McKinley, 1000-Cleveland, 5000-Madison, and 10,000-Chase bills.  If those should ever come back into circulation, 200 and 2000 notes should as well.  Given inflation, there are some good arguments for creating a new $200 bill.  Who should be honored to grace its face?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Big John on April 22, 2021, 10:25:40 PM
^^Reagan?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: noelbotevera on April 22, 2021, 10:30:13 PM
Screw it. John Hancock. That man has the biggest signature on the Declaration of Independence even though nobody cares about what he did.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SSOWorld on April 22, 2021, 10:57:48 PM
^^Reagan?
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/uXcAAMXQnYJRBASm/s-l300.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 22, 2021, 11:39:03 PM
.25 [to really be ideal, the quarter would be replaced with a 20c piece, but 25c is also OK]

I always thought it was odd that we had a $20 bill but a 25¢ coin. Pick one or the other. (Europe has €20 and €0.20, and also has both €2 and €0.02 coins.)

With a little research, I was able to discover that there were once 500-McKinley, 1000-Cleveland, 5000-Madison, and 10,000-Chase bills.  If those should ever come back into circulation, 200 and 2000 notes should as well.  Given inflation, there are some good arguments for creating a new $200 bill.  Who should be honored to grace its face?

It'd be nice if it wasn't a politician or President. BEP has a bit more leeway in who they put on savings bonds, so they have some engravings of non-political figures like Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, and Chief Joseph. It'd be nice to see those reused on actual money.

It would be kind of nice if we got away from having people's faces on money to begin with. A lot of countries have vignettes of things that are important to that country. Might be nice to see things that are American that aren't people, like the Golden Gate Bridge, the Grand Canyon, the Great Plains, the Mississippi River, etc.

If we must have a politician, perhaps one of the Roosevelts. FDR is on the dime but not on any paper money, and Teddy hasn't ever been on anything. Eisenhower might be nice; you could put a map of the Interstate System on the back...but that's probably just a roadgeek fantasy...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on April 23, 2021, 06:11:03 AM
I was thinking Henry Clay. A friend I know wants Ruth Bader Ginsburg (if it's after the 2-year period ends).

Might be nice to see things that are American that aren't people, like the Golden Gate Bridge, the Grand Canyon, the Great Plains, the Mississippi River, etc..

We already have buildings on the reverse side.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 23, 2021, 12:35:16 PM
While we are on the topic of money, ideally each next level of currency should be either 2x or 2.5x the previous level of currency.  US does a pretty good job on it:

.05
.10
.25 [to really be ideal, the quarter would be replaced with a 20c piece, but 25c is also OK]
.50
1
2
5
10
20
50
100

That being said, the next sets of currency to be made available should be 200, 500, 1000.  $1000 may be too much of a problem for counterfeiting and money laundering.


Coins and Bills of the Mexican Peso

5¢
10¢
20¢
50¢
$1
$2
$5
$10
$20

(https://vocesdelperiodista.mx/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/peso_mexicano_monedas.jpg)

$20
$50
$100
$200
$500
$1000

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_F_%2420_obverse.jpg)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_F1_%2450_obverse.jpg/150px-Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_F1_%2450_obverse.jpg)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_F_%24100_obverse.jpg/150px-Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_F_%24100_obverse.jpg)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8d/Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_G_%24200_obverse.png/150px-Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_G_%24200_obverse.png)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_G_%24500_obverse.png/150px-Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_G_%24500_obverse.png)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c7/Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_F_%241000_obverse.jpg/150px-Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico_F_%241000_obverse.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on April 23, 2021, 12:36:29 PM
Mexico has too many bimetallic coins.

Should we merge this discussion into the "Funny money" thread?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 23, 2021, 01:25:42 PM
Mexico has too many bimetallic coins.

Too many for what?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on April 23, 2021, 01:29:22 PM
Mexico has too many bimetallic coins.

Too many for what?

Bimetallic coins are supposed to signify a high value in addition to making them easier to identify at a quick glance. Some currencies, like the euro, have two, one with the gold color on the outside and one with the silver color on the outside. Mexico has five denominations of bimetallic coins, with three of one type and two of the other, with the 1 peso coin only being worth about as a US nickel.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 23, 2021, 01:54:53 PM
How is that any worse than every US coin except the penny being the same color?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 23, 2021, 01:56:42 PM
Honestly, I've never had much trouble with coins in Mexico.  Gold-ringed ones are the higher denominations (for purchases I might use a $1 or $2 USD bill for here), silver-ringed ones are the lower denominations (for making exact change, same as here), single-color coins are for nitpicky establishments that still don't round to the nearest peso.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Big John on April 23, 2021, 03:39:13 PM
How is that any worse than every US coin except the penny being the same color?
The newer rarely used $1 coin is golden color.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on April 23, 2021, 04:00:47 PM

How is that any worse than every US coin except the penny being the same color?

The newer rarely used $1 coin is golden color.

The older frequently-used 20 MXN bill is blue and flat.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on April 23, 2021, 04:13:58 PM
I know it probably means "Without value", but thanks to cognates, I can't help but read "sin valor" as "without valor", which makes me chuckle.

I have an older 20 MXN bill in my collection (still new enough to be plastic, but it's of a different design than the one you posted). Looks like they're phasing them out in favor of coins.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on April 24, 2021, 11:02:07 PM
Either alien levitation technology or an extremely strange camera glitch in this old imagery on I-27 south of Amarillo:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9844133,-101.8844904,3a,23.2y,175.03h,93.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8e2pbpPHMVMWObhb17yPvg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: bm7 on April 25, 2021, 12:13:09 AM
Either alien levitation technology or an extremely strange camera glitch in this old imagery on I-27 south of Amarillo:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9844133,-101.8844904,3a,23.2y,175.03h,93.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8e2pbpPHMVMWObhb17yPvg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664
I think that's just glare from the light post.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: wxfree on May 26, 2021, 06:08:25 PM
As a result of the discussion about grade crossings on I-10 in Texas, I found this oddity.  Why do these roads exist?

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0550205,-104.9519571,503m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0550205,-104.9519571,503m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en)

But it gets stranger.  The StreetView car exited on the westbound side.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0541604,-104.9489242,3a,75y,303.23h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEAgnbqGyxMO2nIQJJqjctw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en

It then turned left onto what appears to be a concrete creek.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0548462,-104.9526283,3a,75y,200.72h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU51yx0HAY7XMyqFpIHP8sg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en  In this one, turn around the other way to see what appears to be the remnants of an old bridge along US 80.

It drove through the two culverts.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0544176,-104.952817,3a,75y,200.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSwK_EKomn1KDevq-6qlR-A!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en

It received an encouraging message at the entrance to the second culvert.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0542464,-104.9528889,3a,75y,200.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxuk6J2Trma6PbsGcoirU-g!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en

It then turned left and went up the entrance ramp back to the freeway.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.05367,-104.9529483,3a,75y,118.74h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfviPVL4jj13Td5csotWAtQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en

TxDOT built all that.  The westbound ramp is even marked as an exit.  The road on the eastbound side appears to be gravel.  I don't know what the purpose of it might be.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GaryV on May 26, 2021, 06:11:51 PM
6000 miles from anywhere, and the tunnels are still covered with graffiti.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on May 26, 2021, 06:33:28 PM
Well that's what taggers want: to put their tag all around the world
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 28, 2021, 04:01:04 PM
As a result of the discussion about grade crossings on I-10 in Texas, I found this oddity.  Why do these roads exist?

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0550205,-104.9519571,503m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0550205,-104.9519571,503m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en)

But it gets stranger.  The StreetView car exited on the westbound side.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0541604,-104.9489242,3a,75y,303.23h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEAgnbqGyxMO2nIQJJqjctw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en

It then turned left onto what appears to be a concrete creek.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0548462,-104.9526283,3a,75y,200.72h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU51yx0HAY7XMyqFpIHP8sg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en  In this one, turn around the other way to see what appears to be the remnants of an old bridge along US 80.

It drove through the two culverts.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0544176,-104.952817,3a,75y,200.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSwK_EKomn1KDevq-6qlR-A!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en

It received an encouraging message at the entrance to the second culvert.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0542464,-104.9528889,3a,75y,200.24h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxuk6J2Trma6PbsGcoirU-g!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en

It then turned left and went up the entrance ramp back to the freeway.

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.05367,-104.9529483,3a,75y,118.74h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfviPVL4jj13Td5csotWAtQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en

TxDOT built all that.  The westbound ramp is even marked as an exit.  The road on the eastbound side appears to be gravel.  I don't know what the purpose of it might be.

My guess is ranch access (https://goo.gl/maps/xUKzao4gGt5ye2o67).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadgeekteen on June 01, 2021, 04:21:03 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2092367,-71.1387468,3a,75y,306.67h,97.49t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVKr4gY4uVsQfFPEHLFav6Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DVKr4gY4uVsQfFPEHLFav6Q%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D6.316345%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

Old I-95 stub ramp
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NJRoadfan on June 03, 2021, 09:36:32 AM
Someone had a bad day getting on the Atlantic City Expressway: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4351144,-74.5911437,3a,89.2y,318.73h,64.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPNEPetjnzlnZ5PLuCuJpdA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 03, 2021, 11:44:05 AM
Not quite sure how a truck ended up like this (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4353797,-74.5910522,3a,75y,334.49h,78.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sHUiuG6-1dt0VwTPhHgL4BQ!2e0!5s20191001T000000!7i16384!8i8192) at an Atlantic City Expressway toll booth.

Someone had a bad day getting on the Atlantic City Expressway: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4351144,-74.5911437,3a,89.2y,318.73h,64.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPNEPetjnzlnZ5PLuCuJpdA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1

Popular truck driver...   :biggrin:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadgeekteen on June 03, 2021, 11:57:19 AM
Someone had a bad day getting on the Atlantic City Expressway: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4351144,-74.5911437,3a,89.2y,318.73h,64.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPNEPetjnzlnZ5PLuCuJpdA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1
What's blurred out?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 03, 2021, 12:08:45 PM

Someone had a bad day getting on the Atlantic City Expressway: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4351144,-74.5911437,3a,89.2y,318.73h,64.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPNEPetjnzlnZ5PLuCuJpdA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1

What's blurred out?

You tell me. (https://goo.gl/maps/YitUct5kmWqEswsKA)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on June 07, 2021, 09:37:46 AM
A full-sized Google car (https://goo.gl/maps/fkwgNMB3jWn8rUKf9) heads towards Seattle's Gum Wall.  Crowds part ahead (https://goo.gl/maps/jLgWR5b2q9uNen697) and behind (https://goo.gl/maps/QkWDWXFKf6cPphat8).  And if you haven't heard of the Gum Wall, allow me to say EW!  GROSS!!!!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Roadgeekteen on June 07, 2021, 12:19:55 PM
A full-sized Google car (https://goo.gl/maps/fkwgNMB3jWn8rUKf9) heads towards Seattle's Gum Wall.  Crowds part ahead (https://goo.gl/maps/jLgWR5b2q9uNen697) and behind (https://goo.gl/maps/QkWDWXFKf6cPphat8).  And if you haven't heard of the Gum Wall, allow me to say EW!  GROSS!!!!
This triggered my tryphobia.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on June 07, 2021, 07:57:20 PM
A full-sized Google car (https://goo.gl/maps/fkwgNMB3jWn8rUKf9) heads towards Seattle's Gum Wall.  Crowds part ahead (https://goo.gl/maps/jLgWR5b2q9uNen697) and behind (https://goo.gl/maps/QkWDWXFKf6cPphat8).  And if you haven't heard of the Gum Wall, allow me to say EW!  GROSS!!!!

Don't tell Bandit!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on June 08, 2021, 09:32:04 AM
Here's non-functioning signals with an officer directing traffic, and for some reason one of the signals is no longer on the pole.

(https://i.imgur.com/Nb2Lwtk.png)

https://goo.gl/maps/4ZEAtYfiKMGtKbav5
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on June 10, 2021, 11:54:17 AM
Rail access to a Safeway bread plant.  Only the railroad misspelled it as Saveway (https://goo.gl/maps/hgJS1xiBmCuufSJm7) on the milepost.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on June 14, 2021, 10:41:24 PM
In Indianapolis, on I-70 east of the split with I-65, we have a nice shot of the four eastbound lanes in front completely empty except for one car.

https://goo.gl/maps/CiUG6KUFeVHTPjfY8

Maybe this isn't that crazy, but it seems a bit crazy considering the location. And no, it wasn't taken during COVID.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on June 15, 2021, 11:30:01 AM
Rail access to a Safeway bread plant.  Only the railroad misspelled it as Saveway (https://goo.gl/maps/hgJS1xiBmCuufSJm7) on the milepost.

This brings up a burning question.  There is a jersey rail on the tracks and even the signal says the tracks are out of service, yet the signal must remain.  What's the difference between an abandoned railroad and a railroad that's out of service?  We have a line in Austin that is out of service and the rails are pulled up in some places, but some of the signals have stayed and the line is still owned by UP.   
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Dirt Roads on June 15, 2021, 02:49:41 PM
Rail access to a Safeway bread plant.  Only the railroad misspelled it as Saveway (https://goo.gl/maps/hgJS1xiBmCuufSJm7) on the milepost.

This brings up a burning question.  There is a jersey rail on the tracks and even the signal says the tracks are out of service, yet the signal must remain.  What's the difference between an abandoned railroad and a railroad that's out of service?  We have a line in Austin that is out of service and the rails are pulled up in some places, but some of the signals have stayed and the line is still owned by UP.

Even though they are financially the responsibility of WsDOT, the crossing signal equipment belong to the railroad.  The state still needs to pay the railroad to remove them, which drains funds from the Federal crossing safety improvement coffers that is better spent on (surprise!) safety improvements.  Also, once the tracks are pulled up, most railroads are reluctant to send signal construction crews off of the operating railroad to deal with stuff like this, even if the funds are authorized by the state.  After years of disuse, railroads either sell the property or lose access to their right-of-way/land grants/easements and other folks can pull them down and give them back to the railroad.

Fun fact:  the term "right-of-way" on the railroad almost always means ownership of a narrow piece of property, whereas out here in the boonies the term "right-of-way" means that NCDOT has a right to maintain a road through our property.  Since we own on both sides of the road we own the property that the road is on, but here in Orange County the deeds show all of our neighbors only owning up to the edge of the right-of-way.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on June 15, 2021, 03:00:34 PM
Rail access to a Safeway bread plant.  Only the railroad misspelled it as Saveway (https://goo.gl/maps/hgJS1xiBmCuufSJm7) on the milepost.

This brings up a burning question.  There is a jersey rail on the tracks and even the signal says the tracks are out of service, yet the signal must remain.  What's the difference between an abandoned railroad and a railroad that's out of service?  We have a line in Austin that is out of service and the rails are pulled up in some places, but some of the signals have stayed and the line is still owned by UP.

Even though they are financially the responsibility of WsDOT, the crossing signal equipment belong to the railroad.  The state still needs to pay the railroad to remove them, which drains funds from the Federal crossing safety improvement coffers that is better spent on (surprise!) safety improvements.  Also, once the tracks are pulled up, most railroads are reluctant to send signal construction crews off of the operating railroad to deal with stuff like this, even if the funds are authorized by the state.  After years of disuse, railroads either sell the property or lose access to their right-of-way/land grants/easements and other folks can pull them down and give them back to the railroad.

Fun fact:  the term "right-of-way" on the railroad almost always means ownership of a narrow piece of property, whereas out here in the boonies the term "right-of-way" means that NCDOT has a right to maintain a road through our property.  Since we own on both sides of the road we own the property that the road is on, but here in Orange County the deeds show all of our neighbors only owning up to the edge of the right-of-way.

Only in a platted subdivision, but even then you technically own half of the road and don't own half of the road. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 15, 2021, 03:15:57 PM
Depends on the situation.  Here's an interesting example.  When the railroad was removed from the west side of the Arkansas River here in Wichita, the street which replaced it (McLean Blvd) was constructed partly on the railroad r/o/w and partly on my church's property.  Rather than acquiring that strip of land to build the street on at the time, the city of Wichita simply reached an agreement with the church and paid it a certain sum of money for the right to build there.

Now, it may seem like there's not much difference, and really there wasn't for a good number of years.  Indeed, everyone seemingly forgot all about that little detail.  That is, until the city decided to tear down and rebuild the baseball stadium nearby a couple of years ago.  Those plans, drawn up in a protracted process with the city and the baseball stadium people and our church and the developers, included reimagining a big part of the riverfront area:  including, among other things, the possibility of a new pedestrian bridge over the river, tearing down part of our church building, and–pertinent to the discussion–removing or altering McLean Blvd.  It was quite a ways into negotiations that the interested parties realized half of McLean Blvd through there wasn't actually owned by the city of Wichita.  It was determined that our church owned that land basically out to the center yellow stripe.  That little strip of land ended up stalling negotiations for several months, because there was an impasse between the city and our church about what that meant to the redevelopment deal.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on June 17, 2021, 12:39:53 AM
Rail access to a Safeway bread plant.  Only the railroad misspelled it as Saveway (https://goo.gl/maps/hgJS1xiBmCuufSJm7) on the milepost.

This brings up a burning question.  There is a jersey rail on the tracks and even the signal says the tracks are out of service, yet the signal must remain.  What's the difference between an abandoned railroad and a railroad that's out of service?  We have a line in Austin that is out of service and the rails are pulled up in some places, but some of the signals have stayed and the line is still owned by UP.

I've had bus commutes across crossings that were marked "Tracks out of service," and the driver stopped for them anyway.  I mentioned this on another board, and others said that drivers still have to stop for such crossings, unless marked "exempt".  The reasoning is that there could be a misdirected runaway train.  On one crossing the driver stopped stopping for the crossing only when the signal faces were turned towards each other.  Drivers kept stopping for this crossing (https://goo.gl/maps/NnEXCm1u62jq97Tk9) even though a section was missing on the side away from the main line.  I would love to see a train try to cross through here.  And drivers stopped at this crossing (https://goo.gl/maps/9Wkh4svzdZB89mgs7), which has since been marked out of service, when it seemed unlikely a train would pass.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on June 17, 2021, 11:23:54 AM
Rail access to a Safeway bread plant.  Only the railroad misspelled it as Saveway (https://goo.gl/maps/hgJS1xiBmCuufSJm7) on the milepost.

This brings up a burning question.  There is a jersey rail on the tracks and even the signal says the tracks are out of service, yet the signal must remain.  What's the difference between an abandoned railroad and a railroad that's out of service?  We have a line in Austin that is out of service and the rails are pulled up in some places, but some of the signals have stayed and the line is still owned by UP.

I've had bus commutes across crossings that were marked "Tracks out of service," and the driver stopped for them anyway.  I mentioned this on another board, and others said that drivers still have to stop for such crossings, unless marked "exempt".  The reasoning is that there could be a misdirected runaway train.  On one crossing the driver stopped stopping for the crossing only when the signal faces were turned towards each other.  Drivers kept stopping for this crossing (https://goo.gl/maps/NnEXCm1u62jq97Tk9) even though a section was missing on the side away from the main line.  I would love to see a train try to cross through here.  And drivers stopped at this crossing (https://goo.gl/maps/9Wkh4svzdZB89mgs7), which has since been marked out of service, when it seemed unlikely a train would pass.

This (https://goo.gl/maps/8i2jRdXxRF3zJMAC6) crossing reminds me of the one you posted.  Not only is a driveway paved over the rails to the north and people that work at the building to the south regularly park on the tracks, but the part unknown to this picture is these tracks are a spur of a spur.  The spur they connect to is the aforementioned spur with several sections of rails that have been removed.  So even if the track in the picture were complete, a train can't even get to it because the rails on the "mail line" are in various states of not there. 

This is what I mean.  Obviously the line is never going to used, but I guess legally as long as the tracks cross the pavement, the crossing must be marked. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 18, 2021, 12:38:19 PM
smh, lol (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4394092,-77.8442142,3a,32.6y,299.89h,74.41t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWRj_A2FOSzHbMqgg-9tCfQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1?hl=en)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on June 19, 2021, 09:46:03 AM
smh, lol (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4394092,-77.8442142,3a,32.6y,299.89h,74.41t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWRj_A2FOSzHbMqgg-9tCfQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1?hl=en)

i would have done literally the exact same thing had i seen the google car next to me...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on June 28, 2021, 06:31:32 PM
Texas in a nutshell, right here. (https://goo.gl/maps/DW6fHNGG3VwB1ijT9)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on June 28, 2021, 06:34:55 PM
smh, lol (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4394092,-77.8442142,3a,32.6y,299.89h,74.41t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWRj_A2FOSzHbMqgg-9tCfQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1?hl=en)

Left Lane is for nipples, not camping!  :-/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: formulanone on June 29, 2021, 01:22:01 PM
Lots of used tires on an overpass to nowhere. (https://www.google.com/maps/@30.0345281,-89.9373931,3a,21y,72.78h,86.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgpZK5iQEqkMWRW-etXc9sw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on June 29, 2021, 02:59:58 PM
Lots of used tires on an overpass to nowhere. (https://www.google.com/maps/@30.0345281,-89.9373931,3a,21y,72.78h,86.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgpZK5iQEqkMWRW-etXc9sw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

That whole road seems to be struggling. Failed connection on that end and the other end near Bullard Ave.

Never mind that it seems to be largely barricaded off. Check out this intersection: https://goo.gl/maps/jS2CDz3nfpQWCzRR7

Looks like a scene from a movie.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on June 29, 2021, 05:45:54 PM
Lots of used tires on an overpass to nowhere. (https://www.google.com/maps/@30.0345281,-89.9373931,3a,21y,72.78h,86.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgpZK5iQEqkMWRW-etXc9sw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

That whole road seems to be struggling. Failed connection on that end and the other end near Bullard Ave.

Never mind that it seems to be largely barricaded off. Check out this intersection: https://goo.gl/maps/jS2CDz3nfpQWCzRR7

Looks like a scene from a movie.

If I had to guess, that road is possibly one of the casualties of Hurricane Katrina.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on June 29, 2021, 06:16:47 PM
Ok, trust me when I say you gotta check this (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7682844,-117.0152444,3a,75y,352.93h,92.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9XtdvPG568unhFBh4zvzWw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664/) out. It looks like a horror painting.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on July 03, 2021, 12:06:17 PM
That whole road seems to be struggling. Failed connection on that end and the other end near Bullard Ave.

Never mind that it seems to be largely barricaded off. Check out this intersection: https://goo.gl/maps/jS2CDz3nfpQWCzRR7

Looks like a scene from a movie.
Not 1 but 2 burned-our cars? Crikey, what goes on here?

Meanwhile Downeast, I only came to this thread for trolling (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5979142,-67.9239748,3a,15y,209.06h,85.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgnUkQgo3E9ULYd_5CMBhIg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) purposes...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: STLmapboy on July 03, 2021, 07:02:13 PM
Here's a bunch of flooded baseball diamonds in Fenton, MO (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5597248,-90.4541456,3a,69.7y,117.83h,86.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spj_mDcpaArozr4ZPXqEIVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/). This whole area is on the Meramec's floodplain.

That whole area (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5614125,-90.4665001,1311m/data=!3m1!1e3/) is weirdly zoned. You've got a large industrial park, a sewage plant...and a bunch of houses (on acre+ lots) in between the two. South of that is a park. Oh, and to get in from Big Bend, you have to take this (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5665339,-90.4625962,3a,75y,152.61h,78.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQIQUyNP-XEDw2dpKuUVH4w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192/) underpass.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on July 04, 2021, 09:56:53 PM
Not Street View but rather the aerial image on Google Maps & Google Earth- a big house fire in Yazoo City, MS in November 2020: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8451113,-90.4089986,112m/data=!3m1!1e3

Story about it: https://www.wlbt.com/2020/11/19/tremendous-loss-historic-yazoo-city-home-burns-along-with-three-others/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on July 12, 2021, 10:32:08 AM
Ok, trust me when I say you gotta check this (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7682844,-117.0152444,3a,75y,352.93h,92.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9XtdvPG568unhFBh4zvzWw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664/) out. It looks like a horror painting.

it looks like that.. other place that was in 'stranger things'
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on August 07, 2021, 12:38:27 PM
Painting a picture? (https://goo.gl/maps/p2WSwhih9pbwYH1f8)  It might be faster just to take a photograph.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on August 13, 2021, 01:33:10 PM
This lady's tattoo, in Chicago.

Translation from Danish:  "A tattoo."

Now that's some good humor, right there!

(https://i.imgur.com/uJEjzHl.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on August 13, 2021, 02:25:44 PM
This lady's tattoo, in Chicago.

Translation from Danish:  "A tattoo."

Now that's some good humor, right there!

Not good enough that I would want that plastered on my back forever.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on August 14, 2021, 05:38:47 PM
Found this on Imgur.
(https://i.imgur.com/Ze5Bg0X.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on August 14, 2021, 06:23:10 PM
Geez, show-off.

You know it's Canada when: snow tires with steelies!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on September 05, 2021, 12:44:32 PM
Lots of used tires on an overpass to nowhere. (https://www.google.com/maps/@30.0345281,-89.9373931,3a,21y,72.78h,86.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgpZK5iQEqkMWRW-etXc9sw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

That whole road seems to be struggling. Failed connection on that end and the other end near Bullard Ave.

Never mind that it seems to be largely barricaded off. Check out this intersection: https://goo.gl/maps/jS2CDz3nfpQWCzRR7

Looks like a scene from a movie.

If I had to guess, that road is possibly one of the casualties of Hurricane Katrina.
and also Ida.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on September 05, 2021, 03:57:14 PM
I don't think this is an authorized Buick. (https://goo.gl/maps/b1yxafuJ4qMZXb2B7)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr. Matté on September 11, 2021, 07:21:31 PM
Found this on Imgur.
(https://i.imgur.com/Ze5Bg0X.png)

Better than the double-butt I have here (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2478704,-74.3443026,3a,44.9y,4.93h,61.59t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0SoUBvRuXdT9x4qohPXO3g!2e0!5s20190801T000000!7i16384!8i8192)
(https://i.imgur.com/Q6loNH2.png)
(this was the same day the other pic of me was captured)

ETA: Camera support failure in "real time" (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0991444,-74.5962774,3a,29.9y,358.09h,86.5t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sl5KGTxH6jX-phPPBhnWfVQ!2e0!5s20210701T000000!7i16384!8i8192)- keep clicking north on July 2021 imagery
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on September 12, 2021, 07:06:19 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/BodxtVSWGwxvCtVD6
Crazy that US 17 is long gone from the Wilmington bypass. The image at NC 140 on it is nine years old.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on September 12, 2021, 07:24:30 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/BodxtVSWGwxvCtVD6
Crazy that US 17 is long gone from the Wilmington bypass. The image at NC 140 on it is nine years old.
Speaking of Wilmington
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2268365,-77.9275881,3a,75y,267.26h,89.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skT2MuxNOLUYZ0bNSMUoKvw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2268365,-77.9275881,3a,75y,267.26h,89.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skT2MuxNOLUYZ0bNSMUoKvw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)
 :poke: an accident on US 76
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on September 12, 2021, 11:49:42 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2340656,-77.9679869,3a,75y,92.76h,90.04t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sO2Nj3_kL24Zu98iLzALQTA!2e0!5s20190801T000000!7i13312!8i6656

The imagery is all messed up here.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JayhawkCO on September 15, 2021, 04:47:05 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.745618,-60.913408,3a,74y,189.99h,77.02t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOu4yqDCYQYCQWNstYCmiq93IhWdWGPkd3W1mdE!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOu4yqDCYQYCQWNstYCmiq93IhWdWGPkd3W1mdE%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya222.56958-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

What happened to this dude's head?

Chris
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on September 15, 2021, 08:29:05 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.745618,-60.913408,3a,74y,189.99h,77.02t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOu4yqDCYQYCQWNstYCmiq93IhWdWGPkd3W1mdE!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOu4yqDCYQYCQWNstYCmiq93IhWdWGPkd3W1mdE%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya222.56958-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

What happened to this dude's head?

Chris
At this point, I think it's crazier to find a GSV photosphere that doesn't have something distorted about it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on September 20, 2021, 09:46:23 AM
Not so much crazy, but the Street View Image here has not been updated as K-14 no longer follows this alignment for quite some time now.

https://goo.gl/maps/LnBPEXN6vAnEWt8Z7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on September 22, 2021, 12:47:18 PM
 Massive flares at a Conoco-Phillips plant near Sweeny, TX. (https://www.google.com/maps/@29.0831589,-95.7530435,3a,15y,212.07h,91.35t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIubjGRbg9QL0jwUKUD_ccw!2e0!5s20210401T000000!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on September 22, 2021, 02:55:15 PM
Not so much crazy, but the Street View Image here has not been updated as K-14 no longer follows this alignment for quite some time now.

https://goo.gl/maps/LnBPEXN6vAnEWt8Z7

You gotta click on the right spot to see the updated image (https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8950276,-98.1783512,3a,75y,271.44h,85.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbOr99OrPTNHvJazfDgUFSA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on October 08, 2021, 01:22:43 AM
Cut off by the Interstate, no more buildings, overtaken by nature, and still (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5607589,-73.5088296,3a,15y,27.04h,82.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTZNCwdQVC4TLN7U2PcmQBw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) signed (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5609832,-73.5088752,3a,15y,138.96h,84.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spNTgYXAjbSHHs-EXHveLnA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on October 12, 2021, 01:50:04 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/F8xhUvR1sh9PwsCW6
I think though as crazy as the editing came out, it looks cool here the route shield that is being transparent somewhat to the left of it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: wxfree on October 12, 2021, 11:23:03 PM
Apparently River View has been added to Street View.  I found a boat that appears to be sinking and body parts floating in the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7633741,-73.9454003,3a,75y,30.09h,74.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6PJzOeUTZuRzDT5bwYuKYw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7633741,-73.9454003,3a,75y,30.09h,74.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6PJzOeUTZuRzDT5bwYuKYw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on October 12, 2021, 11:42:35 PM
Apparently River View has been added to Street View.  I found a boat that appears to be sinking and body parts floating in the East River.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7633741,-73.9454003,3a,75y,30.09h,74.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6PJzOeUTZuRzDT5bwYuKYw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7633741,-73.9454003,3a,75y,30.09h,74.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6PJzOeUTZuRzDT5bwYuKYw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)
You high, bro?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on October 13, 2021, 06:04:04 AM
A lone hand (https://www.google.es/maps/@48.5528154,1.9309826,3a,56.5y,331.11h,44.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbIpbLQhFLIrAGwrmliJ3aQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) getting the return at the St. Arnoult en Yvelines toll plaza in France (yes, the same one the approach to I just played on the Guess the country thread).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: wxfree on October 13, 2021, 08:43:13 AM
A lone hand (https://www.google.es/maps/@48.5528154,1.9309826,3a,56.5y,331.11h,44.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbIpbLQhFLIrAGwrmliJ3aQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) getting the return at the St. Arnoult en Yvelines toll plaza in France (yes, the same one the approach to I just played on the Guess the country thread).

Thank you, Thing.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on October 17, 2021, 10:11:48 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Poiuyt--opaque.svg/220px-Poiuyt--opaque.svg.png) (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0150891,-76.0165255,3a,15y,295.33h,88.94t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sBTxDEmT8Q0Y8YGnB_mAJrA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i40)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on October 19, 2021, 01:11:16 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.5176466,-78.5545529,3a,75y,354.65h,95.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbhO2DgSl0BnY1TfcsNht3A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.5176466,-78.5545529,3a,75y,354.65h,95.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbhO2DgSl0BnY1TfcsNht3A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Just some tires laying around in an area that doesnt do tires! :-D
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on October 19, 2021, 07:19:00 PM
↑ The building they're outside contains a martial arts place and a crossfit gym. Perhaps one of them uses the tires as part of a workout.

Edit: Apparently the "tire flip" is a type of crossfit exercise. That explains it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on October 21, 2021, 09:25:28 AM
Yikes! (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3264126,-76.7898491,3a,90y,348.25h,78.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEkOvEON_PI31yQzLZ9FfKQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on October 21, 2021, 09:34:04 AM
Yikes! (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3264126,-76.7898491,3a,90y,348.25h,78.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEkOvEON_PI31yQzLZ9FfKQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/images/1300-5163911
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Ketchup99 on October 21, 2021, 09:37:20 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8325817,-77.1521481,3a,33.1y,10.16h,84.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCl3Kn9_JF4tLrmTNyUq-hQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Be sure to slow down in the school zone...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on October 21, 2021, 09:45:18 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8325817,-77.1521481,3a,33.1y,10.16h,84.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCl3Kn9_JF4tLrmTNyUq-hQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Be sure to slow down in the school zone...

I know this wasn't your point, but it's also bad sign placement – the sign immediately after is a permanent 25 mph regardless of whether it's flashing or not.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Ketchup99 on October 21, 2021, 02:27:37 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8325817,-77.1521481,3a,33.1y,10.16h,84.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCl3Kn9_JF4tLrmTNyUq-hQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Be sure to slow down in the school zone...

I know this wasn't your point, but it's also bad sign placement – the sign immediately after is a permanent 25 mph regardless of whether it's flashing or not.

Actually, that was my point - I found it funny that the speed limit on the road is 25mph, but drivers are required to slow down... to 25... when it's flashing.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on October 21, 2021, 02:30:39 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8325817,-77.1521481,3a,33.1y,10.16h,84.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCl3Kn9_JF4tLrmTNyUq-hQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Be sure to slow down in the school zone...

I know this wasn't your point, but it's also bad sign placement – the sign immediately after is a permanent 25 mph regardless of whether it's flashing or not.

Actually, that was my point - I found it funny that the speed limit on the road is 25mph, but drivers are required to slow down... to 25... when it's flashing.

I thought your point was the license plate recognition false positive blur making it say something else. (This is the crazy GSV thread, not one of the various sign threads.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on October 21, 2021, 06:27:23 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8325817,-77.1521481,3a,33.1y,10.16h,84.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCl3Kn9_JF4tLrmTNyUq-hQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Be sure to slow down in the school zone...

I know this wasn't your point, but it's also bad sign placement – the sign immediately after is a permanent 25 mph regardless of whether it's flashing or not.

Actually, that was my point - I found it funny that the speed limit on the road is 25mph, but drivers are required to slow down... to 25... when it's flashing.

It's a little bit like (but also completely unlike) how Putnam County, NY likes to put "End Speed Limit 35" signs shortly before the end of all county roads–meaning that the speed limit for the last couple of hundred feet is technically 55. :-)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on October 22, 2021, 12:30:12 PM
I've never seen nighttime GSV imagery this good...
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.6745086,-97.7485264,3a,75y,41.7h,83.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDNRQo3IWA7PEYnVy_sviNQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BuildTheRussian on October 26, 2021, 06:53:31 PM
Someone sleeping on the bench.
https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9787672,92.8844892,3a,15y,9.81h,86.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s04zzNVYPuYcTAI238WpusQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on October 27, 2021, 06:20:08 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3227475,-78.6841439,3a,75y,216.45h,76.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRHpNLVWh94_na28nCwpJbA!2e0!7i3328!8i1664 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3227475,-78.6841439,3a,75y,216.45h,76.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRHpNLVWh94_na28nCwpJbA!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)
Just your typical Fall day here in Erwin, my hometown. Two kids looking at the GSV.  :pan:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on October 30, 2021, 08:16:26 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2596283,-79.0482753,3a,75y,77.96h,82.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZVcDYB5kJcqOOZXId_QzKA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2596283,-79.0482753,3a,75y,77.96h,82.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZVcDYB5kJcqOOZXId_QzKA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
And also, police pulled over GSV! In a Military gate!  :colorful: :colorful: :colorful: :-o :wow:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on October 30, 2021, 09:15:56 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2596283,-79.0482753,3a,75y,77.96h,82.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZVcDYB5kJcqOOZXId_QzKA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2596283,-79.0482753,3a,75y,77.96h,82.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZVcDYB5kJcqOOZXId_QzKA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
And also, police pulled over GSV! In a Military gate!  :colorful: :colorful: :colorful: :-o :wow:

I'm assuming it might be them escorting the car into the base, perhaps?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on October 30, 2021, 10:33:36 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2596283,-79.0482753,3a,75y,77.96h,82.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZVcDYB5kJcqOOZXId_QzKA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2596283,-79.0482753,3a,75y,77.96h,82.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZVcDYB5kJcqOOZXId_QzKA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
And also, police pulled over GSV! In a Military gate!  :colorful: :colorful: :colorful: :-o :wow:

I'm assuming it might be them escorting the car into the base, perhaps?
Looks like it's making sure that it leaves promptly.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on October 31, 2021, 04:04:24 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2596283,-79.0482753,3a,75y,77.96h,82.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZVcDYB5kJcqOOZXId_QzKA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2596283,-79.0482753,3a,75y,77.96h,82.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZVcDYB5kJcqOOZXId_QzKA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
And also, police pulled over GSV! In a Military gate!  :colorful: :colorful: :colorful: :-o :wow:

I'm assuming it might be them escorting the car into the base, perhaps?
ohh, im sorry.  :wow:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on November 01, 2021, 10:33:55 PM
When planning a walking route, Google recommended I walk through military housing, which I did not realize until I got there.  It was not gated, but it had stern warnings (https://goo.gl/maps/CYknw7XxzRsnZTha7) about unauthorized people entering.  And then, when I entered, a security patrol car passed by, but paid me no mind.  The path was to lead me to a waterfront park, and there I found a big hole in a fence to pass through to continue my walk.  The tide was out, and I could have walked around it anyway.  By the time I got to the housing, the only other way through was a longish detour.  Google is weird sometimes.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NJRoadfan on November 03, 2021, 10:15:15 PM
I didn't even know this was a problem! https://goo.gl/maps/eKyZTrt7gBZVzVqT7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Bruce on November 06, 2021, 03:44:17 AM
I think the camera slid off from its mount: https://goo.gl/maps/GEQQMf5cGHdtnUjZ7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on November 07, 2021, 07:46:41 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1159683,-75.9098575,3a,75y,141.82h,92.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG68HpEWY9LWFwBj-RslhFw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1159683,-75.9098575,3a,75y,141.82h,92.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG68HpEWY9LWFwBj-RslhFw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Why is NYSDOT working in this GSV photo?  :hmmm: :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on November 07, 2021, 08:06:08 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1159683,-75.9098575,3a,75y,141.82h,92.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG68HpEWY9LWFwBj-RslhFw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1159683,-75.9098575,3a,75y,141.82h,92.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG68HpEWY9LWFwBj-RslhFw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Why is NYSDOT working in this GSV photo?  :hmmm: :rolleyes:


Looks like they're either installing or removing the overlay seen in this view (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1170339,-75.9105642,3a,15y,150.05h,92.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9kj80Me4cYMgg0UYGxO32w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on November 08, 2021, 09:53:56 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/t4mkKPwg/ColaWars.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Billy Joel informs me that he cannot take it anymore.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on November 11, 2021, 12:44:38 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1803946,-76.3375835,3a,75y,91.14h,82.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D300.8994%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1803946,-76.3375835,3a,75y,91.14h,82.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D300.8994%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)
Railroad lights are flashing? With no train?  :confused:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GaryV on November 11, 2021, 01:01:50 PM
^ With 4 CSX work trucks along side the road, and the shed door open.  Probably they are doing some maintenance.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jlam on November 11, 2021, 01:19:25 PM
The GSV car.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7175781,-117.7558616,3a,76.9y,2.06h,96.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7_pttVHQpPOswHz4XxhHSg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7175781,-117.7558616,3a,76.9y,2.06h,96.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7_pttVHQpPOswHz4XxhHSg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Dirt Roads on November 11, 2021, 05:25:22 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1803946,-76.3375835,3a,75y,91.14h,82.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D300.8994%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1803946,-76.3375835,3a,75y,91.14h,82.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D300.8994%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)
Railroad lights are flashing? With no train?  :confused:

^ With 4 CSX work trucks along side the road, and the shed door open.  Probably they are doing some maintenance.

If you look closely, the junction box at the base of one of the crossing signal and gate masts is open, plus there is hole at that same foundation (with a shovel).  That means they just replaced something or straightened the mast.  Also, the flashing light signals (FLS) on that gate mast are still not working.  I don't see a new gate mechanism, so my guess is that something hit the gate mast hard enough to mess up the signal cables.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BuildTheRussian on November 12, 2021, 05:30:08 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1803946,-76.3375835,3a,75y,91.14h,82.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D300.8994%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1803946,-76.3375835,3a,75y,91.14h,82.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D300.8994%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)
Railroad lights are flashing? With no train?  :confused:

Just because you don't see any train, doesn't mean there's no train. Otherwise, why would the lights be flashing? The train can easily just be travelling slower than usual.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BuildTheRussian on November 12, 2021, 05:36:01 AM
Something what looks to be an illegal dumping ground.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1121019,-117.3286018,3a,49.5y,309.98h,81.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5hLIuUuGszCDMyjIxoNa6Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on November 12, 2021, 08:01:55 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1803946,-76.3375835,3a,75y,91.14h,82.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D300.8994%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1803946,-76.3375835,3a,75y,91.14h,82.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYNULtfBeB4E28m9tA4ZMKw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D300.8994%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)
Railroad lights are flashing? With no train?  :confused:

Just because you don't see any train, doesn't mean there's no train. Otherwise, why would the lights be flashing? The train can easily just be travelling slower than usual.

look at the tops of the rails. that track hasn't seen a train for a while.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on November 12, 2021, 02:32:18 PM
The workers are probably inspecting the crossing to make sure the lights/gates/etc. work properly.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on November 13, 2021, 12:45:32 AM
The workers are probably inspecting the crossing to make sure the lights/gates/etc. work properly.

That's what I thought seeing the CSX trucks. Also...

that track hasn't seen a train for a while.

I dunno, the track seems like an active one. What makes you think it's inactive?



The GSV car.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7175781,-117.7558616,3a,76.9y,2.06h,96.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7_pttVHQpPOswHz4XxhHSg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7175781,-117.7558616,3a,76.9y,2.06h,96.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7_pttVHQpPOswHz4XxhHSg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

No wonder they didn't cover some important routes since 2007: they send two cars to the same residential street!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on November 14, 2021, 12:56:33 PM
The workers are probably inspecting the crossing to make sure the lights/gates/etc. work properly.

That's what I thought seeing the CSX trucks. Also...

that track hasn't seen a train for a while.

I dunno, the track seems like an active one. What makes you think it's inactive?



The GSV car.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7175781,-117.7558616,3a,76.9y,2.06h,96.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7_pttVHQpPOswHz4XxhHSg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7175781,-117.7558616,3a,76.9y,2.06h,96.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7_pttVHQpPOswHz4XxhHSg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

No wonder they didn't cover some important routes since 2007: they send two cars to the same residential street!

the rails look quite rusty. if it's active, it's not very active.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Dirt Roads on November 14, 2021, 08:30:01 PM
the rails look quite rusty. if it's active, it's not very active.

You are correct.  The tracks still go to Oswego, but the active rail service section only goes a few miles north of Baldwinsville.  This crossing is less than 2 miles south of the last remaining rail customer.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on November 15, 2021, 05:43:07 PM
Real bruh momento here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3793654,-77.0629364,3a,75y,52.86h,77.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgTZMvM0PafXbmio0qWYgLw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on November 16, 2021, 06:20:20 PM
Officer down!

(Would you believe, traffic controller down (https://goo.gl/maps/FnVxTH3Wmq2rUNMw8)?)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on November 17, 2021, 11:28:15 AM
Interesting I found this impound of obvious I-37 BGSs nowhere near I-37 (https://goo.gl/maps/b5zpMWd328mqC2Fb8).  Some of the exist numbers and overall exits match up with I-37's.  I know it's a vendor making these signs, just strange they all (but 1 I saw) are for I-37. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on November 17, 2021, 06:20:34 PM
Interesting I found this impound of obvious I-37 BGSs nowhere near I-37 (https://goo.gl/maps/b5zpMWd328mqC2Fb8).  Some of the exist numbers and overall exits match up with I-37's.  I know it's a vendor making these signs, just strange they all (but 1 I saw) are for I-37. 

If you scroll a bit you can see a few signs from the Austin area, such as a US-79 for Round Rock, and one way in the back with an I-35 sign and a control city starting "Ho–" (wonder what that is, since Houston would make no sense for I-35).

Also, the US shields on those signs look off.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on November 18, 2021, 10:01:49 AM
Interesting I found this impound of obvious I-37 BGSs nowhere near I-37 (https://goo.gl/maps/b5zpMWd328mqC2Fb8).  Some of the exist numbers and overall exits match up with I-37's.  I know it's a vendor making these signs, just strange they all (but 1 I saw) are for I-37. 

If you scroll a bit you can see a few signs from the Austin area, such as a US-79 for Round Rock, and one way in the back with an I-35 sign and a control city starting "Ho–" (wonder what that is, since Houston would make no sense for I-35).

Also, the US shields on those signs look off.

Texas has had a few (US Highway shields) lately that look off.  The new US-183 toll extension and interchange with SH-71 in Austin has a bunch of US-183 shields on BGSs that really make me cringe when I look at them.  The are very close to the old "acorn" shields.  Was that Nebraska or Wisconsin that had those?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on November 18, 2021, 10:07:32 AM
...I-35 sign and a control city starting "Ho–" (wonder what that is, since Houston would make no sense for I-35).

My guess is, since in the same bunch I see a sign for the exit for Parmer Lane, plus an exit tab for exit 243, is that the whole bunch of signs there are for the north Austin area, particularly where the redesign of the I-35/US-183 interchange is.  Yes, Parmer is a bit more north than that, but it can ride with the rest of them.  Anyway, my guess is that it is probably supposed to be for an entrance ramp to the cosigned area of I-35 and US-290, giving a control city for US-290 of Houston.  Why it would be labeled first, and not the control city of the interstate is baffling. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on November 18, 2021, 01:20:38 PM
First See Inside of 2020 (https://www.google.com/maps/@52.5103709,13.3708086,2a,75y,158.39h,90.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPKgBnw1qv8MAAARF7I6XRw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on November 20, 2021, 05:44:57 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.1703496,-86.3002718,3a,75y,120.28h,96.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP9rQy4mbt2GqgkKvwf74LQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664 (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.1703496,-86.3002718,3a,75y,120.28h,96.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP9rQy4mbt2GqgkKvwf74LQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)
Camera is messed up?  :confused:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BuildTheRussian on November 21, 2021, 01:48:38 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.1703496,-86.3002718,3a,75y,120.28h,96.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP9rQy4mbt2GqgkKvwf74LQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664 (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.1703496,-86.3002718,3a,75y,120.28h,96.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP9rQy4mbt2GqgkKvwf74LQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)
Camera is messed up?  :confused:
I've seen things worse.

GSV forgot to remove the bag/hood over the camera.

https://www.google.ru/maps/@64.849466,-147.7191217,3a,90y,303.42h,102.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-ty8SdPrLutJ3iL_OaBtiQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664
https://www.google.ru/maps/@-26.0098232,28.4223467,3a,60y,32.74h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1Iwa11yHssQCG1baaVaWkw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2996638,-6.2051748,3a,79.9y,168.57h,82.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soeuYOgWgCw77qYLF-1eLXg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.ru/maps/@51.7356048,-2.4474813,3a,90y,61.61h,69.41t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1srDLKlCPEbV3Y5mxaLhsEmA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DrDLKlCPEbV3Y5mxaLhsEmA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D171.5602%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on November 22, 2021, 04:13:45 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0514182,-88.23809,3a,48.8y,133.15h,83.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDrUs8YyhsDFuiyzbogLQpg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Funny animals
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on November 25, 2021, 02:38:23 PM
Tractor on a Texas freeway:

(https://imgur.com/74Ix74j.jpg)

Link: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.2524692,-95.4532023,3a,22.4y,13.38h,86.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHGHtU_6ZO6WL64EC4ASR1Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on November 28, 2021, 11:30:08 AM
Based on the bus along side the Google car, it appears it drove next to the barrel in the sequence one, (https://goo.gl/maps/8im2GDjQBiX6JejK9) two, (https://goo.gl/maps/fy1Mm1BaUs5X4AGD9) three. (https://goo.gl/maps/6VE8jAPjtHrBFFaY7)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on December 01, 2021, 08:29:09 AM
From this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/2balkan4you/comments/r4zxeb/least_racist_sign_in_bulgaria/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/2balkan4you/comments/r4zxeb/least_racist_sign_in_bulgaria/). This sign is in Bulgaria.
(https://preview.redd.it/ryr12rc9dk281.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6bd6e6a41cdfb6dd90919dc7f8e0cb8aae1ed328)

And here it is on street view (https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.2994296,23.3979207,3a,45.8y,5.12h,85.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6kKbkngQ3TGxp15obsDnnA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) (unfortunately obscured by a bush).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on December 03, 2021, 11:00:54 AM
Maybe not completely crazy, but here's some Street View from November 2021 (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0956561,-76.1648819,3a,78.3y,112.89h,82.31t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6DigXxcDzeQ2zY626-CS2g!2e0!5s20211101T000000!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1) that could theoretically be just three days old.  :biggrin:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on December 06, 2021, 06:40:47 AM
Well, they found November 2021 imagery as early as November 12, as commented here (https://virtualstreets.org/index.php/2021/11/12/gsv-continous-updates/) (Scroll to comments section)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on December 06, 2021, 01:30:53 PM
I ran into Street View on November 8th, and it's already made its way online: https://goo.gl/maps/k1paKG92WqfxfLbv5

Obviously only those of you who are friends on Facebook with me will recognize my car, but for everyone else: trust me, that's me :)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on December 06, 2021, 08:07:51 PM
I was on Streetview for about a year but then they came back through the area again. I guess I'm still there on the historical view.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CapeCodder on December 08, 2021, 10:24:32 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7348718,-74.1255272,3a,75y,14.17h,71.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxAcEZP2TCummFUvoAQw7Xg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7348718,-74.1255272,3a,75y,14.17h,71.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxAcEZP2TCummFUvoAQw7Xg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

I Love Tina is still there after all these years. When I'd take Greyhound to the Midwest around Christmas I'd use this graffiti as a landmark of sorts; for example if we passed it just before sundown into Newark we were making good time. Schedule 1683.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on December 09, 2021, 08:41:39 PM
I ran into Street View on November 8th, and it's already made its way online: https://goo.gl/maps/k1paKG92WqfxfLbv5

Obviously only those of you who are friends on Facebook with me will recognize my car, but for everyone else: trust me, that's me :)

Thanks for reminding me.  I passed the Google car on US 2 east of Startup last month.  I was going east while the car was going west.  But I see now they are only posting the eastbound view.  The car I saw was returning or positioning himself.  :-(
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on December 09, 2021, 09:57:36 PM
Wondering what's going on here:

https://goo.gl/maps/gZy129uNU15V9DRs9

(https://i.imgur.com/WIrPVK3.png)


https://goo.gl/maps/dusFLLGK3fQQztpJ7

(https://i.imgur.com/RwfS4i7.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on December 12, 2021, 10:00:27 PM
Wondering what's going on here:

https://goo.gl/maps/gZy129uNU15V9DRs9

(https://i.imgur.com/WIrPVK3.png)

Fashion Police.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on December 13, 2021, 08:33:18 PM
spandex is a privilege, not a right.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on December 15, 2021, 12:47:17 AM
There's already December imagery in Greensboro!

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0445927,-79.774114,3a,70.9y,246.44h,82.1t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6yuyNQiVAaReas_NIDdgvA!2e0!5s20211201T000000!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BuildTheRussian on December 16, 2021, 01:36:01 PM
Error 404, road not found. https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.6385857,28.2454856,3a,60y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCNt8gAW97aHTYLqbxADldA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NJRoadfan on December 18, 2021, 06:37:26 PM
Somehow this very sad and wrecked Chevy Blazer found its way to Ceuta, Spain.

https://goo.gl/maps/k4MbsFyUR1pt4jzU7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on December 20, 2021, 08:35:59 AM
Someone forgot to check if the camera was in the right position (https://www.google.es/maps/@45.2532133,1.7010495,3a,75y,356.38h,81.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxeK004uVZdf8s70b03pHOg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on December 22, 2021, 07:53:00 AM
One thing I like to find is posters for blood collects scattered (https://www.google.es/maps/@47.4459155,-2.2532872,3a,28.1y,178.13h,87.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOs3FkjkBRjsAxTaIIVrYfw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) throughout (https://www.google.es/maps/@45.4716871,4.5025844,3a,75y,245.64h,68.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_-6L02On2sdN-TEoOcYiXA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) La France (https://www.google.es/maps/@49.2556412,6.0987197,3a,15y,19.09h,85.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sr3mScxrc7iJhFApEp8r3NQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). I mostly find them by chance, either while on the Tour de France route, checking intersections of former national routes, or in the last case it's in a town with a cool name IMO.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on December 23, 2021, 08:43:23 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.888444,-88.3404458,3a,75y,166.46h,105.49t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sF6ACMlzyFJWdaD_GC3F9DQ!2e0!5s20190601T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DF6ACMlzyFJWdaD_GC3F9DQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D221.3817%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

Bruh
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on December 23, 2021, 11:58:53 PM
Going to some extremes to prove it isn't flat, I see...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on December 27, 2021, 09:27:37 PM
Going to some extremes to prove it isn't flat, I see...
:sombrero:

180 degrees is still flat. Maybe they should've tried 90 degrees instead. :bigass:

Anyways, the small town of Hazen, South Dakota just got a new dump. Many crisp, clear, images from this month and the month before! In freaking rural SOUTH DAKOTA...

wait holy shit the rest of ND has a big imagery update (https://www.google.com/maps/@47.1737476,-98.6155107,3a,75y,188.82h,92.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sySJxvU12-aopRe8WlkHeSA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

but i digress (https://www.google.com/maps/@48.0361756,-98.8936596,3a,75y,108.47h,89.56t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1swzpNOJjhxwJEXfiW6KTWJg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DwzpNOJjhxwJEXfiW6KTWJg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D270.0291%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on December 30, 2021, 01:24:11 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/Gm4U78FXF6kqk6KK7
Might be my pc, but try moving forward past the state farmers market guide and see what happens.

On my iPad it moves back. Almost like the State Farmers Market don’t want me to not know they exist. I couldn’t advance past the sign at all.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on December 30, 2021, 01:28:34 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/Gm4U78FXF6kqk6KK7
Might be my pc, but try moving forward past the state farmers market guide and see what happens.

On my iPad it moves back. Almost like the State Farmers Market don’t want me to not know they exist. I couldn’t advance past the sign at all.

I could advance just fine. It might be a glitch due to the small dip in the highway not working well with the GSV software.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on December 30, 2021, 04:34:34 AM
Same. I've encountered that glitch in many places. Clicking a bit closer will generally skip that.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on December 30, 2021, 01:50:43 PM
Works fine on a real computer.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kurumi on January 05, 2022, 12:29:53 AM
There's a lot going on here: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0318088,-73.7619021,3a,75y,182.43h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6qohyuY1Kl8zrx3lSKLOqQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

(https://i.imgur.com/5zUqgrO.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on January 05, 2022, 07:02:53 AM
Am I missing something? The only interesting thing I see in that photo is the "only" sign, which has nothing to do with Google Street View.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on January 05, 2022, 09:20:03 PM
There's a lot going on here: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0318088,-73.7619021,3a,75y,182.43h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6qohyuY1Kl8zrx3lSKLOqQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

(https://i.imgur.com/5zUqgrO.jpg)

I've been through that intersection.  It works a lot smoother than the sign makes it out to. :D
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on January 06, 2022, 03:24:18 AM
That road to the left sure doesn't look like I-287 to me...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheHighwayMan394 on January 06, 2022, 05:44:28 AM
An Italian mob boss on the run for 20 years was caught after GSV inadvertently captured imagery of him hiding in Spain.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59884803?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=06EA1060-6E5B-11EC-8012-10D94744363C&fbclid=IwAR0fctuVeSvfDSte9XYWfkM-YSbc3lghgESGn_RU5WRSgfzbrIku8lO0HE8
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on January 06, 2022, 08:32:17 AM
An Italian mob boss on the run for 20 years was caught after GSV inadvertently captured imagery of him hiding in Spain.

link (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59884803?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=06EA1060-6E5B-11EC-8012-10D94744363C&fbclid=IwAR0fctuVeSvfDSte9XYWfkM-YSbc3lghgESGn_RU5WRSgfzbrIku8lO0HE8)

Wow, that is... awesome? scary? I don't know. Pretty crazy in any case.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GaryV on January 06, 2022, 08:34:12 AM
And Google didn't blur the mobster's face?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on January 06, 2022, 08:38:57 AM
And Google didn't blur the mobster's face?

I'm not sure how that works. They probably blurred it before publishing the imagery, but not necessarily immediately, so someone could have seen it. The article also says he was identified by a scar on his chin.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on January 06, 2022, 03:05:32 PM
I imagine if law enforcement wants an unblurred image from Google all they have to do is ask.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on January 06, 2022, 05:15:17 PM
I imagine if law enforcement wants an unblurred image from Google all they have to do is ask.

Well I think the question is, how did they know to ask, since it was blurred? But I'm guessing that someone was able to recognize him, even though it was blurred.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on January 10, 2022, 11:29:16 AM
I know glitches like this are common, but this one for Mannheannheim Rd look so slick that it appears real.

https://goo.gl/maps/YuB8gs7Ef9TrcwTk6
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on January 12, 2022, 04:32:23 PM
What's the correct plural of BGS, anyway, BGSes? BGSs? BGS's?
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.7235559,-63.5815832,3a,30.5y,254.19h,95.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOEMwz9OS3pE_a8f2yDDG9w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Although these are probably more like... BGPs?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on January 12, 2022, 04:49:02 PM
What's the correct plural of BGS, anyway, BGSes? BGSs? BGS's?
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.7235559,-63.5815832,3a,30.5y,254.19h,95.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOEMwz9OS3pE_a8f2yDDG9w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Although these are probably more like... BGPs?

Cool find. Alternatively, you could just write BGS, since the S can mean "signs" instead of "sign".

Example: "That is a nice set of BGS!"
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on January 12, 2022, 09:11:08 PM
That sounds downright sensible. I think I'll do just that.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on January 13, 2022, 12:04:08 PM
There's a lot going on here: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0318088,-73.7619021,3a,75y,182.43h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6qohyuY1Kl8zrx3lSKLOqQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

(https://i.imgur.com/5zUqgrO.jpg)

Could've sworn that this was Morristown
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on January 13, 2022, 12:05:35 PM
An Italian mob boss on the run for 20 years was caught after GSV inadvertently captured imagery of him hiding in Spain.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59884803?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=06EA1060-6E5B-11EC-8012-10D94744363C&fbclid=IwAR0fctuVeSvfDSte9XYWfkM-YSbc3lghgESGn_RU5WRSgfzbrIku8lO0HE8
Article is behind a paywall. :-/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on January 15, 2022, 02:18:39 PM
An Italian mob boss on the run for 20 years was caught after GSV inadvertently captured imagery of him hiding in Spain.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59884803?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=06EA1060-6E5B-11EC-8012-10D94744363C&fbclid=IwAR0fctuVeSvfDSte9XYWfkM-YSbc3lghgESGn_RU5WRSgfzbrIku8lO0HE8
Article is behind a paywall. :-/

There's no paywall on the BBC. The blue pop-up is them encouraging users to create accounts; you can easily X-out of it using the button in the top right of the box.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BuildTheRussian on January 18, 2022, 05:54:32 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.7790898,-107.4229072,3a,45.9y,-1.09h,85.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slwbdtF4YTODV-nPnM4zvPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Street light on a parking spot.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Ted$8roadFan on January 18, 2022, 06:42:01 AM
People’s faces blurred out (tho I’m guessing that’s standard practice).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on January 18, 2022, 11:17:20 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.7790898,-107.4229072,3a,45.9y,-1.09h,85.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slwbdtF4YTODV-nPnM4zvPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Street light on a parking spot.

This is gonna blow your mind:
https://goo.gl/maps/yXGo4mQZAfkgL11DA
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on January 18, 2022, 11:22:21 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/k9LzWXt8v37cG9t18

Makes me think of a famous song by Foreigner.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BuildTheRussian on January 24, 2022, 05:14:26 AM
I wonder what happened here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0068199,-92.8831992,3a,55y,88.15h,74.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smUIikyPw-iMHPmHeZBr0tA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on January 24, 2022, 12:18:48 PM
I wonder what happened here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0068199,-92.8831992,3a,55y,88.15h,74.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smUIikyPw-iMHPmHeZBr0tA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

It's a section of road dedicated to the testing of pavement markings.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on January 24, 2022, 03:12:45 PM
I wonder what happened here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0068199,-92.8831992,3a,55y,88.15h,74.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smUIikyPw-iMHPmHeZBr0tA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

It's a section of road dedicated to the testing of pavement markings.

Or, more likely, the testing of new employees who have never driven the paint truck before.

Usually this is done on a stub of road that doesn't actually connect to anything (old alignment road or frontage road severed by a freeway, stub to unbuilt interchange, etc.) so it's not quite so obvious or disruptive.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on January 24, 2022, 04:21:24 PM
I wonder what happened here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0068199,-92.8831992,3a,55y,88.15h,74.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smUIikyPw-iMHPmHeZBr0tA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

It's a section of road dedicated to the testing of pavement markings.

Or, more likely, the testing of new employees who have never driven the paint truck before.

Usually this is done on a stub of road that doesn't actually connect to anything (old alignment road or frontage road severed by a freeway, stub to unbuilt interchange, etc.) so it's not quite so obvious or disruptive.

How about on an interstate highway. (https://goo.gl/maps/i3Yhf3tuJNA12N5z9)  I know these are test paint lines, plus on a high traffic area to test how they do under extreme conditions. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on January 30, 2022, 03:03:42 AM
Funny thing is the piedmont and the central parts of the stats get more frequent updated compared to us where the Greenville Southwest Bypass, CF Harvey Parkway, and all of Wilmington don't have any imagery or it's from summer 2019 at the latest.

https://goo.gl/maps/pF3HhiU59zeng71t9
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: yakra on January 30, 2022, 05:25:41 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/pF3HhiU59zeng71t9
New Hope. #4. Checks out.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on January 30, 2022, 05:41:58 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6441286,-90.1897257,3a,75y,170.82h,91.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTvN4Lotc7I1cGoU3q_32Vw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

First GSV I've spotted of 2022
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on January 30, 2022, 07:46:54 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/pF3HhiU59zeng71t9
New Hope. #4. Checks out.

I was going to clear them.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on January 31, 2022, 08:18:00 AM
Thanks to a heads up in another forum I've got my first Street View image of 2022 (https://www.google.es/maps/@41.6561677,-0.908468,3a,75y,27.17h,82.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_13-cnaNvPCgbNxU7KNhfw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) as well. And quite close to me on top of that.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheGrassGuy on February 05, 2022, 04:18:55 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4929225,-77.3529184,3a,15y,298.14h,88.78t/am=t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siEEgDbhlZ5Niknt-521U4Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

protest
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 07, 2022, 04:34:47 PM
The Shelby Bypass has white lines like it's a traditional state highway instead of orange which makes it a freeway compared to the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway which is orange.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3047577,-81.6058728,14.21z
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 07, 2022, 04:39:06 PM
The Shelby Bypass has white lines like it's a traditional state highway instead of orange which makes it a freeway compared to the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway which is orange.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3047577,-81.6058728,14.21z

How is that crazy?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 07, 2022, 04:44:04 PM
The Shelby Bypass has white lines like it's a traditional state highway instead of orange which makes it a freeway compared to the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway which is orange.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3047577,-81.6058728,14.21z

How is that crazy?
Because it's a freeway!

Unless they did it on purpose because there is no such route signed on it yet.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 07, 2022, 04:53:21 PM
The Shelby Bypass has white lines like it's a traditional state highway instead of orange which makes it a freeway compared to the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway which is orange.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3047577,-81.6058728,14.21z

How is that crazy?
Because it's a freeway!

Unless they did it on purpose because there is no such route signed on it yet.

But how is that crazy?  When I think crazy I think of things like the scene of an accident or some mad act being captured by the Google Car.  This just strikes me as something someone would post when they don’t get that the quality posting standards thread was about them.

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=29865.0
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 07, 2022, 04:57:12 PM
The Shelby Bypass has white lines like it's a traditional state highway instead of orange which makes it a freeway compared to the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway which is orange.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3047577,-81.6058728,14.21z

How is that crazy?
Because it's a freeway!

Unless they did it on purpose because there is no such route signed on it yet.

But how is that crazy?  When I think crazy I think of things like the scene of an accident or some mad act being captured by the Google Car.  This just strikes me as something someone would post when they don’t get that the quality posting standards thread was about them.
Because it's an unsigned highway. I think that's crazy that it has not been assigned a route number and drivers would think that we take this highway blah blah blah!

If anything can be crazy, then this is me and my sister walking when we got captured: Deleted!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 07, 2022, 05:03:41 PM
The Shelby Bypass has white lines like it's a traditional state highway instead of orange which makes it a freeway compared to the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway which is orange.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3047577,-81.6058728,14.21z

How is that crazy?
Because it's a freeway!

Unless they did it on purpose because there is no such route signed on it yet.

But how is that crazy?  When I think crazy I think of things like the scene of an accident or some mad act being captured by the Google Car.  This just strikes me as something someone would post when they don’t get that the quality posting standards thread was about them.
Because it's an unsigned highway. I think that's crazy that it has not been assigned a route number and drivers would think that we take this highway blah blah blah!

If anything can be crazy, then this is me and my sister walking when we got captured: bleep

Ehhh…is that something you’re really comfortable posting on an open forum?  Especially when it involves a person that isn’t you?  If it was just you I wouldn’t question it, but are you sure that is what the other person would want?
Well, the faces are blurred out, and I didn't let her know so I should probably delete it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 07, 2022, 05:06:44 PM
^^^

Yeah, if you’re asking for my take then I would agree deleting that last post is the way to go.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 07, 2022, 05:07:42 PM
^^^

Yeah, if you’re asking for my take then I would agree deleting that last post is the way to go.
Done
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 07, 2022, 05:08:25 PM
^^^

Yeah, if you’re asking for my take then I would agree deleting that last post is the way to go.
Done

Might want to make sure you get your previous post too given it had quotes in it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 07, 2022, 05:09:01 PM
^^^

Yeah, if you’re asking for my take then I would agree deleting that last post is the way to go.
Done

Might want to make sure you get your previous post too given it had quotes in it.
Did that too
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on February 07, 2022, 05:54:28 PM
The Shelby Bypass has white lines like it's a traditional state highway instead of orange which makes it a freeway compared to the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway which is orange.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3047577,-81.6058728,14.21z

How is that crazy?

Also how is it in Google StreetView?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on February 07, 2022, 05:58:00 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4929225,-77.3529184,3a,15y,298.14h,88.78t/am=t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siEEgDbhlZ5Niknt-521U4Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

protest

Not just a garden-variety protest, a strike, with a full-on picket line. Looks like it was part of the BCTGM Nabisco strike.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on February 08, 2022, 10:54:02 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4929225,-77.3529184,3a,15y,298.14h,88.78t/am=t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siEEgDbhlZ5Niknt-521U4Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

protest

Not just a garden-variety protest, a strike, with a full-on picket line. Looks like it was part of the BCTGM Nabisco strike.

Makes more sense.  I was thinking, what did Nabisco do?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on February 08, 2022, 02:29:34 PM
No huge inflatable rat = weaksauce.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 10, 2022, 08:39:55 AM
House is dangerously close to the highway

https://goo.gl/maps/aW9SpD1ihtDr2PiEA
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 89 on February 10, 2022, 08:57:45 AM
House is dangerously close to the highway

https://goo.gl/maps/aW9SpD1ihtDr2PiEA

... I've seen way worse than that.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on February 10, 2022, 08:59:22 AM
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.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on February 10, 2022, 02:31:27 PM
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?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on February 10, 2022, 04:08:59 PM
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 (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   :rolleyes:   and not really qualifying as "crazy".
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 10, 2022, 05:05:16 PM
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 (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   :rolleyes:   and not really qualifying as "crazy".

Having posts not related to Google Map images of North Carolina is about as crazy as it gets. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 10, 2022, 05:45:57 PM
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
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 10, 2022, 05:50:51 PM
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.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on February 10, 2022, 06:40:59 PM
Wondering what kind of traffic stop requires the officer to be pointing the wrong way... and stopped in a construction zone

(https://i.imgur.com/0dEJGss.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on February 10, 2022, 08:29:16 PM
Wondering what kind of traffic stop requires the officer to be pointing the wrong way... and stopped in a construction zone

(https://i.imgur.com/0dEJGss.png)

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.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on February 10, 2022, 10:34:29 PM
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 (https://goo.gl/maps/5prieUkxQmPoLk1D6) 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.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Ketchup99 on February 12, 2022, 11:49:07 PM
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
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 15, 2022, 02:56:58 PM
Does Google Street View frequently update now?

Feb 2022 imagery already!

https://goo.gl/maps/jJGUtmN7MmUh6aSz9
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 15, 2022, 03:02:24 PM
Does Google Street View frequently update now?

Feb 2022 imagery already!

https://goo.gl/maps/jJGUtmN7MmUh6aSz9

Crazy how?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 15, 2022, 03:05:07 PM
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!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: tolbs17 on February 15, 2022, 03:09:37 PM
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
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 15, 2022, 03:11:29 PM
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.”  
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on February 15, 2022, 09:35:45 PM
Aahh!
https://goo.gl/maps/Vqd2KA6gcyvMwoXz5
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on February 15, 2022, 11:21:11 PM
Aahh!
https://goo.gl/maps/Vqd2KA6gcyvMwoXz5
Headed to Sudan?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on February 16, 2022, 10:16:20 AM
Aahh!
https://goo.gl/maps/Vqd2KA6gcyvMwoXz5
Headed to Sudan?

Maybe, if I can find a lookingglass to walk through…
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on February 16, 2022, 06:13:25 PM
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.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on February 16, 2022, 06:27:56 PM
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.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on February 16, 2022, 06:32:09 PM
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.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on February 16, 2022, 06:57:43 PM
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...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: plain on February 16, 2022, 07:19:56 PM
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
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on February 16, 2022, 07:23:41 PM
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.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on February 16, 2022, 11:05:44 PM
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 ...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on February 16, 2022, 11:05:54 PM
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)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BuildTheRussian on February 17, 2022, 10:10:38 AM
Railroad crossing works
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.6286831,-82.1813157,3a,75y,7.48h,82.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syvxBLZ9ZVmbWrx5ecrskEA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: SoDakInterstateEnthusiast on February 18, 2022, 04:46:23 PM
Not crazy, just funny.

I think Sanford hired Michael Jackson to design their billboard.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.483825,-96.7957621,3a,15y,71.04h,92.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNh4nKX3vCenUM7ET8JB0_Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on March 01, 2022, 01:56:28 PM
This (https://goo.gl/maps/JsVEV2FY3NrnxUND7) reminds me of another entry on this thread.  At the Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota tristate marker, according to the street blades, both roads have different names in different states.  The weird one is the road running north along the Minnesota/North Dakota state line.  Depending on which side of the road you are on, the road has a different name. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on March 01, 2022, 03:19:43 PM
That's not unusual along city limits around here (OKC and Norman have totally different street grids, so every time their limits meet, this happens).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: davewiecking on March 01, 2022, 03:56:40 PM
This (https://goo.gl/maps/JsVEV2FY3NrnxUND7) reminds me of another entry on this thread.  At the Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota tristate marker, according to the street blades, both roads have different names in different states.  The weird on is the road running north along the Minnesota/North Dakota state line.  Depending on which side of the road you are on, the road has a different name.

I’m curious if you know how close to accurate the Minn/SD state boundary is on Google Maps. The marker is shown just off the NW corner, yet the line is shown just off the east edge of the asphalt. But the fact that you can be driving north on a 2 lane road known as 10th Ave in Minn, pull a Ubie and instantly be on 488th Ave in SD seems rather unique. Not quite the same as passing through an intersection and finding the road has a different name. Or approaching a slow moving vehicle on 10th Ave, moving over to 488th Ave to pass, then moving back to 10th Ave. But this assumes that the state line is truly in the middle of the asphalt. If the line is on the edge of the asphalt, I suppose it’s possible to have an address on 10th Ave in Minn, but only be able to access your driveway from 488th Ave in SD.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on March 01, 2022, 06:19:56 PM
:) (US 52 somewhere in North Dakota) (https://www.google.es/maps/@48.8071353,-102.115882,3a,20.7y,147.89h,92.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sddv9TBd4w9pzCA_5elsruQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

(Although I prefer to use :sombrero:)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: US 89 on March 01, 2022, 07:26:38 PM
This (https://goo.gl/maps/JsVEV2FY3NrnxUND7) reminds me of another entry on this thread.  At the Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota tristate marker, according to the street blades, both roads have different names in different states.  The weird on is the road running north along the Minnesota/North Dakota state line.  Depending on which side of the road you are on, the road has a different name.

I’m curious if you know how close to accurate the Minn/SD state boundary is on Google Maps. The marker is shown just off the NW corner, yet the line is shown just off the east edge of the asphalt. But the fact that you can be driving north on a 2 lane road known as 10th Ave in Minn, pull a Ubie and instantly be on 488th Ave in SD seems rather unique. Not quite the same as passing through an intersection and finding the road has a different name. Or approaching a slow moving vehicle on 10th Ave, moving over to 488th Ave to pass, then moving back to 10th Ave. But this assumes that the state line is truly in the middle of the asphalt. If the line is on the edge of the asphalt, I suppose it’s possible to have an address on 10th Ave in Minn, but only be able to access your driveway from 488th Ave in SD.

Meh… this is fairly common in places like Utah, where numbered streets run along city limits in places that use city-based grids. Go west from I-15’s exit 315 along the North Salt Lake-Woods Cross line, and you’ll find the south side is 1100 North and the north side is 2600 South. Same deal with the part of Utah 241 that follows the Orem-Lindon line, which is 600 South and 1600 North on different sides of the street.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on March 02, 2022, 04:09:02 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/pNnj5EAfVS6EKjjL9 (https://goo.gl/maps/pNnj5EAfVS6EKjjL9)
A plane! In Wilmington!  :wow:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on March 02, 2022, 04:18:57 PM
Is someone handing out some sort of trophy for "Most Mundane North Carolina GSV Link Posted To AARoads" that I'm not aware of?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on March 02, 2022, 04:26:32 PM
Is someone handing out some sort of trophy for "Most Mundane North Carolina GSV Link Posted To AARoads" that I'm not aware of?

Yes.
(https://i.imgur.com/Zuwabl5.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on March 02, 2022, 04:55:11 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.219042,-77.9467692,3a,15y,305.39h,100.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D272.12943%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.219042,-77.9467692,3a,15y,305.39h,100.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D272.12943%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
A plane! In Wilmington!   :colorful:

FIFY
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 02, 2022, 05:09:28 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.219042,-77.9467692,3a,15y,305.39h,100.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D272.12943%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.219042,-77.9467692,3a,15y,305.39h,100.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D272.12943%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
A plane! In Wilmington!   :colorful:

FIFY

How about fixing the disastrous Google Maps link?

1. Click on the three dots in the box in the top corner of the screen
2. Click "COPY LINK"
3. Paste link

https://goo.gl/maps/AQjYnJWnAXGnPZhM7
A plane! In Wilmington!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on March 02, 2022, 05:10:38 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.219042,-77.9467692,3a,15y,305.39h,100.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D272.12943%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.219042,-77.9467692,3a,15y,305.39h,100.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D272.12943%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
A plane! In Wilmington!   :colorful:

FIFY

How about fixing the train wreck... er... plane wreck of a link?

1. Click on the three dots in the box in the top corner of the screen
2. Click "COPY LINK"
3. Paste link

https://goo.gl/maps/AQjYnJWnAXGnPZhM7
A plane! In Wilmington!

Some people just want to watch the world burn.  :colorful:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on March 02, 2022, 05:11:20 PM
It doesn't matter how pretty you make the link, it's still not worth clicking on.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 02, 2022, 05:21:40 PM
It doesn't matter how pretty you make the link, it's still not worth clicking on.

That's fair, but I would still rather scroll past a clean link than one that's so long it has its own scroll bar.  :crazy:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on March 03, 2022, 07:05:40 AM
I usually mask the long URLs with what I want to post, so I don't need the short URL. Like this: Orienteering control flag (https://www.google.es/maps/@46.2366273,1.728365,3a,18.5y,52.24h,73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swZdBTSjX3KfQMdtqqJjjuA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on March 03, 2022, 10:16:54 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.219042,-77.9467692,3a,15y,305.39h,100.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D272.12943%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.219042,-77.9467692,3a,15y,305.39h,100.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dqh1gSCwJHVilNucN4n66ww%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D272.12943%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
A plane! In Wilmington!   :colorful:

FIFY

How about fixing the disastrous Google Maps link?

1. Click on the three dots in the box in the top corner of the screen
2. Click "COPY LINK"
3. Paste link

https://goo.gl/maps/AQjYnJWnAXGnPZhM7
A plane! In Wilmington!
Thanks! I'll update the link and remember this trick!
UPDATE: I fixed the link for people who don't like long link copying!  :colorful: :sombrero:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on March 03, 2022, 12:45:19 PM
House is dangerously close to the highway

https://goo.gl/maps/aW9SpD1ihtDr2PiEA

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

agreed. there's one not far from me where the deck comes almost to the edge of the highway, though 30 feet above it.

edited to add gsv image:
https://goo.gl/maps/rqQmBj66GvstrazS6 (https://goo.gl/maps/rqQmBj66GvstrazS6)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on March 15, 2022, 01:53:52 PM
These (https://goo.gl/maps/YQYMKstdayxBpkmAA) two dudes were having fun!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on March 15, 2022, 02:42:32 PM
These (https://goo.gl/maps/YQYMKstdayxBpkmAA) two dudes were having fun!

My mind assumed something much worse here, but this is actually really funny and wholesome.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GenExpwy on March 16, 2022, 02:48:11 AM
These (https://goo.gl/maps/YQYMKstdayxBpkmAA) two dudes were having fun!

My question is, were they intentionally copying the artwork on the bridge pier?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on March 16, 2022, 09:43:56 AM
These (https://goo.gl/maps/YQYMKstdayxBpkmAA) two dudes were having fun!

My question is, were they intentionally copying the artwork on the bridge pier?

I think they're just showing some Blythe spirit. <ducks>
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 29, 2022, 08:20:05 AM
What's going on with I-80? (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8620236,-74.3541911,17.25z)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on March 29, 2022, 08:36:53 AM
What's going on with I-80? (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8620236,-74.3541911,17.25z)

Someone at Google probably dragged a node
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on March 29, 2022, 08:48:17 AM
Strangely, you can continue on Street View on the "old" route.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 29, 2022, 08:56:07 AM
Strangely, you can continue on Street View on the "old" route.

I can't: it dead-ends right where the road veers off. (I actually can get to the Street View on the misaligned section, but only by skipping ahead.) Going backwards though, it works fine.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on March 29, 2022, 10:28:01 AM
What's going on with I-80? (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8620236,-74.3541911,17.25z)

Someone at Google probably dragged a node

Or they've really got it out for someone at 20 Brighton Terrace.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: X99 on March 29, 2022, 05:37:32 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/o6ypEdgeH3rcrjvF9

not crazy but odd, the street view of the Omaha Street widening project's finished first phase cuts off westbound at the Oshkosh Street intersection- which is no longer accessible from the westbound side due to the new raised median. Why would the car stop recording here instead of going to, say, Cross Street, which is still accessible from the westbound lanes?

In addition to that, the eastbound recording from the same time DOES go to Cross Street (and all the way through the construction zone further west) but detours through the Black Hills Bicycles parking lot instead of staying on Omaha.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on March 30, 2022, 01:36:41 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/2v5pi2d2GR7yoYj46

The double SOUTH CR 52 shields in Holmdel, NJ.

https://goo.gl/maps/qMx8KDm4BqxF8d7G7
The correct display is here.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on March 30, 2022, 03:08:37 AM
That's just a stitching error. There's thousands of them on GSV.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 30, 2022, 10:20:15 AM
I saw one the other day that looked even more real than that one, but I can't remember now where it was.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on March 30, 2022, 10:32:14 AM
That's just a stitching error. There's thousands of them on GSV.

But one with a very Escher-esque result (look at the bases…)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on April 04, 2022, 03:10:24 PM
"Roadway Subject To Flooding (https://goo.gl/maps/qXF12CDJTrNcQ4T18)" - No kidding (https://goo.gl/maps/fviPLU3ShUnFBZx56)!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BuildTheRussian on April 23, 2022, 11:39:23 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5936185,-114.6149228,3a,47.1y,167.45h,86.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJnPOEXoJLLbXf1Ss03gLpQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Both the road and slip lane yield to each other.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on April 23, 2022, 07:02:00 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5936185,-114.6149228,3a,47.1y,167.45h,86.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJnPOEXoJLLbXf1Ss03gLpQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Both the road and slip lane yield to each other.

It looks more like the slip lane has two yield signs, but the one on the left is horribly placed.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on April 23, 2022, 07:20:18 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5936185,-114.6149228,3a,47.1y,167.45h,86.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJnPOEXoJLLbXf1Ss03gLpQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Both the road and slip lane yield to each other.

It looks more like the slip lane has two yield signs, but the one on the left is horribly placed.

Plus both yield signs are back-to-back with a "Wrong Way" sign, seemingly implying that both yields are for the slip lane.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on May 03, 2022, 07:01:37 AM
Prudhoe Bay is lucky to have Google Streetview coverage at all, but there's another Google car? (https://goo.gl/maps/Pbef21PWkMTnsLKS8)

(No, it's not driving past a giant mirror.)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on May 03, 2022, 08:22:35 AM
Prudhoe Bay is lucky to have Google Streetview coverage at all, but there's another Google car? (https://goo.gl/maps/Pbef21PWkMTnsLKS8)

(No, it's not driving past a giant mirror.)

Maybe they're traveling together for safety.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 03, 2022, 09:58:42 AM

Prudhoe Bay is lucky to have Google Streetview coverage at all, but there's another Google car? (https://goo.gl/maps/Pbef21PWkMTnsLKS8)

(No, it's not driving past a giant mirror.)

Maybe they're traveling together for safety.

Based on my time looking at GSV, I'm assuming that's the case.  Multiple Google cars traveling together seems to be more common in remote areas and on unpaved roads.  I imagine that each one serves as 'chase vehicle' for the other.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on May 05, 2022, 02:31:42 PM
Why are both of these (https://goo.gl/maps/J2x14wgTTHuGxhqJ7) signs facing the opposite direction?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 05, 2022, 02:58:45 PM
Why are both of these (https://goo.gl/maps/J2x14wgTTHuGxhqJ7) signs facing the opposite direction?

They were facing the right way three years earlier (https://goo.gl/maps/ERwGQ31y4vQfU559A).  It appears the signs were turned around while the station was closed off.  GSV shows the station was open in 2015 (https://goo.gl/maps/umv2Ej68SamRTZuq7) but closed in 2016 (https://goo.gl/maps/fPhtiNZaSxKc9SqGA).  The signs are gone entirely as of 2021.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on May 05, 2022, 03:04:09 PM
Why are both of these (https://goo.gl/maps/J2x14wgTTHuGxhqJ7) signs facing the opposite direction?

They were facing the right way three years earlier (https://goo.gl/maps/ERwGQ31y4vQfU559A).  It appears the signs were turned around while the station was closed off.  GSV shows the station was open in 2015 (https://goo.gl/maps/umv2Ej68SamRTZuq7) but closed in 2016 (https://goo.gl/maps/fPhtiNZaSxKc9SqGA).  The signs are gone entirely as of 2021.

Seems like a waste of time/money.  If you are going to close the station, just take the sign down.  Don't hang it backwards to then take it down. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on May 05, 2022, 05:19:49 PM
Why are both of these (https://goo.gl/maps/J2x14wgTTHuGxhqJ7) signs facing the opposite direction?

They were facing the right way three years earlier (https://goo.gl/maps/ERwGQ31y4vQfU559A).  It appears the signs were turned around while the station was closed off.  GSV shows the station was open in 2015 (https://goo.gl/maps/umv2Ej68SamRTZuq7) but closed in 2016 (https://goo.gl/maps/fPhtiNZaSxKc9SqGA).  The signs are gone entirely as of 2021.

Seems like a waste of time/money.  If you are going to close the station, just take the sign down.  Don't hang it backwards to then take it down. 

Presumably they did that because, in the interim, there were plans to reopen the station. Hanging the signs backward is a fairly cheap way of "storing" them if there's a chance they're going to be needed again soonish.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on May 05, 2022, 05:39:19 PM
Why are both of these (https://goo.gl/maps/J2x14wgTTHuGxhqJ7) signs facing the opposite direction?

They were facing the right way three years earlier (https://goo.gl/maps/ERwGQ31y4vQfU559A).  It appears the signs were turned around while the station was closed off.  GSV shows the station was open in 2015 (https://goo.gl/maps/umv2Ej68SamRTZuq7) but closed in 2016 (https://goo.gl/maps/fPhtiNZaSxKc9SqGA).  The signs are gone entirely as of 2021.

Seems like a waste of time/money.  If you are going to close the station, just take the sign down.  Don't hang it backwards to then take it down. 

Presumably they did that because, in the interim, there were plans to reopen the station. Hanging the signs backward is a fairly cheap way of "storing" them if there's a chance they're going to be needed again soonish.

Most places would just put a bag or tarp over them.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on May 06, 2022, 09:13:48 AM
Why are both of these (https://goo.gl/maps/J2x14wgTTHuGxhqJ7) signs facing the opposite direction?

They were facing the right way three years earlier (https://goo.gl/maps/ERwGQ31y4vQfU559A).  It appears the signs were turned around while the station was closed off.  GSV shows the station was open in 2015 (https://goo.gl/maps/umv2Ej68SamRTZuq7) but closed in 2016 (https://goo.gl/maps/fPhtiNZaSxKc9SqGA).  The signs are gone entirely as of 2021.

I just figured they still wanted to be able to carry out business as usual during hurricane evacuations.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on May 06, 2022, 10:05:22 AM
Why are both of these (https://goo.gl/maps/J2x14wgTTHuGxhqJ7) signs facing the opposite direction?

They were facing the right way three years earlier (https://goo.gl/maps/ERwGQ31y4vQfU559A).  It appears the signs were turned around while the station was closed off.  GSV shows the station was open in 2015 (https://goo.gl/maps/umv2Ej68SamRTZuq7) but closed in 2016 (https://goo.gl/maps/fPhtiNZaSxKc9SqGA).  The signs are gone entirely as of 2021.

Seems like a waste of time/money.  If you are going to close the station, just take the sign down.  Don't hang it backwards to then take it down.

Speaking of wasting time and money, why did they bother putting up two signs when they could've just put up one after the merge point?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 13, 2022, 12:56:41 PM
Hopefully, this isn't what it looks like.
https://goo.gl/maps/KmkiNRr1GNTxC5Fg6
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CtrlAltDel on May 13, 2022, 02:29:49 PM
It's not Streetview, but there's this (https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B043'27.6%22N+93%C2%B032'55.0%22W/@38.7244466,-93.5488893,320m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0!7e2!8m2!3d38.7243206!4d-93.5486044):

(https://i.imgur.com/BwhgY6U.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 13, 2022, 03:33:11 PM
WOMEN WORKING

https://goo.gl/maps/Ku7Ei5zDKtnCJdhR6
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on May 13, 2022, 06:20:16 PM
Saw this in a Youtube video; apparently some GSV from Louisville, Mississippi in 2014 was taken right after a massive tornado went through town, leading to stunning shots like these: (see 2014 imagery)

- Metal sheeting wrapped around a tree and foundations stripped clean (https://goo.gl/maps/eFh12khw4KPjsrjc7)
- Insane view of the tornado scar (https://goo.gl/maps/Fp8Qr8ojEAuXxyj8A)
- Tossed cars (https://goo.gl/maps/84e8kV75KRpjjgSx7)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on May 14, 2022, 09:58:13 PM
- Tossed cars (https://goo.gl/maps/84e8kV75KRpjjgSx7)

And a woman talking agitatedly on the phone, no doubt to her insurance company.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kkt on May 15, 2022, 02:45:33 AM
It's not Streetview, but there's this (https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B043'27.6%22N+93%C2%B032'55.0%22W/@38.7244466,-93.5488893,320m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0!7e2!8m2!3d38.7243206!4d-93.5486044):

(https://i.imgur.com/BwhgY6U.png)

Story about it:

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2021/09/17/b-2-bomber-crashes-in-missouri-after-in-flight-malfunction-none-injured/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: snowc on May 15, 2022, 11:37:24 AM
It's not Streetview, but there's this (https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B043'27.6%22N+93%C2%B032'55.0%22W/@38.7244466,-93.5488893,320m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0!7e2!8m2!3d38.7243206!4d-93.5486044):

(https://i.imgur.com/BwhgY6U.png)

Story about it:

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2021/09/17/b-2-bomber-crashes-in-missouri-after-in-flight-malfunction-none-injured/

I wonder if you can view its flight via Flightaware.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KCRoadFan on May 19, 2022, 09:24:25 AM
This doesn't refer to the imagery itself, but rather to the overall Street View interface. Anyway, there's a box at the top left that normally shows the street name and address closest to where the picture is, along with the city and state it's in. One thing I've noticed lately is that in some locations, this info is missing from the Street View interface - rather, it's just the word "Google". Has anyone else seen this?

By the way, I've reported the problem on Google Issue Tracker, but so far, no one has responded. What, if anything, can or should I do about this? As someone who loves to look around on Street View, this really bothers me. When might it be fixed?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on May 19, 2022, 09:54:57 AM
Has anyone else seen this?

Yes.  See here (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=11718.msg2737376#msg2737376).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on May 21, 2022, 03:00:11 PM
Photosphere inside TD Garden. No, not the floating person. Look at the clocks. How much time is left in the period? Two different times are visible at that FOV, but pan around and you'll see at least five, all different. (And no, I'm not confusing the time of day with the game timer. I can tell the difference.)
https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA (https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on May 21, 2022, 04:17:32 PM
Photosphere inside TD Garden. No, not the floating person. Look at the clocks. How much time is left in the period? Two different times are visible at that FOV, but pan around and you'll see at least five, all different. (And no, I'm not confusing the time of day with the game timer. I can tell the difference.)
https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA (https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA)

The rink is like a game of Where's Waldo.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on May 21, 2022, 06:07:51 PM
Photosphere inside TD Garden. No, not the floating person. Look at the clocks. How much time is left in the period? Two different times are visible at that FOV, but pan around and you'll see at least five, all different. (And no, I'm not confusing the time of day with the game timer. I can tell the difference.)
https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA (https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA)

This, of course, is just an artifact of how the photosphere is constructed–it's just a bunch of photos taken from a single point with a normal camera, oriented in such a way that a full 360° view of the place is captured. Then all of the photos are edited together to form a single, somewhat seamless image. Since a normal camera cannot take multiple pictures at the same time, all of the pictures are taken one after the other. Normally, this is not readily apparent, but since there was a timer prominently displayed in multiple areas within view of each other, it became obvious that the photos were captured some time apart.

(This sort of thing would be less obvious with a true Google Street View camera, which has multiple lenses pointing in multiple directions so all of the imagery needed can be captured simultaneously. Photospheres usually do not use such a camera.)

By the way, I've reported the problem on Google Issue Tracker, but so far, no one has responded. What, if anything, can or should I do about this?

Buy Google stock so that your opinion is legally required to matter to them.

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As someone who loves to look around on Street View, this really bothers me. When might it be fixed?

Whenever Google feels like spending the money to fix it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on May 24, 2022, 06:17:06 AM
Come to the light!  Come to the light! (https://goo.gl/maps/8DFGvgk1uy4e3EMY8)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on May 24, 2022, 07:15:50 AM
Photosphere inside TD Garden. No, not the floating person. Look at the clocks. How much time is left in the period? Two different times are visible at that FOV, but pan around and you'll see at least five, all different. (And no, I'm not confusing the time of day with the game timer. I can tell the difference.)
https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA (https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA)

This, of course, is just an artifact of how the photosphere is constructed–it's just a bunch of photos taken from a single point with a normal camera, oriented in such a way that a full 360° view of the place is captured. Then all of the photos are edited together to form a single, somewhat seamless image. Since a normal camera cannot take multiple pictures at the same time, all of the pictures are taken one after the other. Normally, this is not readily apparent, but since there was a timer prominently displayed in multiple areas within view of each other, it became obvious that the photos were captured some time apart.

(This sort of thing would be less obvious with a true Google Street View camera, which has multiple lenses pointing in multiple directions so all of the imagery needed can be captured simultaneously. Photospheres usually do not use such a camera.)

By the way, I've reported the problem on Google Issue Tracker, but so far, no one has responded. What, if anything, can or should I do about this?

Buy Google stock so that your opinion is legally required to matter to them.

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As someone who loves to look around on Street View, this really bothers me. When might it be fixed?

Whenever  :sombrero:Google feels
 like spending the money to fix it.



I bet if they tried to capture it on purpose, it would never come like this as Hollywood spends thousands to achieve such an effect.
 :sombrero:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on May 27, 2022, 04:59:05 PM
Not the craziest or even that unusual, just I personally never happen to catch passing trains (https://goo.gl/maps/FUvVEKsj8LmFn93w7) when looking at street view. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on June 14, 2022, 01:53:02 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/WNGEZWGCyxab9Amx6
Green Mountains along US 93 near Hoover Dam.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: KCRoadFan on June 15, 2022, 10:31:31 PM
Photosphere inside TD Garden. No, not the floating person. Look at the clocks. How much time is left in the period? Two different times are visible at that FOV, but pan around and you'll see at least five, all different. (And no, I'm not confusing the time of day with the game timer. I can tell the difference.)
https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA (https://goo.gl/maps/5W7n5XDYESMZNUWdA)

This, of course, is just an artifact of how the photosphere is constructed–it's just a bunch of photos taken from a single point with a normal camera, oriented in such a way that a full 360° view of the place is captured. Then all of the photos are edited together to form a single, somewhat seamless image. Since a normal camera cannot take multiple pictures at the same time, all of the pictures are taken one after the other. Normally, this is not readily apparent, but since there was a timer prominently displayed in multiple areas within view of each other, it became obvious that the photos were captured some time apart.

(This sort of thing would be less obvious with a true Google Street View camera, which has multiple lenses pointing in multiple directions so all of the imagery needed can be captured simultaneously. Photospheres usually do not use such a camera.)

By the way, I've reported the problem on Google Issue Tracker, but so far, no one has responded. What, if anything, can or should I do about this?

Buy Google stock so that your opinion is legally required to matter to them.

Quote
As someone who loves to look around on Street View, this really bothers me. When might it be fixed?

Whenever Google feels like spending the money to fix it.

I checked in the affected areas. It has been fixed!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on June 27, 2022, 08:51:09 AM
Here's one of the most incredible stitching errors I've ever seen: https://goo.gl/maps/Lji4B5uJ9jUdht2K8

I did a double and triple take before fully comprehending the error. Look at how realistic the duplicate CT 165 shield is, and note the "ghost" of the CT 138 shield just above it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on June 27, 2022, 12:37:09 PM
Here's one of the most incredible stitching errors I've ever seen: https://goo.gl/maps/Lji4B5uJ9jUdht2K8

I did a double and triple take before fully comprehending the error. Look at how realistic the duplicate CT 165 shield is, and note the "ghost" of the CT 138 shield just above it.

Yeah that is very seamless (especially since the trees above look fine).



Looking for a ride in the Google Car in Western Australia (https://www.google.ca/maps/@-26.4114647,114.463546,3a,50.8y,11.76h,87.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU5KYQIEdVtKAxHJSw6lt8w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on July 04, 2022, 07:11:26 AM
Here's one of the most incredible stitching errors I've ever seen: https://goo.gl/maps/Lji4B5uJ9jUdht2K8

I did a double and triple take before fully comprehending the error. Look at how realistic the duplicate CT 165 shield is, and note the "ghost" of the CT 138 shield just above it.

Go back to the October 2018 image to see what should be pictured.  July 2019 made a similar error.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on July 15, 2022, 03:16:49 PM
Hedge cut out for this street sign in Richmond, BC. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.1890321,-123.146082,3a,44.9y,326.79h,78.23t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXr6V_GFhM8eX-bww8oh23Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DXr6V_GFhM8eX-bww8oh23Q%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D222.61731%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: empirestate on July 16, 2022, 09:41:05 AM
Hedge cut out for this street sign in Richmond, BC. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.1890321,-123.146082,3a,44.9y,326.79h,78.23t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXr6V_GFhM8eX-bww8oh23Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DXr6V_GFhM8eX-bww8oh23Q%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D222.61731%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)

These people have moats…
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on July 18, 2022, 07:12:58 AM
Hedge cut out for this street sign in Richmond, BC. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.1890321,-123.146082,3a,44.9y,326.79h,78.23t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXr6V_GFhM8eX-bww8oh23Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DXr6V_GFhM8eX-bww8oh23Q%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D222.61731%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)

Renton says hi. (https://goo.gl/maps/6DXdFaTt9i1nXeFk9)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kirbykart on July 23, 2022, 02:53:11 PM

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.590775,-72.30965,3a,90.0y,204.83508h,21.548775t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sRVpSMPDDn86YzBvUAggw0A!2e0
Found on MA 2A at MA 122 in Orange.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Joseph R P on July 23, 2022, 05:06:38 PM
Stumbled across this workers strike at a Mondelez factory once: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4932146,-77.3529989,3a,90y,276.11h,75.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1shQtJC5Cc3AoaoW4UZXL_Qw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DhQtJC5Cc3AoaoW4UZXL_Qw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D35.157692%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: PurdueBill on July 23, 2022, 05:32:03 PM

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.590775,-72.30965,3a,90.0y,204.83508h,21.548775t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sRVpSMPDDn86YzBvUAggw0A!2e0
Found on MA 2A at MA 122 in Orange.

I appreciate the number of 12-8-8s that have been allowed to remain at that intersection and the overhead street name blades for the nexus of the universe (North, South, East, and West Main Streets all intersecting).

It's not Streetview, but there's this (https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B043'27.6%22N+93%C2%B032'55.0%22W/@38.7244466,-93.5488893,320m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0!7e2!8m2!3d38.7243206!4d-93.5486044):

(https://i.imgur.com/BwhgY6U.png)

Story about it:

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2021/09/17/b-2-bomber-crashes-in-missouri-after-in-flight-malfunction-none-injured/

I wonder if you can view its flight via Flightaware.

Reminds me of the tractor-trailer rollover on the ramp from US 1 to I-95 NB in Peabody, Mass that the overhead view managed to catch.  (This was the August 2019 rollover; there have been plenty there.)
https://goo.gl/maps/Ggd4PiKt8UyanPEK9

There are tons of weird stitching errors though not as amazing as the Connecticut signs one above; I only happened to notice this one once at first thanks to what appeared to be odd guardrail post spacing.
https://goo.gl/maps/oD1nGTEeWAypmnZr9



Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Revive 755 on July 26, 2022, 11:03:53 PM
Future truss span on the Mississippi River for the Merchants Bridge overhaul in St. Louis (https://goo.gl/maps/rnoU4GbSfXYE16jV6)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on August 02, 2022, 05:42:35 PM
Legendary.
https://goo.gl/maps/H7eeZUuyTpmJLWih7

It is Mexico, though. You can't blame them for trying.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on August 02, 2022, 05:54:02 PM
Legendary.
https://goo.gl/maps/H7eeZUuyTpmJLWih7

It is Mexico, though. You can't blame them for trying.

I find it funny that there are three barbers side-by-side.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on August 03, 2022, 06:10:58 AM
Legendary.
https://goo.gl/maps/H7eeZUuyTpmJLWih7

It is Mexico, though. You can't blame them for trying.

I find it funny that there are three barbers side-by-side.

Just today I was wondering if Canada and other countries use red, white and blue barber poles.  Ask a silly question...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Big John on August 03, 2022, 10:23:45 AM
Legendary.
https://goo.gl/maps/H7eeZUuyTpmJLWih7

It is Mexico, though. You can't blame them for trying.

I find it funny that there are three barbers side-by-side.
There is a Red Bull ad with that situation where the middle barber changes his business name to "Entrance".
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on August 03, 2022, 10:34:51 AM
Legendary.
https://goo.gl/maps/H7eeZUuyTpmJLWih7

It is Mexico, though. You can't blame them for trying.

I find it funny that there are three barbers side-by-side.
There is a Red Bull ad with that situation where the middle barber changes his business name to "Entrance".

Haha that's a great idea. For those like me who haven't seen it:

Just today I was wondering if Canada and other countries use red, white and blue barber poles.  Ask a silly question...

I would recommend reading the Wikipedia article on the Barber's pole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber%27s_pole), there's a lot more history than I expected! It seems the red/white/blue variant is most common in the US, while the red/white variant is more common elsewhere.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on August 04, 2022, 06:40:56 PM
Stitching errors can make for some hilarious gibberish sometimes.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8756218,-96.8466142,3a,20.1y,346.53h,89.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svN3MlK9F8ElLW1wqyTL5JQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

When there is a herd, there is a herd, there's
ORSCHELNRSCHELN
FARM & HOMFARM & HOME
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on August 09, 2022, 07:02:33 AM
Evidently, there's a branch office of the Federal Railroad Administration located on a dead end street in a private residence in Green Cove Springs, Florida;
https://www.google.com/maps/place/US+Federal+Railroad+Administration/@30.0264893,-81.7044408,968m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88e5da6513d1b2e5:0x7fade1180038f555!8m2!3d30.0258387!4d-81.704031?hl=en (https://www.google.com/maps/place/US+Federal+Railroad+Administration/@30.0264893,-81.7044408,968m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88e5da6513d1b2e5:0x7fade1180038f555!8m2!3d30.0258387!4d-81.704031?hl=en)
At least according to Google Maps.


BTW, I already contacted the FRA about this.



Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on August 10, 2022, 12:39:00 AM
Is it cheating if you see it in person, and then go back and look it up on GSV when you get home?

GO AWAY
WE DON'T SELL WEED! (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.240061,-94.6331443,3a,15y,325.24h,89.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st50-0M2gtRA9yC6BnLQ7Ew!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on August 10, 2022, 01:12:59 AM
Is it cheating if you see it in person, and then go back and look it up on GSV when you get home?

GO AWAY
WE DON'T SELL WEED! (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.240061,-94.6331443,3a,15y,325.24h,89.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st50-0M2gtRA9yC6BnLQ7Ew!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

I mean, it is a crazy thing you found on Google StreetView, I'm pretty sure finding it IRL beforehand isn't forbidden.  :bigass:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on August 10, 2022, 03:57:40 AM
Well, there's also something I found IRL I want to post here, but Mr. Google hasn't driven on that street for a decade now, and the "crazy thing" appeared since.
One thing I like to find is posters for blood collects scattered (https://www.google.es/maps/@47.4459155,-2.2532872,3a,28.1y,178.13h,87.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOs3FkjkBRjsAxTaIIVrYfw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) throughout (https://www.google.es/maps/@44.9189108,0.9249371,3a,32.5y,223.58h,69.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saEb2ECDD8_oUa7lYCbrVDg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) La France (https://www.google.es/maps/@49.2556412,6.0987197,3a,15y,19.09h,85.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sr3mScxrc7iJhFApEp8r3NQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). I mostly find them by chance, either while on the Tour de France route, checking intersections of former national routes, or in the last case it's in a town with a cool name IMO.

And here's another (https://www.google.es/maps/@45.4716871,4.5025844,3a,75y,245.64h,68.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_-6L02On2sdN-TEoOcYiXA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). If you check historical photos you'll see there have been two of them in the same place.
:) (US 52 somewhere in North Dakota) (https://www.google.es/maps/@48.8071353,-102.115882,3a,20.7y,147.89h,92.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sddv9TBd4w9pzCA_5elsruQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

(Although I prefer to use :sombrero:)

And on the other side of that same billboard: DNT TXT & DRV (https://www.google.es/maps/@48.8072081,-102.1151738,3a,21.9y,215.19h,89.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1st6_KS6-Xk0dLSpPVBh0h7A!2e0!5s20220601T000000!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on August 20, 2022, 09:10:00 PM
The TOPS Supermarket in Buffalo where the mass shooting in May 2022 occurred - fenced off by cops in the most recent Google Streetview


https://goo.gl/maps/mxRnFG99b3qEjUuE6
(https://i.imgur.com/Of87qRs.png)


And the memorial/vigil activities:

(https://i.imgur.com/dpjG6o7.png)

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on August 20, 2022, 09:31:33 PM
^ That location was renovated and recently reopened.  They had footage on the news, and it's now basically a Market 32 with a Tops logo slapped on the front.  Given that Tops is now owned by Price Chopper/Market 32, I can't help but wonder if this is a harbinger of things to come, and if Tops overall will eventually be folded into the Market 32 brand.
Title: Google Flukes
Post by: roadman65 on September 04, 2022, 11:47:52 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/8NzkU3KiPnX7w4Ka9
This here cracks me up how the imagery didn’t quite line up resulting an an erroneous looking sign.

No Urns instead of No Turns. :bigass:

Any other flukes  you would like to point out where the image gets it wrong.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Lukeisroads on September 05, 2022, 12:57:15 PM
Stitching errors can make for some hilarious gibberish sometimes.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8756218,-96.8466142,3a,20.1y,346.53h,89.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svN3MlK9F8ElLW1wqyTL5JQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

When there is a herd, there is a herd, there's
ORSCHELNRSCHELN
FARM & HOMFARM & HOME
heres ours https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3059296,-119.0922713,3a,28.9y,238.11h,94.42t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1slTtIj05iusfbYWRGuUUTOQ!2e0!5s20210301T000000!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on September 05, 2022, 01:29:48 PM
This would be a GSV stitching error (note the number of letters in "market")... except this is a real photograph that I took myself. How does real life have stitching errors?

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52335481207_0eedffbd75_k.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: MikeTheActuary on September 06, 2022, 07:55:52 AM
Last month, when I was doing a bit of research on figuring out how to get from the airport to my hotel on my first trip to Toronto, I saw some oddly-garbed pedestrians in GSV:

https://goo.gl/maps/g6NGuhZop44mEPvQ8
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on September 06, 2022, 07:35:49 PM

https://goo.gl/maps/ZDHjwwFs69EYJ7YMA
I’m guessing the NJ State Fair is present here?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on September 07, 2022, 07:54:18 AM
Huh.  NJ's State Fair is at the Meadowlands?  Sounds like a recipe for mosquitoes.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on September 08, 2022, 10:58:53 PM
Huh.  NJ's State Fair is at the Meadowlands?  Sounds like a recipe for mosquitoes.

Has been for many years.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on September 08, 2022, 11:21:28 PM
Huh.  NJ's State Fair is at the Meadowlands?  Sounds like a recipe for mosquitoes.

Has been for many years.
Mosquitoes and trash smell...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on September 30, 2022, 04:14:32 PM
I found this in the Florida Keys.

Why.

https://goo.gl/maps/Dv29p1R3cooJVg118
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on September 30, 2022, 04:40:22 PM
I found this in the Florida Keys.

Why.

https://goo.gl/maps/Dv29p1R3cooJVg118

'Better than Sex' is actually what a bunch of us from church call a certain dessert that we used to make all the time at gatherings.  It also went by the less giggly name 'BTS Cake'.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on September 30, 2022, 04:43:03 PM
I found this in the Florida Keys.

Why.

https://goo.gl/maps/Dv29p1R3cooJVg118

'Better than Sex' is actually what a bunch of us from church call a certain dessert that we used to make all the time at gatherings.  It also went by the less giggly name 'BTS Cake'.

Although only less giggly until someone asks what the BTS stands for...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on September 30, 2022, 07:56:08 PM
I found this in the Florida Keys.

Why.

https://goo.gl/maps/Dv29p1R3cooJVg118

'Better than Sex' is actually what a bunch of us from church call a certain dessert that we used to make all the time at gatherings.  It also went by the less giggly name 'BTS Cake'.

That fad flew through Christian youth when I was in high school and college.  You can derive all sorts of stuff psychologically from it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on September 30, 2022, 08:00:36 PM
I found this in the Florida Keys.

Why.

https://goo.gl/maps/Dv29p1R3cooJVg118

If you zoom in, there's a plaque that answers that question.

Quote
Our atmosphere is intimate and geared toward a date night experience.

Most of our tables accommodate parties of 2 adults with side to side seating.

Our largest table seats 4.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on September 30, 2022, 09:07:55 PM
I found this in the Florida Keys.

Why.

https://goo.gl/maps/Dv29p1R3cooJVg118

That’s a question that needed to be answered considering what goes on at Duval Street, especially during Fantasy Fest?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on September 30, 2022, 09:34:38 PM
side to side seating

That still doesn't sound better than sex.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on October 01, 2022, 09:39:06 AM
side to side seating

That still doesn't sound better than sex.

For some women it might.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on October 04, 2022, 05:07:49 PM
I found this in the Florida Keys.

Why.

https://goo.gl/maps/Dv29p1R3cooJVg118

If you zoom in, there's a plaque that answers that question.

Quote
Our atmosphere is intimate and geared toward a date night experience.

Most of our tables accommodate parties of 2 adults with side to side seating.

Our largest table seats 4.

I saw that. I'd love to know what it says below that one.

On the left it says they're closed on Wednesdays: "hump day of course"

It's all tacky, in my opinion.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on October 05, 2022, 01:12:17 PM
As one of the blood donation banners in La France I posted last year, located in Le Bugue (24, West), got deleted from Street View, I've replaced that link with the one of the addenda I posted later, located in St. Chamond (42, East). The ones in La Chapelle des Marais (44, West) and Rombas (57, Northeast) are still there.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on October 09, 2022, 10:02:58 PM
Rare Toyota Hilux 4x4x4:

https://goo.gl/maps/VmEVZhcBDFQxmzdz9
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on October 11, 2022, 03:19:19 AM
Say cheese. (https://goo.gl/maps/MZYbdXHXASeGEEWx7)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on October 18, 2022, 02:26:40 PM
This stitching error (https://www.google.ca/maps/@34.6775123,135.5014435,3a,25.1y,241.82h,98.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDxWedgNMSFWBNMCrPWQGNg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656), with the second "a" missing, got me good. Scrolling down shows that the actual sign is correct (https://www.google.ca/maps/@34.6774276,135.501441,3a,15y,333.58h,95.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stSs4RSih5LhpbLZwixc-6Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on October 18, 2022, 04:25:48 PM
Not Street View, but Google Maps:

(https://i.imgur.com/KFYUMRs.png)

Edit: It gets better:

(https://i.imgur.com/jwKTDXz.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kirbykart on November 01, 2022, 09:36:22 AM
In the middle of Pawtucket, RI, I have  entered another dimension (https://goo.gl/maps/7CToihiPxgmdZ7QD6)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on November 01, 2022, 10:24:49 AM
In the middle of Pawtucket, RI, I have  entered another dimension (https://goo.gl/maps/7CToihiPxgmdZ7QD6)

Fooled you!  That's just a closeup of a painting in an art museum.

not
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on November 09, 2022, 08:58:10 AM
I'd like to know how heavy and how fast of a vehicle hit this signal to do this!

(https://i.imgur.com/fxcQmQh.png)

https://goo.gl/maps/dtbEGB5hCjqZqMVL9
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on November 22, 2022, 09:42:00 AM
A very low flying plane near Columbus, GA: https://goo.gl/maps/gYvSkBjYqSWhMWa89
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on December 06, 2022, 08:52:57 PM
"Crazy" is relative as always, but here's a post-interchange mileage sign right off the press that hasn't even been installed yet, for PA's CSVT project: https://goo.gl/maps/rEWjWGunwfK9cubG8
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on December 16, 2022, 01:43:07 PM
I have never seen street view on a farm road (https://goo.gl/maps/fxTeCBFHtntUSfPY9), that is a road on a farm.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on December 16, 2022, 02:24:30 PM
I have never seen street view on a farm road (https://goo.gl/maps/fxTeCBFHtntUSfPY9), that is a road on a farm.

It's a public road, isn't it?

https://goo.gl/maps/ZH4xWGBq5f6afdrM7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on December 16, 2022, 02:33:59 PM
I have never seen street view on a farm road (https://goo.gl/maps/fxTeCBFHtntUSfPY9), that is a road on a farm.

It's a public road, isn't it?

https://goo.gl/maps/ZH4xWGBq5f6afdrM7

Yes it is.  Not really what I mean.  I meant it has the appearance of someone's personal cow feeding road.  I guess where I was going with that was:  this is the least improved "road" (if you can call it that) I have ever seen anyone do street view on. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on December 16, 2022, 02:44:53 PM
Oh, there are plenty of others out there like that.

/me goes hunting for random roads on Google Maps...

https://goo.gl/maps/dG5B9DgJmN8EP2Da7
https://goo.gl/maps/MKK96HRn6s4U6HgZ7
https://goo.gl/maps/ygjFyBbvJgDidGn69
https://goo.gl/maps/kmA8d95Cz6kgUneu7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on December 16, 2022, 03:19:17 PM
Oh, there are plenty of others out there like that.

/me goes hunting for random roads on Google Maps...

https://goo.gl/maps/dG5B9DgJmN8EP2Da7
https://goo.gl/maps/MKK96HRn6s4U6HgZ7
https://goo.gl/maps/ygjFyBbvJgDidGn69
https://goo.gl/maps/kmA8d95Cz6kgUneu7

Oh, I didn't doubt there were, I was saying it was the most unimproved one I have seen.  This is of course ignoring all the hiking trails I have done street view on. 
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on December 17, 2022, 06:32:16 PM
Here they are on a literal ATV trail (https://goo.gl/maps/iUgTuj2uwygnNdNK7).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on December 17, 2022, 06:36:04 PM
Here they are on a literal ATV trail (https://goo.gl/maps/iUgTuj2uwygnNdNK7).

That’s more in line of what I would actually find useful on Google Street View.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on December 25, 2022, 11:53:00 PM
I have never seen street view on a farm road (https://goo.gl/maps/fxTeCBFHtntUSfPY9), that is a road on a farm.

Go east a block and you can see the dogs running out of the house and yard to chase the Google car.  Yes, one frame has the dog's face blurred out for privacy.  You can't be too safe.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JoePCool14 on December 30, 2022, 09:41:40 PM
I have never seen street view on a farm road (https://goo.gl/maps/fxTeCBFHtntUSfPY9), that is a road on a farm.

What surprised me more about this, and maybe this is because I'm not familiar with Texas, but why is there a state-maintained Loop route on a Main St for a town of about 200 people? There's also a plethora of signage for multiple FM roads. In this one tiny town. Seems excessive, is this normal in Texas?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on December 30, 2022, 10:25:44 PM
I have never seen street view on a farm road (https://goo.gl/maps/fxTeCBFHtntUSfPY9), that is a road on a farm.

What surprised me more about this, and maybe this is because I'm not familiar with Texas, but why is there a state-maintained Loop route on a Main St for a town of about 200 people? There's also a plethora of signage for multiple FM roads. In this one tiny town. Seems excessive, is this normal in Texas?
Yep, very normal.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CoreySamson on January 02, 2023, 01:36:48 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/s5FvFcukJbfeBvgZA

Either has to be a brush fire or a controlled burn (not too uncommon in the area, but interesting that GSV caught it).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: chrismarion100 on January 02, 2023, 08:19:03 PM
Here is a van that has a bunch of trash in it and the owner clearly does care if people know that their van is a mess.
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9609663,-90.9377538,3a,15y,37.71h,83.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD548Z6NNz-4eZwyB7n7Hcw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656  (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9609663,-90.9377538,3a,15y,37.71h,83.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD548Z6NNz-4eZwyB7n7Hcw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Dirt Roads on January 02, 2023, 08:23:44 PM
Here is a van that has a bunch of trash in it and the owner clearly does care if people know that their van is a mess.
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9609663,-90.9377538,3a,15y,37.71h,83.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD548Z6NNz-4eZwyB7n7Hcw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656  (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9609663,-90.9377538,3a,15y,37.71h,83.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD548Z6NNz-4eZwyB7n7Hcw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

Perhaps there is a direct correlation between the construction debris in the minivan and fact that it is sitting in front of floor tile shop?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on January 06, 2023, 04:49:11 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/EE3F2aGudof8e4gJ7
I think the Panhandler is a little bit too old to be using a large stuff animal for security.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on January 17, 2023, 04:31:37 AM
Another non-fuzzed face. (https://goo.gl/maps/cUZDGfiRoKsCjdwy7)  The system doesn't expect faces so close to the ground.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CovalenceSTU on January 18, 2023, 11:14:10 PM
Found what appears to be one signal perfectly captured between red and green:
(https://i.imgur.com/MGiCtE5.png)
https://goo.gl/maps/DChTbQqapiBKCPCu9
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jeffandnicole on January 18, 2023, 11:30:16 PM
Another non-fuzzed face. (https://goo.gl/maps/cUZDGfiRoKsCjdwy7)  The system doesn't expect faces so close to the ground.

Yet it fuzzed out the back of her knees!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on January 23, 2023, 01:39:14 AM
A parked car whose owner who is understandably upset at the moment.

https://goo.gl/maps/5QUfzqH1QgFKogkR6 (https://goo.gl/maps/5QUfzqH1QgFKogkR6)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Tom958 on January 23, 2023, 05:16:25 AM
An LGS directing people to go the wrong way on a one-way street. This was in March 2016-- it'd been corrected by rotating it ninety degrees by the time of the next Streetview in September.

https://goo.gl/maps/Fj9hAvA12jVFGvri8
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: paulthemapguy on March 08, 2023, 09:42:46 AM
Here's a dog in the middle of the street, in a town in the middle of nowhere, Illinois

https://goo.gl/maps/wSsS1ZLKTCebSGEy8
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Max Rockatansky on March 08, 2023, 09:43:47 AM
Here's a dog in the middle of the street, in a town in the middle of nowhere, Illinois

https://goo.gl/maps/wSsS1ZLKTCebSGEy8

Scooby Doo is marveling at the flatness.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 08, 2023, 12:10:07 PM
A dog in the street is "crazy"?  I see them all the time.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 1 on March 08, 2023, 12:13:01 PM
A dog in the street is "crazy"?  I see them all the time.

I walk an average of 3-4 miles every day (that's over an hour), including 260 miles of unique roads, and I can count the number of times I saw a dog roaming the street with no owner nearby on one hand. While dogs are common, they're almost always in yards or being walked.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 08, 2023, 12:17:50 PM
Come to my house.  The neighbor's dog jumps the fence at craps in our yard almost every day.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CovalenceSTU on March 08, 2023, 01:44:49 PM
Here's a dog in the middle of the street, in a town in the middle of nowhere, Illinois

https://goo.gl/maps/wSsS1ZLKTCebSGEy8
If you go north to where Standard City Rd becomes Wylder Rd there's also the smallest vehicle lane I've seen - a poorly placed line on a 16ft concrete road makes it as small as 6ft in places.
(https://i.imgur.com/8dE15dS.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: paulthemapguy on March 08, 2023, 02:53:44 PM
A dog in the street is "crazy"?  I see them all the time.

It's kinda crazy that the GSV car saw one this close to the front of his/her vehicle.  I wonder how long the GSV car had to wait for the dog to get out of the way.  I remember being spooked one time by a swarm of dogs that surrounded my car when I reached a stop sign in rural Coles County when I was 17. This abandoned barn just had dog after dog running out at my car...I slowly crept up to a fast enough speed to get out of there!  They were in FRONT of my car too...I was afraid I'd hit one!

Anyway, if I was a GSV driver, I'd be spooked by the prospect of possibly running over a dog if I am not careful.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 08, 2023, 03:00:19 PM
The neighbor's dog jumps the fence at craps in our yard almost every day.

Top-five forum typo of all time?

Or was I the only one amused at the thought of a dog being invited to an outdoor game of dice?  :-P
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jmacswimmer on March 08, 2023, 03:02:27 PM
A very low flying plane near Columbus, GA: https://goo.gl/maps/gYvSkBjYqSWhMWa89

Here's one directly above the intersection of 55th & Cicero at the northeast corner of Midway. (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7932614,-87.7421414,3a,75y,123.39h,96.44t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqf8ckhBF_21HbA4SrlQpUQ!2e0!5s20181101T000000!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?hl=en)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 08, 2023, 03:03:53 PM
It's kinda crazy that the GSV car saw one this close to the front of his/her vehicle.  I wonder how long the GSV car had to wait for the dog to get out of the way.

It wasn't the front of the car.  I know this, because you can clearly tell the dog was chasing the vehicle.  Thus, the dog was actually standing in the middle of the street behind the Google car.

Here's the first shot I can see the dog in:  https://goo.gl/maps/ARbJMj1r1EHjPquJ8
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on March 08, 2023, 06:10:55 PM
A dog in the street is "crazy"?

I seem to recall in To Kill A Mockingbird there was a dog in the street and it was crazy.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: davewiecking on March 08, 2023, 07:38:04 PM
It's kinda crazy that the GSV car saw one this close to the front of his/her vehicle.  I wonder how long the GSV car had to wait for the dog to get out of the way.

It wasn't the front of the car.  I know this, because you can clearly tell the dog was chasing the vehicle.  Thus, the dog was actually standing in the middle of the street behind the Google car.

Here's the first shot I can see the dog in:  https://goo.gl/maps/ARbJMj1r1EHjPquJ8

I’m going to rule that while one shot of a dog is not “crazy” , the sequence does count as such. Point for Paul!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on March 08, 2023, 10:51:08 PM
My brother found this one today. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@34.048441,-118.2847652,3a,44.5y,148.52h,83.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7LbZnSvEXk_J7u62yRF56Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) :)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: webny99 on March 09, 2023, 09:03:07 AM
My brother found this one today. (https://www.google.ca/maps/@34.048441,-118.2847652,3a,44.5y,148.52h,83.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7LbZnSvEXk_J7u62yRF56Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) :)

LOL! (or is it LAL? :D)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Bruce on March 13, 2023, 11:24:17 PM
A drone shot with a little request near Harts Pass, WA: https://goo.gl/maps/ddQj6FKRktCNeuPp8

(https://i.imgur.com/2LbeDfb.jpeg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rushmeister on March 14, 2023, 12:06:59 PM
Here's a dog in the middle of the street, in a town in the middle of nowhere, Illinois

https://goo.gl/maps/wSsS1ZLKTCebSGEy8

If you go north to where Standard City Rd becomes Wylder Rd there's also the smallest vehicle lane I've seen - a poorly placed line on a 16ft concrete road makes it as small as 6ft in places.
(https://i.imgur.com/8dE15dS.png)

Bonus:  This section of Wylder Rd is an old alignment of US 66!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on March 14, 2023, 10:27:05 PM
Here's a dog in the middle of the street, in a town in the middle of nowhere, Illinois

https://goo.gl/maps/wSsS1ZLKTCebSGEy8

If you go north to where Standard City Rd becomes Wylder Rd there's also the smallest vehicle lane I've seen - a poorly placed line on a 16ft concrete road makes it as small as 6ft in places.
(https://i.imgur.com/8dE15dS.png)

Bonus:  This section of Wylder Rd is an old alignment of US 66!

Wow, that's really cool. Must be the only reason this road has any markings at all.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on March 18, 2023, 12:31:20 AM
Oh, it being part of US 66 makes it make a lot of sense. I believe those were called "sidewalk highways". If it was anything like the similar sections of US 66 in Oklahoma, it would have had gravel shoulders on both sides. You were supposed to drive down the center of the concrete, and when traffic approached, you'd move to the right so you were half on the concrete, half on the gravel.

This was done to save money. Of course it started becoming dangerous as traffic increased.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Troubleshooter on March 21, 2023, 01:33:28 AM
I once found a murder scene on the satellite photos. I have no idea where it was now.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on March 25, 2023, 11:59:25 PM
I once found a murder scene on the satellite photos. I have no idea where it was now.

Was it related to the murder of Kevin Barrera in Oakland, California?

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/google-maps-captures-scene-of-richmond-murder/
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on March 26, 2023, 06:16:16 PM
Today I found a signage error at the southeast end of the US 27-129 overlap east of Branford, FL;
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.952365,-82.8610276,3a,15y,103.76h,91.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0yiTZICylmPIdWgswLMAxg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
That arrow for CR 49 should be pointing in the opposite direction.



Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on March 31, 2023, 07:42:36 PM
Monster trucks in downtown Detroit:

(https://i.imgur.com/orcdFm1.png)

Link: https://www.google.ca/maps/@42.328736,-83.0440194,3a,89.8y,142.14h,104.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqtIxHo21h6MHKXLRxkVZoQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on April 27, 2023, 03:21:14 AM
Due to privacy concerns I cannot say why I know this photo (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.937647,-96.2624772,3a,75y,47.01h,82.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syKIomegYXPXU5UgeHS333Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) was taken exactly on 2023 April 5 at 1:24 p.m. CDT :sombrero:.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: PurdueBill on June 01, 2023, 12:20:50 AM
On the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, they managed to catch a VMS in mid-installation, with a worker waving to the car even.
https://goo.gl/maps/EU7AWvsY2zmd3Xaq7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on June 13, 2023, 02:06:20 PM
With Street View finally extending through Germany starting next month, let's go through one of many examples of "Blurmany" (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1332584,5.9321956,3a,75y,177.71h,81.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQ6CcIIv6TODgHoVrmdR53A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)... except it's La France :sombrero:.

In the same country, Mr. Google finally got to drive the new N52 near Metz et voilà, another blood collect banner (https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2403323,6.1088669,3a,41.2y,253.84h,85.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scN5YMeS4Fnu4HxQTxYsYEw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) was captured. This is the third one I find in Rombas, on the same roundabout as one of the other two, and even better, I already knew it was going to take place thanks to the local television through their YT channel.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on June 13, 2023, 07:52:39 PM
I generally support the existence of privacy laws to curb the excesses of big tech companies, but extending it to imagery that could be captured by a roadgeek with an ordinary camera is just stupid.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on June 13, 2023, 09:53:24 PM
I generally support the existence of privacy laws to curb the excesses of big tech companies, but extending it to imagery that could be captured by a roadgeek with an ordinary camera is just stupid.
Literally 1984 (or whatever other thing someone who didn't read 1984 would say).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on June 13, 2023, 10:24:14 PM
I generally support the existence of privacy laws to curb the excesses of big tech companies, but extending it to imagery that could be captured by a roadgeek with an ordinary camera is just stupid.
Literally 1984 (or whatever other thing someone who didn't read 1984 would say).

(https://imageproxy.ifunny.co/crop:x-20,resize:640x,quality:90x75/images/900b63fba1f2a7bee7d634d9b942dd1977e105f005bb34140125f746315bb794_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on June 14, 2023, 03:20:28 AM
Well, I believe France requires prisons, nuclear power plants and anything military-related to be blurred. This can also be seen in satellite imagery, most noticeably when the surrounding areas are in 3D. Switzerland is worse in that aspect, they won't allow any images taken near schools to be published, resulting in many coverage gaps. I think that is downright stupid.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CtrlAltDel on June 14, 2023, 08:51:51 PM
Well, I believe France requires prisons, nuclear power plants and anything military-related to be blurred.

I believe so as well, even in Paris, such as here (https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8365902,2.2757366,3a,90y,166.12h,93.83t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZceaZYEvpmD36wnhYUeWhw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DZceaZYEvpmD36wnhYUeWhw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D72.04828%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu), where the "Hexagone Balard," the French equivalent of the Pentagon, is almost comically blurred out despite being located on a major street in a major metropolis.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CtrlAltDel on June 15, 2023, 11:23:59 PM
I don't know if I'd call it crazy, but I have found my car on Street View:

(https://i.imgur.com/KZZ6B2H.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BlueOutback7 on June 16, 2023, 09:29:44 AM
I don't know if I'd call it crazy, but I have found my car on Street View:

(https://i.imgur.com/KZZ6B2H.png)

Interesting story. My old car I bought from a used dealer in Lowell and I actually found it on Street View about a week before I bought it at the dealer.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on June 16, 2023, 10:00:35 AM
I have found my car on Street View

Is that unusual?  When I look at my place of business in GSV, my car is right there in the parking lot (on four different dates).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CtrlAltDel on June 16, 2023, 02:01:05 PM
I have found my car on Street View

Is that unusual?

Well, it was a first for me, so I was pretty jazzed about it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dlsterner on June 16, 2023, 08:25:12 PM
I don't know if I'd call it crazy, but I have found my car on Street View

I have an interesting twist on that ... I found my (previous) car on Street View historic imagery - but it was 1000 or so miles from home!

It was parked at my mother's house during a visit to her (the date on the image matches that of one of the trips).

Since then I've seen my (current) car parked at my workplace on GSV, but that is unremarkable.  I would not expect to see my car at my house since I garage it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Michael on June 24, 2023, 11:11:35 AM
On Monday, I came across imagery with a red tinted sky on Milton Ave in Camillus (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0526844,-76.2787719,3a,75y,255.12h,87.02t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sA7T8CKk_8Yz2oTOOHbmseg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DA7T8CKk_8Yz2oTOOHbmseg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D193.10706%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu), and after looking at the date I saw it's from June 2023, so that means it's the smoke from the Canadian wildfires that drifted to NY a few weeks ago.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: bwana39 on July 08, 2023, 04:27:22 PM
Here's another swollen river (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.3104547,-94.6972257,3a,75y,281.96h,80.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjkr953M5IVMRRzn7zylSEQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656/) on GSV. This time it's the Sulphur, below I-30 near Texarkana.

I know this was a couple of years ago, but I have seen it significantly higher....
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on July 15, 2023, 09:34:10 AM
I've been looking at a lot of Rockland, Orange, Northern Westchester and Putnam County stuff lately, especially around Bear Mountain State Park and West Point (mind you this was before the flash floods earlier in the week). At Bear Mountain State Park, there are a few small GSV images that are supposed to be in the fields west of the Bear Mountain Inn and south of Hessian Lake. With one of them, I instead got this  land bridge along the Appalachian Trail (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.31257,-73.9907833,3a,75y,290.2h,76.32t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNQRMRe6u5x7E0VLJQT5wSKGP9Dw576C8QFgm2A!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNQRMRe6u5x7E0VLJQT5wSKGP9Dw576C8QFgm2A%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya116.53906-ro-0-fo100!7i5376!8i2688?hl=en&entry=ttu), which was probably wiped out in the floods.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on July 25, 2023, 06:56:09 PM
Back in 2012, somebody was trying to sell a 1969-70 Chrysler 300 coupe (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0449834,-72.3175878,3a,75y,192.59h,81.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDClJJTv_MKfc-z44sYuq5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu) at the South Ferry on Shelter Island, New York.

I hope the owner got lucky, as well as whoever many have bought it from them.

Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on July 26, 2023, 10:50:17 AM
Back in 2012, somebody was trying to sell a 1969-70 Chrysler 300 coupe (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0449834,-72.3175878,3a,75y,192.59h,81.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDClJJTv_MKfc-z44sYuq5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu) at the South Ferry on Shelter Island, New York.

I hope the owner got lucky, as well as whoever many have bought it from them.

That sucker is clean!!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: plain on July 26, 2023, 12:08:36 PM
Back in 2012, somebody was trying to sell a 1969-70 Chrysler 300 coupe (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0449834,-72.3175878,3a,75y,192.59h,81.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDClJJTv_MKfc-z44sYuq5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu) at the South Ferry on Shelter Island, New York.

I hope the owner got lucky, as well as whoever many have bought it from them.

That sucker is clean!!

Yes!!! And rare!!
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on July 26, 2023, 01:50:01 PM
The newest street view had to stop here due to flooding. (https://goo.gl/maps/SA8tRuCkV3EEF61z5)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on July 26, 2023, 08:06:39 PM
Back in 2012, somebody was trying to sell a 1969-70 Chrysler 300 coupe (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0449834,-72.3175878,3a,75y,192.59h,81.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDClJJTv_MKfc-z44sYuq5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu) at the South Ferry on Shelter Island, New York.

I hope the owner got lucky, as well as whoever many have bought it from them.

That sucker is clean!!

Yes!!! And rare!!

One of my favorite things to do on Street View is look around places that have "clear" 2008 or 2009 imagery (not that blurry stuff most places have), and look at all the cars that are now very rare or were junked under cash-for-clunkers. Or just things that were still semi-common that are now very rare.

Lots of cool cars have been lost to time.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Molandfreak on July 28, 2023, 10:31:32 PM
Yours truly working in the street (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4532015,-93.1601271,3a,15y,79.21h,65.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfKjT7Flkyk4NClLzakSuYg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu).

Here I realized that it was the GSV car and I'm pointing it out to my coworker (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4536077,-93.1601263,3a,15y,175.57h,89.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suVZqG6asELKvscCTDKhL_A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu)  :wave:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jakeroot on August 13, 2023, 07:21:31 PM
Man about to get hit by car:

(1) Prius guns it on flashing yellow arrow... https://goo.gl/maps/Kpng7ZSvMxbPgy887
(2) Really cutting the corner here... https://goo.gl/maps/x3KJvZ41H9BM1qiQ9
(3) The man does not seem impressed... https://goo.gl/maps/xjuT49tPgR8syC3g9
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on August 14, 2023, 10:29:04 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/k6vqQXZsJDfZ2S8m6
That the Street Car wasn’t used here, but instead obtained from a pedestrian walking along the sidewalk.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: D-Dey65 on August 14, 2023, 10:58:27 PM
Back in 2012, somebody was trying to sell a 1969-70 Chrysler 300 coupe (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0449834,-72.3175878,3a,75y,192.59h,81.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDClJJTv_MKfc-z44sYuq5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu) at the South Ferry on Shelter Island, New York.

I hope the owner got lucky, as well as whoever many have bought it from them.

That sucker is clean!!

Yes!!! And rare!!

One of my favorite things to do on Street View is look around places that have "clear" 2008 or 2009 imagery (not that blurry stuff most places have), and look at all the cars that are now very rare or were junked under cash-for-clunkers. Or just things that were still semi-common that are now very rare.

Lots of cool cars have been lost to time.
In November 2017 I spotted a maroon 1967 Chevrolet Bel Air in the front yard of some farmhouse on NY 25 west of Orient Point, New York. The big "for sale" sign in the windshield had a reduced price tag. It looked like a grandma car, and I posted it in Wikimedia Commons.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/1967_Chevy_Bel_Air_For_Sale%3B_Orient_Point%2C_NY-3.jpg/640px-1967_Chevy_Bel_Air_For_Sale%3B_Orient_Point%2C_NY-3.jpg)
Take a look at that quilted back deck, and tell me this doesn't scream grandma car;
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/1967_Chevy_Bel_Air_For_Sale%3B_Orient_Point%2C_NY-5.jpg/640px-1967_Chevy_Bel_Air_For_Sale%3B_Orient_Point%2C_NY-5.jpg)
I looked for GSV views during the same period, and I saw no evidence it even existed there.



Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: andrepoiy on August 14, 2023, 11:00:11 PM
https://goo.gl/maps/k6vqQXZsJDfZ2S8m6
That the Street Car wasn’t used here, but instead obtained from a pedestrian walking along the sidewalk.

The sidewalk Streetviews seems to be rather common now in the Toronto area (particularly in walkable areas)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on August 15, 2023, 01:47:39 AM
StreetView car in a rest stop.

https://goo.gl/maps/caRmThsQPfhNfZZg6
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on August 15, 2023, 09:35:22 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/k6vqQXZsJDfZ2S8m6
That the Street Car wasn’t used here, but instead obtained from a pedestrian walking along the sidewalk.

The sidewalk Streetviews seems to be rather common now in the Toronto area (particularly in walkable areas)

GSV on trails is becoming more and more common.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kirbykart on October 04, 2023, 12:05:08 PM
 Wayland, NY (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tF4WBFLvMRLUA3No9) 

The imagery was laid down incorrectly. Go here and change to 2008 imagery. You will be put halfway down E Naples St. Very odd.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CovalenceSTU on October 04, 2023, 12:32:14 PM
I similarly found a segment of Route 66 that was given Street View for the opposite side of I-40: https://maps.app.goo.gl/scvGdaCBZD6WAyUU8
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on October 04, 2023, 11:13:36 PM
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eoRxccUzb81FHLQn9
They were able to drive along the not-yet-open piece right up to the berm separating it from the remainder.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: bm7 on October 05, 2023, 12:23:22 AM
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eoRxccUzb81FHLQn9
They were able to drive along the not-yet-open piece right up to the berm separating it from the remainder.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kbCj6gm1jnTD15Pf9

A sign saying the road is closed and some barrels in the way? Better drive around it! And they drove past a sign and barrel to use the ramp on the opposite side of the road as well...
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: GenExpwy on October 05, 2023, 04:01:02 AM
Wayland, NY (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tF4WBFLvMRLUA3No9) 

The imagery was laid down incorrectly. Go here and change to 2008 imagery. You will be put halfway down E Naples St. Very odd.

Snooping around my hometown, huh?

I see what happened. The East/West division of Naples Street is actually at Main Street. Google Maps incorrectly thinks it is at Lackawanna Street (NY 15) (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5678503,-77.5900797,292m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu), so the 2008 pics (too blurry to read house numbers) are off by one block, more or less.

The current StreetView images, while in the correct order, have all wrong addresses for the final block of NY 63. The Fire Department (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5677615,-77.590419,3a,75y,20.33h,81.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srpghc0F7QfB7_cqBnBQM8g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu), for example is really at 14 East Naples St.

I notice that OpenStreetMap has the same error (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.56780/-77.59027).
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on October 05, 2023, 10:12:02 AM
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kbCj6gm1jnTD15Pf9

A sign saying the road is closed and some barrels in the way? Better drive around it! And they drove past a sign and barrel to use the ramp on the opposite side of the road as well...

Oh, it's even more fun than that.

They navigated this obstruction (https://maps.app.goo.gl/X363iGs2gdWMPvYq7) too.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: JayhawkCO on October 05, 2023, 11:13:13 AM
(https://i.postimg.cc/9f9hxmQ0/Pee.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on October 05, 2023, 12:48:22 PM
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eoRxccUzb81FHLQn9
They were able to drive along the not-yet-open piece right up to the berm separating it from the remainder.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kbCj6gm1jnTD15Pf9

A sign saying the road is closed and some barrels in the way? Better drive around it! And they drove past a sign and barrel to use the ramp on the opposite side of the road as well...
I wonder what's going on there.  That road looks to have been completed aside from the final connection for a long while; why didn't they finish and open it?  If people weren't saying "not yet opened", I'd actually assume the reverse - that it had been closed for some reason by dumping a pile on earth on it.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: bm7 on October 05, 2023, 04:12:36 PM
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kbCj6gm1jnTD15Pf9

A sign saying the road is closed and some barrels in the way? Better drive around it! And they drove past a sign and barrel to use the ramp on the opposite side of the road as well...

Oh, it's even more fun than that.

They navigated this obstruction (https://maps.app.goo.gl/X363iGs2gdWMPvYq7) too.

I think they turned around and went back to it from the other side, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of a 4-wheeled vehicle driving through or around that. I have to admire their dedication though, they were not going to let a single stretch of pavement be unimaged.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on October 05, 2023, 04:19:56 PM
they were not going to let a single stretch of pavement be unimaged.
Yet the Magdalen Islands is off limits to them for some reason.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on October 05, 2023, 04:24:59 PM
I think they turned around and went back to it from the other side, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of a 4-wheeled vehicle driving through or around that. I have to admire their dedication though, they were not going to let a single stretch of pavement be unimaged.

Maybe.  I'm trying to determine that by the clouds on the horizon, but I can't really tell one way or the other.

Is it possible it wasn't a 4-wheeled vehicle?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: bm7 on October 05, 2023, 05:04:25 PM
I think they turned around and went back to it from the other side, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of a 4-wheeled vehicle driving through or around that. I have to admire their dedication though, they were not going to let a single stretch of pavement be unimaged.

Maybe.  I'm trying to determine that by the clouds on the horizon, but I can't really tell one way or the other.

Is it possible it wasn't a 4-wheeled vehicle?
Based on the clouds it seems that some time passed, but not a very long time. There's also a larger than usual physical gap between the photos on either end of the plants, you'd expect there would be one around where the obstruction is but there isn't. And it's definitely a car based on the reflections on passing cars you can see in the other imagery.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CovalenceSTU on October 05, 2023, 06:02:54 PM
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kbCj6gm1jnTD15Pf9

A sign saying the road is closed and some barrels in the way? Better drive around it! And they drove past a sign and barrel to use the ramp on the opposite side of the road as well...
They also navigated this one (https://maps.app.goo.gl/cwSrp6Smua8GGAAMA) successfully - also any ideas as to why it was closed? Looking at the imagery they only finished construction around 2016-2017.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: vdeane on October 06, 2023, 12:48:27 PM
they were not going to let a single stretch of pavement be unimaged.
Yet the Magdalen Islands is off limits to them for some reason.
At least Mobia Technology Innovations is finally uploading imagery from there.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kirbykart on October 12, 2023, 06:13:35 PM
Top-notch (https://maps.app.goo.gl/C5S57KhCJsw37uT56) image quality on Washington Island, WI.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on October 14, 2023, 03:07:22 PM
Road destroyed by shifting river: 2021 (https://www.google.com/maps/@-22.7260037,-66.4271076,3a,75y,240.17h,82.45t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1svSndh-ln9LcQp_hZGeoy1A!2e0!5s20210801T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) and 2022 (https://www.google.com/maps/@-22.7260146,-66.4271283,3a,75y,240.17h,82.45t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGPFFPDfWQb_a340cjq5XKw!2e0!5s20220901T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on October 18, 2023, 01:15:07 PM
Strange colour issue on the left side of the street view images for Highway 7 in Bolivia. If you move the car in either direction, you'll see the issue doesn't go away.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@-18.1773126,-63.7216592,3a,75y,246.74h,85.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smyJFSK2YfDcG3uCvxI1qFA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu (https://www.google.ca/maps/@-18.1773126,-63.7216592,3a,75y,246.74h,85.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smyJFSK2YfDcG3uCvxI1qFA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on October 18, 2023, 01:32:41 PM
Hadn't seen this before...  Railroad GSV...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vqj8ZK1PQNY2S58U8
https://maps.app.goo.gl/q5wUo6mAMbDWgsoD9
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1qYDV6pKtnNrKDtp8
https://maps.app.goo.gl/YsqSQ9XL2tNMgDbS9
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3mBR31XCRBckR9o29
https://maps.app.goo.gl/b43DQvQBtHxouBwe6
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vTiiiWa3q2MegCSV8
https://maps.app.goo.gl/XW2Z1dsL7Se3peM79

Some of the vegetation looks pretty thick, doesn't it?  How do they get through, you ask?
A guy with a machete rides on the hood, of course! (https://maps.app.goo.gl/qwZjVauAbCrLMgAr7)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on October 18, 2023, 08:34:06 PM
That is certainly crazy.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CovalenceSTU on October 19, 2023, 12:44:51 PM
It looks like they removed the railroad right after the imagery: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2zDBRNwQnV3nTLsa8

Update: 12/2023 imagery shows they had done a full rebuild of the railroad - also interesting.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on October 27, 2023, 02:47:28 PM
juggling unicyclist (https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.5912849,-69.182264,3a,15.5y,163.9h,87.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDUy16aWiZ8HG_cKdvv-ZBw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on October 29, 2023, 08:26:12 PM
A whole row of camera cars. (https://maps.app.goo.gl/8f9mipNZkKkRvJK79)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on October 30, 2023, 12:14:53 AM
A GSV shirt (https://www.google.com/maps/@-5.607978,-78.775418,3a,38.1y,133.81h,68.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMc6lVBTUuFWUy57Awv80Hg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Scott5114 on October 30, 2023, 01:05:20 AM
A GSV shirt (https://www.google.com/maps/@-5.607978,-78.775418,3a,38.1y,133.81h,68.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMc6lVBTUuFWUy57Awv80Hg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)

You'd think Google makes enough money to afford fonts that aren't shit.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on October 30, 2023, 06:54:32 AM
A GSV shirt (https://www.google.com/maps/@-5.607978,-78.775418,3a,38.1y,133.81h,68.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMc6lVBTUuFWUy57Awv80Hg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)

You'd think Google makes enough money to afford fonts that aren't shit.
They make money because they didn't shell out for the font.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: 7/8 on October 31, 2023, 03:16:33 PM
Wearing this shirt while holding a young boy's hand lol (https://www.google.ca/maps/@19.8454706,-90.537187,3a,41.3y,235.19h,62.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scZvjFZdFQ-mRkfDYPcHPDg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: jmacswimmer on October 31, 2023, 03:18:14 PM
A signal outage on MD 140 near Westminster (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.539215,-76.9313776,3a,45.2y,149.16h,86.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQhtWndrqD9rTXnq07zLiXQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu), with work trucks & cones setup to temporarily block left-turns & cross traffic.

Given the August 2023 imagery date, it's possible the power outage was stemming from the same thunderstorm that knocked down ~20 powerline poles across MD 140 (https://www.wbaltv.com/article/md-140-reopens-westminster-following-extensive-storm-damage/44808554) a few miles to the west.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on November 08, 2023, 10:14:38 AM
You are in France (https://www.google.com/maps/@49.1559934,6.8445566,3a,15.5y,200.3h,91.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWWwgLaKO4tw--ij1jlh8JQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu). If you need a visa to enter France and don't hold a travel permit valid for at least one year issued in Germany, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, Luxembourg or Portugal; you must declare your entry at the Freyming Merlebach police station.

This is in Rosbruck, France; right across the border from Großrosseln, Germany. This would apply in very rare cases anyway, since both countries are part of the Schengen area.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on November 10, 2023, 07:17:37 PM
One job not yet taken by traffic lights (https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.2589879,-72.2615035,3a,90y,25.79h,74.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQgFOoReFfcouZfIGyIj3GQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: roadman65 on November 13, 2023, 07:42:55 PM
Not crazy, but GSV capturing a railroad grade crossing gates down with signals active.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fcme8erfZ1oPnB9U9
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on November 22, 2023, 09:51:39 PM
Not crazy, but GSV capturing a railroad grade crossing gates down with signals active.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fcme8erfZ1oPnB9U9

You can find that a fair amount if you know where/when to look.

This is bizarre, though. (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3639442,-74.4444283,3a,41.1y,51.37h,89.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPlnZlwLAmMy0NUCT1kDo2Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) Given the fact there's a provision for the gate mechanism to be attached to the bridge cantilever, I'm guessing the road was planned to be widened/wider at some point, but, when that didn't happen, the gate mechanism was given its own mast closer to the road.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: ErmineNotyours on January 10, 2024, 04:50:19 PM
I thought we had a movie location thread, but I can't find it.

Not so much a location but a prop: the Bluth stair car from Arrested Development.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/f1NS1nCJvJ4VZ1nv7
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Mr_Northside on January 11, 2024, 12:02:47 PM
I thought we had a movie location thread, but I can't find it.

Not so much a location but a prop: the Bluth stair car from Arrested Development.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/f1NS1nCJvJ4VZ1nv7

At least it's behind barbed wire to keep off the hop-ons.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CovalenceSTU on February 15, 2024, 10:08:16 PM
I-495 captured in pitch black (https://maps.app.goo.gl/x9bDdtmuNJvS5eAx5) - the same date has night imagery (plus some evening and midday mixed in) for many miles in both directions.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: BlueOutback7 on February 16, 2024, 12:28:32 PM
I-495 captured in pitch black (https://maps.app.goo.gl/x9bDdtmuNJvS5eAx5) - the same date has night imagery (plus some evening and midday mixed in) for many miles in both directions.

I-95 in New Hampshire at the Hampton Toll Plaza express lanes also has some night imagery from November 2018 although it appears close to dusk. I've never understood why GSV even does street view at night.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: TheCatalyst31 on February 18, 2024, 07:28:09 PM
Rockslide on Federal Highway 24 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/YcHRw9WQqMhpQW3m6) in Mexico. It looks like the Street View car had to turn around, because there's no imagery past the big rock.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on February 22, 2024, 07:20:14 PM
Here's a rolled over truck (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.032263,-79.5795891,3a,30y,43.76h,88.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1ILPDsbLSCDD3WG-d-tjHQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu).

(https://i.imgur.com/L5abBDB.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/jWrIh7y.png)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 22, 2024, 10:12:22 PM
Looks like it wiped-out a median signal and threw the intersection into flash?
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: NE2 on February 26, 2024, 05:33:15 PM
Brazitain? (https://www.google.com/maps/@-20.6602919,-43.7863483,3a,48.1y,154.18h,88.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soZWoCIILIxI8JT0CgiAknQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: LilianaUwU on February 26, 2024, 05:45:31 PM
Brazitain? (https://www.google.com/maps/@-20.6602919,-43.7863483,3a,48.1y,154.18h,88.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soZWoCIILIxI8JT0CgiAknQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
Can't say I'm opposed to this idea, as long as it's properly done. It eliminates most conflict points.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: dvferyance on March 16, 2024, 02:32:51 PM
I found a Jewel Osco in Stevens Point. Jewel does not have any stores anywhere in Wisconsin. They used to operate in Wisconsin but only in SE Wisconsin. They never at any time had a store in Stevens Point.
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on March 16, 2024, 07:47:16 PM
Brazitain? (https://www.google.com/maps/@-20.6602919,-43.7863483,3a,48.1y,154.18h,88.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soZWoCIILIxI8JT0CgiAknQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)

Bripain (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3871509,2.1948526,3a,66.8y,142.56h,84.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8xWmMVfA3HyqIl3_AlB8SQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) :sombrero:
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: kphoger on March 18, 2024, 01:47:35 PM

Brazitain? (https://www.google.com/maps/@-20.6602919,-43.7863483,3a,48.1y,154.18h,88.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soZWoCIILIxI8JT0CgiAknQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)

Bripain (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3871509,2.1948526,3a,66.8y,142.56h,84.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8xWmMVfA3HyqIl3_AlB8SQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) :sombrero:

Brixico! (https://maps.app.goo.gl/w8GpAQf1oinh2Vh77)
Title: Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
Post by: Rothman on March 18, 2024, 07:46:29 PM
You're not supposed to be in there, sir. (https://maps.app.goo.gl/33RpaTfbB9tVhe2X9)