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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #450 on: October 21, 2019, 08:01:37 AM »

Also, do you think they have enough stop ahead signs? 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!
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #451 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
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #452 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
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #453 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?
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #454 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

:-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!
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #455 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.  ;-)
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #456 on: October 26, 2019, 05:34:03 PM »

The image stitching algorithm that Google uses duplicated this no parking sign. 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.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #457 on: October 26, 2019, 09:01:24 PM »

The cameras found a wasp in Durham
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #458 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
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #459 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.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #460 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.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #461 on: December 12, 2019, 07:40:07 PM »

The camera was tilted, and therefore the road ahead cannot be seen. The other side of the highway has below-average image quality.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #462 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

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

Also, do you think they have enough stop ahead signs? Jesus.

I for one, would like additional warning that an impromptu caber toss may occur.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #463 on: December 14, 2019, 10:05:15 PM »

The image stitching algorithm that Google uses duplicated this no parking sign. 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 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.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #464 on: December 14, 2019, 10:34:13 PM »

The image stitching algorithm that Google uses duplicated this no parking sign. 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 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.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #465 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
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #466 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.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #467 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

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.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #468 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.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #469 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.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #470 on: December 19, 2019, 10:49:44 PM »

Always wondered why a locomotive is turned backwards behind the lead one or whatnot.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #471 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.

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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #472 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
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #473 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)

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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #474 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.
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