Google Street View

[deathtopumpkins]

I-40 through Barstow, CA has some crystal-clear ones too... VERY high-quality photos.

[WillWeaverRVA]

I normally hate necroposting, but Google Street View has reached Hawaii. There's now coverage of much of Oahu and some scattered parts of western Maui.

Here's an example, the eastern terminus of H-3.

[Riverside Frwy]

The Quality depends in Google street view.For example, alot of the photos on the Toll Roads out here in California are fantastic(California 261, 241, 73 and 133)

[simguy228]

The quality in Hawaii is too good. I'm doin' my Hawaii project in SC4, which will require some roadgeekery

[Ian]

My aunt herself is actually on street view!

What I hate the most about Google Street View, is that if I want to look up a road sign or a specific signal intersection on street view, at times it will come to be a terrible image, so I can't really see it. AGH!!!! 

[roadfro]

It seems like the Street View cameras have been improved greatly since they first started doing it. I've noticed that many locations where Street View has been introduced more recently have vastly superior imagery. From what I briefly recall seeing, some of the images on European street views were also quite superior to many of the U.S. images.

[WillWeaverRVA]

I sure hope they go back to some of their original locations with the newer cameras and replace the blurry unusable images that are already there.

[Mr_Northside]

It would be nice if they eventually sort of "archive" their images, say every 5 years or so, and continually have the cars out there updating images over time.
(I'm not sure if I can articulate this in a way that makes sense)... so that in 2015 you could maybe click on something that would allow you to view the images from, say, 2010.  Obviously, some images would be older than that,  but it would allow people to see what people on, say Jan 1, 2010, would see in any given location (obviously, not all streets are done yet).

So, to pick some year, in 2030 you could view what would hopefully be a rather current street view of a given location, and see what it looked like roughly 20 years ago (or 15, or 10....)

[simguy228]

Well, sadly, Street View does not cover Berlin, Germany

[Bryant5493]

Google Street View Guys

Funny Stuff.


Be well,

Bryant

[Alex]

And they drove beyond the Road Closed sign here...

[FLRoads]

From what I was told last week at work, the equipment that the Google team uses for their image capturing will soon be upgraded fully at the cost of $220K per unit, and that with this new equipment expect to see a drastic difference in the resolutions. It already appears that they are using at least one of these units (or some equivalent thereof) as certain places now have cleaner, crisper images for Street View.

[Ian]

And they drove beyond the Road Closed sign here...

Did the same here

[agentsteel53]

that would indeed be great if they would keep the old stuff.  In general, having google maps add a time dimension would be just beyond awesome...

I think in 10 years at the latest, that feature will be added, with hopefully maps going back several centuries culled from various historical resources.  Would be great to set the scroll bar to 1928 and see what the US routes looked like at the time.  The information is out there ...

[WillWeaverRVA]

that would indeed be great if they would keep the old stuff.  In general, having google maps add a time dimension would be just beyond awesome...

I think in 10 years at the latest, that feature will be added, with hopefully maps going back several centuries culled from various historical resources.  Would be great to set the scroll bar to 1928 and see what the US routes looked like at the time.  The information is out there ...

Google Earth has a similar feature, but with satellite imagery. I could see them doing this if they could figure out how to archive all the street view images.

[vdeane]

Google Earth has a similar feature, but with satellite imagery. I could see them doing this if they could figure out how to archive all the street view images.

Unfortunately in most places it only goes back to 1994.

[WNYroadgeek]

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=42.93294,-78.726954&spn=0,359.986203&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.93237,-78.728728&panoid=EhiRFpgJIycMqCNycMsOjQ&cbp=12,220.17,,0,5

That's just horrible.

[agentsteel53]

how did that happen?  it looks to be inside a tunnel, but the satellite view shows that the street is above ground.

[rickmastfan67]

Welcome to the Twilight Zone......

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=34.143138,-79.770441&spn=0,359.88842&z=14&layer=c&cbll=34.142954,-79.770384&panoid=eMByeGxezjuNuURwR8VO4w&cbp=12,354.36098111172055,,0,6.176923076923084

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=33.483912,-81.93243&spn=0,359.986063&z=17&layer=c&cbll=33.483615,-81.93233&panoid=ALqiqhEArlpBHZcan5UXtw&cbp=12,347.18,,0,8.95

[mightyace]

Welcome to the Twilight Zone......

Or "Time Tunnel" or "The Outer Limits" 

Does Google have no quality control on this? 

[WillWeaverRVA]

That is trippy. It seems the Google Street View folks have found several interdimensional portals.

[deathtopumpkins]

Whole stretch of [this] going both ways on US-33 east of I-81 in Harrisonburg, VA.

[vdeane]

how did that happen?  it looks to be inside a tunnel, but the satellite view shows that the street is above ground.

I think Google has started taking street view data at night, with disastrous results.

[Michael]

Welcome to the Twilight Zone......

Great song by Golden Earring!

how did that happen?  it looks to be inside a tunnel, but the satellite view shows that the street is above ground.

I think Google has started taking street view data at night, with disastrous results.

There is nighttime Street View imagery on I-90 eastbound near the eastern terminus of I-490 near Victor, NY.

[SSOWorld]

"New York State Throughway"?