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Title: Russian Street View
Post by: realjd on April 20, 2010, 12:35:03 PM
I came across this website today (from a firearms blog of all places). It's a Russian online map site, and they have StreetView images of a few cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow.

http://maps.yandex.ru/

To find the StreetView images, zoom in to a place like Moscow and the button indicated in the following picture will appear:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg402.imageshack.us%2Fimg402%2F8239%2Ftempp.png&hash=e9019c3bffe28d991fd93c394d12c36e035fc72e)

Click it, and any roads with pictures will be highlighted blue. Just click on the blue roads to see the images. I haven't had a chance to play around with it too much yet. I found that if you use your mouse wheel to zoom, the button doesn't always appear. You have to double-click to zoom to get it to appear.
Title: Re: Russian Street View
Post by: Truvelo on April 20, 2010, 02:17:40 PM
First thing I did was I tried zooming out only to increase the size of the map. The + and - symbols are the wrong way round :pan:
Title: Re: Russian Street View
Post by: Scott5114 on April 20, 2010, 03:59:46 PM
I think it's kind of funny that it automatically geolocated to a map of Oklahoma done up in Cyrillic characters :spin:
Title: Re: Russian Street View
Post by: Truvelo on April 20, 2010, 04:03:37 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on April 20, 2010, 03:59:46 PM
I think it's kind of funny that it automatically geolocated to a map of Oklahoma done up in Cyrillic characters :spin:

That's because it's based on your IP address :pan:
Title: Re: Russian Street View
Post by: Bickendan on April 21, 2010, 12:54:02 AM
Not sure about that. It dropped me over Melborne, and my IP traditionally reports from Monmouth, OR (I'm in Portland).
Title: Re: Russian Street View
Post by: mightyace on April 21, 2010, 02:44:22 AM
Quote from: Bickendan on April 21, 2010, 12:54:02 AM
Not sure about that. It dropped me over Melborne, and my IP traditionally reports from Monmouth, OR (I'm in Portland).

Austrailia?  Or, is there also one in Oregon?  :confused:
Title: Re: Russian Street View
Post by: Bickendan on April 21, 2010, 03:31:53 PM
Australia, yep.
Title: Re: Russian Street View
Post by: Hellfighter on April 26, 2010, 10:07:08 PM
I can't understand anything!  :confused: I'll wait until Google gets there...