Minor roads with GSV available

[ftballfan]

Today, I noticed that the Google Street View car went down South Branch Road / Ironwood Drive between 56th St and Big Star Lake in southwestern Lake County, MI in 2009. I just drove it myself today and the road is barely wide enough for two cars to pass each other (and also happens to be gravel!) However, that stretch of road is marked as a major road on Google Maps.

GSV image: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8588984,-86.0185913,3a,75y,182.6h,88.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQpwa7YdYpy715yaEBlAWgw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en (at this point, there's an over 100' dropoff to the right (west) with no guardrails)

I also found two nearby two-tracks with GSV: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.981102,-86.0585994,3a,75y,54.51h,84.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skmzOE9T7z3qQhDSy0SQCGg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en (Lanager Rd, Mason County, 2018)
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.2323211,-86.0352821,3a,75y,192.34h,76.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjaQJ73e8HiKcekwfLFdbHA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en (Jacobson Rd, Manistee County, 2016)

[froggie]

Most of the public roads in my town (including a few Class 4 roads), and even some of the private roads that are barely a set of tracks, were driven by GMSV during the summer of 2014.  Not sure why my town was included while adjacent towns weren't.

[index]

These little back roads in TN near the NC state line are GSV'd.


https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8482614,-83.0292022,3a,75y,220h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sb0QKJuKEfe5gKxngt9o5gA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Db0QKJuKEfe5gKxngt9o5gA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D220%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656


https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8314219,-83.0563413,3a,75y,200h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIwjPvGANOf1xDlM46XtfZA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DIwjPvGANOf1xDlM46XtfZA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D200%26pitch%3D-10%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656


https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8314219,-83.0563413,3a,75y,200h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIwjPvGANOf1xDlM46XtfZA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DIwjPvGANOf1xDlM46XtfZA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D200%26pitch%3D-10%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656


Pretty isolated area between US 25 and I-40.

[webny99]

Assuming suburban neighborhood streets, even cul-de-sacs, don't count, because almost all of those have street view.

[Max Rockatansky]

Whoever was doing the backroads in the Sierras circa 2007-2009 had some serious balls or really had no idea what they were getting into.   I was especially surprised to see Blackrock Road near Balch Camp on the GSR even it doesn't capture the climb to Black Rock Reservoir. 

[NE2]

Mexico.

[kphoger]

Mexico.

Yeah, some of those are pretty intense.  Example.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

It cannot get worse than this

[MNHighwayMan]

It cannot get worse than this

Sure it can.

[kphoger]

You guys haven't done enough GSV browsing around Mongolia, if those are the best you can come up with!

[MNHighwayMan]

You guys haven't done enough GSV browsing around Mongolia, if those are the best you can come up with!

Alright, this wins. That's not even a road.

Edit: I see if I advance that it does become a two-track further on. So it's maybe barely a road, if that's what you want to call it.

[Max Rockatansky]

You guys haven't done enough GSV browsing around Mongolia, if those are the best you can come up with!

Alright, this wins. That's not even a road.

Edit: I see if I advance that it does become a two-track further on. So it's maybe barely a road, if that's what you want to call it.

I wouldn't even call that a trail.  The weird part is that it looks like a mostly smooth piece of terrain despite the lacking of grading.

[vdeane]

This is a little off the beaten path.  And not a road.

[webny99]

There are plenty of hiking/biking trails with basically full street view, if you know where to look. Griffith Park, near LA, comes to mind as one example. Many public boardwalks have something similar, as well. I'm not sure how they get this type of footage, but it sure isn't with an everyday vehicle.

[sprjus4]

There are plenty of hiking/biking trails with basically full street view, if you know where to look. Griffith Park, near LA, comes to mind as one example. Many public boardwalks have something similar, as well. I'm not sure how they get this type of footage, but it sure isn't with an everyday vehicle.

The Google Street View Trike.

The Neuse River Greenway in Raleigh, NC has Street View along a majority of its route.

[Max Rockatansky]

There are plenty of hiking/biking trails with basically full street view, if you know where to look. Griffith Park, near LA, comes to mind as one example. Many public boardwalks have something similar, as well. I'm not sure how they get this type of footage, but it sure isn't with an everyday vehicle.

Yosemite has a lot of the main trials around Yosemite Valley on Street View.  I've found the images to be really wonky and poor quality compared to what the Google cars have.  The photospheres were way more useful in that arena but Google has gotten rid of a lot of them.

[wxfree]

Butterfield Trail in Guadalupe Mountains National Park was Streetviewed.  It's behind a locked gate off of US 62/180.  If you have a capable vehicle, you can get the key from the park headquarters.  The Street View car (certainly a truck) seems to have had an NPS escort, which can be seen at times.

https://goo.gl/maps/e9ZRqebNFCtAhztn9

[kphoger]

You guys haven't done enough GSV browsing around Mongolia, if those are the best you can come up with!

Alright, this wins. That's not even a road.

Edit: I see if I advance that it does become a two-track further on. So it's maybe barely a road, if that's what you want to call it.

I wouldn't even call that a trail.  The weird part is that it looks like a mostly smooth piece of terrain despite the lacking of grading.

For what it's worth, I dropped Pegman down in a somewhat random place in Mongolia to find that GSV shot.  Outside of major corridors and big towns, Mongolia's roads are commonly little more than tracks, and I've known that for a number of years.  Google Maps is full of GSV shots just like that one in Mongolia.  For example, here's a random spot along the road heading to the small settlement of Ölziit.

[Mr_Northside]

There are plenty of hiking/biking trails with basically full street view, if you know where to look. Griffith Park, near LA, comes to mind as one example. Many public boardwalks have something similar, as well. I'm not sure how they get this type of footage, but it sure isn't with an everyday vehicle.

Not to turn the thread into a "shout out places trails are on Streetview" thing, but I know the trails @ Watkins Glen State Park in NY are on there.

[Terry]

British Columbia has a fair amount of back roads and logging roads on GSV. There was one I followed where the driver had to stop because of a fallen tree blocking the road. Not much for scenery, though.

[TheGrassGuy]

Yeah, GSV on dirt paths, hiking/biking trails, and other surfaces obviously not meant to be driven on isn't exactly new and unusual. And just go to literally any big city with GSV and I'm sure there will be GSV inside at least one building (i.e. Metropolitan Museum of Art).

[LM117]

The Neuse River Greenway in Raleigh, NC has Street View along a majority of its route.

One thing I never could figure out during my 14 years of living in eastern NC is why swimming and tubing in that nasty ass river is so popular. It's one of the most polluted rivers in the whole state.

But I digress...