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Thursday, February 24, 2022

It's Friday Fun Amongst Google Maps

xkcd Fame for GeoGuessr

GeoGuessr has rightly been getting a lot of groovy coverage lately. It has instantly fifty-fifty been featured inward an xkcd strip.

Google Maps has featured a seat out of times over the years on xkcd. I intend all the same this is the source fourth dimension that a specific application using the Google Maps API has starred on its own.

Fame indeed!

Just inward instance y'all silent haven't played GeoGuessr:

The game drops y'all into a random Street View as well as and then asks y'all to estimate where inward the earth y'all are. Points are awarded for how unopen your estimate is to the actual location.



Four Seasons inward One View

Daniel Shwarz has been scanning Google Maps aerial imagery inward search of locations where images taken at dissimilar times of the twelvemonth conduct keep been stitched together. His post, 'Justapose', includes screenshots of a seat out of examples. I intend the images are rather beautiful.

Street View Rock Video


It has been a land since nosotros final featured a music video created amongst Google Maps Street View. Here's ane from ring Tereza.

It is worth watching beyond the initial timelapse sequence. Later inward the video the ring member's heads conduct keep been superimposed over the blurred out heads of people inward the Street View images.

Via: Google Street View World