You may remember me. I used to blog here. I can’t believe it’s been a week since my last post.
Today I was reminded of why I love the internet so much. Google Street View, arguably one of the most amazing mapping innovations to ever hit my computer (or now my iPhone), has inspired over the last couple years a mildly obsessive compulsive behavior that drives people to look for odd things captures as the Google car drives by with it’s omni-prescent lens.
Recently it caught two live action roll players (LARP’ers) engaged in a harrowing battle for domination of the remote control for that evenings Lord of the Rings marathon.
If you don’t believe this is real then I insist you click the link and check it out for yourself. Make sure to switch on streetview and look around if it doesn’t take you there directly.
January 27th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Have you seen this one:
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The people of Pittsburgh are have lots of fun with Google Street View. The people who made this have a website: http://www.streetwithaview.com/
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:55 am
[...] reminded why I love the internet. Recently it was because Google Streetview caught some people LARPing but today it’s because the wonderful denizens of the web have completely deconstructed the [...]
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:59 am
LARPing aside, funnier thing is it appears the google street view folks decided it was OK to go down a one way street.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=8+Sampsonia+Way,+Pittsburgh,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15212&sll=40.462883,-80.007505&sspn=0.000392,0.022745&gl=us&g=8+Sampsonia+Way,+Pittsburgh,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15212&ie=UTF8&ll=40.457691,-80.007505&spn=0.010008,0.022745&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=40.457662,-80.007541&panoid=KD0g-IcPQW09qFcP2RU2kg&cbp=12,320.39452999338647,,0,23.034326806908396
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:01 am
if you back out the view just to the right at the corner, you will notice the “do not enter” sign.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 am
[...] Maps and Live Action Role Playing! Check it out here. One would assume this scene is somewhere in London but it’s NEAR PITTSBURGH! Colossal Squid [...]
April 8th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
“LARPing aside, funnier thing is it appears the google street view folks decided it was OK to go down a one way street.”
Andrew,
Did you ever think that the Google car was going the correct way up the one way street?!?!
But with all fairness one of the G-Cars were pulled over by the police in the UK for going up a bus lane – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2475792/Google-Street-View-car-pulled-over-by-police-for-driving-in-bus-lane.html