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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / May 2007Google's Street View
Hi All, Google has pulled out all the stops. You can now look at roads from the first-person perspective! What's the catch? Only major cities seem to get the new feature. E.g., Las Vegas: http://tinyurl.com/3y9nvv For videos of your favourite highways, the Worldwide Highway Library can compliment your Google research. It's available 24-7 at http://worldwide-hwys.calrog.com . Cheers, Carl Rogers "Adding human experience to highway enthusiasm" ******** Calrog.com, http://www.calrog.com : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An integrated media arm in Turn-of-the-Century PC Development, International Highway Research, and Interpersonal Psychology. Has served your home country and ninety-five of its worldwide neighbours since 2000, through Internet downstream and published works. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/calrog ******** This feature even allows you to tell whether signs are using the correct typefaces: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=San+Francisco,+CA&ie=UTF8&ll=37.80363,-1 22.37849&spn=0.008969,0.020084&z=16&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.79907,-122.376885&cbp=1 ,219.320315640072,0.478890349352385,3 http://tinyurl.com/242xsu This is also a rare instance of Carl Rogers being of genuine help to MTR. It is not completely gratis, however, since he worked in a site plug. > This feature even allows you to tell whether signs are using the > correct typefaces: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > MTR. It is not completely gratis, however, since he worked in a site > plug. Don't remember what site it was, but I remember something similar which showed the view like you were looking out the side window of a vehicle. I remember specifically looking at Austin, TX. I want to say that was Google, too, but I may be wrong. It's been a few years since I looked at that, so that may not still be around. Take care, Rich God bless the USA  SignatureEt in terra pax > Don't remember what site it was, but I remember something similar which > showed the view like you were looking out the side window of a vehicle. > I remember specifically looking at Austin, TX. I want to say that > was Google, too, but I may be wrong. It's been a few years since I > looked at that, so that may not still be around. Amazon's A9 Search Engine had street level images. I'm not sure that this part of A9 exists anymore. The following article says that a former A9 exec is now with Google. <http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199703115> Mike >> Don't remember what site it was, but I remember something similar which >> showed the view like you were looking out the side window of a vehicle. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Mike A9 was what it was. I went back through my old emails and found where I sent the link to someone. I tried the link now and it said A9 maps is no longer available. Oh, well. Take care, Rich God bless the USA SignatureEt in terra pax > Don't remember what site it was, but I remember something similar which > showed the view like you were looking out the side window of a vehicle. I > remember specifically looking at Austin, TX. I want to say that was Google, > too, but I may be wrong. It's been a few years since I looked at that, so > that may not still be around. You were actually in your car looking out the window. :-P SignatureJohn Mayson <john@mayson.us> Austin, Texas, USA Rich Piehl <rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR@NOSPAMcharter.net> said in misc.transport.road: >Don't remember what site it was, but I remember something similar which >showed the view like you were looking out the side window of a vehicle. I believe the Cook County (IL) assessor did something like that a few years ago. They paid someone to drive down every street with a video camera pointed out either side of the vehicle, recording pictures of every single assessed property and making them available on a web site. SignatureDon't like it? I don't give a sh.t! - Cal Rog, 4/28/2007 On May 29, 7:01 pm, argatlam_ro...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: > This feature even allows you to tell whether signs are using the > correct typefaces: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > MTR. It is not completely gratis, however, since he worked in a site > plug. I should start traveling around the country via Google and take screenshots of these signs for my website. ;) Maybe that's a LITTLE too zealous. On May 29, 4:01 pm, argatlam_ro...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: > This feature even allows you to tell whether signs are using the > correct typefaces: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > MTR. It is not completely gratis, however, since he worked in a site > plug. Mr Winkler, With comments like that, I'm afraid you've jumped the shark. And yes, it's a beautiful day in my neighbourhood. :-) Cheers, Carl Rogers "Adding human experience to highway enthusiasm" ******** Calrog.com, http://www.calrog.com : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An integrated media arm in Turn-of-the-Century PC Development, International Highway Research, and Interpersonal Psychology. Has served your home country and ninety-five of its worldwide neighbours since 2000, through Internet downstream and published works. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/calrog ******** krl rgrz wrote: > With comments like that, I'm afraid you've jumped the shark. And yes, > it's a beautiful day in my neighbourhood. Um, you DID put a site plug in. Yr reality testing is declining rapidly. SignatureComrade Otto Yamamoto http://mryamamoto.50megs.com Dare to compare! Cats and Small Animals: Me: Yes! and FREE! KITTENS too! Want one? krl: Sharleena took the dog when she split after supper. Carl Rogers <carl-mtr@calrog.com> said in misc.transport.road: >> This is also a rare instance of Carl Rogers being of genuine help to >> MTR. It is not completely gratis, however, since he worked in a site [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >With comments like that, I'm afraid you've jumped the shark. Another misused idiom courtesy of the Prince of Pleonasm. Whatsamatter, Cal, can't you take a compliment without getting bitchy? >And yes, it's a beautiful day in my neighbourhood. :-) Fred Rogers you AIN'T. SignatureDon't like it? I don't give a sh.t! - Cal Rog, 4/28/2007 > Carl Rogers <carl-...@calrog.com> said in misc.transport.road: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Another misused idiom courtesy of the Prince of Pleonasm. > Whatsamatter, Cal, can't you take a compliment without getting bitchy? I thought that was a strange usage but I didn't pick up on it consciously until you mentioned it. So this make's Carl's batting average, what, .250 when it comes to English phrase/word usage? Hell that's not even good for a big league batter. This really puts in perspective the great things that he must be writing in other languages, assuming good ol Mr. Rogers is a native English speaker and is presumably inferior in other languages. The humor value of these foreign posts alone almost justify learning the language just to laugh at hi. > >And yes, it's a beautiful day in my neighbourhood. :-) > > Fred Rogers you AIN'T. > -- > Don't like it? I don't give a sh.t! > - Cal Rog, 4/28/2007 > Carl Rogers <carl-mtr@calrog.com> said in misc.transport.road: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Fred Rogers you AIN'T. He's just decided to start embracing what I called him over a month ago. For somebody who's supposedly so big on "angry pessimists keeping things in their own sandbox," krl obviously isn't very big in the creativity department. SignatureLarry Harvilla e-mail: larry AT phatpage DOT org blog-aliciousness: http://www.phatpage.org/news/ Highways section still in progress at http://www.phatpage.org/highways.html ['Scott en Aztlán':] > >> This is also a rare instance of Carl Rogers being of genuine help to > >> MTR. It is not completely gratis, however, since he worked in a site [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Another misused idiom courtesy of the Prince of Pleonasm. > Whatsamatter, Cal, can't you take a compliment without getting bitchy? I think, in his lunge for a good surname pun, he missed the 'mot juste'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark (We are reasonably certain we aren't related to the Fonz, the former Reich Film Commissioner, or other famous Winklers, though a cousin of mine made several appearances on local TV news in Omaha in connection with his job superintending construction of the West Dodge viaducts.) Anyway, this is further proof that he hasn't killfiled me, as he claimed to have done months ago. > >And yes, it's a beautiful day in my neighbourhood. :-) > > Fred Rogers you AIN'T. Definitely isn't . . . Not in a million years. > ['Scott en Aztlán':] > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Definitely isn't . . . Not in a million years. And I SURE don't want to be his neighbor!!!!! Take care, Rich God bless the USA SignatureEt in terra pax On May 30, 8:32 am, Rich Piehl <rpiehl5REMOVETHIS...@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote: > argatlam_ro...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: > > ['Scott en Aztlán':] [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > -- > Et in terra pax A lot of laws have been passed lately that prohibit him from being in lots of neighborhoods. Jason Pawloski <jpawloski@gmail.com> said in rec.autos.driving: >> >>> And yes, it's a beautiful day in my neighbourhood. :-) >> >> Fred Rogers you AIN'T. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >A lot of laws have been passed lately that prohibit him from being in >lots of neighborhoods. Even if he registers? SignatureMFFYCam Videos Galore: http://www.geocities.com/mffycam/ Unfortunately, no love for Kansas City yet. Nor for Oklahoma City. Anyone else notice that they finally added exit numbers, though? -S. Closer examination shows that there are some stitching issues in the image data. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=San+Francisco,+CA&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&c bll=37.768525,-122.405191&cbp=2,335.9681073357076,0.577702313230131,3&ll=37.7728 35,-122.404218&spn=0.008514,0.027122&z=16 http://tinyurl.com/382gar There are also some variations in resolution. For instance, the signs I linked to upthread are perfectly readable, but this one almost isn't: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=San+Francisco,+CA&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&c bll=37.768718,-122.406487&cbp=2,310.709089809855,0.523804467630961,3&ll=37.76979 5,-122.406245&spn=0.002129,0.006781&z=18 http://tinyurl.com/2v98e2 It is also possible to advance or retreat several hundred yards at a time by using one of the arrows visible in the image. However, this plays up another interesting aspect of the data. Inevitably some of the pictures have been taken on different days, under different atmospheric conditions, so you often find yourself making a disconcerting jump from cloud to bright sunshine and vice versa. The exposures chosen are not always good, so sometimes signs (especially ones with microprismatic sheeting) become washed out. Here you have just taken US 101 exit 433C on a cloudy day: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=San+Francisco,+CA&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&c bll=37.769611,-122.407761&cbp=2,316.47690757548,0.500813276226422,0&ll=37.770689 ,-122.407522&spn=0.002129,0.006781&z=18 http://tinyurl.com/3d6lxn Backing up in the SE direction (never mind what the CVC says about that!), you are about to take the same exit, but on a sunny day: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=San+Francisco,+CA&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&c bll=37.76953,-122.40767&cbp=2,309.33690757548,0.503422078270284,0&ll=37.770609,- 122.407431&spn=0.002129,0.006781&z=18 http://tinyurl.com/2l5hg5 Backing up further--two steps, again in the SE direction--you are back in clouds again: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=San+Francisco,+CA&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&c bll=37.769313,-122.407353&cbp=2,308.76690757548,0.502711501224832,0&ll=37.770388 ,-122.407109&spn=0.002129,0.006781&z=18 http://tinyurl.com/2tbe46 If you play a little more with this location, you will also see the butterfly truss sawn into two by a clumsy image splice. This is a really wonderful addition to Google Maps, but my sense is that there will be a niche for highway photography for quite a while even if street-level imagery becomes available for the whole US or even (gasp) internationally. This niche will naturally last longer for shots taken with still cameras from a standing position, which allows better image quality. This has the potential to become the world's hardest game of "Where's Waldo? Especially in the San Francisco area, which seems to be at a higher resolution. Check out this close up of some suspicious looking Middle Easterners, wearing sunglasses and taking pictures of road infrastructure: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=San+Francisco,+CA&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&c bll=37.802132,-122.419046&cbp=1,347.8822981561496,0.576167191958848,3&ll=37.8053 42,-122.418766&spn=0.011766,0.016479&z=16 (Okay, they're just tourists on Lombard Street, but its more big- brothery the other way) Now that I think about it... didn't Google or someone equip minivans with cameras which drove along various roads to create this? I think I remember hearing about this a year or two ago. I had just forgotten about it. This could be creepy. Has anyone found any naked people yet? SignatureJohn Mayson <john@mayson.us> Austin, Texas, USA http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/ The ironic thing about this "new" feature (even going back to the recent A9 days) is that it's the same used in the earliest road atlases. http://maps.lib.msu.edu/miroadmaps/autophoto_pix.htm _____________________________________________________________________ Marc Fannin|musxf579 @hotmail.com|http://web.archive.org/web/*/ roadfan.com/ |
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