Years ago, Google’s Street View program expanded from streets to virtually everywhere, thanks to Google’s Trekker program that put 360-degree Street View cameras into a single backpack. Today, Google announced its upgraded Trekker backpack, which is significantly smaller and lighter than before. The old one weighed in at about 44 pounds. It’s not just a […]
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Google Street View cars will be roaming around the planet to check our air quality with these sensors
Aclima, a San Francisco-based startup building Internet-connected air quality sensors has announced plans to integrate its mobile sensing platform into Google’s global fleet of Street View vehicles. Google uses the Street View cars to map the land for Google Maps. Starting with 50 cars in Houston, Mexico City and Sydney, Aclima will capture air quality […]
View More Google Street View cars will be roaming around the planet to check our air quality with these sensorsGoogle street view captures man swearing at camera for the entire length of a street
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Swearing at a passing Google street view camera is nothing new — plenty of people have done it before, and chances are plenty of people will be doing it for as long as street view is still a thing.
But one man who was captured in Brisbane, Australia deserves credit simply for his level of dedication.
On Wednesday, the following gif — titled “100% Committed” — began trending on Reddit’s r/funny sub.
It shows a Google street view of Queen Street in Brisbane, Australia — and one incredibly determined human.
We went on Google street view and found the road, and can confirm that the gif is accurate and up-to-date. If you follow the pedestrianised area of Queen Street down from the Apple Store, that guy appears in over 15 images — fingers raised, every time. Read more…
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If something weird is captured on Google Street View, someone on the internet is bound to find it. Bonus points if it’s a cute animal.
That’s because, while there are plenty of weird and wacky moments well documented in the various lists we’ve created, Google is constantly updating Street View for accuracy. Due to the constant influx of revised images, every so often the internet will discover a new little Easter egg in the Google Street View world.
This time, it’s an adorable close-up of a cat.
Image: Google Maps
It seems as if Redditor u/Belocity first discovered two cats — including the one with the perfect expression, above — hanging out on a ledge near some Roman ruins. Read more…
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Aclima sucks in $24M to scale its air quality mapping platform
Aclima, a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps. The Series […]
View More Aclima sucks in $24M to scale its air quality mapping platformJust a bunch of people being big jerks on Google Street View
Humans usually think that as long as no one’s watching, they can get away with whatever they want.
But in this day and age, someone is always watching. At the very least, our overlord Google has eyes everywhere.
And when those little Google Str…
Get a glimpse of crabs migrating in these new Google Street View images
Making your way to Australia’s Christmas Island to witness its annual red crab migration isn’t the easiest of trips, but now there’s an easier way to see it happen: Just catch a glimpse on Google’s Street View.
The pictures were collected by Alasdair…
Now you can visit Disney Parks in the US through Google Street View
Special for kids — and importantly parents of kids — now you can get designs on visiting Disney — and dropping a small fortune in the process — thanks to Google Maps after it added Street View images for 11 Disney Parks. The feature looks to cover parks in the U.S. only at this point, but that alone might help you relive a recent visit, or else familiarize yourself for… Read More
Researchers can now make neighborhood voting predictions from Google Street View images
In a sign that computers will be able to perform image analysis as fluently as text analysis, a group of Stanford-based researchers were able to make accurate predictions about neighborhood voting patterns based on millions of pictures collected from Google Street View, reports The New York Times. While other academic projects have used artificial intelligence to mine Google Street View for… Read More
Million-strong crab migration gets the Google Street View treatment
Every year on Australia’s Christmas Island, which lies just south of Indonesia, millions of red crabs swarm the island in their annual migration.
About 40 to 50 million crabs make their way from the forest to the coast in around October or November, …
Google’s improved image blending means a more seamless Street View
Google is hard at work behind the scenes improving one of its ambitious technical projects ever – Street View. The company previously revealed that its been rolling out improved camera cars with better photographic equipment to improve the quality and resolution of images that make up its street-level views in Google Maps, but it’s also fixing the sometimes messy stitching that… Read More