Google Rural

[bryant]

This is kind of fun. Go to Google Maps. Make sure you're scrolled out a ways -- you want to have, say, the entire US map visible. Click on the little Street View dude on top of the zoom bar in the upper left bit of the map pane. Drag him out and woo, a pretty huge chunk of the map lights up.

Drag him over the vast Midwest and you get little thumbnail images of wherever. It's like a postage-stamp sized quick tour of the US. Some of Europe is covered, much of Japan is covered. Little chunks of Canada are covered. Much of Australia and New Zealand are covered.

Comments

[urnesha.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's pretty cool.

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

That started me wondering about using the streetview for making a movie of a route, and of course someone has already done one. I didn't bother searching for others. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelaz/3385607140/

[bluegargantua]

Hey! I can see my house from here!

Tom

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

But can you see Russia from your house?

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks. I now have empirical proof that the Midwest is exactly as boring as I imagine it is.