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Pastime
Nov 16, 2012, 9:11:52 PM11/16/12
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I think several people here might find this useful ...
Instant Google Street View
http://www.qsview.com/
It's just GSV with all the crud Google loads with it omitted, so
basically you're just downloading the photos. Type a place - street
name and city, for example - and bang, you're there. So much better
than the Google Maps /Earth interface if all you want to do is see
what a place looks like.
It seems to me to be much faster in navigating (driving around) than
GM or GE too, although it does screw up on occasion. Once, I managed
to jump about two miles away by accidentally clicking near the
horizon, but that's a small price to pay for such an otherwise slick
experience.
--
John
Instant Google Street View
http://www.qsview.com/
It's just GSV with all the crud Google loads with it omitted, so
basically you're just downloading the photos. Type a place - street
name and city, for example - and bang, you're there. So much better
than the Google Maps /Earth interface if all you want to do is see
what a place looks like.
It seems to me to be much faster in navigating (driving around) than
GM or GE too, although it does screw up on occasion. Once, I managed
to jump about two miles away by accidentally clicking near the
horizon, but that's a small price to pay for such an otherwise slick
experience.
--
John
Nick Spalding
Nov 17, 2012, 3:44:58 AM11/17/12
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Pastime wrote, in <5bsda8d0fun7g46qk...@4ax.com>
on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:11:52 +0000:
Very pretty.
--
Nick Spalding
on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:11:52 +0000:
--
Nick Spalding
Tim Wright
Nov 17, 2012, 9:21:43 AM11/17/12
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all it shows is an aerial view.
--
Tim W
Pastime
Nov 17, 2012, 9:48:35 AM11/17/12
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it's red, it can't find the place you typed. Green means you're
looking at a photo.
--
John
Tim Wright
Nov 17, 2012, 10:22:46 AM11/17/12
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--
Tim W
Nick Spalding
Nov 17, 2012, 11:00:32 AM11/17/12
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Tim Wright wrote, in <J9GdneA7bcLrADrN...@supernews.com>
on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:21:43 -0600:
The nearest to you is on the road running more or less North/South about
a mile west of you.
--
Nick Spalding
on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:21:43 -0600:
a mile west of you.
--
Nick Spalding
Greg Goss
Nov 17, 2012, 12:39:41 PM11/17/12
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Tim Wright <tlwri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Looks like the street view cars haven't made it to our neighborhood yet,
>all it shows is an aerial view.
They need to make another pass through my neighborhood. This city has
>Looks like the street view cars haven't made it to our neighborhood yet,
>all it shows is an aerial view.
grown a LOT in the past ten years, and Streetview has the wrong
version of my closest major interchange (between Metis and McKnight)
and doesn't include the two segments of the ring road freeway that
have been built so far.
Just checked. Metis and McK has been updated. So they do rerun
Streetview cars over areas where the map updates show the need. Hmm.
But their Metis Trail still shows a dirt road north of 80th and ends a
few blocks in, rather than being major artery beyond the ring road.
But the ring road freeway is still missing completely. I found this
when I was looking for a photo of a nearby power plant. It's easily
seen from the freeway, but streetview doesn't have the freeway. The
minor local roads that you use to actually get to the power plant and
natural gas pumping station look like farm trails, so were never
cruised in streetview.
--
I used to own a mind like a steel trap.
Perhaps if I'd specified a brass one, it
wouldn't have rusted like this.
Les Albert
Nov 17, 2012, 1:06:08 PM11/17/12
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:21:43 -0600, Tim Wright <tlwri...@gmail.com>
wrote:
approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
On a related note, a mystery novel that I recently read, "Trust Your
Eyes", is about a man who spends his entire days looking at the world
through a google-like computer program:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he
rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a
computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never
stepping out the door. That is until he sees something in a street
view of downtown New York City. Thomas's keen eyes have detected an
image in a window...an image that looks like a woman being murdered.
Thomas's brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing
with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate
and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has
seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon
realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy.
And now they are in the crosshairs...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542982-trust-your-eyes
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It was a good read, and would make a good movie.
Les
wrote:
>On 11/17/2012 2:44 AM, Nick Spalding wrote:
>> Pastime wrote
>> Pastime wrote
>>> I think several people here might find this useful ...
>>> Instant Google Street View
>>> http://www.qsview.com/
>>> It's just GSV with all the crud Google loads with it omitted, so
>>> basically you're just downloading the photos. Type a place - street
>>> name and city, for example - and bang, you're there. So much better
>>> than the Google Maps /Earth interface if all you want to do is see
>>> what a place looks like.
>>> It seems to me to be much faster in navigating (driving around) than
>>> GM or GE too, although it does screw up on occasion. Once, I managed
>>> to jump about two miles away by accidentally clicking near the
>>> horizon, but that's a small price to pay for such an otherwise slick
>>> experience.
>> Very pretty.
>Looks like the street view cars haven't made it to our neighborhood yet,
>all it shows is an aerial view.
I was surprised to see street views of my house, but I can tell
>>> Instant Google Street View
>>> http://www.qsview.com/
>>> It's just GSV with all the crud Google loads with it omitted, so
>>> basically you're just downloading the photos. Type a place - street
>>> name and city, for example - and bang, you're there. So much better
>>> than the Google Maps /Earth interface if all you want to do is see
>>> what a place looks like.
>>> It seems to me to be much faster in navigating (driving around) than
>>> GM or GE too, although it does screw up on occasion. Once, I managed
>>> to jump about two miles away by accidentally clicking near the
>>> horizon, but that's a small price to pay for such an otherwise slick
>>> experience.
>> Very pretty.
>Looks like the street view cars haven't made it to our neighborhood yet,
>all it shows is an aerial view.
approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
On a related note, a mystery novel that I recently read, "Trust Your
Eyes", is about a man who spends his entire days looking at the world
through a google-like computer program:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he
rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a
computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never
stepping out the door. That is until he sees something in a street
view of downtown New York City. Thomas's keen eyes have detected an
image in a window...an image that looks like a woman being murdered.
Thomas's brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing
with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate
and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has
seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon
realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy.
And now they are in the crosshairs...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542982-trust-your-eyes
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It was a good read, and would make a good movie.
Les
Nick Spalding
Nov 17, 2012, 1:19:28 PM11/17/12
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Les Albert wrote, in <m6kfa85hgovuit8ov...@4ax.com>
on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:06:08 -0800:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:21:43 -0600, Tim Wright <tlwri...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On 11/17/2012 2:44 AM, Nick Spalding wrote:
> >> Pastime wrote
>
> >>> I think several people here might find this useful ...
> >>> Instant Google Street View
> >>> http://www.qsview.com/
> >>> It's just GSV with all the crud Google loads with it omitted, so
> >>> basically you're just downloading the photos. Type a place - street
> >>> name and city, for example - and bang, you're there. So much better
> >>> than the Google Maps /Earth interface if all you want to do is see
> >>> what a place looks like.
> >>> It seems to me to be much faster in navigating (driving around) than
> >>> GM or GE too, although it does screw up on occasion. Once, I managed
> >>> to jump about two miles away by accidentally clicking near the
> >>> horizon, but that's a small price to pay for such an otherwise slick
> >>> experience.
>
> >> Very pretty.
>
> >Looks like the street view cars haven't made it to our neighborhood yet,
> >all it shows is an aerial view.
>
>
> I was surprised to see street views of my house, but I can tell
> approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
> that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
You don't need to work it out for yourself, the Imagery Date is down in
the bottom left corner of the picture.
> On a related note, a mystery novel that I recently read, "Trust Your
> Eyes", is about a man who spends his entire days looking at the world
> through a google-like computer program:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he
> rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a
> computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never
> stepping out the door. That is until he sees something in a street
> view of downtown New York City. Thomas's keen eyes have detected an
> image in a window...an image that looks like a woman being murdered.
> Thomas's brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing
> with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate
> and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has
> seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon
> realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy.
> And now they are in the crosshairs...
>
> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542982-trust-your-eyes
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It was a good read, and would make a good movie.
>
> Les
--
Nick Spalding
on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:06:08 -0800:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:21:43 -0600, Tim Wright <tlwri...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On 11/17/2012 2:44 AM, Nick Spalding wrote:
> >> Pastime wrote
>
> >>> I think several people here might find this useful ...
> >>> Instant Google Street View
> >>> http://www.qsview.com/
> >>> It's just GSV with all the crud Google loads with it omitted, so
> >>> basically you're just downloading the photos. Type a place - street
> >>> name and city, for example - and bang, you're there. So much better
> >>> than the Google Maps /Earth interface if all you want to do is see
> >>> what a place looks like.
> >>> It seems to me to be much faster in navigating (driving around) than
> >>> GM or GE too, although it does screw up on occasion. Once, I managed
> >>> to jump about two miles away by accidentally clicking near the
> >>> horizon, but that's a small price to pay for such an otherwise slick
> >>> experience.
>
> >> Very pretty.
>
> >Looks like the street view cars haven't made it to our neighborhood yet,
> >all it shows is an aerial view.
>
>
> I was surprised to see street views of my house, but I can tell
> approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
> that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
the bottom left corner of the picture.
> On a related note, a mystery novel that I recently read, "Trust Your
> Eyes", is about a man who spends his entire days looking at the world
> through a google-like computer program:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he
> rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a
> computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never
> stepping out the door. That is until he sees something in a street
> view of downtown New York City. Thomas's keen eyes have detected an
> image in a window...an image that looks like a woman being murdered.
> Thomas's brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing
> with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate
> and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has
> seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon
> realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy.
> And now they are in the crosshairs...
>
> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542982-trust-your-eyes
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It was a good read, and would make a good movie.
>
> Les
Nick Spalding
Les Albert
Nov 17, 2012, 2:41:35 PM11/17/12
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:19:28 +0000, Nick Spalding <spal...@iol.ie>
wrote:
>Les Albert wrote
>> I was surprised to see street views of my house, but I can tell
>> approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
>> that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
>You don't need to work it out for yourself, the Imagery Date is down in
>the bottom left corner of the picture.
Not on my screen. Clicked on everything but no image date.
Les
wrote:
>Les Albert wrote
>> I was surprised to see street views of my house, but I can tell
>> approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
>> that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
>You don't need to work it out for yourself, the Imagery Date is down in
>the bottom left corner of the picture.
Les
Nick Spalding
Nov 18, 2012, 3:31:18 AM11/18/12
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Les Albert wrote, in <t0qfa85rrdik7f0jv...@4ax.com>
on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:41:35 -0800:
You're right, it only appears when you get it via Google Earth not by
the pretty shortcut. A pity.
--
Nick Spalding
on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:41:35 -0800:
the pretty shortcut. A pity.
--
Nick Spalding
Pastime
Nov 18, 2012, 7:52:39 AM11/18/12
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Nick Spalding wrote:
> Les Albert wrote, in <t0qfa85rrdik7f0jv...@4ax.com>
> on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:41:35 -0800:
>
> > On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:19:28 +0000, Nick Spalding <spal...@iol.ie>
> > wrote:
> > >Les Albert wrote
> >
> > >> I was surprised to see street views of my house, but I can tell
> > >> approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
> > >> that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
> >
> > >You don't need to work it out for yourself, the Imagery Date is down in
> > >the bottom left corner of the picture.
> >
> > Not on my screen. Clicked on everything but no image date.
>
> Les Albert wrote, in <t0qfa85rrdik7f0jv...@4ax.com>
> on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:41:35 -0800:
>
> > On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:19:28 +0000, Nick Spalding <spal...@iol.ie>
> > wrote:
> > >Les Albert wrote
> >
> > >> I was surprised to see street views of my house, but I can tell
> > >> approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
> > >> that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
> >
> > >You don't need to work it out for yourself, the Imagery Date is down in
> > >the bottom left corner of the picture.
> >
> > Not on my screen. Clicked on everything but no image date.
>
> You're right, it only appears when you get it via Google Earth not by
> the pretty shortcut. A pity.
I guess it's omission of elements such as that that makes the Instant
> the pretty shortcut. A pity.
version so much quicker. But if you click on the word "Google" on the
bottom left, it takes you to the same image in Google Maps, where the
date is displayed bottom left and you have all the other features that
you might need too.
One thing that occurred to me was this: cars' number (US: license)
plates are automatically recognised and blurred. But the blurring is
of a large area, pretty much the whole of the lower back of each
vehicle. I find that distracting sometimes, and wonder why they didn't
just blur the plate itself. After all, the software has got to know
exactly where that is in order to recognise it as a plate in the first
place.
--
John
Nick Spalding
Nov 18, 2012, 8:26:09 AM11/18/12
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Pastime wrote, in <fulha890k0sferg40...@4ax.com>
on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:52:39 +0000:
> Nick Spalding wrote:
>
> > Les Albert wrote, in <t0qfa85rrdik7f0jv...@4ax.com>
> > on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:41:35 -0800:
> >
> > > On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:19:28 +0000, Nick Spalding <spal...@iol.ie>
> > > wrote:
> > > >Les Albert wrote
> > >
> > > >> I was surprised to see street views of my house, but I can tell
> > > >> approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
> > > >> that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
> > >
> > > >You don't need to work it out for yourself, the Imagery Date is down in
> > > >the bottom left corner of the picture.
> > >
> > > Not on my screen. Clicked on everything but no image date.
> >
> > You're right, it only appears when you get it via Google Earth not by
> > the pretty shortcut. A pity.
>
> I guess it's omission of elements such as that that makes the Instant
> version so much quicker. But if you click on the word "Google" on the
> bottom left, it takes you to the same image in Google Maps, where the
> date is displayed bottom left and you have all the other features that
> you might need too.
So it does.
> One thing that occurred to me was this: cars' number (US: license)
> plates are automatically recognised and blurred. But the blurring is
> of a large area, pretty much the whole of the lower back of each
> vehicle. I find that distracting sometimes, and wonder why they didn't
> just blur the plate itself. After all, the software has got to know
> exactly where that is in order to recognise it as a plate in the first
> place.
--
Nick Spalding
on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:52:39 +0000:
> Nick Spalding wrote:
>
> > Les Albert wrote, in <t0qfa85rrdik7f0jv...@4ax.com>
> > on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:41:35 -0800:
> >
> > > On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:19:28 +0000, Nick Spalding <spal...@iol.ie>
> > > wrote:
> > > >Les Albert wrote
> > >
> > > >> I was surprised to see street views of my house, but I can tell
> > > >> approximately when the car came by because of some of the shrubbery
> > > >> that has been changed, and the size of the trees.
> > >
> > > >You don't need to work it out for yourself, the Imagery Date is down in
> > > >the bottom left corner of the picture.
> > >
> > > Not on my screen. Clicked on everything but no image date.
> >
> > You're right, it only appears when you get it via Google Earth not by
> > the pretty shortcut. A pity.
>
> I guess it's omission of elements such as that that makes the Instant
> version so much quicker. But if you click on the word "Google" on the
> bottom left, it takes you to the same image in Google Maps, where the
> date is displayed bottom left and you have all the other features that
> you might need too.
> One thing that occurred to me was this: cars' number (US: license)
> plates are automatically recognised and blurred. But the blurring is
> of a large area, pretty much the whole of the lower back of each
> vehicle. I find that distracting sometimes, and wonder why they didn't
> just blur the plate itself. After all, the software has got to know
> exactly where that is in order to recognise it as a plate in the first
> place.
--
S. Checker
Nov 19, 2012, 12:02:28 PM11/19/12
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Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> wrote:
> Tim Wright <tlwri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Looks like the street view cars haven't made it to our neighborhood yet,
>>all it shows is an aerial view.
>
> They need to make another pass through my neighborhood. This city has
> grown a LOT in the past ten years, and Streetview has the wrong
> version of my closest major interchange (between Metis and McKnight)
> and doesn't include the two segments of the ring road freeway that
> have been built so far.
You made me check my old house. The satellite view has been updated but
> Tim Wright <tlwri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Looks like the street view cars haven't made it to our neighborhood yet,
>>all it shows is an aerial view.
>
> They need to make another pass through my neighborhood. This city has
> grown a LOT in the past ten years, and Streetview has the wrong
> version of my closest major interchange (between Metis and McKnight)
> and doesn't include the two segments of the ring road freeway that
> have been built so far.
Streetview has not. Which I like, because around the corner from us you
can see our neighbor's kids standing on the sidewalk watching the car
go by, with their mom on the stoop.
The new satellite view is nice too, because not only can you see the
vegetable garden, patio and picnic table, but you can see the chalk
drawings my girls did on the driveway.
The new house is less interesting. The Streetview appears to be the
same age, it was a terrible hot summer and all the grass was dead. I
think it was taken on a Monday because the trash is out. The satellite
view has someone else's car in the driveway, almost certainly the
previous owners.
--
Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill me because
I've got magic aaargh."
-- Terry Pratchett
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