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Go "Hitch Hiking" on Google Maps!

Danoz

Danoz

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So, sometimes I'm at my desk and I want to get out on the open road using Google's incredible virtual environment. Today, I dropped myself randomly in California and started rolling down 395. I stopped at Kings Canyon National Park to an absolutely beautiful scene.

Sad, I know, but when you spend 50 hour work weeks in front a computer this is the closet I can get to snow-capped mountains :).

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Your turn :). Go find something awesome!
 
^ I took a drop on the map along 395 near the site of the old Manzanar internment camp, and I don't think I was more than a couple of miles from where your view was taken. It's a wonderful stretch of road to drive (even better when you're a passenger and can fully enjoy the view.)

Here's a nice spot. Somewhere along here, there's a nice comfortable-looking house, next to the creek and surrounded by redwoods, and there are something like two or three hundred pink plastic flamingos arrayed around the house and up the hillside behind it. It's quite a sight; you just come around a bend in the road and there it is.
 
At first drop, I discovered this guy on a street somewhere in the Seattle region. Anybody want to guess what exactly he's handling there? Amazing technology, but just another example of how little privacy we have anymore.

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If this is free public imagery, just imagine what government organizations have access to.
 
Alidar Warlock said:
Joshua Howard said:
If this is free public imagery, just imagine what government organizations have access to.
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Wasn't it just a guy in a truck taking pictures? I don't think it's some super advanced technology that gave them street view.
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Plus, it seems a bit much to go off about "privacy" when all of these images are taken from public roads.

Want privacy? Go home and shut the blinds!
 
The Dead Nations said:
Alidar Warlock said:
Joshua Howard said:
If this is free public imagery, just imagine what government organizations have access to.
Click to expand...

Wasn't it just a guy in a truck taking pictures? I don't think it's some super advanced technology that gave them street view.
Click to expand...

Plus, it seems a bit much to go off about "privacy" when all of these images are taken from public roads.

Want privacy? Go home and shut the blinds!
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Quite simply, it's the matter of networking and interconnectivity which is mind-bogglingly amazing. Sure, these are just photos. The amazing concept is that every square inch of the earth is free for remote viewing in some form... and the collective intelligence of the masses is being tied together in such a way that the internet - as a global database - is presently more powerful in the hands of a typical user than the most powerful intelligence agencies of Nations once were with all their effort and advancement of the era.

One of these days we'll have live satellite feeds and be able to watch the world in full 3-D living live action. I'm not objecting; I'm just saying... it gets more fantastic every day. In 1994, the concept of this would have seemed every bit as science fiction to me as Star Wars. :)
 
There is already a patent for a computer chip that can track where your car is at any time, privacy is dead, it's time for the people to take their countries back.
 
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