Saturday, November 15, 2008

Google Maps, or what's that wierd car doing driving down my street. AKA:#19 Discovering web 2.0 tools


Who hasn't just screwed around with a map website like Google Maps? It's probably the most entertaining of the map programs because it has a street view. Apparently a specially equipped car with crazy Ghostbusters equipment perched on top drives around every street in the world and takes a picture at every intersection and address. These are uploaded and then allow a viewer to basically "walk" in first person down the street from location to location. pretty useful if you need to find a house or store and don't know what it looks like.

How do I know about the car? Well in the street mode take a look at the ground. You can see where someone photoshoped the shadow of the vehicle out of the picture. Well I happened upon a couple of pictures they missed and you can clearly see the shadow of a car that looks surprisingly like Ecto-1.

Crazy huh? I wonder why no one noticed it.

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