(spoilers warning)
This is what you get: http://i.imgur.com/JJxGn.png
There's also another one in a deeper zoom level.
I wonder how many cities they made landmarks for?
Sutro Tower: http://i.imgur.com/1CUY1.png
Ferry Building and (I think) the Google SF headquarters: http://i.imgur.com/VmC2D.png
Alcatraz: http://i.imgur.com/FkFf1.png
It looks like landmarks are a feature of big cities only - no love for the Basketball Hall of Fame or Springfield Armory.
http://map-monster.tumblr.com/
Found a monster? Leave a link into the comments.
Volgograd
Pogradec
Randazzo
Paceco
Balfour, Mpumalanga, South Africa (zoom out)
Makasa, Northern, Zambia (zoom out)
Goch
Mallow, Ireland
Just found them by searching around. Not sure if there's any logic to where they're placed, besides on land.
G+ is built for strategic reasons (and not something they're just doing because they don't know have 'enough useful ideas'.) You can debate whether G+ is the right thing for them to do, but they're building it because Google leadership thinks they should.
I like fun (and Google), but investors like profits.
[edit: Just thought of one possible route. There's a WebGL beta for Street View; perhaps you could add effects by injecting some WebGL shader code, given appropriate local security permissions?]
So far I've been just experimenting with grabbing a few hundred images from the undocumented API and applying effects locally. This is the result of one experiment (hit [reload] at the top/right for new images): http://www.kmjn.org/projects/cyanocph/
screenshot: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6886373098_84a16330a1_o.p...
Development: http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Nesdev_Wiki
Modem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Modem
Microphone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System#H...
How long before April 1st?
Incognito mode to the rescue!
I updated walksy.com to use these tiles: http://walksy.com/?8bit
"Nob Hill California and Mason, SF Tags: neighborhood, architecture, history, parks 34 reviews on http://www.yelp.com/biz/felicia-gelardi-skin-care-san-franci... StreetView"
That's very much the wrong neighborhood.
I miss code search too, but it's not fair to compare the upkeep of a production service to small one-off art projects.
solsenNet 32 minutes ago | link This looks... erm ... neat. A "sophomore OpenGL term project" kind of neat. Baidu on the other hand does the maps right [0], which hardly surprising given their 20 years of head start. On a more general note, this reminds me of old Microsoft's tactics. Google should really stick to the search, but instead they throw together something that mimics competitor's feature. Something that looks more featureful and which is free, but upon closer inspection is effectively a half-ass effort, because it's an entirely different domain that's not their specialty. [0] http://map.baidu.com/?newmap=1&l=15&tn=B_DIMENSIONAL....
huhtenberg 23 hours ago | link | parent | flag This looks... erm ... neat. A "sophomore OpenGL term project" kind of neat. Wolfram on the other hand does the graphs right [0], which hardly surprising given their 20 years of head start. On a more general note, this reminds me of old Microsoft's tactics. Google should really stick to the search, but instead they throw together something that mimics competitor's feature. Something that looks more featureful and which is free, but upon closer inspection is effectively a half-ass effort, because it's an entirely different domain that's not their specialty. [0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3....
The YouTube video is hilarious.
Is there any way Google would try to make an actual game out of this? I know there are other successful online 8-bit-ish RPGs that use the Google Maps as a base...
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Biosph%C3%A8re,+Montreal,+QC,+...
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rmfr1/browse_goo...
