

In Finland, there appears to be a field of colorfully garbed scarecrows fit for both a Disney movie and a nightmare. And I love that somewhere in this world is an amusement park called Pistachio Land, home to the world's largest pistachio.ĭragging your view down in the sandy dunes of Abu Dhabi will show you that the tech giant was so dedicated to the bit that it propped some cameras on a camel's back to capture the full glory of the UAE. In Kenya, I saw an adorable crew of elephants taking shade under a tree while Google's Street View camera passed by.

I mean, while flipping through, I managed to catch a glimpse of an abandoned mining town in Montana that seriously resembles one of the settings in Red Dead Redemption II. ➡️ /OXlDTMLWh4- Neal Agarwal January 23, 2023 I made a page that lets you explore the weird and wonderful things on Google Street View, enjoy :) And now, Neal Agarwal, a developer better known by his online persona neal.fun, has taken the messy beauty of Google Street View and turned it into a clever online program that can eat up hours of your time. There's even a 360 of the International Space Station on "Street" View - it would seem that, on this corner of the internet, the sky is, in fact, not the limit. Panoramic images not lining up perfectly? Tripod Man. Waterslides the only means of travel? Someone's going in. Drive, bike, walk and sail across the world with a camera, take pictures of everything along the way and stitch them together to make a 360-degree view of various locations for us to enjoy on the internet. Then they published the photos on the internet.įor engineers at Google, the goal of Street View is clear. Tripod Man earned his nickname not because of his photography skills but because someone at Google stitched together images of him in such a way that he, himself, looked like a tripod. But one day, he would become known as Tripod Man. Once upon a time, a man in Ontario was rummaging through the backseat of a white car.
