I’ve been cruising around my neighborhood in the updated Street View today and have already found a few interesting items. For instance, as you see above, the stretch of northbound I-5 above Eastlake is now a terrifying corridor of colorful static. I haven’t driven that stretch in a few weeks so I guess it’s possible, but I should have noticed it when I was out there at the Lo-Fi last Saturday.
What other glitches mar the face of the Emerald City?
Gas prices here are fluctuating wildly, as these two pictures from Admiral and 42nd in West Seattle show: just in the time it took the Vehigoogle to cross the street, gas prices jumped more than a buck. What a scam! (yes, I know what’s really going on here)
Lastly, I found the van I was driving this summer parked on 12th in its usual habitat, but unless Google took this picture in a vehicle-mounted funhouse mirror, I’m guessing they’ve got a few aspect ratio issues to smooth out.
Find anything interesting in your recently added town or neighborhood? Glitches, funny occurrences? Feel free to leave them in comments.
Is the LHC back up and running?
The updates from yesterday appear to have broken a lot of the captured Street Views in two ways. One is annoying and easy to fix. The other is annoying and hard to fix.Firstly, some of the coordinates don’t have a panorama associated with them anymore and so there is no Street View for that location but I need to look again. I have a script that will find those and discard them – around 200 so far. The other problem is that the new captures have replaced some of the older, classic views. That’s harder to detect because everything works – it just doesn’t make sense. That naked man walking down the high street is just a plain old boring high street now.The other problem is that the new captures have replaced some of the older, classic views. That’s harder to detect because everything works – it just doesn’t make sense. That naked man walking down the high street is just a plain old boring high street now. I think I can find them all by capturing a thumbnail of each view like I do for the site and comparing the old and the new. If they’re radically different, something changed.
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