When your town has a street festival, but for some reason doesn't close down the street to cars, and the Google Street View Car drives down that street...

 

#PeakAmerica ;D

 

Come for the zip line, stay for the car exhaust?

 

The 39th Annual Fume Fest?

When your town has a street festival, but for some reason doesn't close down the street to cars, and the Google Street View Car drives down that street...

 

#PeakAmerica ;D

 

There's even a stage with a band!

 

Is this peak placemaking?

When your town has a street festival, but for some reason doesn't close down the street to cars, and the Google Street View Car drives down that street...

 

#PeakAmerica ;D

 

There's even a stage with a band!

 

And the seats to watch them play are across the street. ;D ;D

When your town has a street festival, but for some reason doesn't close down the street to cars, and the Google Street View Car drives down that street...

 

Meanwhile, the City of Cincinnati throws a collective tantrum at the mere idea of the streetcar crossing through Taste of Cincinnati. Folks in rural Indiana seemed to do just fine with hundreds - perhaps even thousands of cars speeding through their festival, yet Cincinnatians can't be expected to move a few feet out of the way once ever 15 minutes when a large train comes through at 2MPH? We should get the festivals back up to Fountain Square and use this town as a precedent.

When your town has a street festival, but for some reason doesn't close down the street to cars, and the Google Street View Car drives down that street...

 

#PeakAmerica ;D

 

There's even a stage with a band!

 

And the seats to watch them play are across the street. ;D ;D

 

 

 

They'd better hope Dokken doesn't drive through on the back of a semi!

 

When your town has a street festival, but for some reason doesn't close down the street to cars, and the Google Street View Car drives down that street...

Here was the event :

https://www.facebook.com/ColonelVawterDay/

 

 

When your town has a street festival, but for some reason doesn't close down the street to cars, and the Google Street View Car drives down that street...

Here was the event :

https://www.facebook.com/ColonelVawterDay/

 

15 September. Mark your calendars, y'all, UrbanOhio is going on a field trip.

The Google Car doesn't make it through most of Appalachia very much. I think they focus on areas that people look up often. People in that region spend a lot of time on Facebook rather than on the rest of the internet.

 

Possibly another reason:

 

https://mashable.com/2016/03/12/google-street-view-pulled-over/#h5o_TlpEePqX

 

Over in the Wheeling, WV thread, I was shocked to read "I would put a Street View link here, but Wheeling has almost no coverage somehow..."

 

How can that be!? Remote areas of the desert and mountains in CA are in Google Streetview, but a long established town on a major highway is not?

When your town has a street festival, but for some reason doesn't close down the street to cars, and the Google Street View Car drives down that street...

 

#PeakAmerica ;D

 

There's even a stage with a band!

 

And the seats to watch them play are across the street. ;D ;D

 

 

 

They'd better hope Dokken doesn't drive through on the back of a semi!

 

 

It's not so obvious in the video (probably by design) but in this still you can see that Don's weight issues weren't brand new at Monsters '88.  Now that I think about it, Day 1's temps may have been part of why they were so off sync Day 2.

 

Bet I can guess how the role of "truck driver" was cast.  #CDLnotrequired.

This might be my next album cover:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3712826,-86.2621525,3a,15y,26.66h,83.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCMhwUt2v84ustuyg0v4RVg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

When your town has a street festival, but for some reason doesn't close down the street to cars, and the Google Street View Car drives down that street...

 

#PeakAmerica ;D

 

There's even a stage with a band!

 

And the seats to watch them play are across the street. ;D ;D

 

 

 

They'd better hope Dokken doesn't drive through on the back of a semi!

 

 

It's not so obvious in the video (probably by design) but in this still you can see that Don's weight issues weren't brand new at Monsters '88.  Now that I think about it, Day 1's temps may have been part of why they were so off sync Day 2.

 

Bet I can guess how the role of "truck driver" was cast.  #CDLnotrequired.

 

 

Yeah but Wild Mick Brown and Pilson had probably been doing coke all night for days at Monsters of Rock

Apparently the Apple Maps street view vans will be driving around Butler County tomorrow.

Apparently the Apple Maps street view vans will be driving around Butler County tomorrow.

 

NPR did a story last week on how Google Maps came about.  It was accelerated by the Iraq War because CNN bought the rights to the technology around 2003 to have go-to imagery for its 24-hour coverage.  Then Google bought it from the little-known startup in 2004 or 2005 for a ridiculous sum. 

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently the Apple Maps street view vans will be driving around Butler County tomorrow.

it was all over downtown Cincinnati yesterday

I passed it last week in the Tri-County area while driving down 747

The Cincinnati location of Pins Mechanical Company has a full interior VR tour on Google Maps.

^ Huh. The only reason I wanted to swing by that place was to see what it was like, but I guess that took care of that.

What is up with these lame phrases everyone is painting on walls these days?  They look like tweets by know-it-all minor twitter celebrities. 

 

 

Neighborhood ice cream truck on Hawaiian Terrace:

 

https://goo.gl/maps/ESL6a6Ectm42

^My brother used to take piano lessons in an apartment in that complex.  It was getting questionable back then, 30 years ago. 

For anybody wanting to see some updated satellite imagery for Columbus I've noticed the Android Google Maps has imagery from ~January/February of this year. The desktop website nor Google Earth appear to be updated, strangely.

Google finally rolled out some new Streetview images for Wheeling recently. But for whatever reason they didn't bother doing the entire city and hardly touched Wheeling Island. I don't know why it's so hard for them to map that city. 

On 1/6/2019 at 7:23 PM, BigDipper 80 said:

Google finally rolled out some new Streetview images for Wheeling recently. But for whatever reason they didn't bother doing the entire city and hardly touched Wheeling Island. I don't know why it's so hard for them to map that city. 

It actually makes me really mad. It's like they just forget Wheeling is there. It's a big enough city that it should get full coverage. Same story in Steubenville.

Google does a pretty awful job of preventing people from adding fake businesses to Google Maps. I notice stuff like this all the time.

Dammmmmmmmmmmmmn dude, Couchlock leads to Snacktrap like, every time

Google has added new 3D imagery of Columbus. They had updated the northern suburbs about not too long ago, but they finally got around to the Downtown/Short North/OSU/Grandview areas. Not sure what else they've updated as that's all I've checked so far. The imagery is accurate as of about 2 years ago now, but still much more accurate than before. It's crazy how many projects have already been finished compared to what this new update shows. 

New Street View imagery from April 2019 is now available in Downtown Cincinnati and surrounding areas. So you can now see things like the new Main Street streetscape, 15th & Race infill, Market Square Phase II, the beginning of Eighth and Main, etc.

Ah yes, Mason Firire & Rescue:

On 12/20/2017 at 1:04 PM, GCrites80s said:

The Google Car doesn't make it through most of Appalachia very much. I think they focus on areas that people look up often. People in that region spend a lot of time on Facebook rather than on the rest of the internet.

 

They don't need the cars to send cars to those areas.  They have a fleet of varying vehicles.  From scooters, bikes, drones to backpack like devices that people can wear.  (pro hat on) I cant speak in detail, but I was shocked at the number of ways they can now map cities.(pro hat off)

Edited November 2, 20195 yr by MyTwoSense

Yeah, I've seen those methods used in tighter spaces such as European city centers.

Years ago Google had huge backpacks that people could sign up to use - be it to do a hiking trail or some other area people couldn't get cars to. However, 360 degree cameras are tiny and cheap these days so you don't need any sort of huge equipment like that. In the last year or two we've started using them a lot in architecture/construction. You can carry around a little tripod, set the camera down every few feet, and essentially have a Google Streetview-like experience of buildings as they are being built.

 

 

An artist was able to "hack" Google Map's traffic data, causing it to display a traffic jam where there was not one. To accomplish this, he pulled a wagon of 99 smartphones down the middle of a street. Presumably the Google Maps app was installed onto each phone and the app had been granted background location permissions. This tricked Google into thinking that there was a traffic jam on the street with 99 cars stuck in traffic at his location.

 

 

 

I was just reading about a guy falsely accused of murder who spent 5 years in prison because Hertz or Enterprise ignored court orders to produce receipts that would have proven where the guy was and now that he is released, is suing the car rental company. It made me wonder: Why don't people ever use google maps to prove where they were on the night of June 15th, 2018 or whenever? You can see absolutely everywhere you've traveled on each individual day, as long as you have an android and your location was turned on. You set it to a particular day and it displays a map with lines drawn, showing the path you took and each destination you stopped at. It goes back years and years. Every stop is time stamped. That's at least one good thing about Google tracking us.

Edited March 12, 20214 yr by David

Or you lend your phone to someone, tell them where to go and create your alibi while you go in the other direction and commit your crime?

1 hour ago, David said:

I was just reading about a guy falsely accused of murder who spent 5 years in prison because Hertz or Enterprise ignored court orders to produce receipts that would have proven where the guy was and now that he is released, is suing the car rental company. It made me wonder: Why don't people ever use google maps to prove where they were on the night of June 15th, 2018 or whenever? You can see absolutely everywhere you've traveled on each individual day, as long as you have an android and your location was turned on. You set it to a particular day and it displays a map with lines drawn, showing the path you took and each destination you stopped at. It goes back years and years. Every stop is time stamped. That's at least one good thing about Google tracking us.

 

As someone who hates the idea of even owning a smart phone, let alone letting one track my every move - I keep this on for precisely the reason you mentioned. I imagine it probably exonerates people all the time, but you don't really ever see news stories about the suspects police eliminate during the course of the investigation, so you never hear about it. Similarly, Netflix, Hulu, etc. know when you're streaming something so I imagine that and other web activity can be used to establish a decent alibi as well.

 

Although I don't think these things alone are enough to establish a solid alibi. Just because your phone was some place or your Netflix was streaming, doesn't mean you were there or that you were watching it stream.

Right.  Lt. Columbo would still figure out YOU commited the crime.

^Ah, just one more thing...

2 hours ago, Ram23 said:

 

As someone who hates the idea of even owning a smart phone, let alone letting one track my every move - I keep this on for precisely the reason you mentioned. I imagine it probably exonerates people all the time, but you don't really ever see news stories about the suspects police eliminate during the course of the investigation, so you never hear about it. Similarly, Netflix, Hulu, etc. know when you're streaming something so I imagine that and other web activity can be used to establish a decent alibi as well.

 

Although I don't think these things alone are enough to establish a solid alibi. Just because your phone was some place or your Netflix was streaming, doesn't mean you were there or that you were watching it stream.

 

 

Who has seen the documentary on Netflix? "Long Shot" Kinda similar. He won a pile of cash for his trouble from LAPD.

On 3/12/2021 at 8:42 AM, bjk said:

Or you lend your phone to someone, tell them where to go and create your alibi while you go in the other direction and commit your crime?

I thought about that as well. Its funny to think someone would go through all that trouble but its a valid point. If nothing else, its at least supportive of other evidence and in addition to that, since the service logs and TimeStamps everywhere you went that day (Sunoco, Fifth Third Bank, wherever,) it would be easier to know where all you were when your memory has failed and subpoena camera footage from businesses, proving there's no way you could have made it to the location of the crime in time. My point is simply that all of the tracking and storing of metadata may work in a person's favor under those circumstances. 

Edited March 13, 20214 yr by David

This is the first day I've noticed that a lot of new Google Streetview has been added to Cincinnati from November 2020. Before that the newest streetview was April 2019

 

The street view for my house is from 2014.  I guess they focus on the main drags for the most part.

16 hours ago, richNcincy said:

The street view for my house is from 2014.  I guess they focus on the main drags for the most part.

 

Yeah sometimes they miss streets, especially the really small ones, or ones that are dead ends. I noticed that a lot of streets will still default to the 2019 image, and I have to manually select the 2020 image on desktop.

my all time favorite fake on goog is the north sentinel island nightclub.

 

simple. effective. sensible chuckle type laugh.

 

and also a bit of light comic relief for everyone who googled north sentinel island after that kid with a death wish went over there and got instantly killed.

 

 

On 3/15/2021 at 8:06 PM, ryanlammi said:

This is the first day I've noticed that a lot of new Google Streetview has been added to Cincinnati from November 2020. Before that the newest streetview was April 2019

 

 

Columbus has also received November 2020 streetview updates.

 

Anyone know how often satellite images are updated in Google Maps?

 

Based on the buildings that are still standing in Cincinnati where TQL Stadium is located, it appears the last time the satellite images were updated was in 2018 (at the most recent). Those buildings started coming down at the end of 2018, and they are untouched in the satellite images.

 

EDIT: based on Ziegler Park garage being under construction in the satellite view, it was likely Spring/Summer 2017 the last time we had updated satellite images.

Street View data in almost every medium-to-large city seems to be updated about every year, if not more often, while satellite data is only updated every few years.

19 minutes ago, taestell said:

Street View data in almost every medium-to-large city seems to be updated about every year, if not more often, while satellite data is only updated every few years.

 

It's approaching 5 years since the last satellite photos were taken, and probably 4.5 years since they've been updated online. It seems like we are more than overdue for and update.

Semantics (and I know this doesn't answer your question), but when you're in that close you're looking at aerial photography as compared to satellite imagery.

 

Up in Cleveland it's really hit or miss, there are places in major parts of the city/region that don't show on there. Not quite sure what triggers them getting updated imagery. 

 

If you're looking for a specific comparison it's worth looking at CAGIS - they have a tool where you can swipe between two years of data. Also Ohio through OSIP just recently completed a flight, too. 

 

I did some googling and not sure if Hamilton gets oblique imagery, but if you can find that it's a pretty awesome tool too look back and with sharper detail.

If you get on Google Earth's desktop app and click on the historic images button, they latests aerial is from September of 2021!

 

Still no 3D mesh for 5 years is no excuse. It could be worse, 3D mesh for downtown Cleveland appears to be from 2014.