[SGVLUG] Eerie (new?) feature of google maps -- street-view...

[Christopher Smith]

I think I've mentioned this before, but both multilib and an x86 chroot
work pretty well for me. Of course, in a perfect world we'd have the
source for the Flash plugin.

--Chris

Sean O'Donnell wrote:
> shrug, It's unfortunate that Adobe still has yet to release a version of
> flash that supports x86_64 architecture under Linux. It's good in the
> sense that it keeps me off of sites like youtube, but it's really
> annoying, overall. Luckily, not all my computers are x86_64. meh
>
> Chris Louden wrote:
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>> Yes,
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>> Google Street Team:
>> http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.420894,-122.084098&cbp=1,356.927512057877,0.501172314593583,0&ll=37.424826,-122.084391&spn=0.007685,0.020084&t=h&z=16
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>> Google Street Vehicle
>> http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.871827,-122.268356&cbp=2,263.306329353911,0.560851827385273,3&ll=37.89057,-122.264528&spn=0.037187,0.113554&z=14
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>> A Car Accident
>> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&time=&date=&ttype=&q=1272+17th+Ave+N,+Minneapolis,+Hennepin,+Minnesota+55411,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.589577,73.476563&ie=UTF8&cd=3&geocode=0,44.996325,-93.296752&ll=44.997332,-93.29629&spn=0.001995,0.004485&z=18&om=1&layer=c&cbll=44.99631,-93.29663&cbp=1,617.5396966558192,,0,-4.910094913617477
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>> A Man picking nose:
>> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=181+west+san+carlos+st.&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.688845,82.265625&ie=UTF8&ll=37.333433,-121.889663&spn=0.012028,0.020084&z=16&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.330351,-121.889659&cbp=1,345.096039112741,0.631646838164524,3
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>> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Emerson, Tom (*IC)
>> <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
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>>> I don't know how long this has been there, but I just found out about this
>>> -- on the google map, if you see a street "outlined in blue", you can click
>>> on a spot on the street to get a street-level view (rotatable 360 degrees)
>>> -- anyone know where there is a mirrored building that they might have
>>> driven by so we can see what sort of van they're driving?
>>>
>>> (yes, you can see people on this -- mostly blurry, but some better than
>>> others...)
>>>
>>> Oh, and to keep this semi-on-topic, just imagine what sort of resources
>>> would it take to store, index, retrieve, and deliver this kind of content...
>>> It boggles the mind...
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