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Google StreetView funny stuff

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Well maybe not funny, but mildly amusing or interesting stuff.

As some of you know, I work with spatial / mapping software and part of my job involves spending a lot of time on google, flicking between maps, satellite and streetview. Every now and then we spot stuff that is interesting enough to call the other team members over. Our job is pretty monotonous, so it doesn't take much to warrant interrupting the others :lol: I thought I'd share the more interesting ones that come up.

I should've been keeping track of these, as now there's a few I can't find again. One amusing one was the Google car doing a 12 point turn. Forwards, backwards, forwards, backwards, forwards, backwards, etc. :lol: I've seen into some garages in some pricey Sydney suburbs and I've seen some farmer doing doughnuts in the dirt on a chooky.

Anyway, today's notable StreetView capture is a police bust in Cessnock.
paste this address into Google and turn on Streetview: 352 Old Maitland Rd, Cessnock, NSW
There's some irregularly parked cop cars, and a bunch of cops standing on the front lawn, talking to someone. With that many cars and officers, I'm betting it was something bigger than somebody's cat being stuck up a tree ;)
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only in cessnock :roll:
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That's so funny :lol: :lol: I know where that is to. :shock: no don't know the residence just know the area
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That's cool Cath.

Here's one of a guy on an R1 in France pulling a nice roost.

43 15'58.29"N 5 22'53.37"E

Another in London

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As seen in a Monty Python skit, from the Ministry of Silly Walks...
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(judging by later captures, he's about to pull his sock up or something, but in this capture, we all had a chuckle and the Monty Python quotes began :lol: )
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:lol: just stepped in doggy doo :oops:
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I usually don't click on the "User-Created Maps", but this one was labelled as a bike accident, so I clicked. Turns out, it was a pushie accident, not a motorbike accident, but I then wasted a good 10 minutes trying to figure out what he was trying to map... I'm still not sure how the accident occurred... I think he needs to use pen and paper! :lol:
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Nice to see you hard at work Cath :lol:
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Ok, this latest project (two weeks down, three more to go) is the most boring of project I've ever been assigned to...
So I check out something on Google StreetView and what do I see??? A sky-writer taunting me!
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Time flies??? TIME FLIES??? Not when you're mapping every single bus stop in the Sydney region, it doesn't!!! XXbazooka.gif violent1.gif qleft1.gif


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Having a good day then Cath....... just wait till Friday Arvo :P
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LOL time flies :lol:
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Daz9R wrote:That's cool Cath.

Here's one of a guy on an R1 in France pulling a nice roost.

43 15'58.29"N 5 22'53.37"E
That one is awesome! When you drop those numbers in you have to move it 1 click though, but you can see the R1, its a 50th aniversary yellow,white and black
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You can actually see him in a few different frames if you move along the street a bit.
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Google just started doing helicopter view! And travel directions along two planes :lol:
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Cath wrote:Google just started doing helicopter view! And travel directions along two planes :lol:
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It must be travel directions to Heaven... :shock:

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