Since 2007, Google streetscape has provided a glimpse of the ordinary life of people around the world, showing the ordinary of daily life. It can not only allow people to explore the splendor of the Taj Mahal or the beauty of the mountains photographed 10000 times a year, but also explore the common roads that make up the world. It provides an opportunity for people to see and explore the world.
The compilation of images from all over the world represents a large amount of data. Fortunately, we have such a database for our use. In other words, most of them do not have any interesting features, and their existence is more meaningful as records. Among the trillions of pixels, there are some digital gems. Over the years, "street view" has provided healthy and charming materials for the streets of most countries in the world. Some of them seem to be decorations, while others are completely random. Here are ten of the best photos from Google Street View:
Horse man
At the end of the driveway in a forest area in the suburbs of British Columbia, a horsehead man sat at a table with a peeled banana in his hand. He was accompanied by a pair of pink plastic flamingos and a small flower arrangement on the table.
It is reported that this picture was archived in 2014, so it means that it has been several years since the street view began to capture the world frame by frame - this horse man must have advanced knowledge to appear at the right time. The efforts in this respect are commendable, and Maren is commendable, because his appearance is very interesting.
Pigeon man
Japan is famous for many things -- obviously, including this group of people wearing pigeon masks. Given everything Japan offers, it is an interesting place to travel through Google maps. The street view provides a view of Japanese life. All the small streets and traditional houses are integrated with the metropolis and dove people. The pigeon man was found on the greenway of Yuchuan diversion canal. At least in 2013, they were captured by Google Trekker. Trekkers are like Street View cars, but they are on foot. The person in charge of shooting carries a backpack with a 360 degree camera. These pigeon people may have been there all the time, but it is more likely that this is a street view trick for everyone else to enjoy.
Flame red lips Choir
The flaming lips is an American rock band from Oklahoma City. It is famous for its movie like live performance. It features laser lights, beach balls and lead singer Wayne Coyne walking through the audience in a huge inflatable bubble. They achieved great success in the early 1990s with the title song she don't use Jerry. Coyne grew up in the OKC area. Despite his success in music, he has always been loyal to the area and lives in the same house in the blue collar District of the city.
The quirky aspects of his music and live performances even permeated his personal life and appeared in one of the earliest versions of street scenes. Pitchfork reported on this in 2010, saying that Coyne's image was a freak prophet and explaining that Google shot the scene as a lawn decoration for Halloween. In the picture, you can see a person sitting in the bathtub, allegedly Coyne. In addition, you can also see banners with "blob in the bath" and other vague and strange decorations. Fortunately, Google kept the old version of the street view, and people can still see it. Fortunately, the resolution of street view images has been greatly improved. The recent image is much clearer than this early image.
Stig
If you have seen the British car show "top gear", you must know Stig. Although it has existed since the program was launched in 1977, Stig has never said a word and never removed his helmet. Obviously, the image of Stig wearing a white flame retardant racing suit, gloves and helmet from head to toe has become a symbol of "top gear". And his popularity increased with the broadcast of the program, so that he became a popular word in some circles. His helmet appeared everywhere, from graffiti on high school textbooks to fields along Scottish roads. In 2009, Stig was seen on the A82 highway south of Inverness in northern Scotland. It is not clear whether this is a prototype or just an imitation from a fan.
Privacy is Google's top concern
For most people, a car with a row of cameras on its roof running around the city is just another day in the city, but for some people it is a distant bridge. When Google wanted to map the whole earth and provide a glimpse of everyone's home to the rest of the world, some people began to worry about their privacy. Google responded to this.
In all street view images, license plates and faces are automatically blurred. So far, this has been enough to alleviate the concerns of most people, and the algorithm for fuzzy processing seems to be doing well. However, because computer programs are created by human beings, and human beings are not perfect, computer programs are not perfect. Therefore, the algorithm of the above picture is a little too much, because it also mosaics a cow in Cambridge.
A group of Google Street View people
Since 2007, specially equipped cars have been traveling across the world. They shoot from all directions so that people can enjoy this thing called street view. It seems like a small miracle to complete such a huge project, but as long as there are enough people, enough money and enough perseverance, everything is possible. Now, streetscape has more than a decade of data collection, which is very helpful.
These cars are usually compact hatchbacks that are affordable, small enough to accommodate narrow urban streets, and large enough to carry photographic equipment on board. These cars are constantly traveling around. But what happens when you change shifts? It can be seen that these cars and their drivers have to go somewhere, so there is this picture above.
Mosaic company office
Google is proactive on privacy issues. As mentioned above, the algorithm automatically blurs the face and license plate. However, for some people, this is not good enough. If requested, Google also blurs houses or other buildings. This is exactly what happened in Munich, Germany. As it happens, the building that is required to be blurred is also Google's own corporate office. They had to blur themselves from the street view.
Due to the privacy law and the general attitude towards privacy in Germany for decades, most parts of Germany have not been included in the street view. Google has drawn maps of 20 cities and encountered a lot of trouble, which makes Germany basically have no street view. This building is no longer vague, but it was not on the street view map in Munich for some time.
Another horse man
Scotland has given the world many wonderful gifts - Premium whisky, bagpipes, golf and Sean Connery. Their hometown is a beautiful hilly and forest area, where there are rich beaches and some of the most beautiful driving routes on earth. It is very common to meet the traditional sheep farm or highland cattle farm on the road, and even occasionally meet the horse head man.
Here, it seems that a couple once waited for the street view car to cruise. It also seems to be a busy place, because the photos along the time axis show that there are many cars coming and going over the years. But it was the first appearance of Street View cars in 2009 that made the place outside hazledene Rd. near Aberdeen a little famous.
Prank
Pranks happen all over the world, and Google Street View cars often catch them nearby. In the backyard of Maryland, for example, two men did some really strange behavior. This happened on a sunny day in 2012 in Severn, Maryland, a fairly standard American suburb. This scene is fascinating and brings more questions than answers. Is this designed for streetscape or random? Why is there a big screen TV on the street? Is this a form of bullying or a religious ritual? Are they sending a signal to their alien rulers that it is time to destroy mankind? Who knows?
T.A.R.D.I.S.
For half a century, the BBC's Dr. mystery has attracted a large number of fans with its delightful and strange sci-fi characters. Doctor, from the planet Gallifrey, is the last in a series of alien creatures called "Time Lords". His preferred mode of transportation is his "relative dimension of time and space (Tardis)" machine. The main feature of this machine is that it can go to any point in space and time. Its display form is the British police call booth in 1963, and its interior is larger than the exterior.
Obviously, Tardis is a fictional thing from TV series. However, like all the popular things on TV, many physical iterations of the play have become a reality, ranging from key chains to life size replicas. Among these life size replicas, there is an independent police booth located on a street in London. If you can venture to find the correct address on the street view, you can enter Tardis and venture in its larger interior. Google is famous for including a lot of Easter eggs and other pleasant and stupid distractions in its applications and services, and Tardis is a smart part. It is a real mass comedy for fans.