Using Google Street View to Study the Great Barrier Reef

Using Google Street View to Study the Great Barrier Reef

The Catlin Seaview Survey is a Google and University of Queensland project using a nifty underwater camera rig to create a zoomable, 360-degree image of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Destin from SmarterEveryDay got to hitch a ride with the team that records this sea-floor Street View. You don’t want to miss this.

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Depth Maps Hidden in Google Street View Create Flickering Ghost-Cities

This is awesome: Patricio Gonzalez Vivo found a way to scrape Google Street View for its depth map data, then rebuilt the streets as ghostly spatial models in openFrameworks. The weird and flickering results, seen in the video above, are like a holograph dreaming of electric streets, with facades and sidewalks tuning in and out as if being tuned on shortwave radio.

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Watch New York City Gentrify in These Jaw-Dropping GIFs

Watch New York City Gentrify in These Jaw-Dropping GIFs

Gentrification can’t stop, won’t stop. Artist and programmer Justin Blinder grabbed cached images from Google Street View featuring construction sites in Brooklyn and Manhattan over the past four years, then joined before-and-after pics together in a pretty eye-opening series he calls Vacated.

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Top Gear Test Track Added To Google Street View

Fans of the famous British motoring show Top Gear will know its equally famous test track very well. Definitely the envy of many a YouTube motoring show host, the track is mainly used for trying out the very best of cars that appear on the BBC show, apart from hosting the “Star in the Reasonably Priced Car,” celebrities who try going around it in record time while driving an average car. The track itself is off limits to fans as well as the live studio audience, but now they get to experience it thanks to Google Street View.

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    This Is the Closest Thing to a North Korean Google Street View

    This Is the Closest Thing to a North Korean Google Street View

    North Korea remains one of the few places in the world that remains untouched by Google Street View’s all-seeing eye. But at least now, we can content ourselves with these fascinating, state-approved (i.e. likely censored) 360-degree shots from Singaporean photographer Aram Pan.

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    Insane Seattle Bus Crash Captured On Google Street View

    Insane Seattle Bus Crash Captured On Google Street View

    Google Street View: Is there anything it can’t do? If it’s not taking us inside Doctor Who’s TARDIS or various automotive museums, it’s catching the immediate aftermath of breathtaking charter bus accidents in Seattle.

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    Google Street View Now Shows You the Inside of Airports

    Google Street View Now Shows You the Inside of Airports

    To make your holiday travels easier, Google Street View now takes you inside 16 international airports and over 50 train stations around the world. So don’t worry about finding the baggage check using archaic methods like looking at signs. Now you can map it!

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    Tour the Canals of Venice with Google Street View

    Taking a vacation to Venice can be a real pain in the ass. Tourists flock to the watery city like like fire ants on a fallen sandwich. Every restaurant is overpriced. The place floods all the time. But you can now avoid all those annoyances thanks to Google Street View.

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    Google Street View Takes Us Through The Canals, Streets Of Venice, Italy

    We’ve seen Google Street View bring us some amazing views that we probably wouldn’t be able to see unless we decide to travel around the world. Earlier this year, Google gave us unrestricted access to a number of NFL stadiums, and today, the search giant is taking us to the watery canals of Venice, Italy. (more…)

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    You Don’t Have to Enlist to Tour a 50-Year-Old Sub on Street View

    You Don't Have to Enlist to Tour a 50-Year-Old Sub on Street View

    Google Street View is slowly becoming the window to a world that most of us may never get to see in real life. And if you’ve already explored every last nook and cranny of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider via Street View, you can now head on over to the UK and poke around the retired HMS Ocelot; a 50 year old retired Oberon-class submarine.

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