My, Times Square is looking particularly lush today.
(Credit: Screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET)
If you want to see New York as a wilderness area, you can watch the CGI makeover in “I Am Legend,” or turn to the Urban Jungle Street View site. Urban Jungle takes advantage of a little-known part of Street View called depth data. This allows the positioning of objects in the correct 3D space, so it really looks like a tree is growing out of the middle of Times Square.
It can be hard to navigate around once you’re in the Urban Jungle map because the usual Street View directional cues are absent. Also, everything that might look familiar is covered in vegetation. This is really more about the novelty of slathering Street View locations with greenery. It works best in locations with tall buildings, but feel free try it out on your own house.
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