/r/googlemapsshenanigans
For all of the interesting, funny, or otherwise unusual things you see on Google Maps! (and other mapping software)
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My work was performing service to a Ford Ecosport. The VIN sequence was unusual, so I looked it up. Surprised to see they were manufactured in India. I decided to look at the town the plant was located.
I saw there was lots of street views around, so I clicked the little drop icon, zoomed out a bit, and flung it into a random neighborhood.
The first image that appeared on the screen of my work computer was....a young fellow, sans trousers. Or undergarments. Just air drying his goods for all the world to see.
I couldn't close the tab fast enough. I did manage to get it reported to Google. This is what you get, as I don't want to get banned from reddit, or go to prison.
Ai looks unusual.
Any website that lets you to compare maps side-by-side?
- For example for a given lat/long, I want to be able compare using Google/Bing/Yandex etc in a grid.
- Something like https://nakarte.me/ but multiple maps visible at the same time
I really couldn't find a website like this.
So I found a frame from a surveillance video from a crime in Chicago, and I lost it. I've spent 2 hours trying to find it and now I tap. If someone can find the google map image from the frame at :27 in this video Homicide | 17th District | May 24, 2024 | JH-277783 ill be super grateful. I had the exact daytime frame pulled up and forgot to save it.
Added NSFW just because of the nature of the video, it doesn't depict any actual violence but I wanted to be mindful.
Passeando pela cidade de São José (SC, Brasil) encontrei uma casa borrada em todos os cliques que pegaram ela, alguém sabe explicar o motivo?
Segue o endereço aos demais curiosos:
992 R. Antenor Valentin da Silva link google maps
I found dream island
You can go forward on the linked street view and you'll see how part of the street only has November 2022 street view seemingly from a bike, but the end of the block is in regular car view, so that means they drove on the road normally. Odd. [Link: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7340311,-73.9969006,3a,75y,114.9h,97.02t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxHY2EceHAw6_QPoyMetGYg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-7.019999999999996%26panoid%3DxHY2EceHAw6_QPoyMetGYg%26yaw%3D114.9!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTExOS4yIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExMjM0SAFQAw%3D%3D ]
So I saw this post in a different subreddit about random street view images found around Angola: https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/1g4a145/some_truly_weird_google_street_view_submissions/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
So I did my own digging and found some more really odd images on the street view in African countries by the same person, a lot uploaded this month. Would anyone have any idea what these images are and why the user keeps uploading them? Most of them are in Angola but there is a couple that I found in the DRC.
Shark horse - This one is uploaded by a different account
Rocket car - Another different account (looks like a youtuber)
These are all of the ones I found but there is probably way more because the account posting them has over 400 photos. Seems like some sort of weird art project