digip : sailing the high seas of the internet

The people who do the street level surveying for Google drive around in a car with a special camera that lets you record 360 degrees while moving in one direction. The benefit is that you can immerse yourself in the video using either google maps or google earth to see street level footage to get better directions or whatever.

Lately there have been a lot of “bloopers”,(although, they aren’t really bloopers in the traditional sense) on Google Maps and Google Earth. The “bloopers” I am referring to though are images that the google surveyors caught on film, but didn’t bother to filter out for content.

Here are three examples of such “bloopers” as I like to call them:

Man walking with a gun through the parking lot

The google team runs over and kills a dear and films the entire scene(Last time I checked, google was filtering out this street level scene due to high traffic. Maye they will remove it all together)

Two men in a Sword Battle

Via Gizmodo