Neither the subreddit Google Maps Shenanigans nor the photos on their subreddit would exist if Google hadn't come up with Google Maps and Google Earth in 2005, as well as Google Street View in 2007.
Today, Google mostly uses its camera-equipped Google Maps Street View cars to capture real-life images of various corners of the world to help people navigate more easily. For places these vehicles can't reach, Google has found other creative ways to get around, including a tricycle, camel, boat, snowmobile, underwater apparatus, and good old feet.
#23 Google Street View Photographer Attacked By The World's Deadliest Creature!
In 2023, a Google spokesperson chatted with Reader’s Digest and told them more about how the 360° view of our planet ends up in our tiny smartphones.
“Street View cars have special cameras that take photographs as they drive down public streets,” he explained. “Once the photographs have been taken, they go through computer processing to make them ready for use on Google Maps.”
#27 We Should Probably Not Rent Box Trucks To People Who Have Never Driven Anything Bigger Than A Corolla
During the image-processing stage, the photos are stitched together to create a 360° view of our surroundings that we can access every time we go to Google Street View. For privacy, Google AI technology also blurs any faces or license plates visible in the photos.
And this is how, folks, Google was able to cover nearly 80 countries and upload it online for the whole world to see!
#28 Is There A Reason Why This Random Part Of Sweden Has Poisoned Gas Instead Of Air?
It’s a reoccurring problem around this time of year and around the end of November, ie the periods where winter tyres, usually studded, start being required but when the roads in town aren’t necessarily covered in ice and snow, meaning the studded tyres tear up the streets and release very harmful particles in the air. It’s a common problem in other Swedish cities, and for example in Stockholm they’ve banned studded tyres from the worst affected roads. That’s not necessarily possible in Östersund though because when it does snow and the roads are icy studded tyres are a necessity for safety reasons.
#29 Landslide Caught On Google Maps
#30 Coordinates 33.939293, -118.366478 Residential Back Yard Full Of Teslas In Los Angeles
My guess is this is someone who (either on their own or as a business) repairs Teslas without an owner needing to go through Tesla themselves. With most car manufacturers it can be incredibly expensive to get a replacement part from them, by design.
This is why right to repair is important.
#31 These Islands Of The Coast Of Dubai That Are Named Like Countries
thenoisymouse:
Yep. The world Dubai... Been there for a decade or more now. A failed attempt. Horrible smelling shallow water and algae blooms have prevented it from being completed. Same with the other palm developments, they lucked out with 1. But every other has been a natural and economic disaster.
#32 Google Thinks I Am In Ukraine Even Though Im In My Home Country Of Lithuania
There has been some gps jamming going on lately.
#33 What Is This?
#35 Why Is There A Random Red Square Near Hamburg?
I think that's the Stade red mud reservoir. red mud (bauxite residue) is a byproduct of processing bauxite into aluminium oxide, not a very pleasant chemical.
#36 WTH Is This
traditionaldrummer:
Henday Land Electrode.
cromagnone:
That was a great rabbit hole to fall down. This is basically a place where you can plug a power station into the earth if you need the electricity to go somewhere else for a while.
#37 Triple Set Of Twins Found On Google Maps
#38 Found This On Google Earth Its In The Middle Of The Afsluitdijk
#40 Is This A Boat Sinking?
carlitosbahia:
Nah, just google being dumb in images over water.
Example in the same area boats that were there at some other date then google mixed images from more than one date then we see all those "ghost" boats.