Random Street View

Strangely hypnotizing! Fun!

There's definitely something intriguing about seeing random mundane scenes (with occasional awesome exceptions) in far away locations.

I used to love to just take a 'walk' using street view from time to time. This is great. It really gives you a sense of how enormous the data set is.

Simple. Enjoyable. I just found several dozen places I want to travel to.

Check out this sweet dragon. http://randomstreetview.com/#wrua5_dhcmy_2m_a_-3 Seriously, this is a fantastic thing you've made. I'm enjoying it immediately.

Even though I mostly end up in the middle of nowhere this surely makes me want to travel :)

Simple. Enjoyable. I just found several dozen places I want to travel to.

kudos for the mobile support that's what i'm going to do on my ride home today

Try http://randomstreetview.com/#slideshow , and switch your browser to fullscreen modus.

Cool. Within a few minutes of clicking NEXT I started getting duplicates.

What's your randomizer? Maybe it's just me or maybe a lot of France looks the same but I swear I'm seeing a lot of repeats, perhaps as much as 1 in 20.

Interesting! A few things: - Some locations repeat after a short while - Not sure how the randomization is done, but some countries like Botswana and Bulgaria seem…

Ok now I'll spend my entire day on this! However, my friend also visited the website and guess what? The same sequence of streets was showed to him. How this random works?

Or not so random. I keep getting USA, Taiwan, Estonia and Sweden far more often than any other countries. Do they have the most streets? :P

Interesting! A few things: - Some locations repeat after a short while - Not sure how the randomization is done, but some countries like Botswana and Bulgaria seem…

I don't mean to gatecrash, but as I have been running a near identical site for a few years I feel compelled to comment. The street views generated on this site are not really…

This site does the same thing and has been around atleast a few years: http://www.globegenie.com/

Neat! There was a similar project here a few years ago: http://www.mapcrunch.com/ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3215460

I like this, but I am getting a lot of weird behavior. Sometimes clicking the image so I can pan it moves me to the previous image. Using the arrow keys sometimes pans the image,…

Yes. playing with it a bit more, it seems when clicking in a location that does not give you the circle (to move your position) that this happens. If the circle is there it…

Any thoughts to have the defined searched represented in the URL, so that I can link to say, my city's randomized street view? By default Random Street View puts the country in…

Can we go by city? PLEASE. I think you could charge something for this. Maybe a one-time fee.

I don't know if others suggested this but it might be interesting to define a rectangular region and it would only return views from inside that rectangle. Let's see how well I…

I'm getting lots of really pretty scenery in Bulgaria. So much that it's making me think about moving. I love this! People interested in mapping and computers may also like this…

You should weight the streets by population, as that is what people "experience".

Great! I am getting lots of beautiful scenery. An up vote/down vote or ratings system would be great, and then you could start compiling a list of the most beautiful (or…

I would love to see a like feature here to aggregate the most amazing pics around the world.

Ok now I'll spend my entire day on this! However, my friend also visited the website and guess what? The same sequence of streets was showed to him. How this random works?

What's your randomizer? Maybe it's just me or maybe a lot of France looks the same but I swear I'm seeing a lot of repeats, perhaps as much as 1 in 20.

Does it actually pick a completely random spot? Because the first one it showed me was a place I visited recently halfway around the world.

Are these user submitted or has google actually been there?

According to Wikipedia [1]: Areas not accessible by car, like pedestrian areas, narrow streets, alleys and ski resorts, are sometimes covered by Google Trikes (tricycles),[2]…

I don't mean to gatecrash, but as I have been running a near identical site for a few years I feel compelled to comment. The street views generated on this site are not really…

Neat! There was a similar project here a few years ago: http://www.mapcrunch.com/ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3215460

I've been enjoying a similar site, http://www.mapcrunch.com/, for 2 or 3 years. It is very well done. You can select one or many countries in the options menu. It's a great way…

http://geoguessr.com/

I don't have any objection to someone copying the concept of an existing site / service To be fair to the OP, nothing says it was copied from your site. They could have had the…

Reminds me of the fantastic game based around random street view: http://geoguessr.com/

This site does the same thing and has been around atleast a few years: http://www.globegenie.com/

I didn't say he copied my site directly (clearly the design is totally different), and even if he did I don't mind at all. My site wasn't the first, http://www.globegenie.com…

http://9-eyes.com/

A non-random Street View project that has some very interesting images. http://9-eyes.com/