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A real shame you can't click on the images to get to the location. But.. this, and the general quality of some of the shots, makes me wonder.. are these all from Google Street View or is it an art project that includes photos doctored to look like Google Street View? (Which wouldn't necessarily detract from it, IMHO.)

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The hitchhiker: https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=48.768...

Factory: https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=49.681...

Injured cow: https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=-23.34...

Kidnapping(?): https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=-23.63...

Convict on the run: https://www.google.com/maps/preview?z=17&layer=c&cbll=-26.40...

If anyone wants the locations of others I can probably find them.

The cow was probably not injured, it must have slipped on the tarmac. Pictures taken a little earlier and later show it on its feet. Before: https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.3494262,-48.185634,3a,40.5y...

Rigt before the fall: https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.3493408,-48.1856244,3a,75y,...

After: https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.3489688,-48.1855763,3a,23.4...

How do you find the locations?

I explained in a comment below.

You can find this one? http://41.media.tumblr.com/ebc8da7493f1f17844b1f969621bc3db/...

Curious of the origin.. might be an art project..

This one I don't recognise - sorry.

They are all either Google Street View or equivalents (Yandex in Russia for example).

The curator of this site is, I think, scouring several other websites which collect and display interesting Street Views, picking out those which are exceptional, then posting them on his own site without the location data or a source. Probably in the name of 'art'.

I know this because many of the images on 9-eyes were originally displayed on my own site, so I know where most of them are.

First picture (and some others) is in Brazil. Those running are street sales people ("camelôs") running from police because they sell pirate stuff (mostly sunglasses and movie DVDs). Police sometimes do the "rapa", it is like a "sweeping" to aprehend ilegal merchandising. So the camelos run with their merchandising and come back later that or other day to the same place to keep selling.

EDIT: the cardboards they are running with are like this (this one selling CDs with MP3 music): http://i1.r7.com/data/files/2C95/948E/3959/6CE2/0139/59E6/DA...

Pretty common in every brazilian big city.

> Pretty common in every brazilian big city.

Pretty common in most non-OECD countries! I saw it a lot personally in Africa, carpet full of small items like sunglasses as you say, when the police comes they take the 4 corners of the carpet, turn it into a big sack o' stuff and haul ass! Shopping resumes at another corner :)

There are Street View images that wasn't taken by the Street View car, for example inside airports:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/26/5147124/google-street-vie...

Also: Treks Journey beyond the road:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/street...

and you can expect even more wired angles:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/09/travel/google-street-view-...

I wonder if part of the reason is because the direct source was provided, it'd be not only much easier for Google itself to find and censor the image, but to prevent mobs of Internet users trying to "doxx" or otherwise prank businesses/residents of that location.

Obviously, Google probably doesn't need much help in performing a reverse image search across its own street imagery. However, the additional bad PR that comes from anonymous users targeting a locale would most definitely be a strong incentive for them to censor a particular Street View image.

This might be the case if this site were the original source of each image, but it is not.

After reading your comment I was wondering the same. Some have weird angles.

Then I saw this http://40.media.tumblr.com/895fd4acb119502f93ba099ad434de32/...

Which doesn't seem much like an art project. And is somewhere here in Mexico (the vehicle has 066 which is Mexican 911). So while I'm not sure about all, I guess some of those are real.

I wonder if we could crowdsource the locations. I recognized the Fuji-Q Highland one immediately, for example.

If you look at some of the other releases on the artist's website you can find some of the images with their locations included, e.g. http://googlestreetviews.com/16GoogleStreetViews.pdf.

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