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kirchhoffon Show HN: A curated collection of special locations in Google Street View

Thanks for the suggestion. I might put a small 3d globe in with a marker.

You can also click the Google logo at the bottom left to see the location on Google Maps.

kirchhoffon Show HN: A curated collection of special locations in Google Street View

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried to keep it as simple as possible, but I suppose a filter wouldn't add too much clutter.

kirchhoffon Show HN: A curated collection of special locations in Google Street View

Thanks for spotting that, I've fixed it now.

kirchhoffon Show HN: A curated collection of special locations in Google Street View

There are (currently) several thousand views, though I'm adding more!

kirchhoffon Show HN: A curated collection of special locations in Google Street View

There are some interesting, lesser known locations on Google Street View which I thought would be interesting to stroll around (virtually) during these times.

For example, one of my favourites is Battleship Island, an abandoned Japanese island which is being slowly taken back by nature.

https://streetviews.earth/@hashima-coal-mine-battleship-isla...

kirchhoffon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

https://random.earth

A simple way to discover interesting satellite imagery.

kirchhoffon Farewell, Google Maps

It's as much as a 28x increase in price. For Street View imagery, the cost has gone from $0.5 per 1000 views to $14 / 1000. Unlike with maps, Street View lacks a real alternative.

I'm seeing my own costs, for a site which I run on my own, rise from $1,500 / month to around $30,000 / month.

Their rationale is essentially that they did not want commercial users abusing their free tier. Before this change, they had been reaching out to such entities individually, offering their 'premium plan' service.

The pricing for the (old) premium plan was remarkably similar to the new pricing which now applies to everyone.

This pricing change has ended the era of Google Maps mashups / hobby projects.

kirchhoffon How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

The era of mashups / cool web projects using Google Maps has ended. Their recent 28x price change (from $0.50 / 1000 views to $14 per 1000) has been cleverly disguised by the simultaneous rebranding to the "Google Maps Platform".

kirchhoffon Google Maps Platform

I'm putting together statements from those affected by the huge price increase to send to the Google Maps product team as a joint message. If you'd like to add yours, please email me at nick@instantstreetview.com

kirchhoffon Google Maps Platform

When I spoke to the sales team last year, they admitted they had no appropriate plan to suit small, but popular projects.

They attempted to shoehorn me onto the premium plan but many aspects of it are geared toward larger entities - very steep initial cost (per map load) with discounts for huge volumes.

kirchhoffon Google Maps Platform

I run https://www.instantstreetview.com which does 100,000+ 'map loads' per day. The price for these has effectively increased by a factor of 28 ($0.50 -> $14 per 1000), which is completely unsustainable ($1,400 daily!)

kirchhoffon Understanding AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic

Which network?

kirchhoffon Keep Out – A WebGL Game

Neat game. Point of view seems to snap to 90 degree angles, which is a little... unnatural?

kirchhoffon Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

This breaks the back button.

kirchhoffon Show HN: Blank Slate, just start typing

Not a fan of overriding default shortcuts (ctrl-p)

kirchhoffon Scenes from Google Street View

This one I don't recognise - sorry.

kirchhoffon Scenes from Google Street View

I explained in a comment below.

kirchhoffon Scenes from Google Street View

The cow seems to be okay:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.3490669,-48.1855896,3a,75y,...

kirchhoffon Scenes from Google Street View

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

kirchhoffon Scenes from Google Street View

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.

kirchhoffon Scenes from Google Street View

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

kirchhoffon Scenes from Google Street View

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.

kirchhoffon Show HN: Find available domains related to your keyword

Seconded..

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For those wondering what the point of this is, it can be used as a form of 'instant search' for most websites, by using this sort of syntax:

[term] site:[url]

e.g.

nursery rhymes site:youtube.com

kirchhoffon Ask HN: What's the best domain you own that you aren't currently using?

Not sure? notesure.com

kirchhoffon Show HN: I hope you are getting fed up with speed readers for browser

That's a little unfair. Many interesting and useful projects / apps have been launched on HN.

kirchhoffon Show HN: Project ideas to do with your kids / students

As a parent I think it's neat.

kirchhoffon Show HN: An API for gender classification

John - 57.3% ?

kirchhoffon Show HN: Random Street View

I'll try to reproduce the problems you mentioned. There are some keyboard shortcuts - J and K for previous and next image, and G for go. Maybe these are being triggered somehow.

When you see stop(0) it might still be searching for a Street View, especially if you're using the map.

Thanks again.

kirchhoffon Show HN: Random Street View

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 was. I liked the concept and built an improved version.

My only point was that if you are going to take an existing idea, build something better.