Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View

Posted by cesare on Friday December 04, 2009 @05:21AM
from the maps.google.com dept.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pompeii,+italy+ruins&sll=40.716428,14.537315&sspn=0.061672,0.132351&ie=UTF8&hq=pompeii,+italy+ruins&hnear=&ll=40.748902,14.484834&spn=0,359.991728&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.748902,14.484834&panoid=1e-bu_kis-dL1BnVGZhDdw&cbp=12,209.48,,0,7.63

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by noisedom on Friday December 04, 2009 @12:43PM (#976804)

Speaking of cool places on google maps, check out Tristan Da Cunha, one of the most remote, inhabited places on Earth.

Link:

http://tinyurl.com/y88rku4

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by RyanMcGreal on Friday December 04, 2009 @08:52AM (#976319)

My hands get prickly when I think about some of the places that could get the Street View treatment: Marrakech, Morocco; Venezia, Italy; the Great Pyramids; heck, even the sewers of Paris.

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by mechanical_fish on Friday December 04, 2009 @09:10AM (#976346)

I need never leave my chair again!

Though, in fact, wandering through virtual Pompeii makes me really want to go back to Pompeii.

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by ugh on Friday December 04, 2009 @09:21AM (#976365)

Street view is great for reliving your holiday and correctly sorting all those photos you took - a perfect memory aid. Also: (exact) post hoc GPS tagging.

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by davidw on Friday December 04, 2009 @11:42AM (#976628)

Yeah, I've been curious about Venice for a while. That would be cool in so many ways.

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by z8000 on Saturday December 05, 2009 @10:33AM (#978135)

I don't think the google van would fit in most of the streets in Venice, and the van is too big to fit on a gondola :)

Venice is beautiful. I was just there on September.

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by davidw on Saturday December 05, 2009 @10:45AM (#978145)

Exactly - they'd have to create something just for Venice, by putting their gear onto the right kind of boat. Which is one of the ways that it would be cool.

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by drtse4 on Friday December 04, 2009 @09:17AM (#976360)

They've increased the coverage A LOT, expecially in the area around Milan. Next step the north est? With Verona, Venice, Udine, etc...

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by davidw on Friday December 04, 2009 @11:42AM (#976626)

Speriamo di si`! I want to be able to send friends and relatives in the US pictures of where I live in Padova.

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by csytan on Friday December 04, 2009 @01:24PM (#976900)

I wonder if the pictures were captured using this:

http://gizmodo.com/5255361/google-street-view-employs-high+t...

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by AndrewO on Friday December 04, 2009 @09:42AM (#976391)

A gold star to the first person who posts a link to Caecilius and Metella's house.

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by Luc on Friday December 04, 2009 @10:58AM (#976529)

Since I'm in withdrawal from gold star collection ever since I finished Super Mario Galaxy, I looked for it, and it turns out the street his villa is on hasn't been recorded in street view: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

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Re:Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View by AndrewO on Friday December 04, 2009 @11:25AM (#976580)

Agh, sorry: out of gold stars. Does an upvote work?

(BTW, that totally made my day. I love HN... :)

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