Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings. Unusual Google Maps sightings have become such a fascinating oddity that there's now a dedicated subreddit r/googlemaps shenanigans. “At least they were being safe and pulled over!” one user joked, while another added the pair had "no shame." Google Maps happened to catch an Aussie couple having sex on a car bonnet – and, once again, there was only one place to share such wild revelations: Reddit. From a "Big Foot" sighting in Russia, political statements etched on the Great Wall of China – and even frisky couples – we've seen it all. It's far from the first time street mapping features have picked up peculiar things. Google Maps car catches Bing Maps on the same street Google Mapsīing Maps has a face-off with Google Bing Maps
Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Meanwhile, another compared Bing's camera to a 2007 Google camera.Ī third joked about a missed opportunity: "Would think one of the companies would’ve photoshop the other company’s car to look like a clown car." "The quality of the photo taken by Google is far more better than that of Bing's," one said. In this article, we demonstrate how to to make an Imagery API Metadata URL request at a location on Earth and then use this request to piece together the raw tiles to create a panorama of that location. It has since been brought to the attention of Redditors, who jumped at the opportunity to criticise the varying camera qualities. The Bing Maps REST Imagery API now supports the retrieval of Streetside images. The stand off was first brought to light in an old Tumblr post, which showed the Google driver greeting his foe with a wave. The fateful encounter occurred in Minnesota when a Google Maps and Bing Maps car crossed paths and featured on the opposing company's map features. Geotagged photo platform Mapillary had opened its street-level imagery to OpenStreetMap editors as far back as 2014 too.An eagle-eyed viewer turned to Reddit after spotting two street-mapping cars on the same street, at the same time. The service was later rebranded as OpenStreetCam, at Google’s request.
It was basically a crowdsourced version of Google Street View, with users invited to upload imagery snapped on their mobile phones. OpenStreetCamĪ couple of years back, a dedicated OSM team at location-services giant Telenav announced OpenStreetView (OSV), a completely “free and open street-level imagery platform” designed for OpenStreetMap. In many ways, OSM is as good as Google Maps in terms of global coverage, but Google has other related smarts that set it apart - such as Google Earth and Street View, which offers users panoramic street-level imagery of roads, countryside, mountains, and more. For context, OSM doesn’t garner the same kind of attention as other mapping platforms, chiefly because it’s not designed as a consumer-focused service - it’s more of a backend that developers can use to integrate mapping services into their own applications.
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