https://blog.red7.com/life-imitates-google-earth-tg2009/ Communicating in a networked world Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.red7.com/life-imitates-google-earth-tg2009/#comment-104 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:26:19 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/?p=1741#comment-104 Now if only Google Street View would add smellovision we could smell the taco stand and the Mexican restaurants and that would give a heightened deja-vu to the experience!

]]> https://blog.red7.com/life-imitates-google-earth-tg2009/#comment-103 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:51:43 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/?p=1741#comment-103 I got totally the same effect when staying in Mission back in April- I had used Google street view to plot a walkng route from the Mission and 16th BART to where I was staying on Shotwell and 15th, and every step of the way was totally familiar- the shops, houses, cars people, everything. I think we forget just how much of an area’s atmosphere, mood and vibe these street view images contain. I wonder if we could analyse them to create a mood layer on maps?

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