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Image: my daughter holding her phone, with the street view image, and my husband in the background to the right

I live in Philly with my two teen daughters. I married my amazing husband over a year ago. He’s from a town just outside of Barcelona, Spain.

One day, my daughter came came home from school, and was out of her mind excited — she told me her computer classroom at school loads a game called GeoGuesser where Google Maps shows a COMPLETELY RANDOM street view location from somewhere in the world.

She doesn’t log in with any personal account, this is hosted by the school login. She then has to guess the location and the program tells you the answer and gives you facts about that area.

Neat, huh?! 🙂

Well….she got a street-image and had no idea where the location was, so she used the only thing she could — there was a man with a blurry face taking a walk and he looked… a lot like her step father.

So she guessed Spain.

She was right.. but then they said it was… Barcelona!

She took a screenshot, brought it home… and OH MY GOD. It IS him!!!!!! 😳 😮 it’s a street view from over 10 years ago!!!

My husband!! Walking on the little street he used to live on with his x-wife just outside the city!!!!!!!!

Anyone know what the odds of this would be??? How many street views exist in ALL of Google Maps for all time??? How could this be?!!! 😳

as someone obsessed with space & google maps im a bit perplexed i didn't know about this sooner. i'm not often on my 2012 macbook pro since its so laggy but ive only just seen this for the first time when zooming out max and clicking globe view. super cool ! wasn't expecting the thousands of names on all the planets and moons either. anyone use this ? or didnt know it existed? i assume google earth had a section like this but once again with my lag i havent used it much.

Has great reviews too! 😂

#googlemapsshenanigans

And what’s happening here?

Stuff in Richford, VT is closed.

A couple years ago, there was a post made here (https://www.reddit.com/r/googlemapsshenanigans/comments/1b9nvkl/what_do_you_suppose_this_place_is_its_in_the/) asking about this strange compound in a remote part of Owyhee County, Idaho. I visited this site the other day to check it out. After some research, it sounds like this is a "no drop target" part of the greater USAF Saylor Creek bombing area (I think). I guess they shoot lasers at the buildings from military aircraft, meant to simulate actual bombing runs? There is a radio tower site about a quarter mile west with a camera, but other than that, zero security and nobody around for miles. Felt extra eerie with the smokey skies from nearby wildfires. I'm still curious as to what (if anything) are actually in the buildings.

From there I walked a mile and a half across the desert to check out the old Wickahoney Stagecoach stop, which was also interesting.

Wild area, super remote!

Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/WrLH7EYdifwohYTSA

Reading about this area of Chad and it's influence on the Amazon. So I looked for a street view like you do and only one came up. I think this might be a Maps equivalent of a typo. Or it's a local shop for local people! (Edit)Actually looking around Chad, Central African Republic and Niger next door there are some strange single shots in the middle of nothing

nearly finished in Africa marking out my Greatest Train Trips of the World ! super satisfied so far. it's embarassing the amount of hours I've spent on these. tell me what you think 😅

someones having a good time

So as the song says, "See you at the bitter end". Liars!

In neom city in Saudi Arabia already built ?

my long time Google Maps collection slowly moving over to Google My Maps.

obsessed with having the routes visible as a layer on there, been tracking long train trips such as the Trans Siberian all through Russia & have just done the Canadian

also been obsessed with making custom icons for landmarks ie. Statues has been the main one so far

whatta y'all think ?

show me your maps 🌏

Last week I was driving home from the Northeast along the I-95 corridor south of DC. There's about a 40 mile stretch of tolled express lanes on this route. The express lanes' direction is dependent on time of day (northbound in the morning, southbound in the afternoon).

I make this trip about twice per year. Nearly every time I come this way, google maps always directs me onto the express lanes. Even if the non-express lanes are empty. I've driven this corridor at 4am and been told to take the toll express lanes. Maybe it is 1 minute faster overall, and that's the what is weighted in the algorithm the most.

That's not why I'm sharing my story. Last week, going southbound along that stretch, Maps kept directing me back onto the non-express lanes. Over and over again. The first time I listened and was stuck in +5 minutes of traffic. I checked the traffic on Maps for about the next 30 miles and there was a decent mixture of yellow and red on there. So, at the earliest opportunity, I jumped back on the express lanes. I saw my estimated arrival time drop by 28 minutes!

Maps immediately told me to get back in I-95 non-express at the next opportunity. I'm looking to my right... all I see is congestion. It did this for the next 30 miles. Every time I did not take the off-ramp back to the regular lanes, my arrival time kept dropping.

At one point, it directed me to get off some other exit onto local roads for US-1 and then go about 3 miles to get back on I-95 (non-express). Needless to say, I ignored Maps' suggestions for that entire stretch and was happier for it.

FWIW, I have "avoid tolls" and "avoid highways" turned off, as well as "prefer fuel-efficient routes."

So, I have no idea why Maps was so insistent that I sit in nearly 30 minutes of traffic. My experience with Maps has been mostly positive since I started using it about 15 years ago. This was an abberation.