Google Street View

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How about adopting for chasing.

I wonder if the system of cameras used to record this data for Streetview could be adopted for storm chasing in some way. The cameras have a really good view all around. If you play with the camera swivel a little, you can see that you can look nearly straight down at the pavement, and almost straight up in the sky....now wouldn't that be a kick butt way to chase and record a supercell.

Time for some research!
 
They did Tulsa last year , some of it during our ice storm cleanup. They caught me standing behind my vehicle talking with the neighbor.
 
Jason Foster said:
I wonder if the system of cameras used to record this data for Streetview could be adopted for storm chasing in some way. The cameras have a really good view all around. If you play with the camera swivel a little, you can see that you can look nearly straight down at the pavement, and almost straight up in the sky....now wouldn't that be a kick butt way to chase and record a supercell.

Time for some research!
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One of the things I thought about was damage assessments. I have heard those who are doing EF scale research and EF rating from the office lament that most of the people who take photos do so in such a narrow view that they are practically worthless. One of these camera systems would go far beyond the simple panoramic view.
 
LOL HERE is me (in my car) at my mail box. Hmmm lol what are the odds.

They also have a shot of my grandparents house and my late grandfather is sitting on the porch.

Cool but kinda scary.

Mick
 
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A guy I work with found one the other day from a small drive that went in between two semi trailers and ended up at a 3rd semi trailer, funny to think that they backed all the way into that for that shot.
 
I will have to look around but there was a thread on another site a few months ago about a drug deal that was caught going down.

I am going to be moving back to OK next year and have used this function from google many times to help me get around the Yukon / OKC area.
 
Interesting! Does anyone know how often GE updates their satellite view? A couple weeks ago a guy a work showed me street level viewing on his I-phone, so I looked up my house. At that time, the camera car had driven the major cross streets, but not the side streets like mine. (I guess more correctly I should say the information from the car had not been entered yet) The satellite view showed my old roof from 2005! So the satellite image had to be older than 3.5 years! Today, I checked and the street level view had been added for my street...and, now the new roof is visible on the satellite view. Even more interesting is in the street level view, it was garbage day and my cans are out and my truck is in the driveway. But, on the satellite view, my truck is gone and the cars on the street are all in different places. And from the guessing based on landscaping I did this year, the street level view was taken in the spring or summer just before the third week of July, as the landscaping doesn't show up. So there's obviously a lag. It was just funny to think that the satellite image was so old, and now it was updated incongruently with the street level view. Just a neat observation.
 
Yep here it is LOL to funny!

http://gawker.com/5004469/a-drug-deal-caught-from-every-angle

Here is one of the street view vehichles
goog-zoom-car.jpg
 
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