{"id":2132,"date":"2012-11-08T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T05:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-11-08\/2132"},"modified":"2012-11-08T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T05:02:55","slug":"vertigo-inducing-views-in-google-maps-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-11-08\/2132","title":{"rendered":"Vertigo-Inducing Views in Google Maps (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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<\/a>\nNagoya Japan's “Leaning Towers of Vertigo”<\/span>\n(screenshot taken in 2007)<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

In tidying up some of my blog infrastructure today, I came across<\/span> a\nshort<\/span> post that I wrote<\/span> in 2007 but had not published, so I'll go ahead and\nshare it now.<\/p>\n\n

I'm used to the sometimes-odd views one sees in Google Maps due to differing photos being stitched\ntogether<\/a> or other random oddness<\/a>, but\nsometimes the final effect still gives a startling<\/span> vertigo-like effect, as\nin the snippet above from Nagoya, Japan.<\/p>\n\n

The snippet above was captured in 2007. The current Google imagery for that location<\/a> also exhibits multiple different perspectives in\nvery close proximity, though the effect is not as pronounced as before. The stitching<\/span> is first class... I don't<\/span> see where they\nstitch the images together, but I wonder<\/span> why they would do it on a\nbuilding<\/span>-by-building basis. If the images<\/span> are from a satellite,<\/span> there seems to be at least three different perspectives,\nthough it's possible the images are from a low<\/span>-flying plane, in which case maybe there are only two perspectives. Hard to tell.<\/p>\n\n

The story of Google Maps from start to finish would be a fascinating<\/span> read.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In tidying up some of my blog infrastructure today, I came across a short post that I wrote in 2007 but had not published, so I'll go ahead and share it now.<\/p>

I'm used to the sometimes-odd views one sees in Google Maps due to differing photos being stitched together or other random oddness, but sometimes the final effect still gives a startling vertigo-like effect, as in the snippet above from Nagoya, Japan.<\/p>

The snippet above was captured in 2007. The current Google imagery for that location also exhibits multiple different perspectives in very close proximity, though the effect is [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}