Google Maps hack creates urban jungle out of Street View

If you’ve wondered what our cities would look like post-apocalypse, a new hack for Google Maps gives you a peek of what that world would be like. Urban Jungle Street View gives you a look into concrete jungles filled with vegetation and whatnot. Einar Öberg designed the experiment with the use of Google Street View’s depth data. It helped him plot the grasses and trees on the road and have ivy crawling up buildings. It can supposedly work in any location but you would probably see greater effects in city centers.

Source: CNET

Google Street View goes underwater and it's awesome

Google has just added select Street View features for parts of the Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii and the Philippines. The maps show the splendor of reef life and allow viewers to move around and discover the selected areas. Google partnered with The Catlin Seaview Survey to capture and map the enthralling underwater landscapes.

Google Street View goes to the Arctic

On August 22nd and 23rd, the Google Street View team is traveling above Canada's Arctic circle to the remote Inuit hamlet of Cambridge Bay. It is Google's first visit to the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Working closely with the community of Cambridge Bay and members of the Nunavut government, the goal of this project is to share with a global online audience the beauty of Canada’s Arctic and the culture of the Inuit people who live there.

Click to read more ...