Google Street View has changed the way that people interact with online maps as well as real cities. Controversial and illicit images as well as strange photographic glitches have only heightened the public’s fascination with this interactive panoramic mapping system. The now-infamous Google Street View van has captured embarrassing moments, created accidental celebrities and documented […]

Web Urbanist covers a variety of topics all related to the overarching theme of communities and design, online and offline. For those of you just tuning in, we thought this would be a good time to do a roundup of the best of Web Urbanist so far. As it turns out, there is an even […]

With so much focus on Google Street View privacy issues, many people have missed a whole subset of non-controversial but much more strange Street View images. Accidental recombinations and distortions on Street View images have resulted in something that could be mistaken for an art form.
Achitectural Splices: many of the most interesting images occur […]

If you thought the grainy satellite images of naked sunbathers from Google Earth were a borderline invasion of privacy, Google Street View takes things to a whole new level. This remarkable feature allows users to take virtual 360-degree panaromic walk-through tours of a city - starting with San Francisco, of course. However, it has already […]