[ExI] move bits not butts: google maps street view in europe and other places

Anders Sandberg anders at aleph.se
Thu Mar 3 00:35:32 UTC 2011


spike wrote:
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> Where can I find any European or Australian city which has street view 
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A lot of them have it; privacy-conscious Germany is far behind the 
surveillance state the United Kingdom.

Feel free to virtually drop by my home,
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.771478,-1.262677&spn=0.005617,0.027466&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.771384,-1.262668&panoid=bue4y_Smx_B75nzePTooNw&cbp=12,262.42,,0,-1.12
or virtually visit the really fun places of Oxford, like Edmund Halley's 
house
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.754461,-1.253245&panoid=UVAzmeIA_5zkKELTESvvWA&cbp=12,4.21,,0,-7.71&ll=51.754446,-1.253107&spn=0.001418,0.004823&z=18
the library
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.754477,-1.253866&panoid=dL-8bM7vqOlplI89IZchfQ&cbp=12,216.94,,0,-15.02&ll=51.754582,-1.253943&spn=0.001418,0.004823&z=18
the history of science museum
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.754483,-1.255518&panoid=_ZdfKBTMiQTWxOA878hMEw&cbp=12,160.22,,0,-19.63&ll=51.754416,-1.255939&spn=0.001418,0.004823&z=18
the natural history museum (where the Huxley-Wilberforce debate on 
evolution happened)
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.75815,-1.256561&panoid=j9ZT0tM1niceO-_Uvz-WQQ&cbp=12,37.09,,0,-10.12&ll=51.758228,-1.25661&spn=0.001418,0.004823&z=18
the lab where Boyle and Hooke worked
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.752723,-1.252364&panoid=Cz4xPEAh0bhXTBirXQI2Cg&cbp=12,173.88,,0,-5.61&ll=51.752729,-1.252221&spn=0.001418,0.004823&z=18
the bridge on top of which Robert Bacon had his lab (and demonstrated 
gunpowder and the scientific method)
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.746668,-1.256368&panoid=-afSokzqtxRCNqtEnKsYqA&cbp=12,167.42,,0,5.1&ll=51.746837,-1.25639&spn=0.001418,0.004823&z=18
or where the Future of Humanity Institute got its offices
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.749762,-1.259427&panoid=nFtFvzVJ0NCHtYP_hUViJQ&cbp=12,338.08,,0,-26.23&ll=51.749762,-1.259427&spn=0.001418,0.004823&z=18
(I know, I know. But *we* have modern offices and can look at beautiful 
Pembroke College, while they have medieval offices and have to look at 
our building! :-)

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University 




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