Showing posts with label glitches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glitches. Show all posts

Monday

More Google Street View Glitches

I was looking at the offices where I'm going to be doing my work placement next term on Google Street View and came across yet more amusing glitches.
I've got a three week work placement at the media agency Mindshare in London which I'm really excited about; they have a cool new office in the Central St Giles complex just off Tottenham Court Road, sharing the building with Google's offices which is quite exciting.
First of all, it seems that everyone had prepared for the Google Street View car to come round, those people dressed up are possibly Google employee's from the building, which would explain how they knew about the car coming.



I found it quite amusing that one guy had made himself a Google place marker sign to hold. When I first saw it I thought it was a real one and was very confused!



What's going on here?!
I didn't know that certain people's places had to be blurred out on Street View, or perhaps it's another glitch.



The effect is especially weird in the image below, with people's heads being all normal but then something strange happening to their bodies and legs...





Friday

Google Street View Glitches

When I went on to street view on the Google Fusion map I'd made of the most visited restaurants in Brighton I saw some really weird (and cool) stuff. I seemed to find a lot more glitches than you'd usually find when looking on regular Google Maps.
I've screenshotted quite a few images, like the view of the South Lanes below, where images of people have gone really strange and appear blurred and ghost like. Aside from the main guy in the orange top you can also see another ghost like man to the far right of the image, really faint and almost like a shadow...


The same can be seen in the image below...


Something really strange has happened to that car on Prince Albert Street...
It's kind of like all the deformed images of airplanes you can find on Google Maps.


On top of all this I encountered an even weirder thing when I clicked on the exact location of one of the restaurants I had marked. Instead of taking me to a view of the street outside the restaurant Food For Friends, Google street view actually took me right inside the restaurant!
I have not heard of this happening before and didn't know it was possible as the Google street view car doesn't go inside buildings.




It felt very surreal to be virtually inside the restaurant (in a literal sense) and looking out onto the street, rather than the other way round...


Wednesday

Problems...

I've just noticed an interesting occurrence on my blog. Ever since adding the posts with the Scribble Maps my blog seems to have stopped working properly. The sidebar is not showing up at the side on the homepage and any links on the page seem to have stopped working.
However, if you go onto one of the other pages listed along the top, such as 'Theory and Readings', everything is working fine there, meaning it is just the home page with all the regular blogposts on.
This is just slightly frustrating but I thought it's quite interesting as it's an example of a kind of glitch in the system. Perhaps Scribble Maps is too much for the page to handle and it's rejecting the maps by breaking my page!
I may have to create a whole separate page for the maps as I can't really have a blog that doesn't properly work...