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Just as Google street view allows you to wander the streets of
cities, Google Tube view allows you to explore their
underground train networks.
Instead of a car traveling the length and breadth of a city, an
army of camera carrying equivalents would explore and
record every stairwell, lift,
escalator, train platform,
passageway, entrance and exit. This means that any visitor to
an unfamiliar city with a complex underground train system,
could rehearse or even print out images of their anticipated
journey in advance.
very much like
Google_20MoleView
the difference being "visitor to the city" attractions vs. "undead" [FlyingToaster, Oct 12 2011]
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[+] Please start with London, moving on to Boston. This
poor country boy has never been more lost than when
trying to navigate these underground warrens, to the great
annoyance of his wife. |
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I'd like aircon ducting version too. Just in case [+] |
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Wondering what a TV dinner feels like? |
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Google's fitting moles with cameras, now? |
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Ah, one of the Borgs' little gems. Figures. |
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nah, this'un includes elevators and stairs for people to know where they're going, that'un includes pipes and stuff for other people to not know where you're going. |
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Yeah, this is actually a useful idea. GoogleMole really only
has a practical application for moles. |
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+ This could be expanded to cover many publicly accessible locations. For example: malls, hospitals, stadiums, college campuses, parks. From street view, some doors, buildings, and walking paths could be highlighted when you mouse over them, so you click to walk in. |
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Madrid could definitely use it. The interchange stations are
rats nests (at least the couple I just used). And I'm
including NYC, London, and Boston for comparison (DC and
Rome also, but they're both logically laid out in the
stations. |
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We didn't ride the subways when I was in Madrid, but if
they're anything like the surface streets... Yikes. I've been
to quite a few Olde Worlde cities and I understand that the
2,000-year-accretion school of urban planning can result in
some bizarre street plans (Venice, York, etc.), but Madrid
has to be one of the most confusing. Fortunately, we had a
local to drive us around, not a luxury I've been able to
enjoy on other occasions. |
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This is not the same idea as "mole" view, which I was well aware of. Tube View is quite specific in its scope, and method of delivery, and offers a very particular solution to a singular problem. I associate mole view with the various tunnels and sewerage pipe systems. Tube View is for travellers, and not moles. |
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You forgot the part about how Moleview is utterly useless
crap, whereas this idea is valid and serious and would be
very useful to millions of people if fully baked. That's a
very important distinction in this context. |
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// I'd like aircon ducting version too. Just in case // |
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Better include the Jefferies tubes, as well. |
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// would be very useful to millions of people // |
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And one directionally-challenged hilbilly, it would seem ... |
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//rehearse// How many people (halfbakers
excepted), would *rehearse* a
subway/underground/metro station in preparation
for a trip abroad? |
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[+] because it would give rise to a new online
game.
I picture Bolivians competing against Uighurs, in
VR,
for fastest change from IRT to IND at the Port
Authority station. Now, how to justify random
bystanders to dodge around? |
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[scad_mientist], I can't find the link now, but Google
Maps has done some college football (and probably
other sport) stadiums. -- the playing fields at least. |
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I like this idea [+], and MoleView [+], and a few other
like them [+], but they're all MFD magic. Google
explicitly wants to do this type of thing, but there is no
feasible way to do it on a mass scale. The vehiculo-
mechanical technology would be legion (what is an
army of camera carrying equivalents?), as would the
requests for permission (and keys) to restricted areas in
the case of MoleView and others. |
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For now, the best available options are Urban
Exploration photo websites. |
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// And one directionally-challenged hilbilly, it would seem
... // |
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I have a better intuitive sense of direction than any other
man alive. Bar none. |
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Except when I'm in a city. |
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//but they're all MFD magic// I disagree. The resources of Google make Google Tube entirely feasible. Many underground systems are shut down at night. A single person could fully document even the largest of one of London's tube stations on any night when it was empty of passengers. Multiply that by ten and the whole operation could be carried out in 26 nights for the entire network. |
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The idea is NOT about the tunnels, and I never used the word "tunnels" in the descriptor, so I thought that was clear. It's about the passenger areas only. |
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//Wondering what a TV dinner feels like?// |
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Nice [Alterother]. Incidentally, they announced the
fifth film in the series today. I guarantee, and I'm
willing to electronically shake on it, there won't be a
single line as witty as any in the original
masterpiece. |
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[xenzag] thank you for that important clarification. On first read, I was definitely left with the impression that the idea was about the tunnels, I think because of the use of the phrase "underground train networks". Now that I know the idea is not about tunnels, I can see its usefulness. |
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<considers idea of surreptitiously revising" mole view" to
encompass this idea too, thenn suing for plagiarism> |
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// there won't be a single line as witty as any in the
original masterpiece. // |
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Agreed. But there will be explosions, gunfire, and a loose
semblance of a plot, more than enough to captivate my
attention for 110min or so. |
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// <considers idea of surreptitiously revising" mole view"
// |
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It's too late, Borg. My ingenious smear campaign has
already done its damage. Concede this one and move on to
the next round. |
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// move on to the next round // |
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<caCLICK-SNICK - snickCLUNK ... tinkle tinkle> |
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Sorted - one up the spout. Now, don't do anything unsporting, like ducking ... |
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Anyone see where that spent casing went ? |
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I think it landed over in 'product: firearm: loose brass'
category. |
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so this is about tunnels then ? |
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I'm sorry, the Borg and I are at each other again.
Apparently there are several Halfbakers who didn't get the
memo, so don't feel bad. |
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eh ? no, I was just teasing 21Q... might want to call it Google Subway View. |
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Oh, I thought you meant the devolution of the annos into a
series of petty insults and idle threats. |
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