The WORST Google Maps Feature
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2023
- If I talk about the good, it's only fair to also talk about the bad, right?
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How Google mapped street view for the entire ocean is beyond me.
ships with sonars can record pings off the sea-floor to determine height differences of the terrain. some ships send this info to google who then puts a line thru the ocean on the path of that ship. you cant really do this with satellites because light doesnt penetrate that far. its quite interesting :)
They drove underwater. Tire = move google cars are just built different.
3:25 Just as a note, new Germany coverage from 2022 is going to start being rolled out in mid-July this year and more coverage is being taken right now as well.
Yep. I could not be more excited :]
It makes sense now when rainbolt spotted the google maps car in his first day in germany
@@Romangtzm Yeah, he's going to be there!
Finally they are entering the 21st century. Good job, Germany!
@@Romangtzm They actually drove their cars all these years to help update the maps but never published the images.
Often you can see blurred elements on Bing maps or other mapping services. So most of the time it's always available just on another mapping service
Or go on google earth historical imagery
There are many locations in Sweden that should be blurred on Google Maps but aren't. National services have it blurred or clone stamped. But Google isn't doing it.
The circles in the desert are automated watering farms, and the bridge just prior was the small structure under the pin, it’s not a highway for cars but for wagons and stuff haha
it was comment bait
pretty sure including sarcasm on every other sentence is a primary trait of his persona on this channel.
@@sebbog fugggg xd
The Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental road in the United States. It was used by automobiles.
I thought spain moved color in the fifties😂😂😂
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If you zoom in, you can actually see the bridge on the satellite map. The Lincoln Highway was not a highway as we think of it today. It was the first road across the US in the 1920s. Hence the log bridge.
I know the US is a young country... and a _biiig_ country; still, it's weird to think that until some years after World War 1 you couldn't (easily) drive the length of the country! I wonder if prior to the Lincoln Highway it was still possible to drive, say, from New York City to San Francisco, it just meant you had to have a lot of good maps and were going to be asking a lot of locals for directions (as would be my guess)... Or was it like, say, modern day Alaska or Greenland in that if you want to go from Anchorage to Fairbanks, or Nuuk to Kangerlassuaq (excuse spelling!), you ain't going to be doing it by car, there literally _are no roads_ basically once you get outside the city limits?!
Of course back then, you had _trains..._ Nowadays you can cross the the Continental US (as in 'Lower 48') in pretty much any direction by car in a matter if days, probably without having to leave the expressway once, other than to sleep (assuming for whatever reason you can't fly.) Try going by train though, like they did in all those movies from the '40's and '50’s - you can't do it! Well, you probably can, but you'd need to mortgage your house and then get one of those slightly creepy 'Deep Blue' - type computers to work out the itinerary for you! Why, even the goods trains can't so much as get across Los Angeles today without being depredated by modern day pirates, like something out of the Mad Max movies..!
@@richiehoyt8487 If I want to go from New York City to San Francisco it would cost about $500 (much less than you'd spend on fuel if you drove that), and takes about 3.5 days (also faster than driving when you factor in needing to sleep).
@@wta1518 That's interesting, and I take your point. (While I would have been surprised if you _couldn't_ take the train from NY to SF, I'm slightly surprised you can do it so cost effectively! I assume that includes, if not your own cabin, at least some sort of bunk where you can stretch out? Whatever the case, as well as making up the time spent sleeping, you're also making substantial savings on accomodation, albeit probably to the detriment of your comfort. Although perhaps not, being spared the sounds of shooting what with the hooker being murdered in the room on one side and the drug deal going wrong on the other! 😜Sorry - little jape there at the expense of American motels! At least all that TV I watched made up for the time missed at school, HaHa! Also, are we talking about "Walk up to the desk" prices, or Super Apex (or whatever you call it there!) or what?
I'm not sure you've entirely negated my point though (not that I'm viewing this as a competition, not at all, but you know what I mean!)... It is true that the rail network was decimated in the 50's and 60's here in the British Isles as well (and certainly the way Irish Rail is run is a total joke!) but to me it's scandalous that so many of America's second and third rate cities (I mean that strictly in the sense of population size, rather than in the guidebook sense!) no longer even _have_ a train station! I'm thinking of places like Akron and Buffalo. I haven't checked and I may be wrong - I mean I can scarcely believe it myself, if true - but I'm sure I heard only the other day that _Detroit,_ still what I would think of a first rate city in spite of the travails and depopulation of recent decades, no longer has a main railway station! The idea that places in the UK or Ireland the size of even those first two named cities, hell, towns a fraction that size, would not have a rail connection would leave people shaking their head in disbelief! I do realize that the British Isles are tiny in comparison with the USA (and more densely populated) but it seems to me, that could be used as an argument _for_ as much as against car travel!
Just incidentally, my Dad, even as I write, is just now finishing a tripfrom Montreal (I think, maybe Toronto) to Vancouver and back by train. (Yes, I know that's the neighbours!) I dunno what it cost him, quite a bit more than 500 bucks, I'm pretty sure! From what he tells me, the train, though comfortable (where the state of the track allows), if it's not from the '50's, then it ought to be! No internet, half the time no cell signal even. But then again, for him, that kinda stuff is half the point. Anyway, sorry, I realize this is quite the lengthy 'tract', hope it didn't make you come over too much TL/DR!
I heard that the colour of the ocean on Google Maps isn't from actual colour photographs, but the brightness represents sea depth information (collected by other means), since there's otherwise very little to display for the sea.
Google just announced they start Street View mapping again in Germany
They already did in late 2022, they're just mapping more of it now. It's going to start rolling out sometime in mid-July!
Well, there has been unofficial coverage in a few places by users. Imagine playing GeoGuessr and guessing Austria but its actually Germany.
Street view is also coming to India and Croatia (updated from 2012).
@@annabelholland There has been official coverage by Google in Germany from 2009. Also, Croatia has always had coverage and they already have it from this year. India was released a long time ago now.
@@MrSharkFIN I said Croatia - 'updated from 2012' meaning that until recently, street view was available in most places but the images were taken in 2011 and 2012. And with India, it only started in 2021
The reason why I said 'imagine playing GeoGuessr' is because it would be surprising for players seeing an updated version of Germany but guesses Austria as they are unaware. Plus, im aware that Germany does have few official coverage: its just in the 20 largest cities and its outdated.
@@annabelholland Croatia has had many batches of coverage since 2012. India's newest coverage was released almost a year ago now.
The feature I' d like to have is virtual cruise control in streetview, click one button once and keep moving until you give it a stop signal.
The Lincoln Highway is a very long, skinny ruin. It was a privately funded trans-continental automobile road that was connected up (using lots of local roads where possible) before the US government started making roads for automobiles.
I've seen many islands that just don't have any visible satellite data at all... You find the island and turn on satellite view and the Island is nowhere to be found; just some very low quality blue ocean.
The entire south east China sea is blurred the islands on there lmao
Usually they're military bases. Or it's just so remote that no one cares about it so it's never gotten high quality images
12:55 the bridge is actually there, you can see its shadow LMAO
Things I wouldn't probably notice if it weren't for Toycat.
At 8:25 - "This is a bike lane as well as a bus lane."
Oh no!!!
“Are they rich or are they bad at using land” lol
Okay that’s funny. You win the internet today.
found a redditor outside of their goon cave today, hope you don't kys because your cave's down for 48 hours.
@@rsxramin what would make you say that to someone?
@@heatshield elon musk profile pic with the classic, "Okay, that's funny chungles 100 keanu sigma dogepilled" and "You win the internet today, kind stranger narwhals at chungus"
@@rsxramin lmaooo
@@rsxramin you barely said words. I’m pretty sure you’re the “redditor outside their goon cage”. That was really tough to follow. You’re a walking hopeful meme generator.
Thanks for exposing me to how people like you really work.
You should go to a Google Earth and check different years in which satellite images were taken. Weird colors suddenly appearing might be very much a... cloud covering this spot. So they took a fragment of a picture from a different year in which they photographed this area. And this is why colors differ like this.
Also I bet many pictures are not really taken from satellite, but from planes.
Would love to see a video using other mapping services that are used in different countries
Yes, compare Google Maps and Eniro for how Sweden looks, both regular maps and the sattelite maps.
10:53 was I the only one spotting this out? how did he not notice it LMAO
The 3D view is not provided by satellites, they have to fly a plane around to capture that, and they don’t do it for most places
The green circles are from central irrigation systems.
We have them all over the west in the us.
"Satellite" view has different colors because it's a patchwork of data taken at different times, with different resolutions, different altitudes (it's aerial imagery not satellite imagery), time of year, time of day, lighting conditions, ect. It shouldn't take a PhD to figure this out.
ec tetera
Google maps is toycats’ excel or word for the rest of us office workers lol
The black boxes are chunk errors like in Minecraft
It's called remote sensing, and it's a mess. You always have issues.
You have to work with a lot of imaginery, from different time and different resolution.
You need to filter the clouds and many things. That why you see 2 pictures close to to each others.
To save power, google dont show the ocean and water except when it's close to land. Sometimes they forget some bits
For the 3D feature of google Earth, it's something oh boy.
You need to create a digital terrain model (DTM) and a digital ground model (DGT) among others thing. To do that you need to use multiple imagery from a place when the satelite isnt diretcly above the ground. to use the hight of the buildings, as a reference to recreate the ground and terrain. It's a lot of compution, that's why only big cities* have one as of right now. As they are more likly to be view
Finally a comment with answers
@@principalmcvicker6530 i can go into more details, but i have to translate it to english, and invest more time so ...
Also, it's DEM, not DGM
I just left a review for a random crater in Nevada that I’ve never been too, the review was “Hot, and no tea scam” crater was called teapot crater btw
Another excellent video for background noise thank you toycat!
As an American I can't believe you consider detatched houses to be something that either means you're rich or bad at using land. Here in MURICA it's just normal, we don't wanna hear our neighbors
I the U.S. it almost always means the latter. It mostly explains why American cities are bankrupt
That is bad land usage
I spend a lot of time in hotels and every time I hear the people above me doing gymnastics as I'm trying to go to sleep, it makes me think I should trade in my detached house for an apartment so I'll never have to suffer through a peaceful night of sleep again.
Yeah, in the UK detached houses are expensive
That has more to do with your thin walls than being attached. In most of Europe you wouldn't have that problem even in a lot of apartments because of thicker walls.
Its mostly because its old and new satelite images put toghether like a puzzle
That blurred place in Almeria is the Ministry of Defence.
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
Germany getting street view this year toycat after 10 year privacy block
13 years!
Low resolution areas are usually final approaches to major airports so hard to get overflight slots
Unrelated question, am I the only person that first unloads a single dishwasher tray to the counter, puts everything in its place and then repeats the same step with the other tray? I'm usually the one that puts the dishes away so when I see my sister taking the plates and utensils and putting them on the cabinets one by one, I get secretly annoyed.
Why don't you just take them straight from the dishwasher to where they go?
Double handling should be avoided to save time... Sister's right lol
14:00 the bridge was exactly under the red pin on the map andrew im getting worried about ur eyesight 😭
or u saw it and i just made fun of myself DONT DO THIS TO ME AAAGH
10:57 lmao they're flipping off the google car and it's blurred a bit tooooo
Fun fact: Google's 3D models of buildings and trees (not terrain) don't update as often as regular satellite imagery does.
In other news water is wet....
14:04 the red marker is covering up the whole woden bridge.
9:38 It annoys me that all of Washington DC is flat aswel. The washington mounument looks so boring when its just laying flat. Kind of defeats the hole point of it
[on detached single family homes] “are they rich or are they just very bad at using land?”
If you look at Chicago O'hare Airport, the outdated long-distance shot and up-to-date closer shot, once you zoom in the new runways magically appear.
those circles are irrigation systems on farms. you’ll see them all over eastern washington state as well
Starting June 22nd new streetview is being published in germany
11:49 You don’t need to copy and paste the coordinates. If you click on them in Wikipedia it offers you hyperlinks to a whole range of mapping services in which you can open it.
I’m just happy we get what we have already even if it’s a hodgepodge of maps
There are many places in Canada that if you look at are just a small piece of winter imagery in the middle of summer imagery. It’s does not look good
2cat has now been confirmed being in my area and has spoken about my local DLR station.
I am complete.
I don't like that damn side bar that takes up half the map and ya gotta keep tapping the map trying to get it to collapse. And also if you look up an area, say a city and then you wanna check out a particular fearure in the city, then drop a pin on something else nearby, Google will home the whole map back to the city instead of the features you wanna check out. So annoying to try to find the point where you were.
8:08 thats actually not true. this is not 100% satelite imagery.
the biggest part here is that the ocean is not actually the ocean. its just a blue canvas with the ocean floor relief map overlayed onto it. thats why you can see so clear borders from *actual* water images in so many places.
another example is the lack of north pole ice - even the permafrost that never melts is displayed as water on google earth.
"Wow, you know whats in Chester?" NOTHING
Speaking of kebobs, one of the best things about having to go in to the office a few times a week is that I have better opportunities to get Middle Eastern food. Just walked across the parking lot at work and got a nice chicken shawarma pita yesterday. Mmmm.
Good Street View is finally coming to Germany after 10 years
*15 years
4:04 most casually savage insult toycat has ever dropped
The censored place in Spain at 11:12 is for some reason not censored on Mapquest. The resolution is not that great but what you see is just reguar buildings.
Google Earth on the iPad is in my experience Superior. As everything is controlled with your hands and therefore manipulation of the map becomes a very easy.
has nothing to do with this problem
3d data comes directly from planes (and sometimes drones) that actually fly over cities to map them in 3d.
That's why a lot of places close to cities aren't mapped in 3d, simply because either, they couldn't fly a plane over that region (like heavy industrial areas or restricted areas where they haven't gotten a permit) and it's also why it isn't updated as frequently (usually every 3-4 years) because it's expensive
If you want more info on how its done search for "LIDAR".
It’s also google earths BEST feature as it allows the more than 1 data source. It’s what makes it possible in the first place
well the tweet says "you will be able to"
trying not to think of anything is actually pretty hard for anyone, empty your mind kinda thing.
MOST people when doing mundane tasks, will occupy their bored mind by thinking of stuff, for sure. nobody does dishes like a robot without any thoughts.
unironically I had the same exact greenland related problem in the beginning
Google Maps being banned in South Korea made my trip there earlier this year impossibly hard.
You can actually see the blurred areas in detail from above on Google Earth Pro
In some of your videos, you say that this is your 2nd channel, so you don't care about it. Yet I really like it.
Germany is currently scanned for street view, not sure how much will make it to maps in the end though
I love this channel
3:24 Google recently announced a new update that Germany is going to get new Gen 4 street view coverage all around the country, not only in major cities.
3:44 germany now has Streetview
TLDR: 0:50 9:35 14:40 18:35
Video suggestions to ibx2cat: UE5 importing entire globe 🌍The website that lets you drive around on Google maps 🚗 Saw both somewhere on TikTok.
lets get a lamborghini Kebab for Toy Cat. LOL
Fun fact: The ocean isn't just very blurry, it's actually a topographic map of the ocean floor.
Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Otto Witt from the film Zulu?
AFAIK the 3d view (and other really hi-res areas) is actually made from aerial photography, not satellites, and the photos are made at an angle from 4 sides to get the 3d.
im glad i live in a country without bad privacy laws and with good 2d and 3d imaging, despite the fact that almost everything here is a disaster
A fun fact that happens to me, if I spend a few minutes looking at Hawai archipelago and the airport military bases in there, or random usa airports, (I like planes) at some point googlemaps will stop loadding the maps, everithing will stay blurry and unloaded. Then it only will become to normal after a refresh and a captha will apear. hahahaha. PS: I'm from Brazil, so maybe its my far IP location or a "security factor" in google. LOL
'Captchas'? Oh you poor, poor man. Wouldn't wish 'em on my worst enemy!
Yess I love the google map videos
Germany is finally on Google Street view! Most of the road have been added. you should make a video on that.
that was a hell of a ride again xD
it's not a bug, it's a feature!
0:53 Australia didn't get colour TV until 1974
another tip: you can click the little yellow guy instead of click and hold, all the street view coverage and photospheres stays on so you can just click it ;)
16:30 xD
and there's lots of photospheres that doesn't work too
One thing I hate too about Google Earth is that a lot of images are old like from 2018.
Actually all of the high quality images are plane flyovers from pilots in training (to get in their minimum hours). Plus they aren't colour corrected.
Everything that is prisons and military building are blury
1:25 do the gray street view please
16:39 It's the lovin' puffin way!
(Please tell me someone understands my reference!)
no soyface in the thumbnail?
Wake up Andrew! You should be livestreaming the Prigozhin thing!
R.I.P. Great Kebab 😞
I don't think the Australian islands are blured....
spain really wanted that place censored 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Pretty sure they fixed google maps in South Korea, if you go to map view it looks normal now
this is why google earth is superior like cmon i dare you to find this type of stuff on google earth
Been trying to find contact info for you as I have a question you may want to answer, or maybe already have...
If Purnuskes in Lithuania is the centre of Europe how are countries like Poland and Hungry are in the East? Aren't most European countries in the South West of Europe?, how is Portugal in Southern Europe, surely it is in the west
Although I am sure I have seen a sign in Poland claiming to be the centre of Europe?
Remember he showed us all this on google earth.
The Wearth.
google maps had to stop because they were cellecting wlaninformation of the houses along the way without consent or any notice. plus that huge number of people didn´t wanted their houses on streetview.
Yay Tooele (Too-will-uh) County, Utah, USA, where I live!
Fun fact : Mars map has higher resolution than most of the ocean
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The red dot hid the historic Highway Bridge, toycat 😉
10:57 What did he mean with this joke?
germany is actually coming to google maps this year, which is really big news on geoguessr! so full german coverage is coming!!!!
I'm so excited for the germany dlc
is there a tiktok of you on a driving lesson?