Google Mapping Car

CaminoQuilter · Mar 21, 2016

On October 2, 2015 while I was walking between Nájera and Azofra, a Google Mapping Car passed me. I was carrying a SPOT device so I marked the spot to check later. Well, today I found me! It's really cool because you can "walk" up the road in Google and see just what I saw that day. They blur out faces and license plate numbers to protect privacy, but still -- It's me! Really! On the Camino!

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.417...xnNof4PyNPX2Lps5NlhA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

How cool is that?

whariwharangi · Mar 21, 2016

Just think of the weight you could have saved leaving your camera at home.

CaminoQuilter · Mar 22, 2016

whariwharangi said:
Just think of the weight you could have saved leaving your camera at home.

And, going down that train of thought, I could've just stayed home and taken the "Google walk" from my couch!

dougfitz · Mar 22, 2016

CaminoQuilter said:
And, going down that train of thought, I could've just stayed home and taken the "Google walk" from my couch!

... and I have been. It is much greener than when I walked.

CaminoQuilter · Mar 22, 2016

dougfitz said:
... and I have been. It is much greener than when I walked.

What time of year did you walk?

dougfitz · Mar 22, 2016

CaminoQuilter said:
What time of year did you walk?

I started at the end of March, and arrived in Santiago in early May.

HeidiL · Mar 22, 2016

That's SO cool! I just spent several minutes clicking along the Camino, wanting to start walking again...

trecile · Mar 22, 2016

CaminoQuilter said:
On October 2, 2015 while I was walking between Nájera and Azofra, a Google Mapping Car passed me. I was carrying a SPOT device so I marked the spot to check later. Well, today I found me! It's really cool because you can "walk" up the road in Google and see just what I saw that day. They blur out faces and license plate numbers to protect privacy, but still -- It's me! Really! On the Camino!

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.417...xnNof4PyNPX2Lps5NlhA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

How cool is that?

What is a SPOT device?

whariwharangi · Mar 22, 2016

trecile said:
What is a SPOT device?

wikipedia: "SPOT is a GPS tracking device that uses the Globalstar satellite network to provide text messaging and GPS tracking (depending on the subscription type purchased). It has a coverage area that includes a large portion of the planet, with the following exceptions: extreme northern and southern latitudes, parts of pacific ocean. SPOT is simplex and cannot receive user data."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_Satellite_Messenger

mylifeonvacation · Mar 22, 2016

That is so cool!

AlwynWellington · Mar 23, 2016

Cool

And great they are doing walker only parts of the Camino.

Below here has nothing to do with any Camino.
It is another example of Street View captured NOT on a car infested street.
Rather it is taken from in front on an engine of the Rhaetian Railway in the vicinity of Davos, Switzerland.
https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@46.7..._vby-JPoBJbqRVmhcw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

jirit · Mar 23, 2016

Google street view can sometimes go beyond a simple "street view".

The following are photos from Google street view of a cafe and albergue in Portomarin along the Camino. The four photos show the view of the cafe from the street ( the classic Google street view) followed by close up of the entrance, the inside and finally a view from the back cafe and bar overlooking the river.

LesBrass · Mar 23, 2016

What a great souvenier!

We unfortunatly had the google car visit our house and in the garden at the back of our house is a line full of our undies

Fletchonides · Mar 23, 2016

That's great.

Al the optimist · Mar 23, 2016

What a wonderful Camino present!
LesBrass - You should be familiar with people seeing your undies after all those albergue washing lines?

Caminofácil · Mar 23, 2016

That's really cool!

I wonder if one could write Google asking for them to unblur your face in this particular case. "No, really, I don't care about my privacy here; in fact, I willingly surrender it in exchange for bragging rights..."

thomryng · Mar 25, 2016

That's too cool!

luvtraveling · Mar 26, 2016

CaminoQuilter said:
On October 2, 2015 while I was walking between Nájera and Azofra, a Google Mapping Car passed me. I was carrying a SPOT device so I marked the spot to check later. Well, today I found me! It's really cool because you can "walk" up the road in Google and see just what I saw that day. They blur out faces and license plate numbers to protect privacy, but still -- It's me! Really! On the Camino!

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.417...xnNof4PyNPX2Lps5NlhA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

How cool is that?

Very cool!
Any particular reason for carrying the SPOT device?

rappahannock_rev · Mar 26, 2016

CaminoQuilter said:
And, going down that train of thought, I could've just stayed home and taken the "Google walk" from my couch!

Done that!

wotbus@ · Jun 2, 2016

CaminoQuilter said:
On October 2, 2015 while I was walking between Nájera and Azofra, a Google Mapping Car passed me. I was carrying a SPOT device so I marked the spot to check later. Well, today I found me! It's really cool because you can "walk" up the road in Google and see just what I saw that day. They blur out faces and license plate numbers to protect privacy, but still -- It's me! Really! On the Camino!

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.417...xnNof4PyNPX2Lps5NlhA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

How cool is that?

Well that is really, really cool, bravo
I click around the CF each day after I get a position report from my partner and each walker/cyclist I see, embedded forever in the Google archives, are probably people who indeed use this forum and don't yet know they are there. I was certain I saw my partner one day, how un-cool is that LOL ;-)
Congrats

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