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 No.3407

Who else is still raging that Google decided to remove support for the Panoramio layer from Google Earth a few years ago? I used to love browsing Google Earth to find pictures from places without having to travel to them. But then Google decided to delete millions of photos and remove support for them, focusing on only allowing commercial enterprises to curate a limited number of pictures under a new initiative for tourism mostly. I wouldn't need to buy Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 if we still had the old features.

You used to be able to find a lot more pictures like this from random photographers. They also removed support for Picasa recently.
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 No.3408

>>3407
I thought the option to visit random places was still possible. Anyways google has been going downhill since like 2015+
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 No.3410

>>3408
You can visit random places, but not nearly as many as before There's still street view of course, but when you go into rural places or less developed countries….forget seeing much. Try zooming in on some part of Northern or central Africa. Six years ago you would find all kinds of photographs by volunteer photographers and tourists who went to mountains or cool places and uploaded their photos with GPS coordinates. Every part of the Earth had some pictures.

That's mostly gone now because they did a reboot. Except for the centralized pictures around hotels and hot springs, etc, you won't find nearly as accurate pictures of how places truly look. You just have the businesses' curated pictures now.
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 No.3419

>>3407
>raging about capitalism acting like capitalism
There’s no point to it really. Their class interests push them toward this eventually.
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 No.3420

>>3419
I feel like we're going to need an open source version of Google Earth someday.
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 No.3439

>>3420
We need an open sourced version of everything nowadays. Most of my games are free open souced stuff now.
I suspect in the future most people would even turn away from the internet and browse the dark web to escape the ever tightening hold of corporations on it.
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 No.3447

>>3420
Just nationalize Google tbh.
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 No.6711

>>3420
There was Mapillary, but then it got bought by Facebook
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 No.10838

>>3407
That was such a great feature. I remember fawning at beautiful places like beaches in Jamaica and Cuba.
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 No.11077

heh Mapillary is much better for this

also better than google street view which has shit-tier representation of real places (photos are heavily processed and normalized, so they all look identical, a photo from spain and from russia looks similar due to this)
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 No.11138

I'm still raging that google images forces you to actually visit websites before you can download high quality images, and it doesn't even jump straight to the image on the website, so if you're trying to get a picture from pinterest you have to log into pinterest to get an image.

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