Ruins of Pompeii now on Google Streetview

[Adsos Letter]

SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun
By Gus Sentementes

This is cool: Google mapped and photographed the ruins of ancient Pompeii in Italy.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/technology/2009/12/ruins_of_pompeii_now_on_google.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. Interestingly, the Pompei views are populated, while most US cities look abandoned!!!

Except for the rare dude passed out on the sidewalk. :P

Here's a direct link:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=pompeii,+italy+ruins&sll=40.716428,14.537315&sspn=0.061672,0.132351&ie=UTF8&hq=pompeii,+italy+ruins&hnear=&t=h&layer=c&cbll=40.749007,14.48511&panoid=lGoj7fyWbv--5qCYMvNzSQ&cbp=12,212.48,,0,5&ll=40.748788,14.488539&spn=0,359.990355&z=17

:patriot:

[Adsos Letter]

2. Thanks for the direct link!

:thumbsup:

[gateley]

3. Oh, how cool -- thanks!! nt

[Jamastiene]

4. w00t! Adsos Letter is posting more fun threads.

I love these. :)

[starroute]

5. I'd love to see Google views for past eras

Can you imagine, say a Google version of the world around 1750? Stroll around the streets or London or Paris, take a hop over to colonial Boston or New York, view the back alleys of Beijing or the walls of the Forbidden City...

I don't know how doable it would be for large areas of the world, but there are certainly enough old maps and aerial perspectives and paintings to recreate the public spaces of the major cities. And boy, would it be cool.

[Cleita]

12. Or you could invent a time machine.

;-)

[tonysam]

6. Great. I was there a couple of years ago

It's really a fascinating tour. My nephew played our tour guide, you might say, and he did a great job of it.

I will always remember the dogs near the entrance of the ruins. There were perhaps a dozen or a couple of dozen of them, including one dog who had obviously had puppies (which of course were removed so people couldn't take them). The dogs are part of the national park, and it is said some of them are descendants of the original dogs from the time Pompeii was destroyed. They would come around and look for food to eat from the many tourists.

[malaise]

7. Thanks for this

Rec

[Starry Messenger]

8. Ooh!!

Thank you!

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. Here's a shot of Mark Sanford picking up a prostitute on the streets of Italy

made ya look.

[mainer]

10. Thanks! This is great!

I've been to Pompeii twice, but could never stay as long as I wanted to.

[tonysam]

11. One could spend DAYS there. I loved it. n/t

[frylock]

13. echoes..

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27085_pink-floyd-live-at-pompeii-echoes-p_music