h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

And is this art?

A collection of Google Street-view images. Some of them tell a story in a single picture.

http://9-eyes.com/

I love it!

It needs "What a wonderful world" as a soundtrack.

Would be good as a slideshow, yes.

Hookers and accidents and bare bums, oh my!

And Toad of Toad Hall

The one with the broken down boat in the lake looks to me like it was taken in the English Lake District somewhere. It's hard to make out where - the line of hills in the background looks a bit like Skiddaw, so if I had to guess I'd pick Ullswater, maybe somewhere near Silver Bay.

Pretty sure that's not the lake district... The hills don't fit either Ullswater or Derwentwater (Skiddaw) and the National Trust/National Parks authority would have had a hissy fit long before a boat got into that state.

Maybe a sea loch in Scotland somewhere, but could quite as easily be anywhere from Canada to Finland.

The one with the guy, all in white, sat on a chair by the side of the street is a mosque in the 18th Arrondissement of Paris - Rue des Poissonieres... The weird thing is that he only appears in a single image.

the one below it - a building with what looks like a telescope dome or radar dome on it is North Cape (been there, seen it, done it, got the stuffed polar bear).

Nowhere I recognised, no, but I'm pretty sure the guy lying on a skateboard (lunging, is that what they call it?) is in Ireland. The cars are driving on the left. There's white lines in the middle of the road, and yellow lines at the edges. (When I'm going north, I look out for white lines at the edges of the road to let me know I've crossed the border.) There's not many countries which drive on the left.

Some of the others could be Irish. The guy and horse in the middle of the road could be the west of Ireland. Some of the housing estates could be too.

I liked the kid hiding behind the wheely bin.

TRiG.

I thought the guy with the horse looked like Ireland as well, but the line down the middle of the road is line dot line dot line, a pattern we don't use in Ireland.

The Rod Stewart fan club used to have a mailing address in Edinburgh.

I'm told.

>>>but the line down the middle of the road is line dot line dot line,

Is it? I thought the 'dots' were catseyes?

They have face and number plate blurring software...but why not bare-bum-blurring software?!

Only if the bare bum is identifiable as yours.

That was great, thanks for sharing

My daughter is a ghostly face on Street View - she was looking out of a bedroom window, watching the van drive by.

Mol

My favourite Google Street View image is this one, of Teddy's in Glasthule, a shop famous for selling ice cream cones:

http://maps.google.com/?ll=53.290489,-6.127324&spn=0.017418,0.045447&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.290594,-6.127623&panoid=xVI1HorXqowyDmp4ll3UHA&cbp=12,188.35,,0,16.89

If you zoom in on the woman in white, you can she has two cones, one for herself and one she is feeding to the dog.

I particularly like the picture in which the face of the bunny suit is blurred out. Given that the person inside it would be unidentifibale anyway, it seems a bit unnecessary, though it is hilarious.


Geggs

I recognised that London tower block, but can't think of its name. Is famously awful to live in but campaigners are arguing to get it listed building status as an example of concrete brutalism.

The name will come to me after I hit post...

I didn't remember it by google did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellick_Tower