The WORST Google Maps Feature

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11 ай бұрын

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@andreas_retsis 11 ай бұрын

I thought spain moved color in the fifties😂😂😂

@Nihalthegreat 11 ай бұрын

Haha

@Moon_Crescent2341OO 11 ай бұрын

Haha

@Ardoy9761 11 ай бұрын

Haha

@drtiger1834 11 ай бұрын

Haha

@eivsleiv368 11 ай бұрын

Haha

@Matthew-.- 11 ай бұрын

How Google mapped street view for the entire ocean is beyond me.

@ThatOneGoatGuy 11 ай бұрын

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 :)

@loogieee 10 ай бұрын

They drove underwater. Tire = move google cars are just built different.

@MrSharkFIN 11 ай бұрын

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.

@arrowheaded 11 ай бұрын

Yep. I could not be more excited :]

@Romangtzm 11 ай бұрын

It makes sense now when rainbolt spotted the google maps car in his first day in germany

@MrSharkFIN 11 ай бұрын

@@Romangtzm Yeah, he's going to be there!

@ShotGunAnd 11 ай бұрын

Finally they are entering the 21st century. Good job, Germany!

@maxfi878 11 ай бұрын

@@Romangtzm They actually drove their cars all these years to help update the maps but never published the images.

@joemungus6063 11 ай бұрын

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

@sebbog 11 ай бұрын

it was comment bait

@rsxramin 11 ай бұрын

pretty sure including sarcasm on every other sentence is a primary trait of his persona on this channel.

@joemungus6063 11 ай бұрын

@@sebbog fugggg xd

@alexhajnal107 8 ай бұрын

The Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental road in the United States. It was used by automobiles.

@jippee1 11 ай бұрын

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

@lightningfun6486 11 ай бұрын

Or go on google earth historical imagery

@Liggliluff 10 ай бұрын

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.

@peter_smyth 11 ай бұрын

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.

@matthewilluminating 11 ай бұрын

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.

@richiehoyt8487 11 ай бұрын

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..!

@wta1518 10 ай бұрын

@@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).

@richiehoyt8487 10 ай бұрын

@@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!

@b.y.2460 11 ай бұрын

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.

@nlpnt 11 ай бұрын

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.

@masterofdiesaster4001 11 ай бұрын

Google just announced they start Street View mapping again in Germany

@MrSharkFIN 11 ай бұрын

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!

@annabelholland 11 ай бұрын

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).

@MrSharkFIN 11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@annabelholland 11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@MrSharkFIN 11 ай бұрын

@@annabelholland Croatia has had many batches of coverage since 2012. India's newest coverage was released almost a year ago now.

@davidcovington901 11 ай бұрын

At 8:25 - "This is a bike lane as well as a bus lane." Oh no!!!

@MrSharkFIN 11 ай бұрын

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.

@GwainSagaFanChannel 11 ай бұрын

The entire south east China sea is blurred the islands on there lmao

@gotworc 11 ай бұрын

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

@busapeti 11 ай бұрын

12:55 the bridge is actually there, you can see its shadow LMAO

@anj000 11 ай бұрын

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.

@anj000 11 ай бұрын

Also I bet many pictures are not really taken from satellite, but from planes.

@FXVNDER 11 ай бұрын

10:53 was I the only one spotting this out? how did he not notice it LMAO

@heatshield 11 ай бұрын

“Are they rich or are they bad at using land” lol Okay that’s funny. You win the internet today.

@rsxramin 11 ай бұрын

found a redditor outside of their goon cave today, hope you don't kys because your cave's down for 48 hours.

@heatshield 11 ай бұрын

@@rsxramin what would make you say that to someone?

@rsxramin 11 ай бұрын

@@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"

@principalmcvicker6530 11 ай бұрын

@@rsxramin lmaooo

@heatshield 11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@flawyerlawyertv7454 11 ай бұрын

Things I wouldn't probably notice if it weren't for Toycat.

@werpification 11 ай бұрын

Would love to see a video using other mapping services that are used in different countries

@Liggliluff 10 ай бұрын

Yes, compare Google Maps and Eniro for how Sweden looks, both regular maps and the sattelite maps.

@aethelredtheready1739 11 ай бұрын

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

@ericvulgate 11 ай бұрын

The green circles are from central irrigation systems. We have them all over the west in the us.

@Plasmacore_V 11 ай бұрын

"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.

@PouLS 11 ай бұрын

ec tetera

@xthriteenx 11 ай бұрын

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

@TransportGeekery Ай бұрын

Low resolution areas are usually final approaches to major airports so hard to get overflight slots

@ericktellez7632 11 ай бұрын

Google maps is toycats’ excel or word for the rest of us office workers lol

@wafity 11 ай бұрын

The black boxes are chunk errors like in Minecraft

@trippydrew8492 11 ай бұрын

That blurred place in Almeria is the Ministry of Defence.

@Jackster8484 11 ай бұрын

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

@tommarch.4493 11 ай бұрын

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

@principalmcvicker6530 11 ай бұрын

Finally a comment with answers

@tommarch.4493 11 ай бұрын

@@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

@Max-Films 11 ай бұрын

10:57 lmao they're flipping off the google car and it's blurred a bit tooooo

@disfordumboo4411 11 ай бұрын

[on detached single family homes] “are they rich or are they just very bad at using land?”

@piplotfs 11 ай бұрын

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.

@LianaVanaa 11 ай бұрын

Its mostly because its old and new satelite images put toghether like a puzzle

@Supremedalex 8 ай бұрын

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

@TheMackieman123 11 ай бұрын

2cat has now been confirmed being in my area and has spoken about my local DLR station. I am complete.

@zakuraiyadesu 11 ай бұрын

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

@kevincronk7981 11 ай бұрын

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

@TryClyde3 11 ай бұрын

I the U.S. it almost always means the latter. It mostly explains why American cities are bankrupt

@justinbeath5169 11 ай бұрын

That is bad land usage

@chitlitlah 11 ай бұрын

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.

@lizzie7412 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, in the UK detached houses are expensive

@proman9849 11 ай бұрын

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.

@zaired 10 ай бұрын

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

@alexhajnal107 8 ай бұрын

If you want more info on how its done search for "LIDAR".

@brumm0m3ntum94 8 ай бұрын

those circles are irrigation systems on farms. you’ll see them all over eastern washington state as well

@billotron5521 11 ай бұрын

"Wow, you know whats in Chester?" NOTHING

@ivy.mp4 11 ай бұрын

Another excellent video for background noise thank you toycat!

@86kickass 11 ай бұрын

I’m just happy we get what we have already even if it’s a hodgepodge of maps

@wojtekpolska1013 4 ай бұрын

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.

@bookybok 11 ай бұрын

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.

@julianjagush1266 7 ай бұрын

Fun fact: The ocean isn't just very blurry, it's actually a topographic map of the ocean floor.

@idkdkak 11 ай бұрын

Fun fact: Google's 3D models of buildings and trees (not terrain) don't update as often as regular satellite imagery does.

@Duncan23 9 ай бұрын

In other news water is wet....

@jippee1 11 ай бұрын

Germany getting street view this year toycat after 10 year privacy block

@MrSharkFIN 11 ай бұрын

13 years!

@target844 8 ай бұрын

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.

@ingmarmeester6797 9 ай бұрын

3:44 germany now has Streetview

@pajacerkastraszna1397 11 ай бұрын

14:00 the bridge was exactly under the red pin on the map andrew im getting worried about ur eyesight 😭

@pajacerkastraszna1397 11 ай бұрын

or u saw it and i just made fun of myself DONT DO THIS TO ME AAAGH

@dylanst3802 11 ай бұрын

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.

@Sasujerk 11 ай бұрын

has nothing to do with this problem

@MizukiRottenOnion 11 ай бұрын

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.

@nikjoh06 11 ай бұрын

Why don't you just take them straight from the dishwasher to where they go?

@samdherring 9 ай бұрын

Double handling should be avoided to save time... Sister's right lol

@ianthehunter3532 11 ай бұрын

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.

@raustaklass 11 ай бұрын

4:04 most casually savage insult toycat has ever dropped

@PingoUTFG 11 ай бұрын

Starting June 22nd new streetview is being published in germany

@Mileke 10 ай бұрын

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 ;)

@Mileke 10 ай бұрын

16:30 xD

@Mileke 10 ай бұрын

and there's lots of photospheres that doesn't work too

@izimsi 11 ай бұрын

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.

@Alphoric 11 ай бұрын

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

@germancountryballDE 11 ай бұрын

I love this channel

@jnmsks6052 11 ай бұрын

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.

@australianjackaroo6660 11 ай бұрын

0:53 Australia didn't get colour TV until 1974

@daguentha8551 11 ай бұрын

Germany is currently scanned for street view, not sure how much will make it to maps in the end though

@khaoscero 11 ай бұрын

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.

@Sasujerk 11 ай бұрын

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

@ultratech6671 11 ай бұрын

Good Street View is finally coming to Germany after 10 years

@AethelwulfBretwalda 11 ай бұрын

*15 years

@mateuszkubala1800 11 ай бұрын

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.

@josueteodoro2342 11 ай бұрын

it's not a bug, it's a feature!

@fur_avery 11 ай бұрын

unironically I had the same exact greenland related problem in the beginning

@diogodavid3557 11 ай бұрын

You can actually see the blurred areas in detail from above on Google Earth Pro

@roulam3001 11 ай бұрын

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.

@than217 11 ай бұрын

Google Maps being banned in South Korea made my trip there earlier this year impossibly hard.

@Bretkane 11 ай бұрын

Yess I love the google map videos

@KirbyGamer64 10 ай бұрын

Germany is finally on Google Street view! Most of the road have been added. you should make a video on that.

@nowlot 11 ай бұрын

that was a hell of a ride again xD

@EatMyShortsAU 10 ай бұрын

One thing I hate too about Google Earth is that a lot of images are old like from 2018.

@nedoran5758 11 ай бұрын

Wake up Andrew! You should be livestreaming the Prigozhin thing!

@Enjaponeis 11 ай бұрын

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

@richiehoyt8487 11 ай бұрын

'Captchas'? Oh you poor, poor man. Wouldn't wish 'em on my worst enemy!

@Stjepko15 11 ай бұрын

Remember he showed us all this on google earth.

@flaust1316 11 ай бұрын

Everything that is prisons and military building are blury

@Wurby 11 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Great Kebab 😞

@ShawNshawN 9 ай бұрын

lets get a lamborghini Kebab for Toy Cat. LOL

@tutacat 11 ай бұрын

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.

@HeyItsRose18 11 ай бұрын

16:39 It's the lovin' puffin way! (Please tell me someone understands my reference!)

@SquishyOfCinder 10 ай бұрын

The Thames is brown because the water is brownish.

@fxckyoutubehandles 11 ай бұрын

this is why google earth is superior like cmon i dare you to find this type of stuff on google earth

@LewisHillier88 11 ай бұрын

Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Otto Witt from the film Zulu?

@Moon_Crescent2341OO 11 ай бұрын

1:25 do the gray street view please

@_Lowie 11 ай бұрын

The Wearth.

@Dracheplayz 11 ай бұрын

spain really wanted that place censored 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

@Hamboarding 11 ай бұрын

The red dot hid the historic Highway Bridge, toycat 😉

@harruwu2176 11 ай бұрын

is there a tiktok of you on a driving lesson?

@turtlevader 11 ай бұрын

Congrats Luton Town!

@aultain 11 ай бұрын

I don't think the Australian islands are blured....

@mohdazan4948 11 ай бұрын

Fun fact : Mars map has higher resolution than most of the ocean

@davidkane4300 11 ай бұрын

Yay Tooele (Too-will-uh) County, Utah, USA, where I live!

@chappikingofjoberg3583 11 ай бұрын

Autogenerated subtitles be like hi my name is soy cat 💀

@jefftheguest4814 4 ай бұрын

This video aged poorly because all of germany has street view now

@heatshield 11 ай бұрын

Chemists in your area

@pauljmorton 11 ай бұрын

Remains of Best Kebab? Are you telling me Best Kebab isn't there anymore? :/

@markm-ci6rj 11 ай бұрын

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?