Have you ever used the Street View feature in map navigation?
The last time I used the street view function, Shi Chao was still an ignorant college student.
As a straight man in digital technology, he proudly showed off the street view function of Baidu Map to his girlfriend, and used it to find a fly restaurant hidden in the old alleys of deep streets.
The street view function will take a panoramic image around the road to display it, so this function was really a need for the kind of road fool who didn't know the east, west, south, north and south when he went out, and couldn't see the flat navigation map.
But instead of looking for a fly shop, Google Street View next door has recently been busy helping frequent prisoners.
In Spain, Google Street View helped police capture an Italian mafia member who had been on the run for nearly 20 years.
The brother was a murderer long listed as Italy's most wanted man, sentenced to life in Rome in 1998 before escaping during the 2002 prison riots.
Since then, he has been anonymous, did not contact his family for ten years, and became a chef in a restaurant.
As a result, one day when he went out to buy groceries, he was collected by Google Street View into a panoramic photo, and the police tracked down the Facebook page of his work restaurant based on this photo, and although he did not show his face, he recognized his scars.
In this way, this outlaw who had been on the run for 20 years was caught.
In addition to catching the mafia, Google Street View has even helped catch drug traffickers.
Three heroin traffickers were trading drugs in Brooklyn when they were photographed by Google Street View, and even photographed them pretending to be peddling drugs in something.
In addition to catching drug dealers, he also helped catch robbers.
Six months later, when twins robbed a 14-year-old boy in the Netherlands, the boy was browsing the section of his robbed road in Google Street View when the Google Street View car took a picture of the robbers before committing the crime.
Effortlessly, the police found the two and arrested them.
Of course, in addition to catching mafia, drug dealers, and robbers, Google Maps can even help catch adulterers.
Manrique, a man living in Peru, had planned to take his wife to the capital Lima to buy some new clothes and bags on the occasion of his second wedding anniversary.
As a result, when he used Google Street View to view The Street View of Lima, he found his wife and a man on a park bench.
And when you look at the map, the photo was taken several years ago, and Manrique was silently green for several years.
In foreign countries, Google Street View is a good helper for "punishing evil and promoting good".
In China, we also have a Baidu street scene, and it is full of some warm little stories.
Why say warmth?
Because everyone does not use this thing to navigate, but uses it to reminisce about their childhood life.
Some people have found long-dead relatives in Baidu StreetScape, returned to their old houses and old streets when they were children, and even witnessed their curiosity about the map collection car when they were children.
In 2020, a #Baidu map tag that saw deceased relatives also appeared on the Douyin hot search.
Many people have seen their deceased grandparents in the Baidu Street View function, some of them are standing on the side of the road waiting for their children to finish school, and some are sitting in front of the door comfortably basking in the sun, chatting with passers-by.
At that time, Shichao also planned to go to Baidu StreetScape to search for the old place where his grandparents once lived.
However, because the street view map rarely collects panoramic photos of residential areas, most of them only collect on both sides of the road, so they only see the intersections they passed as children.
If your errand friend's home is on both sides of the road, you can try your luck in Baidu Street View's time machine function.
Of course, in addition to Baidu Maps' street view function, the earliest street view is also Sogou Map and Tencent Map, and Tencent even made a SOSO high-definition street view map in 2012.
When it first went live on January 17, 2013, it became the first app in the App Store navigation category within 48 hours, and the fourth place among all apps in China in 72 hours.
When the street view function was first invented, it was to solve the pain point of the "last hundred meters", and you can judge your real location based on the panoramic photos.
However, in recent years, Tencent and other manufacturers have successively cancelled the Street View function, and the Street View function of Tencent Map has slowly faded out of the public view since 2016.
First, because this thing has little return on investment, such a large area in China, open a collection car to take panoramic photos of each street and alley, and have to think of a way to store them, and in a few years, they have to be updated once, which is really a bit laborious.
Some road cars can't drive in, so they have to carry themselves or put on the back of an ox.
Secondly, the current satellite navigation map can not move the accuracy of meters and centimeters, the scene that needs to use the street view map is really rare, and some navigation directly launched the AR navigation function, which is a directional patch for road fools.
Therefore, Baidu Map still retains this function in China, but it has long been used for actual road navigation.
Instead, he turned his head to add a more practical interior panorama, which can be used to see some of the interior of the scenic area or the inside of the mall that often gets lost.
As for the previous street scene, the main thing is to add a time machine function, you can adjust the collection time of this street scene, properly recall the killing software.
Finally, Shichao still hopes that Baidu Map can update this street view function all the time.
In the current era of information, it is rare for everyone to find their old place full of memories on an official map.
Author: LYX Editor: Polygons
Images, sources:
mashabl —— A Google Street View car spotted a missing criminal and it led to an arrest
thenextweb —— 5 criminals caught by Detective Google Maps
The Paper – How many people have been secretly photographed by Google Street View Maps
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