What if someone were to construct a site using Google Maps to show extremely viewed in satellite views of (pseudo-)random parts of the globe? Visitors examine the bit of world they've been given to look at, note anything of interest, and move on. Eventually, the entire globe will have been eyeballed by someone or another, and a whole lot of interesting things unearthed along the way.
Either the site could work out every tile at a given zoom level, and shuffle them all, handing them out in random order, or it could simply serve up a random lat and lon. I'm thinking the former would be better, since you can actually record how 'complete' the project is.
The main problem I can see is establishing what levels of data are available in what areas, so you don't just have to use a generic best-available-everywhere zoom level. |
