Google displays webcams from the aggregator webcams.travel, a site that lists more than 9000 webcams. "All the webcams from Webcams.travel are now available on the integrated layer of Google Maps. This was made possible within the cooperation of Webcams.travel with Google," explains Webcams.travel's blog.
If you click on a thumbnail, Google will show "a snapshot of the camera that has been taken in the last 15 minutes". You'll need to click on the snapshot twice (first at Google Maps and then at webcams.travel) to get to the source and see the live webcam.
Google Earth has a similar layer for geo-located webcams and there's an alternative interface at webcams.travel.
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(FYI, no, it's not)
Seems like a cool idea, but the geolocation data has some accuracy issues. I was looking at a map of the Boston area and one webcam was off by 5 to 10 miles and another was of Newton, Iowa instead of Newton, Massachusetts. :)
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webcams.travel is a community driven project. So there may inaccuracies in the geolocation of some webcams. But everyone is free to correct the geolocation of these webcams.
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video ok satellite photo ok streetview ok- but webcam is very negative for the privacy. i love google and other map product but webcam that watch my house is more negative. i hope that google came back to this decision.
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ReplyDeleteAwesome! How can I include this on my Google map application? Is there any API/SDK? I can not find it on http://code.google.com/apis/maps/.
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Too bad that many links to the source images are already wrong upon submission.
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Why does the webcam-image scraper bot hide behind different user agents and operating systems while coming from the same IP-address? Why don't they give it a meaningful name with an explanatory page on their website?
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Looks like webcams.travel doesn't have too many webcams compared to local sites like Tenerife Webcams
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ReplyDeleteI work at a college and have posted two of our webcams on webcams.travel. They've been approved but haven't shown up on google maps yet. Anyone know how long that usually takes? Thanks...
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Same here I posted a webcam which has been approved at webcams.travel, is there something else I have to do, or does it just take time?
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The problem is that people dont wanna see static cams they wanna check out live cams. www.geocam.tv shows the cam in the window
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ReplyDeleteNot sure if this layer is a good idea. There are lots of severe misplacements, duplicate listings, cruise ships nailed to a specific location for years...
ReplyDeleteI don't mind that webcams.travel (or it's so-called "community") doesn't get that right, but people tend to believe what they read on Google - and in this case Google is simply misinforming!
this is good but could we atlest have it over everywhere in the world not just certain places oh and its not a web cam its a picture
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