A company released a first-person shooter based on Google Streetview. It was called Google Shoot View.
No one goes down, there’s no blood, no ones running for cover, but it’s you and your M4A1 picking off people, cars, even the homeless guy waiting for a hand out...
We spent a lot of time on Broadway even went down to Wall Street but couldn’t find any OWS protesters.
Apparently the Poolers described the resulting map as
"immense, enormous, gigantic, tremendous, humongous, super-colossal, really really really f***ing big"
But Google quickly yanked the disturbing thing.
Pool Online Creative Director Erwin Kleinjan told Business Insider Google had blocked the game's access to Google Maps data Monday evening, citing terms of service which include a clause prohibiting content that "promote(s) physical harm or injury against any group or individual."
StreetView has had an unsavory aura from the start. Interesting to see someone consider that a platform upon which to build.
(thanks to Todd "Eagle-eye" Bryant)
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