07-03-2015, 06:19 AM
That is one incredible video. It's basically a Google Maps version of Apsen in 1979. It was meant to be an intereactive map of the town that would let people explore it without actually exploring it. To do this it involved rigging a ton of cars and students with cameras and setting them loose on the streets.
It's actually very very impressive. One of the things I do like about Google Maps if they're going to keep on going for years and years is that by say 2045 we'll basically have a damn near perfect archive of what life was like from say 2008 to whenever.