Google's Street View


Google's Street View? Super helpful if you really want to get a sense of an area before you travel there. Or if you like looking at places that you might someday visit, it's one of the ultimate gawking tools. And if you really have a lot of time on your hands, it can be fun to browse through Street View to try and find all sorts of oddities that Google's cars manage to shoot—oddities…and sheep.


But being able to look at stores, and people, and houses, and all sorts of other interesting tidbits from the vantage point of a vehicle might not be enough for you. Even being able to transcend building exteriors and get an inside view of areas like shopping malls and what-have-you might not even be thrilling enough. For those of you who need even more excitement in your Street View life, you'll have to try… cat view.

Japan's Hiroshima prefecture has released a means by which one can get a lovely look at the surrounding area as if one was a feline. It's a fun new way to get a new perspective on an area, and it also gives viewers the opportunity to explore places they might otherwise miss. Setups like Street View aren't really designed to get you all close and personal with rooftops and other strange little places cats like to explore.

"This is being carried out as part of 'Kanpai! (Cheers) Hiroshima – Look! – Eat! – Drink!', a tourism promotion campaign which was developed in June 2015. You can enjoy and experience the hidden charms of the backstreets and the scenery of Hiroshima from the perspective of cats which know them well," reads a press release from the Hiroshima tourism promotion campaign.

"The content of the first production consists of fascinating and adorably cute cats living in Onomichi. The production is also full of information on Onomichi, a town of slopes famous for its cats." (Not to be confused with Japan's cat islands.)

The Web app, complete with authentic cat meows, was a little slow to slog through when we wrote this article—no doubt due to its immense popularity, we can only assume. You can't really wander off the beaten path you're given, but you do get a 360-degree look at each stop your cat videographer makes along the small route. (That's at least a little better than a 360-degree view of just a sunbeam, or a scratching post, or something.)

Be sure to check back, as new areas will be added to the cat view in October.


Source: pcmag.com
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