Check out the link below if you want to see the photograph of any physical address in Central Madrid. (Talk about Big Brother Watching!) http://fotos.qdq.com/
I've been testing it this morning with some friends at work and, though it's slow it's been pretty accurate. It's a little scary!
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Posts: 656 | Location: Madrid (Kansas City, USA) | Registered: 06 November 2001
Hey tonytorero, way too cool my man! I had trouble with it at first with an ADSL connection but it must have been a bad moment (maybe their server can not handle too many requests at once) but now it is working smoothly.
Wow! Talk about a monumental task,how many photos do you think are on there?
That's cool jaimemiguel. Just think of it this way, now you have more time to drink beer.(not to mention more money since you don't have to buy all that film...!)
poseso.... Tony --- English Unlimited... Un ambiente para aprender ingl�s... (An English Learning Environment)
Posts: 656 | Location: Madrid (Kansas City, USA) | Registered: 06 November 2001
Oh my God, this is the coolest thing!! Now I can 'look' at the hostals I was trying to find....the one I reserved is not quite as pretty as their picture showed....do you think that huge trash bin is ALWAYS in front of the building?????
Posts: 232 | Location: Seattle, WA, USA | Registered: 03 June 2001
Ok, ok jaimemiguel and jer. You've both got me. Man, you can sure tell who does and doesn't have a digital camera around here, can't you?!
I guess it's painfully apparent that I'm living way, wayyyyy back in the 1990's, using an old fashioned camera and film coupled with my digital scanner to add pics to my web pages. Man, have I got to get with the program!
Hey jer, I know you do the rent a mobile thing....any chance of hooking me up with a rented digi-cam?? You know I'm good for it!
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Posts: 656 | Location: Madrid (Kansas City, USA) | Registered: 06 November 2001
Wow! Just checked in after being gone from the board for awhile and I am SO THRILLED by that map and photo site!! I found my old address(which didn't used to be yellow, but just brick in 1962) as well as my old buddy Jos� Lozano's apt. building. Hey Jer, it was neat to see your building,too; didn't realize it was over those tables with umbrellas. I guess there are several terrazas like that on the Plaza Mayor. Mil gracias, majo.
Pack light, sleep cheap, eat well.
Posts: 479 | Location: ROCKFORD,MI, USA | Registered: 23 May 2001
Hey tonytorero, I am still drawing a blank on that "film thing", does it have something to do with cameras and photography? Jejejeje!
A "Scanner", hah! Mine is "muerto de risa" (roughly translated = "laughably obsolete"). I also still have a Minolta Maxxum "normal" camera but have long forgotten how to use it.
No money in renting digital cameras tony, sorry But I am selling mine to buy a new one
Hey Sue, that site really is amazing, thanks for droping back into my forums after a loooooong absence during which we missed ya so
Hey, I just found this info on the new QDQ site at google.
The project took 6 months to complete with 20 photographers shooting Madrid at the rate of over 300 photos each per day. All in all, over 700,000 photos were taken and they are going to be updating this thing every year
Man, talk about a huge budget. I love to take photos of Madrid but I think if I had to take over 300 a day I would end up hating both photography and the city, not to mention dropping my digital camera from the top of the "Torre Picasso" (talles building in Madrid).
And I though I got weird looks for photographing everything, can you imagine what those 20 photographers must go through on a daily basis
BTW. the following cities have also been done.
In France: Boulogne-Billancourt Lille Lyon Marseille Nantes Nice Paris Saint-Mand� Strasbourg Toulosse
Can you tell the company is French or what
In Spain: Madrid More cities to come!
The website of the wackos who are behind this is at www.snv.fr
Well, now I can see if my email buddies in Marseilles live in style or not!! Yeah, they'd better do Barcelona...and Sevilla...and Valencia....and, and lots more Spanish cities!
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Posts: 479 | Location: ROCKFORD,MI, USA | Registered: 23 May 2001
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