Visit my hometown online
 

I have no idea how long this has been up, but it's kind of cool:

http://www.virtualtampere.com/

That nifty little site lets you explore my humble little hometown from your own comfortable armchair because let's face it, no one would be mad enough to voluntarily come here in person.

"Yeah, I've got Google Streetview, y'know". Yeah, so do I, but this is actually better. While it doesn't let you explore all the streets like Google does, it compensates by giving a lot more background info on what each place is. On the top of that, it also goes to places where Google won't go, such as parks and in some cases even inside buildings. I haven't explored it fully yet, but it at least let's you explore inside some churches and the main library. And the aerial views are just plain better, because for some reason Google Earth has decided that we have a permanent overcast in here and therefore everything you see is clouded by...well, a cloud, I suppose.

Granted, I'm a local (Insert-Divine-Entity willing not for long, but still), but I have to say I like this. I encourage all of you to have a look too. And I can probably answer questions if you find something interesting but can't find enough information about it. :up:

Beautiful spot there!!:up:

Nice.:yep:

This is very well made and intuitive application. I noticed that each place has in fact a summer and a winter pic, which you can change by clicking on the place thumbnail again.

Some random observations:
- It looks pretty clean for an industrial town
- Quite a few mid-rise apartment blocks near the town center, here they tend to be more in the outskirts
- cool, a roller coaster near the TV tower!
- When you walk over Laukonsilta Bridge, you bump into some randomly placed giant trash containers with attached solar panels :huh::

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/2527/trashcans.png

Cool site, the town doesn't look bad at all. :up:

If I owned a van, and a helicopter was above me, the last thing I'd want is this -

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5176/tampereh.jpg

That's pretty clever actually. Handy if you need to move them around. :yep:

Ah, so there's an electric motor integrated? This would also explain the 380V cable at the side.

Still pretty funny choice of pictures, for a tourist side. When you follow the arrows on the ground level, one moment you are on a bridge overlooking the water, next click: BAM, you hit these containers.:ping:

That is one nice and tidy town. Honestly. The litterbugs here in the US should be ashamed.

Yeah, looks to be trash compactors.

That is way cool! :rock:

Thanks for sharing that. :sunny:

Town in the virtual world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fKYOkGua_Y

That's cool too. :yep:

Stop contributing to this thread and being constructive so I can use other threads to launch tirades about how you don't ever contribute anything and be constructive. :stare:

Yeah, what he said!


Huh?:88)

You just agreed with Tribesman. Don't worry, the feeling of dizziness is a normal symptom and will go away in time. At some point you may learn that people are in fact not black and white caricatures that you either hate or lust after, but you can actually co-exist on the same planet without hunting each other down in every single thread to let everyone know how much you hate each other.

Oh wait, you're probably reasonable enough to know this anyway. My bad for mixing you with someone else.