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by JasonFruit 4532 days ago
No, no! Don't do it by population distribution! The rural areas are what I want to see! Ahem . . . I mean, the random distribution ensures that everyone gets to see things they weren't looking for, and that's good.
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Lots of those, too. My random view put me on the North Slope Haul Road in Alaska. Even more strange, there was a second Google car in the picture!

http://randomstreetview.com/#13i9ir_-2hkyi5_-5r_a_-2

I second this. Cities get boring pretty quickly.
OK, it seems that guys from cities want to see country sides more often and the guys from country side want to see cities and people. I guess the randomization engine should be biased to use the location of the user & serve him what he does not see very often.
Nope; I live in the country, and I'm curious about how rural people around the world live. The cities are neat too. Random is good.