Pinlight

Pinlight is a new one on me. 

Thanks to Cameron from Pinlight for getting in touch. Pinlight gives everyone the same five street-level photos each day. Pin the map, score by distance, and you can paste a Wordle-style score card. 

It’s free to play this daily game, and no account is required. Similar to Mapcrunch.

StreetView in a Pandemic

Thanks to Rob Morris for forwarding this article on the use of Google Street View to 'take us places' when we are unable to visit places at the current time, and international travel is looking unlikely for another summer. 

Google Street View may offer us a short-term escape as we perhaps explore (un)familiar places which are far away...

The New Yorker piece has some interesting ideas which would be relevant to the classroom. One person who is mentioned is Nick Nicholaou, a London-based developer, who built a site called MapCrunch ten years ago. 

I've used this for about that long in sessions with teachers and also in my teaching, and it allows for random street views, or views within a particular country or area chosen on the map. It also mentions games / challenges such as the MapCrunch Airport Game.