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Drops you on a random road somewhere on Earth in Street View and leaves you to work out where you are, or simply wander off down it.
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MapCrunch sits in Armchair Travel under Wander, filed as instant.
About this category: Street-view wandering, city walks, live webcams and the small miracle of standing on a road eight thousand kilometres away for free.
Yes. MapCrunch is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use MapCrunch without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file MapCrunch as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
Street-level photography stitched together from volunteers' dashcams and phones, covering a great many roads no Google car ever drove down.
A free street-view guessing game with unlimited rounds, built for people unwilling to pay a monthly subscription to look at roads.
One button, one random inhabited spot on Earth in Street View, most of them somewhere nobody would ever have chosen to look.
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