But, beware: if you click too high, Street View will inexplicably send you backwards.Īfter Schultz finished telling me about some of the places he’d seen, from the Missouri River dams to the Milwaukee Road abandoned rail lines, I asked him if he feels like he’s really been to these places. He says clicking his way across the country is much faster than driving, once you get the hang of exactly where on the horizon to click. If he hits a dead zone where Street View doesn’t exist-of which there are very few-it’s easy to backtrack. He avoids the interstate as much as possible because it’s boring. He takes frequent detours to look at grain silos, abandoned mine sites, old rail infrastructure, and anything else that happens to catch his eye. Schultz is taking the northerly route across the country so he can tour some of the nation’s most storied industrial, transportation, and energy infrastructure, a particular passion of his. “But it has taken up a life of its own in that regard.” “I didn’t think it would be a gigantic thing I would remember forever,” Schultz told Motherboard. He’s clicking his way across the country as a sort of research project. At least, not nearly as much as I would have expected. But Schultz is not doing this out of boredom.
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