{"id":1445,"date":"2011-05-30T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2011-05-30T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:29:59","slug":"google-street-maps-of-a-videogame-gta-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/30\/google-street-maps-of-a-videogame-gta-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Street Maps &#8230; of a videogame (GTA IV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is cool &#8211; a great use of Google&#8217;s tech, a great example of what it *really* means to drag Online Games and MMO&#8217;s out of the stone-age of &#8220;do what Diablo did, but with more people on screen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it doesn&#8217;t quite work &#8211; none of the stereographic projection stuff (which is key to making Google StreetView) is working here. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>And it raises the question: why didn&#8217;t R* do this themselves, and make more of the R* Club (their &#8220;social\/online&#8221; part to GTA) than the silly farting-about it was at launch?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gta4.net\/map\/\">http:\/\/www.gta4.net\/map\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is cool &#8211; a great use of Google&#8217;s tech, a great example of what it *really* means to drag Online Games and MMO&#8217;s out of the stone-age of &#8220;do what Diablo did, but with more people on screen&#8221;. Sadly, it doesn&#8217;t quite work &#8211; none of the stereographic projection stuff (which is key to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,54,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}