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Americas - West Coast (Alphabetic By State)

• Welcome to the City Of Night BBS Live Camera in Alameda, California.. Interactive, in that you can press a left and right button to pan the (boring) image.
  
• If you're smart and net savvy, you might be able to scam off track betting using this live real time feed from the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.
  
• You know the proverbial address of Hollywood & Vine? Well, you can check it out here, along with a park bench on Wilshire Avenue. Fun to watch the light change from red to green and to see the different people who sit on the bench.
  
• This site has a view of the famous HOLLYWOOD sign in Hollywood, California. You can view it in several sizes and there's a timelapse MPEG (500K) of the previous 24 hours.
  
• One of my favorites, check the Surf out in front of the Scripps Ocean Institute near LaJolla , California.
  
• TommyCamwelcomes you to the University of Southern California. You are viewing the center of our campus from a camera located in the Student Union Building. The bronze statue of our collegiate symbol Tommy Trojan stands at the lower left of the picture.
  
• Like their Boston cam, Open Market also has a cam outside their Palo Alto office. Has MPEG, photo collage as well.
  
• Canyon Caml looks out over a SanDiego canyon, and has cool MPEG videos of sunsets and a time lapse of a whole week!!
  
• The San Diego BayCam includes a Netscape video push as well a 24 hour time lapse video and contact sheet. You can also check the air traffic at Lindbergh Field. Also links to a few other sites.
  
• The Ikonic site sports an amazing view of the San Francisco Bay Bridge
  
• KPIX's camera on SF's Knob Hill. The camera pans from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge, and may show views of the Downtown Skyline, Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, the Marina and Pacific Heights.
  
• A nice view of San Francisco Bay, courtesy ofSybase.
  
• A great view of San Francisco Bay, viewed from Knob Hill, courtesy of KPIX-TV.
  
• If you missed the 60's, here's a look up Haight Street in SanFrancisco. Black and White, drop a tab for color.
  
• Just when you got tired of looking at San Fran, there's yet another perspective, the Sutro Cam. It's a view (and more infor than you'd ever hope for) about Sutro Tower, that red & white icon on the skyline.
  
• SlugVideo at Long Marine Lab, UC Santa Cruz (Complete with good weather info.)
  
• The Fountainhead presents, Dogtown,l a beaccam view of the Santa Monica Pier.
  
• The Bozeman Montana BigSky Cam can have some pretty aurreal sunsets, and you also get to look in the newsroom at the paper, which can be pretty surreal, too.
  
• Either A view of the Portland , Oregon skyline or Buckman Class Room 101, depending on whether schools in or out. Make sure to wear your Netscape Flash goggles.
  
• Some of the world's best widsurfing is done at Colombia River Gorge,Hood River, Oregon.
  
• Here is a live picture of the Rose City, updated several times per hour. The view is from Portland's Pittock Mansion, looking east across. Portland, toward Oregon's Mt. Hood
  
• A view of Seattle's Space Needle from Express Systems corporate offices, updated once per minute, 24 hours a day.
  
• An almost live view at the University of Washington, looking out over what appears to be the commons.
  
• The University of Washington Campus, Seattle. has a view of a courtyard called Red Square (look at the lights at night an you'll know why.) Has several cool MPEG's of construction on site; it's neat to watch those cranes spin in a 24 hr time lapse MPEG.
  

  Americas - East Coast (Alphabetic By State)

• Check out the TowerCam from WHNT in Huntsville, Alabama.
  
• SkyTower Cam sits atop the SkyTower Radar dome at 250 feet in the air. It shows current weather conditions and provides a nice panoramic view of the Tampa Bay area.
  
• See what's up in Hotlanta with the Atlanta City Cam. Nice View with a clickable image map, Netscape 96 frame server push animation, and even quicktime videos of the Braves World Series celbration parade.
  
• Boston Camera View This is the view from the offices of Open Market, at 245 First Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the view you will see the Charles River Basin, with Boston's Beacon Hill behind. The bridge at the right is the Longfellow Bridge, also called "The salt and pepper shaker bridge" because of the shape of the towers. They do a nice manageable (30K) MPEG video of the previous hours snapshots, nice at sunrise and sunset.
  
• The Resort Sports Network provides a view of Tuckerman Ravine in MT.Washington,NH. Wildcat Mtn. in Jackson, NH is not far away. Also includes weather, bear sighting info, and links to other cool outdoorsy sites.
  
• Check the weather and ski conditions in North Conway, NH, courtesy of WMTV Channel 3.
  
• Live from New York!! It's Car Wash Cam!!l
  
• I can't sell you the Brooklyn Bridge,but I can show it to you. Here are some even better views from the top of the World Trade Center and as several impressionists would have interpreted it.
  
• Here's the Manhattan Skyline, as viewed from the 77th Floor Of the Empire State Building.
  
• If you always wanted to go over Niagra Falls, ,check out the FallsCam. Only downer is you have to register to get really close..
  
• Check the beach at Avon in Cape Hatteras, NC. Also a view of the surf at Duck, NC.
  
• A georgeous panoramic view of the parking lot at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. I've never understood why people set up feeds for views like this but, oh well, it's free.
  
• A view looking out from an eighth-floor Doherty Hall window towards Forbes Avenue. in Pittsburgh, viewed from Carnegie Mellon University.
  
• Courthouse Square in Morgantown, West Virginia.
  

  Americas - Heartland (Alphabetic By State)

• A nice full color image of Vail, Colorado provides a good way to check the ski and snowboard conditions; there's a separate Resorts Network view with weather, as well.. You can also check Copper Mountain, Pikes Peak , of Crested Butte.
  
• For a snapshot outside the offices of GWH & associates or for a time-lapse 24 hour MPEG video grab, visit this site.
  
• The Pine Juntion, CO Weather Cam includes a wide angle panorama as well as many many many weather links.
  
• This is a live picture of Cheyenne Mountain just south of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cheyenne Mountain is the HQ of NORAD, so watch this site after the button's been pushed. This site has a nice time lapse contact sheet of the last 24 hours which allows you to view a sunrise and a sunset without using MPEG or Quicktime.
  
• The Buckingham has a nice realtime feed of the Chicago Lakefront. Nice, especially at sunrise and sunset.
  
• For all of you Fightin' Irish, check out the Notre DameDome Cam. I still don't understand why someone would want to take a 210KB digitized picture of something that never moves.
  
• IUPUI's Campus Camhas a view of this Inidanapolis campus; in the background is the Indianapolis skyline. Visible is the RCA Dome and the circle.
  
• LakeCam is located in Osage Beach, Missouri and points south towards Lake of the Ozarks State Park, catching some nice shots.
  
• The St. Louis ArchCam has a beautiful view.
  
• With CollierCam you can watch the landscape of the Medical College of Ohio change this year as construction on the Howard W. Collier School of Nursing and School of Allied Health Building takes place! They even have MPEG's so you can watch that studly guy take off his shirt and drink a coke at lunch.
  
• Watch cliff erosion at Lake Erie, Ohio, an activity only one step above watching apples turn brown.
  
• KJRH Tulsa Oklahoma. Here's a view down the street, here's the newsroom and here's the control room.
  
• The image displayed here may vary from time to time. Sometimes it will be a shot of the kids' playroom, sometimes a shot of the backyard, sometimes whatever Blake is watching on TV -- who knows?
  
• A realtime view of Highway 30 from Texas A&M. University Drive as well. Look both ways!!
  
• The View from the South Shore of Lake Tahoe can be almost hallucinogenic if the lighting's right.
  

  Hawaii

• The University of Hawai'i Satellite Oceanography Laboratory > has loads of cool stuff, including video of Manoa Valley and Mount Konahuanui as well as a ton of weather and oceanographic stuff, including MPEGs of ocean surface temperature, MANY satellite shots, tracks of drifting bouys and paths of Polynesian canoes. Essential for the ocean lover.
  
• Hawaiian Eye is pretty cool in that it offers varying views of the Isle Of Oahu each month, and that you can point and click and select magnification.
  
• Here today, gone to Mauii. The MauiiCam is shot is through the Synchromic Studio's window, overlooking the 18th hole of the Silversword Golf course
  
• Live video of Iao Valley, Maui's famous and most beautiful valley. You can zoom in to a large image, there's a map, and also a MPEG video.
  
• Virtually Hawaii, care of the Satellite Oceanography Laboratory, has several nice real time videos, including this one of Manoa Valley and Mount Konahuanui , with a nice map interface.
  
• Check the surf at Sunset Beach, Oahu, one of the premier big wave rights in the world. MPEG's as well.
  

  Bermuda

• Bermuda view (not the beach) with links to a lot of good weather resources.
  

  Canada (Alphabetic By City)

• Snap Shots of the TV Feed of the Falcon Nesting Site courtesy of the University Of Calgary.
  
• IslandCam has a "live" picture of Prince Edward Island's Province House, as well as a quicktime video and much information about the island. Put out by the local government.

• Here's the latest view from the top of the Life Sciences Centre, Oceanography wing, at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The view is to the north, with Oxford Street, the end of the North-West Arm, and the "suburban" communities of Armdale and Spryfield visible.
  
• View of Coal Harbour and the North Shore Mountains from Downtown Vancouver on the Vancouver NetCam. Also a view from False Creek. Historical Archives and MPEG's too.
  

  Europe (Alphabetic By Country)

• All's quiet on the eastern front, the border between Finland and Russia.
  
• Life is sweet on the Cote de Azure, the French Riviera (updated each morning).
  
• Here's the University Of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. I don't speak German, so that's all I can tell you, although there is a 1MB MPEG.
  
• Germany - 45127 Essen - cross-roads Mittweg/Gerlingstraß there's an MPEG movie and a German version too!!
  
• Take a view of the Berlin zoo , Hauptbahnof train/bus terminal. I didn't see any critters, but maybe you will.
  
• View the Hamburg Harbour, courtesy of STERN magazine.
  
• A shot of Tuebingen, Germany. No English version, but a picture's worth 1000 words right? MPEG video as well.
  
• View Het IJ, the largest canal in Amsterdam.
  
• Check the Dutch Surf at The Beach At Zandvoort.
  
• Here's the Stormcast service from the University of Tromsø, Norway. Has lots of good weather info as well.
  
• Heriot-Watt University provides a nice black and white view of the Cairn Gorm mountains in Scotland.
  
• Check out theTormesta Bay weather report from Dark island, Sweden. It's been pretty nice, every time I've looked.
  
• Here's a view of Sundsvall Harbor, Sweden. You can also get weather, a MPEG timelapse view, and a Swedish version, but no meatballs.
  
• You can find a view of Stockholm, Sweden along with current weather information at this site.
  
• The weather over G^teborg and Ullevi, Sweden brought to you by Erricson.
  
• Check out the construction progress on the Hoga Kusten project in Sweden!
  
• This pretty scene of Geneva is automatically updated every 10 minutes from a Fotoman Pixtura Camera atop the Swiss TV tower.
  
• The EPFL Landscape, in Lausanne, Switzerland. There's even a nice schematic map to show you which way you're pointing.
  
• The Eclipse Networking site (UK) is a multiple camera setup which may be pointed at Rougement Gardens, The Deer Stalker Statue, The Locomotive Inn, The Inland Revenue Office, The Eclipse Networking Office, Who Knows !!!
  
• If you always wanted to go to Cambridge,but couldn't afford it, (or couldn't get in), this site courtesy of Olivetti REsearch Labs is for you. It's got a neat interface that allows you to click to zoom in on any part of the panaroma and a number image map that allows you to autoconnect to servers i n different buildings. You can even view it in Italiano!
  

  Asia

• Hong Kong STARCam. Live Capture at the Heart of Kowloon, Nathan Road
  
• Watch the sun rise over Mt. Fuji, with adjustable zoom.
  
• You can see both Mt. Hiei and Daimonji , 2 of the eastern mountains of Kyoto, here.
  
• Today's Tokyo, and the view from the NTT Tower.
  

  Australia

• Matt Perkins has some beautiful cams overlooking the Sydney Australia harbor from his living room and bedroom.
  
• On the 23rd September 1995, New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu burst spectacularly into life after lying dormant for more than fifty years. The North Island's highest mountain spat out hot red rocks the size of cars as if they were dinky toys, and blew ash and mud over 12 kilometres into the air. Watch the action on VolcanoCam.
  

  Other Spots Around The Globe

• I doubt I'll be setting up an individual section for this continent, but here's a live shot from Mawson Station in Antartica. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Has a very surreal look to it.
  
• This site links directly to about 9 different sites, most of which are linked separately in this list. Probably about 300K of image load, but a good way to get a broad global view with one link.
  
• The Bradford Telerobotic Telescope claims to be the first robotic telscope connected to the web. Pretty sophisticated, you can pan, scan and rate and save your images.
  
• Here's another sophisticated remote telescope the ROT at UCSB.
  
• GooberCam peers down Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh, PA.
  
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