Google’s New 360-Degree Street View, Very Cool and Very Mashable
This cool new addition to Google Maps is definitely in my “Mark” category.
Just select any address, click the “Street View” button and you’ll get a 360-degree ground level view. Drag the image to move around or click on the arrows to advance forward down the street.
Click the image below to give it a try…
This new feature by Google Maps is not only very cool but also very Mashable. So for those of you who are thinking “I must have this on my site” Google merged two of its existing application programming interfaces: the Gadgets API and the Maps API at allow you to add it.
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May 31st, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Oh my god. It is great… I wonder how technically it is done… I must check this out. Thanks for blogging this… I wish we had something like that in Israel…
May 31st, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I would guess it’s done manually. people actually walk or drive and video tape it and then probably cut it to frames. I couldn’t think of how this can be done automatically.
July 11th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Companies that do it in mass build themselves gadgets to automate it, but at the end of the day it’s a camera rotating on a tripod and a panorama patcher program (some of those can be automated nicely) to stitch all the images nicely.
there’s a massive collection of them on http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp/index.html
and it’s also “mashed” into Google earth, just turn it on in the features. very cool. I’ve already used it to mark some sites to see on my next planned vacation.
BTW,
Hi Maya. long time no see
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