omg.omg.omg. the final week has arrived! Bliss!
So you start with adding your point A to destination (B)...
Now note the yellow "pegman" on the navigation pane? That tells us whether Street View is enabled. If you see it grey, then too bad - that area hasn't been explored with the SV team, such like in Malaysia (you can visit the link above for the list of countries available with SV).
Now drag pegman to your location. When you are dragging it, you see blue roads highlighted, those means that SV virtual images are available within 10-20 m visibility.
Drop pegman and the image appears!* Now you can either manipulate pegman's arrowhead to pinpoint a particular spot (360 deg coverage!) or drag the image itself to go around and above/bottom. A blue-colored line appears to indicate your driving/walking path.
* Sagrada Familia towers, Barcelona
See? I dragged the image to show the bottom and you can also see the arrows along the street. Double click on the arrow brings you 10-20 m of another 360 virtual image. You can also zoom in/out of the image but of course, you can't change the content of the picture :)
Ooo...I like to show you a cool feature that greatly help me in visualizing the places that I'm about to explore. It has been around for awhile and you may have seen it before, but I figure Malaysians seldom use this as it is not applicable in our country. I knew of it when my Perth colleague proudly showed his house location with it! Anyway, enjoy it here..
It is called the Google Street View (Map), a virtual street-level finder that provide images at both 360deg horizontal and 270deg vertical views. To use this, you definitely need a fast processing PC, reliable internet connection and a mouse (laptop pad is too sensitive).
So you start with adding your point A to destination (B)...
Now note the yellow "pegman" on the navigation pane? That tells us whether Street View is enabled. If you see it grey, then too bad - that area hasn't been explored with the SV team, such like in Malaysia (you can visit the link above for the list of countries available with SV).
Now drag pegman to your location. When you are dragging it, you see blue roads highlighted, those means that SV virtual images are available within 10-20 m visibility.
Drop pegman and the image appears!* Now you can either manipulate pegman's arrowhead to pinpoint a particular spot (360 deg coverage!) or drag the image itself to go around and above/bottom. A blue-colored line appears to indicate your driving/walking path.
* Sagrada Familia towers, Barcelona
See? I dragged the image to show the bottom and you can also see the arrows along the street. Double click on the arrow brings you 10-20 m of another 360 virtual image. You can also zoom in/out of the image but of course, you can't change the content of the picture :)
Man, Google is the company I really fancy! What an innovative idea, don't you think so?
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try goggling the top 100 google street pictures and you see even funny ones
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