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Google StreetView Now Does Routing

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday April 29, @04:25PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the another-cool-addition dept.

The What Is Special About Geospatial blog informs us about this. From their summary : "Today Google has integrated Streetview in Google Maps routing. If you generate a routing inside a city with Streetview you can see a camera. With a click on this camera a Streetview window is comming up where the street scene of the position is shown."

For more information and a link to see it in action, visit the blog link above. Remember, click on the camera next to the turn by turn direction to see the streetview representation of it. Update: 04/29 21:09 GMT by S :Here's the official Google Lat Long announcement.

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Update: 03/28 19:28 GMT by S : The official Google LatLong blog also informs us 13 new U.S. cities now have StreetView data.

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• Interesting, but...

  (Score:2, Insightful)

  by daedlus (1494) on Wednesday April 30, @07:45AM (#2334)

  While this is an interesting way to integrate the various Google technologies, I don't see it as anything monumentally awesome or groundbreaking. In fact I've been noticing a trend over the past few months that anything having to do with Google products gets massive press, even if it is unwarranted. In this particular case it is compounded by the fact that the syntax and grammar in the snippet are non-existent. Don't get me wrong, I love Google just as much as anyone else, if not more, but lets not let this degenerate into the same phenomenon as with Apple products.

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  • Re:Interesting, but...

    (Score:3, Funny)

    by lxnyce (1043) on Wednesday April 30, @08:30AM (#2335)
    ( http://www.vizure.com/ )

    You're JUST noticing this trend. Alot of Google related things are over hyped. Now it's time for me to go post another Google story. Thats what the people like...sigh.

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• 1907 with color pictures

  (Score:2, Interesting)

  by SEWilco (1540) on Wednesday April 30, @10:11AM (#2337)

  Google is approaching 1907, although with color pictures. Lauren Weinstein a while ago mentioned [pfir.org]:

  Back when the automobile was a relatively new consumer product, and conventional road maps were yet to be developed, Rand McNally published what were called Photo-Auto Maps, showing photos of streets and landmarks, with arrows pointing you to the correct path leading toward your destination.

  See the sample photo [vortex.com].

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