Worth mentioning also is Ryan Alexander's excellent Streetview Stereographic: http://notlion.github.com/streetview-stereographic/
(Try hitting the plus to edit the shader on the left)
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#22Some places you might find interesting: scott's hut shackleton's hut Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
i almost expected tags on those bottles onMouseOver.
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#24Well this is freaky, I typed in "white house" and I got an INTERNAL tour of the white house. Awesome. Also try "google campus". What's interesting is the real google streetview needs adobe flash to run, this works with flash disabled.
That's not true. Real Google Street View runs without Flash if you enable WebGL.
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#25Well this is freaky, I typed in "white house" and I got an INTERNAL tour of the white house. Awesome. Also try "google campus". What's interesting is the real google streetview needs adobe flash to run, this works with flash disabled.
Haha I just did the same thing except I typed 1600 Pennsylvania ave then I was taken inside the lobby looking at a picture of Bill Clinton.
The tour of the white house was pretty interesting. If you typed in "oval offi" it takes you to some gold room that I don't recognize, and if you step outside, there's a big portrait of Hillary Clinton. Do the first ladies all have their portraits?
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#26This is really awesome. It feels snappier then the Google maps interface for street view.
Curious about the street view API. Do you have to pay for it after a certain usage threshold ?
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#27This is really awesome. It feels snappier then the Google maps interface for street view. Curious about the street view API. Do you have to pay for it after a certain usage threshold ?
It would seem so, but the limit is quite generous and you only have to pay if you exceed it for a prolonged period of time.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the Shrine suggestion! It really looks very interesting.
This is the more familiar view (when the tide isn't out) : http://qsview.com/89vp2zksffdz80tzoqz1ap
That is a very nice view.
I have always wanted to visit Japan, but haven't find the time and the money to do it, but I hope I'll someday.
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#29awesome !
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#30Well this is freaky, I typed in "white house" and I got an INTERNAL tour of the white house. Awesome. Also try "google campus". What's interesting is the real google streetview needs adobe flash to run, this works with flash disabled.
That's not true. Real Google Street View runs without Flash if you enable WebGL.
This isn't using either Flash or WebGL, though. It's a pure JS tiling solution, similar to classic Google Maps, but with a Mercator-style 3D-to-2D projection.