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Show HN: Instant Google Street View
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#62Any idea why typing in 568 Broadway NY gives you an inside view of the Armani Exchange store across the street from the actual correct address? This works on both qsview and showmystreet...so I assume there's an error in the Google database.
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#63How come this is so much faster than Google's own Street View interface? I feel like whether I use Flash or WebGL, Street View always feels a bit clunky and laggy, while here it's really instant. I suppose one of the things that helps is that this doesn't do the "zoom" effect that looks ugly and slows you down navigating.
Self reply to mention that one reason it feels so "instant" is that in many cases, it has already auto-completed and started displaying your destination before you finish typing. For instance, I typed "golden gate bridge", and probably by the time I had typed "golden ga" it could start loading, and everything was loaded by the time I finished typing "bridge." Also, what panoramic viewer is this? Is this something pro…
It is using the standard Google Maps API (version 3).
Re: Show HN: Instant Google Street View
#64Any idea why typing in 568 Broadway NY gives you an inside view of the Armani Exchange store across the street from the actual correct address? This works on both qsview and showmystreet...so I assume there's an error in the Google database.
The Street View lookup seems to favour interior views - sometimes this works well (search for "tate modern"), and other times not..
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#65Meta: as a test, I tried looking for the street where I live. I never tried to visit my street before. As the Street view rendered the destination, I was nearly shocked: it happens that the moment the Google car was cruising the street there also was a funeral right there. With a poor dead guy in the coffin and a procession. Doesn't Google filter such things out? Not that I insist, but this is a really sad experience. I'd prefer this part of the street cut our from GSV completely. Recommending using Street view to friends from my neighborhood is going to be hard.
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#66Well 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.
For the same query I got "White House, TN". Surprising (to me) amount of huge trucks, and quite uninteresting white house.
Same here. I had to refine my search: "white house, washington"
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#67Undoubtedly one of the coolest things I've seen in 2012.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Wait, your resume says you're from North Carolina and you went to Case Western. You should really know this.
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#70This project does something subtle, yet amazing with perception, including one's perception of technology. We've had Street View for half a decade now; the novelty of the fact that you can pull up an instant 360-degree panorama for a significant percentage of street addresses in the developed world has worn off. Yet this makes it new again – I found myself laughing like a child as I slowed down my typing, watching my…
Novelty hasnt worn off for me!
Agreed, street view has always amazed me. But what this does differently, which is very useful, is that it gives me the ability to download a large image quickly of a location.
I can use this for work and it removes some friction from my workflow.
Thanks for sharing!