Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Instant Google Street View

qsview.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 102 posts

Re: Show HN: Instant Google Street View

#81

Post by andrewaylett »

andrewcooke wrote: post #77
peterjmag wrote: post #14

This is way too addicting. I've been typing in addresses one letter at a time, just to see what pops up: a beautiful metro station in Saint Petersburg, the graffitied walls surrounding an airport in Brazil, a neighborhood in South Africa, a wooded street in suburban North Carolina, a deserted country road in rural Iowa, the entrance to a gated community in Texas, and finally, my house. What a fun way to explore. Grea…

is it using request ip to provide context? i typed in "europa 2189" and see my own appt in santiago, which is disturbingly impressive...

I'm in the UK, and typing that also gave me an apartment block in Santiago, so I'd say no.

Re: Show HN: Instant Google Street View

#84

Post by andrewcooke »

andrewaylett wrote: post #81
andrewcooke wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is it using request ip to provide context? i typed in "europa 2189" and see my own appt in santiago, which is disturbingly impressive...

I'm in the UK, and typing that also gave me an apartment block in Santiago, so I'd say no.

huh, thanks. i never thought my address was so exclusive.

(i was once asked to give my address here, started with 'europa', and got the reply 'no, your address here in chile'...)

Re: Show HN: Instant Google Street View

#87

Post by recycleme »

ck2 wrote: post #5

Well 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.

I typed in google and ended up in a store somewhere.

Re: Show HN: Instant Google Street View

#90

Post by davecyen »

mortenjorck wrote: post #40

This 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…

Contrary to what some of the commenters said about this being non-useful and just novelty, I think this brings forward one of the best features of Google Maps by cutting out a lot of (potentially frustrating) steps in the UX. Here’s the typical flow for finding street view when searching on maps.google.com:

1. Submit search query 2. Review results list 3. Repeat 1-2 in case user did not find their intended target 4a. Drag the street view marker onto the map OR 4b+5. Click “more” from the results list, then Street view

Instant Google Street View reduces this to just one easy step, and makes it much more fun along the way.

I think the benefit of this is similar to the benefit of Google’s instant search results - making the UX fast, efficient, and fun to discover what you’re looking for. The creator of this should definite consider expanding this to also include street view and satellite view (surprised Google hasn’t done this already).

And I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a call from Google soon for an interview… either for a job offer or a acqui-hire.

Cheers, nicely done.

Post reply on HN