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Re: Show HN: Instant Google Street View

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Post by bambax »

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…

Upvoted for the lyricism and poetic nature of your comment; I'm not very receptive to the magic (or usefulness) of this, but your comment made it worthwhile! ;-)

Re: Show HN: Instant Google Street View

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Post by hanezz »

kirchhoff wrote: post #63
lambda wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

The experimental version (&v=3.exp) of it, to be precise.

Re: Show HN: Instant Google Street View

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Post by andrewcooke »

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...

Re: Show HN: Instant Google Street View

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Post by gizzlon »

Groxx wrote: post #17
kirchhoff wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also a random button which shows random views from within the current map.

The existence of which makes me wish there was a global random button.

as playhard pointed out: http://mapcrunch.com.
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