Google Streetview – new navigation
Google Street View is a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth that provides 360 horizontal and 290 vertical wide ranging perspectives from a row of positions along the street for many streets in the world, from a height of about 2.5 metres.
Coverage is shown by dragging a “pegman” icon from its position, onto a map of any scale.
occasionally Google Trikes ( tricycles ) are used.[4] On each of these automobiles ( and tricycles ) there are 9 directional cameras for the 360 perspectives, GPS units for positioning, 3 laser range scanners, made by SICK, for the measuring of at least fifty meters 180 in the front of the auto.
On the vehicles there also are 3G / GSM / Wi-Fi antennas for scanning 3G / GSM and Wi-Fi hotspots.[5] Latterly , ‘high quality’ pictures ( better quality than the 1st ) are based on open-source hardware cameras from Elphel. These cameras are also utilized by Google book search.[6].
Where available, street view photographs appear after zooming in outside the highest zooming level in maps and satellite images, and also by dragging a “pegman” icon onto a location on a map.
Using the keyboard or mouse the horizontal and vertical viewing direction and the zoom level can be selected. At junctions and crossings of camera automobile routes, more arrows are shown. On Nov twenty-one, 2008, Street View was added to the Maps application installed on the Apple iPhone and Apple iPod Touch. On December ten, 2008, Street View was added to the Maps application for S60 third Edition.
Street View has also been added to the Windows Mobile and BlackBerry versions of Google Maps. All versions of Google Maps for Android feature Street View, and the digital compass can be employed to look around the locations.
