New Street Persuasion Gone Wild 2014


2014 saw some amazing applications built amongst Google Maps Street View imagery. Developers hold to stretch the limits of the Google Maps API. In item the advance inwards the capabilities of WebGL has enabled developers to practice some genuinely astonishing applications which plow Street View into a whole novel agency of looking at the world.

Here are some of my favorite Street View based applications from 2014.

Urban Jungle is a fantastic Google Map that allows y'all to persuasion metropolis streets inwards Street View enhanced amongst some virtual jungle greenery. Drop Pegman on the map together with y'all tin persuasion Street View amongst creeping vines together with grass superimposed on Google's panoramic imagery.

These enhanced Street Views are really impressive. The resultant is possible because of undocumented depth information stored inwards Street View. Urban Jungle is able to purpose that information to practice a depth map which tin endure used to plot geometry together with sprites inwards the 3d infinite of the Street View panorama.


Do y'all desire to encounter what your identify volition await similar 1 time global warming causes the inevitable rising inwards body of body of water levels? Just type inwards your address into World Under Water together with y'all can, thank y'all to the glory of Street View.

World Under Water is a really powerful crusade from Carbon Story which uses Google's panoramic imagery to hand y'all a glimpse of your domicile nether water. There are a seat out of Google Maps that tin hand y'all a map persuasion of rising body of body of water levels. However World Under Water has a far greater visual impact, only because y'all tin really receive got a glimpse of your ain domicile sinking nether those rising waters.


Thanks to GSVPanoDepth together with some awesome hacking past times Callum Prentice y'all tin instantly mensuration into a 3d version of Street View made upwards of a signal cloud representation of the Street View depth data.

Once immersed inwards the signal cloud representation of Street Cloud y'all tin spin precisely about 360 degrees, await upwards together with downward together with fifty-fifty persuasion the master Google Maps Street View. After you've checked out the signal cloud representation of your identify (you know you're going to practice it) why non type inwards '210 west 46th St, New York, United States' to persuasion Times Square (pictured above).


Back inwards the twenty-four hr menstruation GTA4.net created a genuinely impressive Street View map of Liberty City (unfortunately that map no longer works). The map allowed y'all to explore the whole of Liberty City, from Grand Theft Auto IV, using custom Street Views created from the game.

Last twelvemonth Activision took that concept to a whole novel level. To promote the unloosen of the figurer game Destiny Activision created a Street View tour of the Destiny game-world, which allows y'all to explore together with preview the game amongst Google Maps.

Destiny Planet View allows y'all to explore Mars, Venus together with the Luna inwards Street View. The Street Views appear to endure taken from the existent game-world used inwards the game. You tin explore these worlds precisely every bit y'all tin inwards Google Maps Street View past times panning precisely about inwards the custom Street Views together with clicking on the arrows to displace forrad together with back.


Last twelvemonth Skoda used the popular Hyperlapse Street View animation tool to practice a cool promotional website for the Rapid Spaceback.

The Rapid Spaceback website lets y'all persuasion a seat out of animated journeys on Google Maps Street View. To spice upwards the activity the site has added a seat out of filters that y'all tin apply to the animated route, including a kaleidoscope or mirror view. You tin also direct from a seat out of dissimilar soundtracks to accompany your drive.

The site includes a seat out of prepared routes from famous locations precisely about the world. You tin also practice your ain road past times selecting a starting signal together with a finish on a Google Map.

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