2014 saw some amazing applications built amongst Google Maps Street View imagery. Developers maintain to stretch the limits of the Google Maps API. In detail the advance inwards the capabilities of WebGL has enabled developers to practise some genuinely astonishing applications which plough Street View into a whole novel means 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 you lot to persuasion metropolis streets inwards Street View enhanced amongst some virtual jungle greenery. Drop Pegman on the map together with you lot tin persuasion Street View amongst creeping vines together with grass superimposed on Google's panoramic imagery.
These enhanced Street Views are rattling impressive. The number is possible because of undocumented depth information stored inwards Street View. Urban Jungle is able to role that information to practise a depth map which tin endure used to plot geometry together with sprites inwards the 3d infinite of the Street View panorama.
Do you lot desire to encounter what your family volition hold off similar ane time global warming causes the inevitable ascension inwards body of body of water levels? Just type inwards your address into World Under Water together with you lot can, thank you lot to the glory of Street View.
World Under Water is a rattling powerful crusade from Carbon Story which uses Google's panoramic imagery to laissez passer on you lot a glimpse of your domicile nether water. There are a number of Google Maps that tin laissez passer on you lot a map persuasion of rising body of body of water levels. However World Under Water has a far greater visual impact, precisely because you lot tin really accept a glimpse of your ain domicile sinking nether those rising waters.
Thanks to GSVPanoDepth together with some awesome hacking yesteryear Callum Prentice you lot tin at ane time measuring into a 3d version of Street View made upward of a indicate cloud representation of the Street View depth data.
Once immersed inwards the indicate cloud representation of Street Cloud you lot tin spin roughly 360 degrees, hold off upward together with downward together with fifty-fifty persuasion the master copy Google Maps Street View. After you've checked out the indicate cloud representation of your family (you know you're going to practise it) why non type inwards '210 west 46th St, New York, United States' to persuasion Times Square (pictured above).
Back inwards the twenty-four hours GTA4.net created a genuinely impressive Street View map of Liberty City (unfortunately that map no longer works). The map allowed you lot 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 liberate of the figurer game Destiny Activision created a Street View tour of the Destiny game-world, which allows you lot to explore together with preview the game amongst Google Maps.
Destiny Planet View allows you lot 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 equally you lot tin inwards Google Maps Street View yesteryear panning roughly inwards the custom Street Views together with clicking on the arrows to displace frontward together with back.
Last twelvemonth Skoda used the popular Hyperlapse Street View animation tool to practise a cool promotional website for the Rapid Spaceback.
The Rapid Spaceback website lets you lot persuasion a number of animated journeys on Google Maps Street View. To spice upward the activity the site has added a number of filters that you lot tin apply to the animated route, including a kaleidoscope or mirror view. You tin also direct from a number of dissimilar soundtracks to accompany your drive.
The site includes a number of prepared routes from famous locations roughly the world. You tin also practise your ain road yesteryear selecting a starting indicate together with a goal on a Google Map.
