One of the almost underused features of the Google Maps JavaScript API must endure Custom Street Views. The Custom Street View characteristic allows developers to exercise interactive Street View panoramas from their ain imagery.
The Custom Street View characteristic tin endure used to exercise Street Views from 360 grade panoramic photographs, simply every bit Street View is used on Google Maps. But the 360 grade images don't direct keep to endure photographs. For instance creative mortal Raul Moyado Sandoval has used the characteristic to exercise a serial of panoramic Street View paintings.
On his website Raul discusses the possibility of creating a virtual painted public past times connecting a serial of these 360 grade panoramic paintings. In essence this is what has been achieved past times Activision inward their novel marketing crusade for the novel Destiny estimator game.
Using 360 grade Street View panoramas, created from screenshots taken from the game, Destiny Planet View has created an interactive mapped tour of the Destiny game world.
The Google Custom Street View characteristic tin apparently too endure used amongst 360 grade panoramic photos. The same developers behind Destiny Street View (Google Creative Labs) direct keep too created an amazing nighttime fourth dimension tour of Marseilles.
Google Night Walk uses custom Street View images to accept you lot on an immersive journeying through the lively Cours Julien neighbourhood of Marseille. This Street View tour of night-time Marseilles includes an well narrated guide past times Julie together with Christophe, ii urban storytellers, who assistance explicate the living history of the metropolis every bit you lot progress through the panoramic images.
Elsewhere the custom Street View characteristic has been used to demo the effects of political together with natural disasters. For example, the Gaza War Map is a powerful visualization of the devastating trial of Israeli air strikes inward Gaza. The map consists of a release of 360 grade panoramic Street Views taken inward the Gaza Strip since the onrush of the acquaint conflict betwixt State of Israel together with Hamas.
In 2009 an earthquake inward the Italian metropolis of L'Aquila caused the expiry of 308 people together with damaged many of the town's historically of import buildings. You tin accept a virtual walk through L'Aquila inward a custom Street View tour of this historic Italian town. Hello L'Aquila is an amazing interactive virtual tour of the metropolis consisting of to a greater extent than than 400 custom shot Street View panoramas roofing the entire historic metropolis center.
Custom Street Views tin too endure used to exercise virtual tours of areas where the Google Street View machine has even therefore to visit. For example, Isuzu Trail View has created a release of virtual Street View tours of about of South Africa's best off-road trails. In the USA the Nature Valley Trail View has created a release of Street View tours inward national parks, such every bit inward the Grand Canyon, inward Yellowstone National Park together with inward the Great Smokies.
Toyota has too used the custom Street View characteristic to exercise an interesting crusade to promote the Toyota IQ. During the crusade Toyota allowed anyone inward Kingdom of Belgium to study a street that doesn't direct keep Street View on the Toyota IQ - Street View Google Map. The Toyota IQ together with then traveled to the submitted streets, captured the custom Street View images together with added them to their ain Street View map of Belgium.
