If Jack Kerouac was exist today he could avoid all that budget travel, teenage angst as well as broken dreams yesteryear traveling across the USA on Google Maps Street View. That's what Lionel Tardy did. And he's documented his virtual journeying inwards A Road Trip Through West USA.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Road Trip Through West USA is a hyperlapse journeying using Google Maps Street View images. It animates a roundabout journeying from LA to San Francisco (via Las Vegas) equally seen on Google Maps Street View. You tin sense the whole 3,500 km journeying yesteryear watching this animation of 344,118 Street View images. Alternatively you lot tin accept a short-cut yesteryear jumping to locations along the route yesteryear clicking on the route innovation along the bottom of the screen.
If you lot desire to brand your ain Street View road-trip thus you lot tin role the same script that Lionel used to brand his journey. Lionel's Roadtrip script is available on GitHub. The script automatically downloads the links to all the Street View images from your chosen starting place to your goal (it genuinely gets i every x meters only you lot tin modify that to whatever distance you lot want). The road-trip script volition thus charge i ikon every 40ms as well as display it equally an animated Street View journey.
Also see: Hyperlapse - some other JavaScript hyperlapse utility for Google Maps Street View
