To celebrate the twelfth birthday of Google Maps Matteo Archondis created this awesome animated tour of Google Maps. The video consists of 3,305 screenshots of the basis equally seen on Google Maps.
If you lot desire to create your ain animated tour too thus you lot tin purpose the Ecolapse Street View painting maker. Ecolapse is a prissy extension of the Hyperlapse library created past times Teehan+Lax (Hyperlapse itself unfortunately seems to no longer be - although the origin code for Hyperlapse is still available on Github). Using Ecolapse you lot tin create an animated Street View movement amongst a really clever overhead 'small world' effect. Ecolapse distorts the Google Street View imagery to portray an overhead sentiment rather than the normal Google Maps landscape view.
You tin create your ain animated Ecolapse tour but past times dropping 2 map markers onto a Google Map. When the animation is created you lot convey the alternative to interruption the animation, zoom inwards too out of the Street View too purpose your keyboard arrow keys to scroll through the road frame past times frame.
