This project does something subtle, yet amazing with perception, including one's perception of technology. We've had Street View for half a decade now; the novelty of the fact that you can pull up an instant 360-degree panorama for a significant percentage of street addresses in the developed world has worn off.<p>Yet this makes it new again – I found myself laughing like a child as I slowed down my typing, watching my screen be transported to a completely new location with each keystroke. It made me appreciate anew the technology at work, while also appreciating the daftness of it all, jumping around the world en route to my destination as if propelled by some sort of Douglas Adams-style teleporter.<p>Fantastic work.
Well this is freaky, I typed in "white house" and I got an INTERNAL tour of the white house. Awesome.<p>Also try "google campus".<p>What's interesting is the real google streetview needs adobe flash to run, this works with flash disabled.
This is way too addicting. I've been typing in addresses one letter at a time, just to see what pops up: a beautiful metro station in Saint Petersburg, the graffitied walls surrounding an airport in Brazil, a neighborhood in South Africa, a wooded street in suburban North Carolina, a deserted country road in rural Iowa, the entrance to a gated community in Texas, and finally, my house. What a fun way to explore. Great work!
Worth mentioning also is Ryan Alexander's excellent Streetview Stereographic: <a href="http://notlion.github.com/streetview-stereographic/" rel="nofollow">http://notlion.github.com/streetview-stereographic/</a><p>(Try hitting the plus to edit the shader on the left)
I knew what this was coming in and still I was impressed. Nice job.<p>It's been awhile since I've actually used GSV...the images seem much higher-res than I remember.
This is a pretty surreal experience. I really enjoy typing in an address and seeing other towns and cities flash before my eyes. I love the app, but I almost think the sequence of random street views is more enjoyable.
I wanted to be all "yeah, whatever" about this, but it's fantastic. Seeing it load places from all over the world as you type in an address, and seeing how much the streets look exactly like what you might expect, is fascinating. Cool hack indeed!
Meta: as a test, I tried looking for the street where I live. I never tried to visit my street before. As the Street view rendered the destination, I was nearly shocked: it happens that the moment the Google car was cruising the street there also was a funeral right there. With a poor dead guy in the coffin and a procession. Doesn't Google filter such things out? Not that I insist, but this is a really sad experience. I'd prefer this part of the street cut our from GSV completely. Recommending using Street view to friends from my neighborhood is going to be hard.
My dream is a smooth FPS like street view. Right now it's so disjointed and lagged. Street view could be so much more. I know microsoft had some technology to put photos from different angles together..
Even though lots of people have praised the creator, I couldn't leave without saying well done :). This is absolutely fantastic work. There is something amazing about being able to jump across the world a keystroke at a time. I loved the attention to detail with the "Share", "Download" links... this is going to come handy during house-hunting time :).
I'm curious, is there any kind of ranking being done on the candidates for an imprecise address? Any kind of image analysis to determine which ones are the more 'interesting'?<p>Asking because it seemed to me that when the address is imprecise, it's mostly more prominent locations that are being shown.<p>[later edit] It's probably just using GMaps' suggest feature I guess?
How long before we have a real time view of the world - with all the millions of smart phones, cameras, public security cameras all pushing data to the web? Kind of feel like those Circle/Social cam guys had something there - a real time distributed camera.<p>There's a startup up there - but maybe instagram has already done it :D
How come this is so much faster than Google's own Street View interface? I feel like whether I use Flash or WebGL, Street View always feels a bit clunky and laggy, while here it's really instant.<p>I suppose one of the things that helps is that this doesn't do the "zoom" effect that looks ugly and slows you down navigating.
This made me think of how <i>awesome</i> it would be to be teleported to a random place in the world like this, just walking on the street. You wouldn't know where at first, and you'd have 24 hours before being transported to a new location. <Any script writers out there?>
Cool but indexing is off and different fron Google results, strangely. In Seattle, where streets are mapped by compass rose I tyoed in # N. # St., which should mean North, got the results for NE. Great concept, just wish it mirrored Google's results.
Any idea why typing in 568 Broadway NY gives you an inside view of the Armani Exchange store across the street from the actual correct address? This works on both qsview and showmystreet...so I assume there's an error in the Google database.
This is totally awesome.<p>BTW, I've been meaning to ask for a while though: what sort of algorithm is running that detects edges <i>and orientation</i> so when the mouse is moved, the small white circle or quadrilateral seems to touch the objects in the image?
This is really quite wonderful. For a while now, I've wanted to hack together a system for rapidly flipping through a set of street views based on a list of locations I provide. This seems like a great start. Is any of the code open source?
I didn't realize that Google didn't bother to look at my cul de sac for street view. I don't think I'm too sad about that.<p>Regarding TFA, well done. Though it's a little weird to look at my back door from a street over while typing in my address.
Nice! I added this one to my favorites. As I type it often finds an address elsewhere, until the address is completed, but it's still easier to get to the desired street view than in Google Maps. I even enjoy the extra views.
Really neat. Something's weird with the shortcut links. I get <a href="http://qsview.com/7pd0rz6j7bdz-y4zokz1ap" rel="nofollow">http://qsview.com/7pd0rz6j7bdz-y4zokz1ap</a> from the share icon but it 404s.
This is really awesome. It feels snappier then the Google maps interface for street view.
Curious about the street view API. Do you have to pay for it after a certain usage threshold ?
Tried some random views and this is where I reached! Beautiful.<p><a href="http://qsview.com/7dsamz1jpf4z3wnzmpz1ap" rel="nofollow">http://qsview.com/7dsamz1jpf4z3wnzmpz1ap</a>
developer version of qsview.com :) <a href="http://webshell.io/prototype/OWFiO/2" rel="nofollow">http://webshell.io/prototype/OWFiO/2</a> and don't forget to run it!