Google Streetview launches in Australia Today
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Someone mentioned this during lunch at work today. I wonder if the IT dept noticed the enormous spike in traffic after lunch!
This could be pretty handy for geocaching too. Not so much for looking at a cache location, except perhaps for drive bys, but for getting a general feeling for the area and finding parking it would be great.
I note that neither the GC or GCA Google map views incorporate the change, so I'm guessing it doesn't happen automatically for sites using the Google API. Would be good to see however.
This could be pretty handy for geocaching too. Not so much for looking at a cache location, except perhaps for drive bys, but for getting a general feeling for the area and finding parking it would be great.
I note that neither the GC or GCA Google map views incorporate the change, so I'm guessing it doesn't happen automatically for sites using the Google API. Would be good to see however.
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It's a non-trivial change, you have to do a fair bit to get it working.Coffee and Cache wrote:I note that neither the GC or GCA Google map views incorporate the change, so I'm guessing it doesn't happen automatically for sites using the Google API. Would be good to see however.
I am looking at it for the GCA site, but it may be a few days away at best.
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I went looking for what to do and there are a couple o' new widgets to plug in and stuff, but then I got distracted by the geocaching licences and that was more funCraigRat wrote:It's a non-trivial change, you have to do a fair bit to get it working.Coffee and Cache wrote:I note that neither the GC or GCA Google map views incorporate the change, so I'm guessing it doesn't happen automatically for sites using the Google API. Would be good to see however.
I am looking at it for the GCA site, but it may be a few days away at best.
You need more beer anyway, so when you deploy that change make sure you add in the auto calculator for beery goodness then charge the users the appropriate cost.
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The coverage is pretty darn good, what I did amazing though, is that, whilst they have "recorded" so many places. I was looking at the small town where my parents live, it has like 10-15 streets if it is lucky, only about half of it was recorded, partial streets etc.
Even on major highways, there are segments missing. But, still, it's a bit of fun.
Even on major highways, there are segments missing. But, still, it's a bit of fun.