2014 saw some amazing applications built alongside Google Maps Street View imagery. Developers proceed to stretch the limits of the Google Maps API. In detail the advance inward the capabilities of WebGL has enabled developers to exercise some genuinely astonishing applications which plough Street View into a whole novel agency of looking at the world.
Here are some of my favorite Street View based applications from 2014.
Urban Jungle is a fantastic Google Map that allows yous to persuasion metropolis streets inward Street View enhanced alongside some virtual jungle greenery. Drop Pegman on the map in addition to yous tin persuasion Street View alongside creeping vines in addition to grass superimposed on Google's panoramic imagery.
These enhanced Street Views are real impressive. The termination is possible because of undocumented depth information stored inward Street View. Urban Jungle is able to purpose that information to exercise a depth map which tin last used to plot geometry in addition to sprites inward the 3d infinite of the Street View panorama.
Do yous desire to run across what your household volition await similar i time global warming causes the inevitable ascent inward bounding main levels? Just type inward your address into World Under Water in addition to yous can, thank yous to the glory of Street View.
World Under Water is a real powerful receive from Carbon Story which uses Google's panoramic imagery to plough over yous a glimpse of your habitation nether water. There are a let on of Google Maps that tin plough over yous a map persuasion of rising bounding main levels. However World Under Water has a far greater visual impact, only because yous tin really accept a glimpse of your ain habitation sinking nether those rising waters.
Thanks to GSVPanoDepth in addition to some awesome hacking past times Callum Prentice yous tin at i time measuring into a 3d version of Street View made upward of a betoken cloud representation of the Street View depth data.
Once immersed inward the betoken cloud representation of Street Cloud yous tin spin to a greater extent than or less 360 degrees, await upward in addition to downwards in addition to fifty-fifty persuasion the master Google Maps Street View. After you've checked out the betoken cloud representation of your household (you know you're going to exercise it) why non type inward '210 westward 46th St, New York, United States' to persuasion Times Square (pictured above).
Back inward the twenty-four hr catamenia GTA4.net created a genuinely impressive Street View map of Liberty City (unfortunately that map no longer works). The map allowed yous to explore the whole of Liberty City, from Grand Theft Auto IV, using custom Street Views created from the game.
Last yr Activision took that concept to a whole novel level. To promote the unloose of the estimator game Destiny Activision created a Street View tour of the Destiny game-world, which allows yous to explore in addition to preview the game alongside Google Maps.
Destiny Planet View allows yous to explore Mars, Venus in addition to the Luna inward Street View. The Street Views appear to last taken from the existent game-world used inward the game. You tin explore these worlds precisely every bit yous tin inward Google Maps Street View past times panning to a greater extent than or less inward the custom Street Views in addition to clicking on the arrows to displace frontward in addition to back.
Last yr Skoda used the popular Hyperlapse Street View animation tool to exercise a cool promotional website for the Rapid Spaceback.
The Rapid Spaceback website lets yous persuasion a let on of animated journeys on Google Maps Street View. To spice upward the activeness the site has added a let on of filters that yous tin apply to the animated route, including a kaleidoscope or mirror view. You tin also pick out from a let on of unlike soundtracks to accompany your drive.
The site includes a let on of prepared routes from famous locations to a greater extent than or less the world. You tin also exercise your ain road past times selecting a starting betoken in addition to a goal on a Google Map.
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