One of the virtually underused features of the Google Maps JavaScript API must hold upwards Custom Street Views. The Custom Street View characteristic allows developers to practise interactive Street View panoramas from their ain imagery.
The Custom Street View characteristic tin hold upwards used to practise Street Views from 360 grade panoramic photographs, simply equally Street View is used on Google Maps. But the 360 grade images don't conduct maintain to hold upwards photographs. For instance creative individual Raul Moyado Sandoval has used the characteristic to practise a serial of panoramic Street View paintings.
On his website Raul discusses the possibility of creating a virtual painted populace yesteryear connecting a serial of these 360 grade panoramic paintings. In essence this is what has been achieved yesteryear Activision inwards their novel marketing drive for the novel Destiny reckoner game.
Using 360 grade Street View panoramas, created from screenshots taken from the game, Destiny Planet View has created an interactive mapped tour of the Destiny game world.
The Google Custom Street View characteristic tin manifestly likewise hold upwards used amongst 360 grade panoramic photos. The same developers behind Destiny Street View (Google Creative Labs) conduct maintain likewise created an amazing nighttime fourth dimension tour of Marseilles.
Google Night Walk uses custom Street View images to accept y'all on an immersive journeying through the lively Cours Julien neighbourhood of Marseille. This Street View tour of night-time Marseilles includes an well narrated guide yesteryear Julie as well as Christophe, 2 urban storytellers, who assistance explicate the living history of the urban heart equally y'all progress through the panoramic images.
Elsewhere the custom Street View characteristic has been used to demo the effects of political as well as natural disasters. For example, the Gaza War Map is a powerful visualization of the devastating consequence of Israeli air strikes inwards Gaza. The map consists of a set out of 360 grade panoramic Street Views taken inwards the Gaza Strip since the onslaught of the introduce conflict betwixt State of Israel as well as Hamas.
In 2009 an earthquake inwards the Italian urban heart of L'Aquila caused the expire of 308 people as well as damaged many of the town's historically of import buildings. You tin accept a virtual walk through L'Aquila inwards a custom Street View tour of this historic Italian town. Hello L'Aquila is an amazing interactive virtual tour of the urban heart consisting of to a greater extent than than 400 custom shot Street View panoramas roofing the entire historic urban heart center.
Custom Street Views tin likewise hold upwards used to practise virtual tours of areas where the Google Street View auto has withal to visit. For example, Isuzu Trail View has created a set out of virtual Street View tours of roughly of South Africa's best off-road trails. In the USA the Nature Valley Trail View has created a set out of Street View tours inwards national parks, such equally inwards the Grand Canyon, inwards Yellowstone National Park as well as inwards the Great Smokies.
Toyota has likewise used the custom Street View characteristic to practise an interesting drive to promote the Toyota IQ. During the drive Toyota allowed anyone inwards Kingdom of Belgium to study a street that doesn't conduct maintain Street View on the Toyota IQ - Street View Google Map. The Toyota IQ as well as hence traveled to the submitted streets, captured the custom Street View images as well as added them to their ain Street View map of Belgium.
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