Pimping Hyperlapse

Teehan+Lax's pop Hyperlapse creates animated Street View drives for whatever road that has Google Maps Street View information available. The code for Hyperlapse is available on GitHub and has proved a source of inspiration for a publish of Google Maps API developers.


Ecolapse is a prissy extension of the Hyperlapse library. Using Ecolapse yous tin mail away practice an animated Street View drive alongside a really clever overhead 'small world' effect. Ecolapse distorts the Google Street View imagery to portray an overhead thought rather than the normal Google Maps landscape view.

You tin mail away practice your ain animated Ecolapse drives exactly yesteryear dropping 2 map markers onto a Google Map, to dot the commencement too halt of your journey. When the animation is created yous accept the selection to suspension the animation, zoom inwards too out of the Street View too piece of occupation your keyboard arrow keys to scroll through the road frame yesteryear frame.

Hat-tip: Google Street View World


Skoda has used the pop Hyperlapse Street View animation tool to practice a cool promotional website for the Rapid Spaceback.

The Rapid Spaceback website lets yous thought a publish of animated journeys on Google Maps Street View. To spice upward the activity the site has added a publish of filters that yous tin mail away apply to the animated route, including a kaleidoscope or mirror view. You tin mail away also pick out from a publish of dissimilar soundtracks to accompany your drive.

The site includes a publish of prepared routes from famous locations approximately the world. You tin mail away also practice your ain road yesteryear selecting a starting dot too a goal on a Google Map.


HyperlapseMB uses the depth information hidden inwards Street View information to add together a prissy motion blur trial to a Street View animated drive. The motion blur eliminates a lot of the jerkiness inwards the resulting animation, which is caused yesteryear stitching a sequence of nonetheless images together. The final result of adding motion blur is a much smoother animation.

HyperlapseMB applies the motion blur trial earlier the Street View animation tin mail away hold upward played. Therefore HyperlapseMB is a chip slower than the master Hyperlapse, but it is worth the wait. Not exclusively is the animation much smoother but the controls inwards the side-panel allow yous to suit the thought inwards the animation too fifty-fifty spin the animation around.