Better navigation / caching of Google Streetview?

[Ross Scott]

I like Google Streetview because it can give a good idea of what a place looks like. I'd love to look at more areas I may or may never visit. What I hate about Streetview is if you don't have a stellar connection it can take several seconds to load, then when you move forward, there's an animation played, then it takes several more seconds for your new location to load. So if I want to see an area of a street it may take me a minute of loading and navigating.

 

What I would LOVE would be a way to plot out a route (or select an area) along the roads it has covered and tell my computer to cache every image stored from Streetview along that route. Then once it was done downloading everything, be able to navigate it via keyboard with instant transitions like a slideshow.

 

I did find this:

 

http://www.labnol.org/internet/street-view-time-lapse/20504/

 

though the methodology the guy describes means that when a road makes a turn, the camera will stay cocked at the angle it was before that. Also you can only go in a straight line, but that's not a bad start.

[Chuckthe2nd]

Verra verra kewl.

 

To be honest, that's something I'm surprised Google hasn't included yet. You can cache maps, so why not be able to cache Street View as well?

[BTGBullseye]

I'm thinking they're going to be including that feature on the non-phone version of Earth fairly soon. (it is already available for Android)

[Doctor Felix Whooves]

Is it on the iPhone?

[Alyxx Thorne]

Is it on the iPhone?

You're asking if Google Streetview is on iPhone? Why not just check the AppStore?

[urammar]

Now, Ross. Say thank you.

 

For I am the bearer of gifts, and lover of all things mankind.

 

http://tinyurl.com/mjawauv

 

Giant purse, because Melborne, thats why.