I stumbled upon the intergation of Street View with driving directions in Google Maps today (no doubt someone will tell me this has been about for ages or at least since the launch of Street View). Alongside each stage of the route directions a camera icon is displayed, clicking on it brings up a split screen with a Street View image and a direction graphic plus the normal map.
How long before I can get that on the SatNav in my car and perhaps it says to me "Turn left in 50 yards just before the Woolworth store"? Well forget the bit about Woolworth which shows the vintage of the imagery but you get the point.
Try printing the directions and selecting the Street View option, it's really neat.
Just under 3 days to the budget. Don't expect too much from the budget text, the key will be how the revisions are put into practice. I am optimistic, but then I always am.
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What's the URL to check it out?
Just go to Google Maps somewhere in London where there is Street View coverage and use directions to get a route somewhere.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9931506-7.html
So when I read the blog I obviously rushed thorugh and thought you'd found someone else integrating the two - hence my comment. Now I've learnt to read, this is neat, I hadn't seen this before. Surely this is one for Google to put into Android (aside from the ugly T1), get a decent screen on the front of an Android phone which plugs into your cigarette lighter and you don't need to buy a Sat nav any more.
It would be lovely to have talking, photo directions in my phone. I think data licensing conditions prevent Google from doing it though.
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