Google Maps for Mobile Street View now for the whole UK
Published by Steve Litchfield at 14:00 GMT, March 11th 2010
Google's drive for world domination around your country has been going nicely, judging from the fact that Street View just went live for virtually all the UK. Yes, every last track, every last estate road - it's all there in glorious technicolour on your smartphone. Google Maps for Mobile itself is available from the usual m.google.com/gmm and to see Street View you need to long tap on any location and pick 'Street View' from the pop-up menu.
Note that Google's servers are quite slow at the moment to serve up high resolution photos - I'm guessing more servers will come online in due course. Here are some examples of obscure streets that I know. And that you do too, having seen them through the all seeing eye of Google!
The photos were all taken in the last 2 years, of course, my own home showed up with my car in the drive - a little Google jaw-dropping moment?
Amazing that Google got down to rural estate street level in one fell swoop - previously, we'd only had major cities! Below, I've shown the new Street View coverage for the UK, accessible from any desktop computer or phone right now.
If coverage has dramatically extended in your own country, do please chip in, in the comments!
Steve Litchfield, All About Symbian, 11 Mar 2010
Categories: Software, Miscellaneous
Platforms: General, S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition
News Discussion
That said I've seen some demos of the next gen type of thing from Navteq (and others) - visualisations and data point collection - and that does get interesting (when you can do something more useful that just collect photos).
I have used Street View a few times on the desktop though, but the major one has been curiosity.
Impressive amount of driving whatever you think though.
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Originally Posted by Show off
Great stuff from Google and with the pictures being old there's not much threat for security either :-)
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Not sure about the "security threat" though. Whilst they've done a good job of blurring vehicle registrations, I've checked up a couple of very definitely secretive locations that I've previously worked at ... and I'm sure on those there used to be a strict "no cameras pointing at the site" rule. Now google has detailed photographs of the whole darned place ....
And well done, Isle of Man, keep those Google hipsters out of your island!
Can you use a wireless connection with google maps instead of internet or wap connection?
thanks
Boothy
Yes I did mean WIFI - more precisely how do I define connection - in the latest version downloaded yesterday the settings gives you a option of internt,wap etc - not an access point - it does not seem to ask for access point.
Thanks again
Boothy
You need to configure your APN under Internet in destinations and put the priority up higher than the 3G APN.
Boothy
Edit:Thanks I have found it ! Boothy