“Street View” Added To Filming Map
Google Maps provides a cool feature called “Street View” where given a point on a map, you can see a panoramic view of that location- and in the “Street View” you can use the mouse to pan up, pan down, rotate left or right, or continue “walking” down the street via mouse clicks. Of course, most of the U.S. has not been completely photographed for Street View, but in downtown Los Angeles, most every street is available on Street View.
So I added this feature to my Filming Locations application. Now when you click on a filming location, you will get the Street View of that location below the map. While not too incredible for us that live here, as we’ve seen many of these locations first-hand, it may be interesting for out-of-town folks to see what buildings are being used in what TV shows, movies, and commercials.
As always, your comments/bugs would be appreciated here! I’m not real happy with the interface yet as it seems kind of “clunky” but I will probably make the Street View as a draggable overlay on the regular map- but suggestions would be great too.
(Film Locations is the button in the upper right hand portion of every page of my blog)