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October 14, 2008
More Street View Imagery for France in Google Earth/Maps
As reported at Google Maps Mania, Google has released new Street View imagery in France. Google had already released Street View imagery in July for the Tour de France route. Now they have more complete coverage for the following cities: Paris, Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, and Lille. Most people are aware you can view the Street View imagery in Google Maps, but you can also see these new spherical panoramic photos inside Google Earth with a 3D interface.
To see the images in Google Earth, turn on the Street View layer and zoom in a bit to see the camera icons over France. You can fly to a city covered with the Street View icons to find an interesting site. Then click on a camera icon near your desired location. Click "Show Full Screen" or double click the icon to enter the Photo Viewer mode. This mode lets you look in all directions using the mouse or keyboard arrows. You can also zoom in and out with the mousewheel. See a video demonstration of the Google Earth Street View imagery.
Posted by FrankTaylor at October 14, 2008 08:54 PM
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Posted by: Claudia at October 15, 2008 08:08 AM
Hi,
i found a nice site for streetview france, see here www.streetview.be.
Greetz,
Silvia
Posted by: Silvia at October 15, 2008 12:55 PM
Folks at Google are doing such a wonderful job.
Posted by: Ed at October 15, 2008 03:30 PM
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I'm thrilled with the new Paris coverage and can't wait to get to work this morning so I can "tour" Paris - er - I mean, work on that monthly budget spreadsheet ... of course.