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February 10, 2011
Some amazing rides in Street View
A few days ago, Google Sightseeing posted a few of their "most breathtaking rides" in Street View and they certainly found some great areas.
As you know, Google Earth 6 greatly enhanced the way that Street View works inside of Google Earth, allowing you to "drive" the routes much better than you can in Google Maps.
Even better, Google Sightseeing has put all of the locations they highlighted (plus a few extra) in a KML file
for you to download. The only problem is that each location is a simple placemark, and doesn't fly you directly into the Street View imagery.
Fortunately in Google Earth 6 it's a simple fix! Just drag "peg man" from the top right corner of your screen onto the road they've highlighted, and you'll instantly be taken into Street View mode, as shown below:
Google Earth has an abundance of amazing sights to see, and this is another great example of that. Thanks to the Google Sightseeing guys for putting together the list of breathtaking rides!
Posted by mickmel at February 10, 2011 9:22 AM
Comments
Posted by: Ted at February 10, 2011 1:35 PM
Google street view freezes and is slow even on a fast PC with a good accelerater card/drivers.
Use Google maps.
Posted by: Kyle at February 13, 2011 5:17 PM
Street View in GE is now painful to use, dreadfully slow and less useful. If I wanted to know which end of a street a house number was, Street View used to tell me at glance. Not now. Can we have it back please?
Posted by: Stephen at March 1, 2011 4:35 PM
I agree with Stephen, 6 is a big step backwards. Very little use to me anymore
Posted by: Bob at March 1, 2011 11:17 PM
I agree with Kyle, Stephen & Bob. Street View in GE6 is a classic example of ignoring a golden IT rule: "If it ain't broke don't fix it".
Posted by: Tom at March 2, 2011 8:30 AM
this is just brilliant! thanks for capturing the world for all those who love the earth.
Posted by: paul zacharia at March 6, 2011 8:21 AM
this is just brilliant! thanks for capturing the world for all those who love the earth.
Posted by: paul zacharia at March 6, 2011 8:22 AM
OK, so what's the deal? Do we pay to use GE and have unfettered access, or do we continue to be frustrated trying to use it for free. I've used 5 on an XP computer for several years, and 6 on a Windows 7 system flawlessly for several months, then all of a sudden it started freezing up after about 2 minutes and dragging the image into street view crashes the computer. That did not happen when the drag image first came into use. I've tried upgrading directx and reinstalled win 7, nothing has solved this problem.
Posted by: GEEP at March 31, 2011 4:18 PM
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I've known about the Dalton highway for many years and am glad to finally see it this way. Some of the roads in rural northern Maine are great too.