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Jun 5, 2009

Google Updates Street View for Easier Navigation

(Video Inside) The 360-degree imagery on Google's Street View mapping feature is pretty impressive, but until today, navigating the streets from your keyboard has been somewhat of a chore.

Google on Thursday updated Street View to allows users to move through the streets by double clicking on your mouse rather than using the arrow keys.

"We have been able to accomplish this by making a compact representation of the building facade and road geometry for all the Street View panoramas using laser point clouds and differences between consecutive pictures," Daniel Filip, a computer vision tech lead at Google Zurich, wrote in a blog post.

In addition, if you hover over a certain area, a shaded box will appear - an oval if you're on the street and a rectangle if you're pointing to a building. Double click the box and Street View will either take you to the best panorama shot of the building or street or give you the option to zoom into the selected area by double clicking.

If you've traveled too far, hit the return arrow in the address box to go back to your previous location.

"Not only is it an easier way to browse cities in Street View, it allows you to do superhuman things like jump from one side of a river to another to see a faraway building," Filip wrote.

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