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.
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I've just been passing my iPhone round the office for peeps to check out their street using Google Maps and Strret view on it and everyone was amaZed by the experience, being able to pan around and zoom in using pinch etc. Made a lot of ooh's and aah's lol. Great stuff from Google and with the pictures being old there's not much threat for security either 😊
It defintely has a sense of cool to it, but especially in the rural areas Street View still seems a bit gimmicky to me.
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.
Show off wrote:Great stuff from Google and with the pictures being old there's not much threat for security either 😊
I'm starting to see the maps slow down just a bit, not surprising with the gigantic volume of data thats being thrown around.
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 ....
Can one see Ewan in any of the pics of the highlands? Or did he manage to hide in the remaining white spots?
And well done, Isle of Man, keep those Google hipsters out of your island!
Still very little coverage in Northern Ireland, just the 2 main cities as far as I can see...
There is extensive coverage in Northern Ireland now. Bangor is fully covered which it wasn't a while back.
Hi
Can you use a wireless connection with google maps instead of internet or wap connection?
thanks
Boothy
boothy I assume you mean WiFi - in which case - yes you can - any connection type will work.
Thanks for that
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
@boothy,
You need to configure your APN under Internet in destinations and put the priority up higher than the 3G APN.
Thanks - sorry to sound thick but where is `destinations`?(I am currently using a N97)
Boothy
Edit:Thanks I have found it ! Boothy