"Street-View"

[gr84all]

I love Street View, but now I think twice before I take a photo and upload it to Panoramio. Is this the end of photos? With Street View available in my city, why bother taking a photo?

[Draken]

Quote gr84all:

I love Street View, but now I think twice before I take a photo and upload it to Panoramio. Is this the end of photos? With Street View available in my city, why bother taking a photo?

No, I don't think so. Street view is a completely different thing. Can you compare the quality of the photos?

[gr84all]

I hope you're right, and they never get rid of the photo option on Google Earth. I really enjoy taking the photos and sharing them!

[Matthew Winn]

Sometimes the composition of Street View pictures can be a bit off.

[senojekips]

Quote gr84all:

I love Street View, but now I think twice before I take a photo and upload it to Panoramio. Is this the end of photos? With Street View available in my city, why bother taking a photo?

Your photos would be sadly missed. In my opinion, Street view has no comparison to individual photos, especially if we take the time to explain to those looking at them, what they are viewing. e.g.http://www.panoramio.com/photo/30914335

I too am now starting to add more detailed explanations after looking at the photos of others, and thinking, "Hmmm,... and exactly what am I looking at"?

[tonyloo]

Here's a street view that says a lot of history. Street view gaves you a peek, informations about a place and what makes it tick.

[Draken]

FYI:This thread is about Google Street view, not just any photo showing an ordinary street view.

[leolund]

Quote Draken:

Quote gr84all:

I love Street View, but now I think twice before I take a photo and upload it to Panoramio. Is this the end of photos? With Street View available in my city, why bother taking a photo?

No, I don't think so. Street view is a completely different thing. Can you compare the quality of the photos?

I am afraid that a lot of the "telephonepictures" we see more and more of doesn't even reach the standard of "streetview"

[O.KIRK]

street view is interesting .
it is not very acurate my daughters street in Dickens Heath ,Solihull. comes up with the wrong name ,.the road where she lives splits in two directions ,one section which is a cul de sac Round Close ,presuming that goes in a circle They have named all the street as Round Close .it is not .
the part that goes straight on is Meadow Pleck LANE plus the left section that passes the end of Round Close
i did send an email to google. to no effect months ago

[Kevin Childress]

Quote gr84all:

I love Street View, but now I think twice before I take a photo and upload it to Panoramio. Is this the end of photos? With Street View available in my city, why bother taking a photo?

gr84all, this is an interesting question - never considered folks migrating to Street View as an alternative to sites like Panoramio. Let's hope our fervor for photography is strong enough to keep people coming back here!

[arzy]

I show You absolutely typical street in my little town ->
Greetings from Arzamas

[Fuzzypiggy]

Streetview is simply a tool, nothing more than an automatic, 3D perspective mapping tool. Street view doesn't have the luxury of being able to take a different perspective on things, it simply has to present a simple, concise and one might say bl**dy obvious view of that street, ideally from a person's eye view. Ultimately it must forsake all creativity in favour of simple function.

When you go out with your kit and you start looking you are not interested in simply snapping a street to show the street as it is. You try hard to think how can I capture this, what I am seeing now, making it interesting to another person? I can lie down on the floor, I can stand on this bench, I could do a DoF against that door frame, etc. I personally try to think in terms that I have to get as many questions as possible in someones head when I take my pictures.

What time was it? Why sort of perspective is that? What's that shop over there? Why is that door frame like that? What sort of street lighting? etc.

Tools are functional, they have to be precise. Almost all shots on Panaramio are the photographer's creativity, hard at work.

[Feenixx]

Street View does not appeal to me at all. To me, it's like an infection in GE/Google maps, and it keeps spreading.... spreading even beyond the pictures Google themselves are taking.

Here is a recently introduced "un-feature" in Google Maps:

If I click on the icon for a photograph, a little preview opens, as it always did. This is new, though: When I click in the preview, Street View opens, with the picture in seriously reduced quality in it, and it looks DOG AWFUL... and I could click to expand it across the full screen, but the resulting visual would make me ill.

[QuentinUK]

Street View relieves us of the job of photographing everything just for the sake of completeness. Allowing us to concentrate on sunsets (or whatever you want ) and trying to take a more interesting photograph than Street View.

[txllxt]

Just wait and see how Streetview will be kept up to date. If this is taking the same road as the aerial Google pictures (where the updating in some places is many many years running behind), than the support of Panoramio's Photo Database is and will continue to be sorely needed.

[SteveT]

I've just noticed Google Maps Street View can now be viewed in with glasses in 3D, , wierd!!


Stephen

Edit: at 10 April 2010, for some reason possibly only testing the 3D they have removed this feature from GM Street View. The little man wearing red and blue glasses has gone.

[CarmelH]

I see the Street View as of now, as pit of pain in the **s - it's loading so slowly! And you advance in such small paces.. it makes me quit out of frustration after a short bit.

[CliveM]

I've just discovered how useful StreetView can be for Panoramio. I wasn't sure where to place my picture taken on Wakamiya Oji in Kamakura, as the street is very long and I couldn't remember how far along I was when I took the picture. The distinguishing features of the buildings in the background are not visible in the aerial photograph, but then I thought of using StreetView to find the buildings and have been able to correct the position of my picture.
In my mind Panoramio and StreetView carry out two different functions. StreetView gives a general idea of what a place looks like at ground level, while Panoramio enables us to pick out interesting features of a particular place at a particular time. The StreetView vans can't drive along the tree-lined avenue in the middle of Wakamiya Oji, and haven't caught the flowers in bloom.

[keepclicking]

I feel street view to be a totally different thing and use it commercial when I need to. It's very handy to identify an address if I am visiting a client prior to arriving, especially if it's raining ect.

I have had it mentioned on numerous occasions, how useful people have found my comments regarding the photo's I take. I always attempt to explain a little history of the shot, so that a viwer can get a sense of the picture. Would it be possible to included the first comments block, or the first line at least with the thumb nail image, so that people can identify easily if they want to look closer or not?

[Artur Lutz]

I like street view to walk virtually along a place where I've shoot pictures, but I won't miss the pictures from the other Panoramios and me. At street view you can see many things, from the street, but for some pictures it needs to move to the streets corner or to leave the street

Maybe you like to visit this street view http://maps.google.de/maps?ll=50.087224,14.40799&spn=0,0.016147&t=h&z=17&lci=com.panoramio.all&layer=c&cbll=50.087258,14.408111&panoid=soi4zghqoOhEI5dpxYa9Vw&cbp=12,195.88,,0,-2.95
and to compare the pictures many Panoramios
and me has captured there.