Google Maps Streetview Player

This is lovely. Have you encountered any issues with Google Maps' usage limits? (Especially now it's on the front page of HN...)

Neat project!

Small suggestion: consider using autocomplete on the textboxes to make it easier to find the starting and ending point.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

This is awesome and exactly what I want sometimes when trying to figure out if a restaurant is in a good area, how parking might be near a destination, or if an apt I'm thinking of renting is in a good area. Its possible to do in StreetView but clicking on the arrows is just a pain. This is much nicer.

Really cool - I tried from SF to LA and I found a couple "bugs": 1. when close to a highway exit, some frames show the street below the highway 2. more or less on the bay bridge (SF), at a certain point, the view started to be from the other lane, which looked like I was driving in the opposite direction

Beside that, the concept is great! I can see this being pretty useful if you could show a mini-video of the most important steps in the drive, for instance when I have to enter the highway, when I have to switch to another one, when I have to exit... that way I can visually remember my travel. (I'm considering driving, but biking is pretty similar I bet)

Shorter and more artistic, but similar: Teehan + Lax's Street View Hyperlapse http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/hyperlapse

I wrote this tool in 2011 or so as a quick proof of concept and it has survived a few google streetview api upgrades. The auto-complete idea should be an easy win. It defaults to cycling as I am a cyclist and originally wrote it so I could get a quick glimpse of cycling routes to see if they would have bike lanes. Still waiting for google to contact me for work! Usually just dutch people though.

Very nice, indeed! I've been wanting something like this for a long time. And if it would be possible to combine with Glympse it would be pretty awesome to see the view of the driver (sort of), from the comfort of my own computer/smartphone.

I thought it was going to be a music player with a backdrop of Google Street View that is specific to the music. You go to a street corner in NY and listen to Jazz, another is with R&B, etc.

It would be awesome if it was possible to interpolate between the frames to provide a smooth experience - for the two locations I tried, it seemed to be a little jerky.

Very well done. But what do you plan on doing with it?

Random teleportation aside, this is a cool idea :)

Lots of fun, but it tends to drive on the right hand side of the road. Looks very weird on Australian roads.

wake me up when i can use VR headset and look around :)