Here, you put your source and destination addresses. Usually Google maps gives you text directions and highlighted directions on the maps, here you see a autoated navigation system which takes you through a street view as if you are actually charting through the city in real. It is like the service stitches the street views of the location which fall in the path from source to destination addresses. Thus you navigate through different street views to your destination.

You can also select the speed of transition from one street view frame to another. It also gives you the road name as it navigates through the street view, so you are aware of what different streets look like which you are actually going to take.

Although, as expected this service is not perfect. The transition between 1 street view frame to another is not seamless and you sometimes notice a stark change in two frames. Also the fact that street view images taken by google of different places is at different times of the year, so it sometimes seems odd to see the change in street view frames. But the concept is nice and further work on it might lead it to become a nice utility feature where one can navigate through a video like street view navigation to reach the destination.

Here is the link to the page : http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/streetview/streetview_directions.html

It is very useful for people who need to save the maps as images in their system. You can save the maps in any resolution or format as per your requirements. You need to enter the location, zoom level, and select the type of map, and hit Go and you will be taken to that destination immediately. This process takes a few seconds the most on fast connections. Most of the features of google maps are present like move around with the mouse, switching between map, terrain and satellite view. Various output formats including jpg, png, targa and bmp are available. You can choose from the list of menu the resolution you want the image to be in and the size of the image will depend on the resolution size you choose.

It is one of the easiest, simplest and most useful application to download the maps and use it for all purposes. It is best option among other softwares with similar uses. It can be downloaded from the developer’s page. A great tool for people who may need to travel and the size of the program is less than half a Mb. It supports Windows XP, Windows Vista  and Windows 7.

[via : technobuzz ]

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