Add the new Google Maps Street View Panoramas to Your Site
Google Maps has extended its cut-and-paste tools making it even easier to add more Google Maps to your site. The Street View panoramas join Google’s recently launched embeddable options, which means you can now add a Street View panoramas to your site just by cutting and pasting a snippet of HTML into your page.
To grab the code just click the “link to this page” button when you’ve found the content you want and then you’ll find the embed code along with an option to preview and customize how it looks.
When visitors land on your embedded panoramas they can interact with them just as they would on the Google Maps site, panning, zooming, and moving between panoramas as they travel down a street.
The main difference is that there’s no way to get back to the map view without going to Google Maps site. In other words, the panorama is embedded, not the map/panorama combination. The result will look something like this, which is an embed of the panorama view in the screenshot above:
As part of the announcement, Google has added eight new cities to the list of panorama views. This time Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Fort Worth, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Providence all get the Street Views treatment.
Although not directly related to Maps, the Google Lat/Long blog has also announced a very cool new Google Earth layer which adds images from Earth From Above, the coffee table book from Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Along side each image are statistics about the current environmental situation they depict. The layer is called “Earth From Above” and can be found in the Global Awareness section in the Google Earth layers menu.
See Also:
