{"id":1337,"date":"2009-02-09T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/a-real-use-for-google-maps-street-view.htm"},"modified":"2009-02-09T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T18:00:51","slug":"a-real-use-for-google-maps-street-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/a-real-use-for-google-maps-street-view.htm","title":{"rendered":"A real use for Google Maps Street View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If all has gone to plan, by the time you read this, I&#8217;ll just have returned from a romantic weekend in Paris with Mrs. W.  In itself, that&#8217;s not particularly relevant to a technology blog but, whilst booking the hotel for the weekend, I found Google Maps incredibly useful.  Not just because the search results were integrated with people&#8217;s reviews on Trip Advisor and other such sites but also because Google Maps Street View really came into its own.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re reading this in the US, then you&#8217;re probably wondering why the fuss?  Well, here <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7488524.stm\">in the UK street view is not available<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7488524.stm\">Google&#8217;s cameras have started to photograph the country<\/a>, much to the dismay of privacy campaigners) but for me to have a look at our prospective hotels (albeit on a very grey day) was really useful and provided a real-world view (to compare with the hotel website&#8217;s slightly more enticing images).<\/p>\n<p>The map shows a link to street view:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline\" alt=\"Google Maps France with a link to street view\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/google-maps-france.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is what it looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline\" alt=\"Google Maps France in street view\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/google-maps-france-street-view.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously I&#8217;d failed to see any use for this technology.  Now I can&#8217;t wait for it to come to the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If all has gone to plan, by the time you read this, I&#8217;ll just have returned from a romantic weekend in Paris with Mrs. W. In itself, that&#8217;s not particularly relevant to a technology blog but, whilst booking the hotel for the weekend, I found Google Maps incredibly useful. Not just because the search results &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/a-real-use-for-google-maps-street-view.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A real use for Google Maps Street View<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-google"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A real use for Google Maps Street View - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/a-real-use-for-google-maps-street-view.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A real use for Google Maps Street View - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If all has gone to plan, by the time you read this, I&#8217;ll just have returned from a romantic weekend in Paris with Mrs. W. 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