Google Street View often touts itself as letting you take a tour of some of the most famous places around the world without having to leave your living room. Now a web tool has made Street View’s images of famous sites (and even not so famous places) even more easy to access.
The website Quick Street View (QSView)Â lets you begin typing in where you’d like to go, aids the speedy process with autocomplete and instantly brings up an image of the place. Here are a couple examples.
(Image: QSView screenshot)
(Image: QSView screenshot)
You might notice if you type in more obscure locations, a Street View might not exist for it. The same could occur if your search is too broad. If that’s the case, QSView will show a map from Google instead.
(Image: QSView screenshot)
The search bar outline color will indicate status. Here’s a key from the website’s “about section”:
(Image: QSView screenshot)
Try not to spend the next four hours taking a world tour.
(H/T: Gizmodo)
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shotcretepumps
Nov. 29, 2012 at 8:39amWhat’s up with this new war started by Bing against Google today. Did anyone see the whole page articles they took out across the nation in the leading newspapers. Microsoft has some clout still, and is willing to back it up. Go and make your vote at http://www.googleorbing.com and review the twitter hash tag #scroogled
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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Nov. 29, 2012 at 8:03amI hope the Whitehouse is included. I would love to have a screen shot of the worst President in the history of the United States of America!!
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NOTMOHAMMED
Nov. 29, 2012 at 5:13amI sure hope Sesame Street is one of the stops. I wanna see black statist child-molesters that go unpunished. All of them.
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