Walking in street view.

[Shooter Mcgavin]

Wouldn't it be great if you could walk ( not teleport) in street view?
Don't get me wrong, I am very very grateful we have what we have! And I could have never imagined that this technology would be possible back when 2001 a space odyssey came out in 1970. (who would have thought the "future" was sooo long ago).

If street view is possible now with its hop to the next spot of travel, I can only imagine in a few years it will be completely seamless travel.

[Jawsman01]

+1 ☺

[Tryst49]

Would be nice but the view is taken by camera that takes a 360 degree snap every so many seconds. You teleport from snap to snap. There are certain things to consider such as storage capacity for the camera. If the car has to stop too often to upload the camera data, it is never going to map very much each day and there are only so many cars going around.

Unless the software extrapolates from the snaps to provide real time positioning, it's not going to happen.

It would also have to calculate the 3D views that it didn't get in the picture. For example: That driveway that leads to a garage, it took a snap before it got there and after it passed so it never "saw" the garage. This means there is a gap in the view that would have to be filled with something. It's either going to be a black gap or an approximation that looks nothing like what it does in reality, (is there actually a garage or does it just lead to a parking space on the garden?). Software isn't THAT good to differentiate from the sattelite view what is actually there, it would take a human eye and that would take forever considering how much of the map that would need to be checked.