

Areas not accessible by car, like pedestrian areas, narrow streets, alleys and ski resorts, are sometimes covered by Google Trikes ( tricycles) or snowmobiles. Google Street View displays panoramas of stitched images taken from a fleet of specially adapted cars. All versions of Google Maps for the Android operating system feature Street View, and the digital compass can be used to look around the locations. Street View has now also been added to the BlackBerry and Windows Mobile versions of Google Maps. On December 10, 2008, Street View was added to the Maps application for S60 3rd Edition. On November 21, 2008, Street View was added to the Maps application installed on the Apple iPhone. However, this mode requires users to wear red cyan glasses to see the 3D effects. By using Google Maps, users can turn on steroscopic 3D mode by right-clicking in Street View to get an anaglyph version of any Street View images. At junctions and crossings of camera car routes, more arrows are shown. A solid or broken line in the photo shows the approximate path followed by the camera car, and arrows link to the next photo in each direction. Using the keyboard or mouse, the horizontal and vertical viewing direction and zoom level can be selected. When dragging the pegman icon, blue lines on the map showing Street View imagery will appear. Where available, Street View images appear after zooming in beyond the highest zooming level in maps and satellite images, and also by dragging a "pegman" icon onto a location on a map. It was launched on May 25, 2007, in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include cities and rural areas worldwide. Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors). Stubs are pages that don't have much information, you can edit this page to help grow our community! The article "Google Street View" is a stub.
