Google Earth
Google earth is another existing technology which provides information through satellite images and maps. Through Google earth you can find the way to any place in the world. The common features of the Google Earth are the 3D maps, Satellite images, Photos and the maps. In short this provides a virtual world where you can travel through your computer. But this doesn’t provide any dynamic information.
Street View
On April 15, 2008 with version 4.3, Google fully integrated its Street View into Google Earth.
Google Street View provides 360° panoramic street-level views and allows users to view parts of selected cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas at ground level. When it was launched on May 25, 2007 for Google Maps, only five cities were included. It has since expanded to more than 40 U.S. cities, and includes the suburbs of many, and in some cases, other nearby cities. Recent updates have now implemented Street View in most of the major cities of Australia and New Zealand as well as parts of Canada, parts of South Africa, Denmark, Mexico, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, France, the UK, Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Taiwan, and Singapore.
Google Street View, when operated, displays photos that were previously taken by a camera mounted on an automobile, and can be navigated by using the mouse to click on photograph icons displayed on the screen in your direction of travel. Using these devices, the photos can be viewed in different sizes, from any direction, and from a variety of angles.
