Comments on: Introducing The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google Street View

By: jennifer

jennifer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:07:18 +0000

HATE IT. that little gray square is completely annoying. and it really doesn’t get me anywhere any faster anyway.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:34:07 +0000

soooo much better,

google hit another home run!

By: How to jump higher

How to jump higher — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:34:52 +0000

That’s a pretty neat feature! I love it. It’s so much better than the first one!

By: Joe Dawson

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:59:02 +0000

I love pancakes more than I love Google!!!!

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パンケーキで、Googleストリートビューを歩き回るのが楽になった — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:50:13 +0000

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By: Nikola Ranguelov

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:25:59 +0000

I love it – such a HUGE improvement! It’s great to see famous buildings in detail but you can also see the faces of people standing by the buildings in detail so I predict a wave of paranoid people who haven’t watched Steve Rambam’s presentation “Privacy is dead, Get over it” complaining about that in 3 … 2 … 1 …

By: Dwayne Harris

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:40:27 +0000

This must have taken a lot of work… I don’t understand how this is possible without manually going through the images.

By: Melvin

Melvin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:37:15 +0000

Didn’t know that you could embed StreetView… cool!

Pancake is also good!

By: A better way to use Google Street View | Erictric

A better way to use Google Street View | Erictric — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:30:02 +0000

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By: meggman

meggman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:20:53 +0000

just tried using this feature at an address near my office in san francisco is it worked terribly. it wouldn’t recognize facades beyond about a half block or so, so jumping deep into the pano wasnt possible.

check out earthmine at earthmine.com if you want to see a much more robust, true 3d implementation of this approach. also you can play with earthmine’s new app at wildstylecity.com if you want a better sense of just how robust their 3d data is.

By: Iain Dalton

Iain Dalton — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:04:53 +0000

(From my short test) it only shows the pancake on walls parallel with the street.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:27:44 +0000

Kudos to Google’s UX team!

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:18:31 +0000

earthmine’s has been doing this for a while. You can see it in their wild style city demo app which launched a few weeks ago at Where 2.0 http://www.wildstylecity.com

By: Jason Wagner

Jason Wagner — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:56:42 +0000

Wow!! This is so much better. Very exciting.

By: Steve Wanless

Steve Wanless — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:56:10 +0000

ooohhhhh… I like it!!

By: kevinkris

kevinkris — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:33:26 +0000

That full screen option is coool..
Google Rocks..

They are slowing towards Wave..

By: Hart Keller

Hart Keller — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:30:58 +0000

Fantastic! Makes me want to visit Paris again.

By: jon

jon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:24:52 +0000

excellent, now we can use our right hand to click the mouse.

By: jorisw

jorisw — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:10:33 +0000

Isn’t it much more interesting that Street View now recognizes the perspective and shape of every built structure? These are some insane algorhythms at work.

By: Dean Higginbotham

Dean Higginbotham — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:05:35 +0000

Heh, wow, that is really cool!

By: Miguel Menchu

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:53:22 +0000

Love the UI

By: Wisewinston

Wisewinston — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:50:35 +0000

Thank God. This is sooo much better now. Well done Google. A little late, but well done…

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:49:49 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on this one – great news…

By: beerinator

beerinator — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:48:09 +0000

Holy crap; that’s cool!

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:37:10 +0000

Really Good