If you like travelling a lot but you don’t have much time to do it, then you may want to try out the Street View on Google Maps on your current Android handset. By using this exciting application, anyone will be able to explore places across the world through the 360 degrees street-level imagery. You can choose to view the great collection of world’s famous landmarks, natural wonders, navigate a trip or perhaps go inside the luxury restaurants.
Basically, the Street View on Google Maps will show users the images or photos which have been previously captured by the camera. Therefore, you can explore several cities and historical places by simply searching for a place (by long-pressing the map) and then tap the Street View option on your Android handset. When viewing the places, you can adjust its size, directions as well as angles in order to get the best view based on your wishes.
When in the desktop version, the application has 19 collections to choose from which consists of World Wonders Project, Amazon, Swiss Alps, Seven Continents of Street View, Art project, Discover Israel, Historic Italy, UNESCO World Heritage, US Highlights, Business Highlights, Parks of the World, Ski Resorts and Slopes, World Landmarks, Scenic Hawaii, Universities Campuses, Russian Highlights, Thailand Highlights, Poland Highlights and USA Summer Attractions.
Besides, you can also use the filters in searching for place which include the Beaches, Bridges, Museums, Places of Worship and Restaurants. Also, you can do your search based on Country which contains 21 different countries around the world starting from Antartica to Russia. Unfortunately, it doesn’t yet support for the entire nations in this world.
If you decide to test this application, then you need to download and install this app on your Android smartphone. The application is available for free in Play Market and you can simply click here to download it. Make sure that your current handset has been pre-installed with at least Android OS 2.2 (Froyo). Also, make sure that the Google Maps has been properly installed on your device in order to gain the maximum performance of this application. If you need to download the .apk file (281 KB) then you may click here to get it for free.
Taken as a whole, the Street View on Google Maps will give you a whole new different experience especially when searching places to visit or simply for viewing your favorite places. You can now visit the places that you may never hope to visit in your lifetime. But on the other hand, the developer will need to conduct several refinements to this mobile app since there are some imprecise previews or images in this app. Furthermore, users may experience that it may so hard to navigate as it doesn't automatically rotate to point arrow in the same direction. There’s also a consideration that this app may violate the privacy concern particularly when it’s accessed online. For example, the privacy can be violated when the photos are accessed online by the people around the world without having the confirmation or allowance from the owners first. [IS]
