Boston Now On Google Street View
I was checking out an address with a friend on Google maps yesterday and we noticed that Street View had been added to Boston.
I never really played with street view before because I wasn’t traveling to any of the supported locations, so I never really felt a connection to the information. Now that it’s in my own backyard though, I can make connections to familiar objects such as a friend’s car or even that friend (double edged sword)! The interface is very intuitive and smooth as one would expect from google. You’re given a little man that you can drag and drop. This man has a bubble that shows the picture. You can click and hold the picture to free rotate.
Google’s gotta pretty nice spread right now. They’ve undoubtedly covered some ground both literally and figuratively.
P.S. Before submitting any important form on the internet, it’s a wise idea to hit ctrl+a, then ctrl+c. That way you don’t have to write a whole post over when your browser craps out.
Re: your last comment about forms crapping out, Opera is really good at maintaining the form you filled in despite submitting and it failing, or accidentally clicking outside the text area and hitting backspace, taking you to the previous page (which really annoys the hell out of me).
In both cases you can navigate back to the form page using the forward and back controls, and the form is still filled in as you left it.