New Google Street Views Can Be Embedded on your Site
Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Providence - you’ve been blessed by the Google Gods. Your cities have just been added to the pool of cities with street-level imagery.
I love StreetView and have actually started using this feature a lot in my home searches in Portland. It’s the next best thing to getting in my car and driving over to see the neighborhood (which it, of course, could never replace). But it is incredibly useful in getting a sense of where a property sits in relation to the other houses on the street.
The best thing with this new release, is not all these new cities however. And it’s not that often that I get this excited. The killer feature in this release, is what Google’s calling Embeddable Panoramas.
You can now take the Google street views and embed them on your own site. Like this one, of the field near my house where I go and throw the ball for my dog.
To get the code, go to a StreetView city, find the panorama you are looking for and then click ‘Link to this page’ and then ‘Customize and preview embedded map’ - you’ll be able to select a custom size.
It’s not hard to imagine the application of this feature in real estate. Agents, you can now add another dimension to the listings you market on your blog.
Brokers, I’d begin to think of ways you could automate this feature for all your listings.
Just in case you missed it before, there’s also the StreetView song.
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- From Ubertor Real Estate Blog » Blog Archive » Google Street View now embeddable | Dec 11, 2007
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Tyler | Dec 11, 2007 | Reply
There goes everyone’s privacy officially. The bads outweigh the goods by light years with this new feature.
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Chris Latko | Dec 11, 2007 | Reply
This is cool, but I wonder when they’ll add it to the API…
Brecht | Dec 11, 2007 | Reply
Bah-humbug Tyler, jeez it’s not like they are in your living room. I love it. I’m a fan. I can’t lie, I’d marry Google if she’d have me. I’m going to use it like crazy.
Adrian | Dec 11, 2007 | Reply
That is a nice feature, I wonder how many streets they have indexed like that.
Metrowest Massachusetts Real Estate | Dec 11, 2007 | Reply
Joel - That is fantastic. Obviously being from Boston I am excited they have added this feature!
Martin | Dec 12, 2007 | Reply
Brecht - THAT IS HILARIOUS!!! If she won’t have you, can I have a shot at it?
Andrew | Dec 13, 2007 | Reply
How often does google release their list of cities that have been added to the pool of Street view cities?
Fizber | Dec 14, 2007 | Reply
That’s really cool! I spent almost 2 hours studying this feature…
ingestdigest | Dec 26, 2007 | Reply
When it’s available, it certainly beats embedding static images when you’d like your site visitors to tour around the neighborhood. Here’s an embedded nerd tour of Palo Alto: http://informationanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/12/nerd-tours-of-palo-alto.html
Polo | Jan 1, 2008 | Reply
Great Article
Overland Park Real Estate | Apr 3, 2008 | Reply
The posibilites for the use of streetview in real estate are endless. My gears are turning.
Overland Park Real Estate | Apr 3, 2008 | Reply
I need to learn to spell check my comments better, sorry about that.
Overland Park Real Estate | Apr 3, 2008 | Reply
There must still be a few kinks with the embedded streetviews. I have noticed that once you look at the embedded clip of a street view and go to another page/site…once you come back to a embedded streetview that you have already seen, the streetview no longer shows up on the page. I thought it was just happening with my blogs but I noticed it is doing it for me on your site as well. I tried it on multiple computer so it must either be Streetview or I wonder if it has anything to do with Internet Explorer? I will have to do some research.
John A. Michailidis, GRI, CRS, JD | Apr 5, 2008 | Reply
I think it’s fantastic! I’m in the process of developing a new branded web strategy that drives traffic from a general neighborhood/lifestyle blog to a real estate specific website and I can envision uses for this tool on the neighborhood blog (still under construction).
Thanks for the insight!
steve jenings | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
Very cool device.