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.

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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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