Google Street View: All that you need to know

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A group of scientists have developed an web application called CANVAS that boosts speed up of data collection. Computer Assisted Neighbourhood Visual Assessment System (CANVAS) basically eliminates the huge time consuming process of researching. Not only is it time consuming. But it is also frightfully costly. The application focuses on gathering the details about the neighbourhood and using it to survey.

Researchers made use of the application to rate all the different features of 150 various neighbourhoods in major cities that are mainly metropolitan cities across the United States of America.

Google Street View lets us explore the world’s landmarks, discover all the natural wonders, museums restaurants, arenas etc with full 360o images. Most people have used Street View for exploring or fun the full suite of Street View is available in the Google Maps app. With such power in you hand, it is best to view on larger screens than small screens. The whole experience changes on large screen.

360 Street View

The Street View has been rolled to Google Maps thorough a separate module.

To access Street View on your mobile or tablet:

Long press on the map and then drop a pin Search for the place or choose the pre determined location At the bottom of the screen there is a bar, tap it. Street View image will be available with all the other information Tap on that and you will be taken the picturesque street level imagery of the desired location.

Google Street View Navigation Procedure

Google Street View Screen

The procedure is simple and involves:

Swiping with one finger to move around Tapping arrows at the lower side of the screen to move in that particular direction Double tapping on the location on the street to navigate quickly to that spot. Pinch and Zoom to take a closer look around.

The CANVAS app utilises the Google Street View Technology. Google Street View links many images together to create a panoramic view of cities and other rural areas. Even before the Google Street view was available the sociologists had to cover over hundreds of square miles across neighbourhoods and survey. The process was tedious and painstaking as they had to record the visual data. The collected data had answers to questions pertaining to healthy, aging and gentrification.

CANVAS and Google Street View

Django software has combined itself with the Google Street View‘s image collection to make CANVAS. This combination takes Google Street View to a step further ahead. This combination also provides a reliable and much more efficient comprehensive tool for conducting large scale research. The team of developers of CANVAS hope to increase their funding. Once funds are increased the app could be developed into a product that sociologists use everywhere. Hopefully the app will help the developers know the challenges that the elders face. The app will also recognise the possibility to age successfully without facing any major hindrances.

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