Finally also in Italy Google Street View has been released, the Google maps service is enriched with 360-degree street photographs. In reality it was not an absolute novelty in Italy, once the Visual Pagine Gialle site allowed to virtually explore and explore the streets of Italy (now no longer).
Google Street View, however, is more powerful because the photos have a much greater definition and because the impression of walking on that road is more realistic.
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To access Street View just go to //maps.google.it/, zoom in a bit on the frame and then press the mouse and hold down the button on the little yellow man who is at the bottom left.
The little man can be dragged on the road to look virtually in 3D.
Only blue colored streets can be viewed in Streetview mode. You can also open Street View as an app for Android and iPhone, with touchscreen controls.
The surprising thing is precisely the very high level of detail of the panoramic photographs on which you can zoom very accurately and which can be viewed in full screen.
The height of the photographs is that of a pickup truck, the license plates of the cars are full and the faces of the people faded even if they are genuinely recognizable.
Another advantage of the Street View service is the fluidity in rotating the image and walking on the streets.
It is useless to underline how useful it is to see the streets live when looking for indications or points of reference to go to unknown places.
The photos are quite recent, maybe a month or so ago.
In the Street View gallery of the monuments and the best places photographed by Google. it is possible to visit many cultural places in a virtual way, turn in and around and view photographs of every detail .
The list includes, among others, places such as: St. Peter's Basilica, the Mole Antonelliana, Milan Cathedral, Lake Como, Arezzo, Ischia, Sorrento, the Colosseum, Castel Gandolfo, Trevi Fountain and the historic center of Genova.
In 2011 the Flavian amphitheater ( the Colosseum ), the Imperial Forums, the thermal baths of Dicoleziono, the Baths of Caracalla and, not to be forgotten, also Ancient Rome rebuilt in 3D on Google Earth were added.
Another way to visit the most beautiful places in the world through Streetview is that offered by Google World Wonders .
In another article, the most beautiful roads in the world to walk on Google Maps Streetview
On StreetView you can also discover different places without roads, landscapes of rare beauty around the world, such as the glaciers in Alaska or the rainforest, by turning on the MapStreetView site.
In another article we see how to integrate Street View with Google Earth and Microsoft Viertual Earth for a simulator of itineraries in simultaneous 3D .
