If the static Google Street View screenshots aren't a sufficient in-person tour for a location you're checking out, the development and design studio Teehan+Lax has created a tool for making "hyperlapses" of Street View shots. The tool allows you to select a beginning and ending point and then plays back all the Street View shots taken along the way, which on occasion produces an arresting tour of the landscape.
Hyperlapses, as Teehan+Lax points out, are a quick succession of static shots that involve a painstaking collection-and-assembly process. The hyperlapse tool needs WebGL to run, but once it's going, users can drop starting and ending points anywhere that the Streetview Van has been. The tool will auto-select a route (seemingly the most expedient directions that Maps would give you between two points), and once you create the lapse, the tool will play your route back and forth along A and B.
The sample video of the tool shows some beautiful tours of the countryside in Ireland. We tried our own hand at some areas around New York, and the results were less awe-insipiring than frenetic. Even a tour along a scenic highway was visually overwhelming, largely due to the way that the Google Street View camera appears to swivel around as it takes in its surroundings.
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via http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/hack-google-street-view-images-into-a-movie-with-a-hyperlapse-tool/
