Google Street View has for a long time been a brilliant and extremely helpful add-on to Google maps Navigator on Android, however, Google in its latest wisdom correctly decided to turn up the notch on Street View functionality with several additions and making it a stand-alone application available to Android users.
The newly launched and age-old Street View from Google will additionally in its current relaunched format allow users the benefit of adding their personal content to the Google Maps app. One of the main reasons the Street View app has been separated from Maps is that it would allow users to share their own photo content with Street View in order for the application to use these photos for other users’ benefit. According to a blog by Google, the company stated that users would be able to utilise Street View’s company content and still be able to now separately view content uploaded by other users.
The stand-alone app will now feature an immersive 360° tour of company imagery filled out by user contributions, including your own rights to Google Maps, in order for users to from a single gallery explore Street View image collections as well as company content available as always from Google Maps in conjunction with photo spheres added by other users contributing continually from all over the globe. Photo spheres provide users with the capacity to take 360° panoramic views of memorable places they visit all around the globe and upload it to Google Maps/Street View instantly. The new functionality will allow more freedom to explore and view collections whereby they will be able to hike Mount Fuji, scale Yosemite’s famed El Capitan rock wall, or simply track Nessie (the Loch Ness monster) in his loch in Scotland, the new app will be able to submit to your wish.