Sydney was blanketed in red and orange hues yesterday morning in the midst of a record sand storm. The city awoke to the type of scene that you may expect to see in an armageddon film. It was spectacular site and many were forced to stay indoors due to official health warnings. By the afternoon the skies were clear and spring blue. The night that fell lent us to crisp, clean sky and a wonderful bright view of stars in contrast.
The Google Wave Team has invited StreetViewHQ to join the Google Wave Developer Sandbox.
What is Gogle Wave? What does it mean for us? What does it mean for you?
What is Google Wave?
Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.
"A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time." (Google)
What does Google Wave mean for StreetViewHQ?
StreetViewHQ will be able to enrich the span, exposure and integration of of its street view maps platform into a variety of online applications and will allow us to increase the ability for live communication between our team, our site's users and customers. Our website users will have the ability to communicate live with us, other users, and those businesses that appear on our site.
What does it mean for you?
Google has explained that if email were to have been invented today, that this is how it would have been created. Once Google Wave goes live and is released to the general public you will be able to manage communication, images and documents via its interface in a live real-time manner. You will interact in real time with other wave users and with businesses running websites that have developed or included a "Google Wave", and have a place on the web where you can manage all of your communications and integrated "Waves" in one place.
Today we added about 15,000 more locations for you to find on the maps on our site including universities across the globe, lighthouses, museums, art galleries, stadiums, museums and more.
Check out our directory of sites to find them or just search a city map to see what you can find. You can either look at our countries and city map directory or just type in in a url address like http://streetviewhq.com/maps/Australia/Bondi-Beach for example to get straight to a map of any place in the world.
Wherever Google Street View is available you can click on the Street View map type at the top of the map to get the streets highlighted in blue. Then all you need to do is pick up and drag the little yellow guy around with a mouse click and release him wherever you like to see the view on the street.
If you know of any great sites or sights, have any interesting tourist photos or would like to help us mark and provide information about any area please register and create markers to help us share and map your world.
