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This is just guessing but you probably have to pay Google a shit ton of money to use the map data commercially unless you are A) Google, where the project will be killed 6 months after release B) Capable of creating your own street view data of the entire globe. Only Microsoft has come close and did just that with Flight Sim.
If you go to your Google Maps Timeline on desktop, for the activity of driving, you have the option of snapping your route to the road. If the route was long enough and has enough Streetview coverage, you'll get a notification saying, "hyperlapse unlocked - congratulations."
A place for old and new linguistic maps (linguistic features, language and ethnographic maps). Your post should either link to one or discuss some aspect of them. Members Online
I looked at two options - one is what you suggested to limit users to set areas or the second was using Google's Static Image Maps API and doing pixel-picking for road detection. That seemed really promising (and easier to cache) I just haven't got round to pursuing further.
Try 'driving' around in Google maps using street view and you'll see why it wouldn't work - there's no depth to it since it's all static images. So it would need a vast array of 3D assets to be created at a high enough quality to not look terrible.
But it would be enough for me, if there would be a script, which would download all photos from google maps along a router (start and destination address), automatically in single images. Then I could stitch them together to a simple video with 1-2 FPS and play it.
There's a problem with road signs and such though. While technology like Google Street View allows to get an approximate view on road sign position, it can't catch out everything and requires developers to add any road signs that can't be found in Google Street View. Maybe they should add the way to contribute and use the map layout from Google ...
Now tech is here. Set a route in google maps, wait some minutes while Google servers fetch the streetview images, then interpolate between them, making a video sequence, simple AI tech can make it semi 3D so you can use steering, then you ready to go and drive.
Google Maps Basically the title. Google maps offers a lot of towns that have been modeled in 3D and it is a shame that there's no car simulation offering to drive around town, inside town, and not just drive on a flat 2D plane.
It’s not an action game. It’s not a story game. It’s not a racing game. It’s a simulation game. Take American Truck Simulator for example. I’m pretty sure most people find it boring at first, but once they start playing it some people enjoy it because of its relaxed style of play. This is a simulator designed to simulate what driving ...