Street View - enable automatic Street View mode as a Navigation prefs option

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Hi, In GE6 there is a new ground-level streetview mode... which is pretty cool!

There are two ground-level modes - Street View and the Building View.

Building View is the same as the 'standard' view and besides new control i/face 
doesn't offer anything new for LiquidGalaxy.

However Street View loads up the Street View pano's, which works brilliantly on 
LiquidGalaxy!

But we don't have any easy way to switch all the LG display machines 
automatically between the two modes.

You can manually do it on each machine, but obviously that can be cumbersome.

Perhaps we could extend the viewsync packet?

If I recall the last parameter determines the "planet", eg. "moon",
"mars", "sky", with the empty string "" meaning "earth".

By adding "streetview" to the list, the LG slave machines could then switch to 
the Earth/Streetview mode.
The empty string "" would then mean Earth/BuildingView.

As the master machine toggled between StreetView/BuildingView that state would 
then be replicated on the view slaves.

Happy to discuss this in more detail.

Cheers, Andrew

University of Western Sydney

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alfski on 30 Nov 2010 at 12:07

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Rather than adding things to viewsync (like I previously proposed), having a GE 
Navigation preference (check box) for "Automatically enter Street View".

Like there is for 'tilt and enter ground level view'.

When the view comes within range for StreetView imagery the bubble 
automatically fades in replacing the terrain/model imagery. This is current the 
behaviour for Liquid Galaxy nodes when the view master IS NOT Street View 
aware, and it works well.

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• Changed title: StreetView - enable automatic Street View mode as a Navigation prefs option in GE

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Original comment by alfski on 3 Jul 2011 at 3:54

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Is there now a solution for this?
My slave machines do not automatically enter street view, jogging them in is 
becoming a pest.

Regards

Craig

Original comment by djlegoh...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2012 at 12:19

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Hi Craig, there are no workarounds that I am aware of. We have to manually drag 
pegman into StreetView once on each slave screen to initiate the ability to 
render StreetView on proximity.

Original comment by alfski on 21 Feb 2012 at 10:55

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Thanks for your reply.

One of you super large brained boffins must be able add a bit of code to the 
ini or somewhere to get this going.
The same automatic entering 360cities bubbles would be superb too. It could be 
a great way to showcase our Gigapan 360º panoramic photos........ We may even 
get a chance to show this off (license permitting)  during the Olympics in 
conjunction with a UK uni...... If somebody thinks they can do this I would 
even consider payment???

Many many thanks

Craig

Original comment by djlegoh...@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2012 at 12:49