Google Maps for Mobile Street View Augmented Reality Mode on a Droid: Up/Down Works, Side-to-Side Does Not

Google Maps for mobile Street View was not available for the T-Mobile G1 during the short period I owned one last year. And, Street View wasn’t available in my home area until Monday of this week. So, wouldn’t have been able to try it back then anyway. But, it is available now as the Google Mobile Blog let us know…

Escape to Paradise on Your Phone

So, I took my Droid outdoors and tried it out. You can see a brief video recording of part of my testing above. I have to say it was a thrill of sorts to finally be able to try Street View on an Android phone. However, while vertical (up and down) panning resulted in the expected change of view, side-to-side panning did not seem to change the view at all. I walked around and tried it in a couple of other spots with the same result. Do I need to pan slower? Does it only work side-to-side in certain orientations? More experimentation is on order…

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