A very handy plugin for QGIS I use day to day is go2streetview by Enrico Ferreguti. The plugin adds an icon to the tool bar in QGIS and when selected I can click a road or street on a base map and a window will open that displays the Google Street or a Bing Maps Bird’s Eye view of the location. The camera’s direction and location is highlighted by a blue marker. I use the plugin when tracing boundaries of parks, open spaces and foot paths from aerial imagery. If the imagery is blurred or the view is obscured by trees, I click a point on a nearby street to see the location up close. The plugin works wherever Google Street view and Bing Birds Eye has coverage.
For example, in the screen-shot below notice there is a footpath leading to a bus shelter that’s not mapped by OpenStreetMap. I know where it is now, I will add it to my map.
Please see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google for why you can not use Google imagery to add data to OpenStreetMap.
Instead, please take a look at Mapillary. A crowdsourced streetview which is licenced specifically for OSM usage
I haven’t uploaded any edits to OpenStreetMap, this is for my own project work. Thanks for letting me know.
Reblogged this on Dosen GIS and commented:
walaupun ada masalah dari sini: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google
tapi … QGIS plugin ini sepertinya keren juga … di tag TODO aja dulu …
Reblogged this on GIS In Ecology and commented:
This is a third potentially useful plugin for QGIS , this time for working with information from Google Street View (amongst other things).
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