Google Earth expands its Street View service
Great news for land finders!
Google Earth has just made our land searches even easier by expanding it’s Street View service to a total of 96% of all roads, streets, avenues – and even lanes – right across the UK!
360-degree panoramic land finding – from home!
The service enables you to explore highly detailed, 360-degree panoramic images at street level. So, as anyone who’s read my Land Finder Fortunes report will know, this is really going to prove an invaluable asset to your land finding, enabling you to assess sites in great detail – all from the comfort of your own home!
Until now, the service was mainly available only in a handful of locations. Google introduced Street View in March 2009, initially concentrating the service on famous landmarks and city centres.
Nearly a quarter of a million miles of road now covered!
However, over the last year, the infamous Google camera cars have been out and about, taking snaps of everything from busy city streets to little lanes in the middle of nowhere. Now the increased coverage has been extended across an additional 210,000 miles of highly detailed street-level mapping.
As you may know, one of the main problems with Google Earth is that its images can be a few years out of date. However, the new Street View images will not only offer you fantastic panoramic views of plots you might be interested in but they will also be bang up-to-date!
Google Street View of a potential development site
Enhancing your desktop appraisals!
This has really enhanced the level of detail available to land finders. As a result, it should transform your ability to perform detailed desktop appraisals, and really assess which plots are likely to provide great development potential.
Best of all, it’s still free! So this should really give your land finding a massive boost… I know it has for me! So what are you waiting for… go and give it a try!
For further information visit: www.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/index.html
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Thanks for the heads-up on this Lydon – I will explore it further.
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Hi Lydon,
Many thanks for your kind insight on land aquisition, I found the read really interesting, I am however dapling in the market and have been for a while, but I must admit I found some very interesting tips, so many thanks and good look with future publications.
I tried to download your publication on new builds, but was unable to at the moment, I am though looking forward to the edition.
Take Care,
Chief
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