02-12-2004, 11:44 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Visualizing Cities
Want to see what it's like to walk down a street in France or Spain? The story and links below let you do exactly that:
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By Chris Sherman, SearchDay.com (2/10/04)
While local search in the U.S. has focused on providing basic
business information, Wanadoo Maps has added a new twist to online
yellow pages in Europe: photos of thousands of buildings in France
and Spain.
In France, the photos are available via France Telecom's Yellow Pages
site, Pages Jaunes (http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/). The directory
features pictures of building facades for all listed street addresses
in France's nine largest cities, including Paris, Lille, Marseille,
Bordeaux and Nice.
If you want to see a picture of a building at a specific address,
just enter the address into the search box. It's far more fun,
however, to simply click on a city on the map, then zoom in to the
street level and take a "virtual stroll" down avenues and boulevards
simply by clicking on the map.
Although the site is in French, it's fairly easy to navigate. The
trick is to move the open hand icon across the map until the icon
turns into an index finger pointing straight ahead. This means that
there's a photo associated with that specific location. Click, and
the picture of the building at that location opens up in a window to
the left of the map.
You can move the map around by holding down the mouse when the hand
is open, dragging the map into a new location. Icons to zoom in and
out change the scale of the map.
Try clicking in the middle of a major intersection of streets. This
brings up an icon beneath the picture that lets you click to "turn"
and get a 360 degree view of the entire intersection, looking right,
left, forward, back, and so on.
Photos of Spain are available at the QDQ Media Callejero Fotografico
web site (http://fotos.qdq.com/). This isn't as ambitious as the
Pages Jaunes site, having pictures of only four cities: Madrid,
Barcelona, Seville and Valencia. Nonetheless, it's just as well
designed, and offers a fascinating way to visit these cities from the
comfort of your own computer.
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In the cities listed, they really don't leave much out, as you can see in this photo from Sevilla, Spain. Graffiti is the REAL international language. :|
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