I love to play with stuff, I’m a kid at heart and the internet is the coolest toy I could’ve asked for.

I was looking for directions to the ReStore here in Nanaimo, so I jumped on Google Maps and zoomed around with street view to locate the entrance. Remembering that all of Nanaimo (or most anyway) is now street view enabled, I checked out my little place on Craig Street.

The resolution is pretty good, I can see my Honda Element and neighbours’ cars. Zooming around, I thought to myself “you could create a cool-ish 360 if you screencapped all the street view angles and loaded them into some sort of 360 degree program”. That’s when I remembered MS Photosynth, a cool program that takes your photos and uses logic to seam them together.

It’s free, so I went to Google Maps and used FireShot to capture images of my complex and the surroundings. I cropped the photos using Irfanview, loaded them into Photosynth and got this as a result.

Pretty cool right? Here’s what you need to pull it off

  1. FireFox or Internet Explorer
  2. MS Photosynth
  3. Irfanview
  4. FireShot

This entry was written by Sean Enns, posted on May 8, 2010 at 3:11 pm, filed under Content Marketing and tagged Harbour City SEO. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.