Preview L.A. hotels via Google Maps Street View?
Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston and Orlando have been added to the “Street View” feature on Google Maps. It started happening for Los Angeles late last night, and we can only imagine how many people are going to get reprimanded today at work as they play the game of Google Maps celebrity-spotting. Here’s Disney Hall.
Here’s a link to a gallery of interesting shots from around Los Angeles and California.
Caveat: When you click on Street View within Google Maps, a picture won’t automatically pop up. Here’s a shot of Santa Monica.
[Ed.: A resident L.A. Times staffer tells us that Santa Monica images here appear to be a few blocks out of alignment - any reports from other parts of town?]
You have to use the little yellow man to get a photo up and move him around to see direction. It’s not that easy to do. And if you don’t know what the hotel looks like already, it’s tough to get the little man to look at the exact address.
Google Street View of Los Angeles Hotels
Here are some well known Los Angeles area hotel addresses for you to start practicing on.
Beverly Hills Hotel
9641 Sunset Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90210
The Standard Downtown
550 S. Flower St Los Angeles, CA 90013
Shutters on the Beach
1 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405
Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
1700 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica CA 90405
Luxe Hotel Rodeo Drive
360 N. Rodeo Dr., Beverly Hills, California 90210
E-mail us or add your links to photos of better hotel images — either your own personal ones or Google’s — in the Comments section below
Related Los Angeles Times links:
Google Maps redraw the realm of privacy
On Google Maps, a virtual view from street level
Las Vegas: faster than Internet
Best Los Angeles Hotel Bets
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August 7th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Great post! What a great use of Google Street View. This guys actual can embed Google Street Views right in your web pages:
http://www.laudontech.com
August 7th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Look what landed at the California ScienCenter in Exposition Park: http://tinyurl.com/2es9qn
[a United 707]
August 7th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Name this LAX eatery: http://tinyurl.com/38b925
August 7th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Check out the line at Pink’s!
http://tinyurl.com/3yels3
Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel Deal Detective
August 7th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Street View user tips:
1) Once you’re in the Street View, it’s easier to maneuver within the view by clicking on the spots that you want to get closer to - as opposed to tryiing to move the little yellow man.
2) in looking for the Grauman’s Chinese Mann theatre - I finally found it with the LYM a bit to the left of the “A” marked address spot. You can see the distance (and the theatre) here: http://tinyurl.com/243nzk
My first attempts to find Grauman’s Chinese Mann resulted in finding the Virgin Megastore - that looks like a Star Wars storm trooper out front!! Check it: http://tinyurl.com/2f92uc
Jen Leo,
Los Angeles Times Travel Deal Detective
August 7th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Gas prices are a bit dated in images from my favorite station: http://tinyurl.com/2hv4xg
When was the last time you paid $2.63 in California for regular unleaded?
Looks like Google may have licensed some outdated imagery from it’s partner Immersive Media
[link goes to a PDF of a press release announcing details of partnership with Google]
August 7th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
For a comparison of relative image quality, check out these archived A9 Street View images on Flickr.
Here’s an A9 shot of Disney Hall, for comparison:
The A9local group pool has some more shots, circa 2005.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Actually apparently gas prices are dropping in the second half of the summer. See
http://www.losangelesgasprices.com/
August 7th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
For a video demonstration of how to perform the infamous “California roll” (in front of Union Station, no less), fast forward to seconds 23-36 of this Immersive Media demo of the technology they licensed Google:
http://demos.immersivemedia.com/index_directorfound.php?scene=01
[Adobe Shockwave download required]
August 7th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Embed Google Street Views into your pages at http://streetviewr.com
August 7th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
The alignment along Sunset Boulevard in Brentwood is a block or two off from the actual address.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
I added here some amazing Street View from the last update (08/2007).