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Streetview heading should default to the same direction as the route

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  • Davy Vanherbergenundefined Offline
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    Davy Vanherbergen
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    When you click on different parts of the route, the streetview heading is static, the direction you're looking in always stays the same.

    Whenever you click on a different part of the route, the streetview heading should automatically align to the direction of the route, so that you're always looking down the road that you'll be driving, rather than the side of the road...

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    • Davy Vanherbergenundefined Davy Vanherbergen

      When you click on different parts of the route, the streetview heading is static, the direction you're looking in always stays the same.

      Whenever you click on a different part of the route, the streetview heading should automatically align to the direction of the route, so that you're always looking down the road that you'll be driving, rather than the side of the road...

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      King 06
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      @Davy-Vanherbergen
      Streetview is a technology provided by Google and is not managed by MRA. They cannot adjust it and Google will probably not allow it either, I expect.
      You can better direct your suggestion to (the unreachable) Google.
      For example, you can also use Streetview in Google maps and there too you will see that the "viewing direction" is rarely in the route direction.

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        @Davy-Vanherbergen
        Streetview is a technology provided by Google and is not managed by MRA. They cannot adjust it and Google will probably not allow it either, I expect.
        You can better direct your suggestion to (the unreachable) Google.
        For example, you can also use Streetview in Google maps and there too you will see that the "viewing direction" is rarely in the route direction.

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        Davy Vanherbergen
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        @King-06 In essence, the MyRouteApp opens the streetview using some parameters like latitude and longitude. How else would google know which location to show, right?

        Now, to make my suggestion work, all MyRouteApp has to do, is to also provide the heading parameter when opening streetview, just like they do the other parameters.

        If you're interested to learn more details, check out the documentation and find the 'heading' paramter: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/streetview#StreetViewLocation

        Technically, this is a relatively simple change to make and it can be done by MyRouteApp without any need for action on the Google side.

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        • Davy Vanherbergenundefined Davy Vanherbergen

          @King-06 In essence, the MyRouteApp opens the streetview using some parameters like latitude and longitude. How else would google know which location to show, right?

          Now, to make my suggestion work, all MyRouteApp has to do, is to also provide the heading parameter when opening streetview, just like they do the other parameters.

          If you're interested to learn more details, check out the documentation and find the 'heading' paramter: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/streetview#StreetViewLocation

          Technically, this is a relatively simple change to make and it can be done by MyRouteApp without any need for action on the Google side.

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          @Davy-Vanherbergen
          Maybe it was a good idea to share that knowledge directly in your opening post.
          Giving your suggestion a nudge towards a solution is never wrong, right?

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          • Davy Vanherbergenundefined Davy Vanherbergen

            When you click on different parts of the route, the streetview heading is static, the direction you're looking in always stays the same.

            Whenever you click on a different part of the route, the streetview heading should automatically align to the direction of the route, so that you're always looking down the road that you'll be driving, rather than the side of the road...

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            @Davy-Vanherbergen, if just passing a heading to the streetview service can achieve that, I would really welcome it. Another thing I keep doing manually is zooming out as far as possible after entering a streetview view. I find the zoom factor usually way too close, looking into the grass beside the road... 😉

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            • Con Hennekensundefined Con Hennekens

              @Davy-Vanherbergen, if just passing a heading to the streetview service can achieve that, I would really welcome it. Another thing I keep doing manually is zooming out as far as possible after entering a streetview view. I find the zoom factor usually way too close, looking into the grass beside the road... 😉

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              @Con-Hennekens Zoom is also a parameter that can be set. A sensible default value could help prevent you from looking at the grass 😉

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