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How To: Find Google Street View for Address

Posted by at 10 December, 2009, 7:00 am

Google Maps provide options to view streets, terrain, and satellite for the same location. Many streets have also been captured for a street view. Adding a map of an incident location could be important for describing the location of an ongoing incident, determining accessibility to a location, and planning evacuation routes.

I spent a few minutes figuring out to find the street view of any location, copy that html code, and embed in a blog. Watch this screencast (made with Screenr.com) to see the process. Below is the Google embed code for the location I discuss in the screencast.


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Greg Friese wrote 58 articles on this blog.

Greg Friese, MS, NREMT-P is an author, podcaster, blogger, and advocate for emergency response agencies to use social media before, during, and after any incident. Greg is the Director of Education for CentreLearn Solutions, LLC. He is also the co-host of the EMSEduCast podcast and is a paramedic for a 911 agency in northeast Wisconsin

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2 Responses to “How To: Find Google Street View for Address”


Christa M. Miller December 10, 2009
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A word of caution: my understanding about Street View and satellite images is that they can be several years old. So features like buildings, interchanges, etc. may be different in Google than in reality. These images should be vetted, and perhaps used in conjunction with real-time images/video uploaded while an incident is in progress (e.g. to show blocked routes or other unforeseen occurrences)?