how to activate streetview?
 

i'm on google maps, looking at a top down of a london street. i cannot drag/drop the little orange man onto the map in either microb mouse pointer mode. how else can streetview be activated?

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Re: how to activate streetview?
 

With the unoptimised version of Flash on the n900, streetview is unusable without it.

Re: how to activate streetview?
 

If you disable the cursor by swiping it from the left then taping on the cursor symbol you get some control over streetview

Re: how to activate streetview?
 

AFAIK I have the stock browser/flash (with flashblock). Streetmaps works fine for me as per attached, showing correct mouse pointer mode. I did notice though that if microb is running full screen, street view goes int a cycle of repeated refresh without any user input (don't recall that happening before?).

if you still can't drag the wee orange guy, do a text search on the map, and choose one of the selected results. that puts a bubble/balloon on the map with info, and there is a "more" drop dow in the bubble - one option in the list is streetview ( you still need the mouse in correct mode to select this, obviously).

final note - selecting & dragging the ginger guy is very laggy, you need to be patient.

Re: how to activate streetview?
 

Streetview doesn't work any more on my microb browser. Asks for Flash 10. :( :( :(
@Pigro, can you try if yours do work?

Re: how to activate streetview?
 

no. streetview is no longer available on n900 (as expected, it needs Flash 10). The bad news is that this is not specific to google maps, there are many flash sites that are currently going the same way. The good news is that we'll soon have lovely black £500 paperweights - unless Nokia/Adobe take pity on us poor, naive folks. Imagine thinking that the "full web" browsing experience I paid for in Dec 2009 should remain available on my device for over 6 months!

Re: how to activate streetview?
 

What disturbes me is that Streetview seems to be available on the Ipad (which has no Flash). I experimented in Microb with the Ipad user agent but so far no streetview for me :(

EDIT: I've read that streetview works on the Ipad in its own Maps application, not in the browser. So we need such an app on our device, I guess. Not that I find it likely.

Re: how to activate streetview?
 

Sorry for the bumping. If you're interested like me in having streetview on your N900, please go ask to Google to leave a Flash 9 version online for our device.
Here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/...c639894a&hl=en
or if you know another place to ask for it, please post here.

Re: how to activate streetview?
 

I have been searching for workarounds on the 'net.
Here's the first I found:
http://mapperz.googlepages.com/GMAP_Streetview.html
Go get this file, save it on your storage and open it in microb.
Lacks place search but I bet it can be added.

Re: how to activate streetview?
 

I have been fiddling with Google sample code and I've put together this. Feel free to improve it.