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plotaroute admin Friday 02 Feb 2018 10:50:06
We're very excited to announce news of a brand new Premium feature on plotaroute.com - Street View Split Screen.
One of the important things to consider when planning a new route, is how suitable the roads are for the activity. Are they safe enough to navigate on foot? Do they have cycle lanes? Do they have pavements or sidewalks? Are they very narrow or busy? Google Street View helps to answer these questions and has long been a free feature of the plotaroute.com route planner, but until now you have had to switch between the map and the Street View.
Our brand new Split Screen feature gives Premium members the option of splitting the screen into resizable sections, to show both the map and Street View at the same time. This gives you a ground level view of the road as you plot your route.
To activate the Street View Split Screen, click on the Street View icon in the Map Type box at top of the route planner.
Please note, this feature is only available on the deskop version of the website, so is not available on mobile devices.
To see the new Split Screen feature in action, take look at this demo video:
If you currently have a Standard account and would like to take advantage of this feature and the other benefits of Premium membership, please take a look our our Membership Options.
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Cycle Rider Saturday 03 Feb 2018 09:14:13
sadly yet another negative feature that is slowly taking away much of the ease of use that made Plotaroute such a wonderful tool a couple of years ago. If you are not premium and want to see streetview you now have to press the streetview icon at the top of the screen, read all about the new "premium split screen feature" for the orange streetview icon to appear. Once you then use streetview the icon disappears.......and you repeat the need for two clicks to get it back again.
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plotaroute admin Saturday 03 Feb 2018 10:01:00
Thanks for the feedback Trevor. I'll see if we can find a way to display the Street View pegman by default for Standard users to avoid the need for the extra clicks.
John
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plotaroute admin Monday 05 Feb 2018 10:04:43
We've made a small tweak to this, so that Standard users can still access single-screen Street View in the usual way without the need for extra mouse clicks.
John
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Roger Hunt Monday 05 Feb 2018 15:05:06
I preferred the old system (without the split screen) which was less cumbersome, is there any way I can get that back, backward step to what was easy
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plotaroute admin Monday 05 Feb 2018 15:54:59
Hi Roger - You can view the Street View without the split-screen by dragging the split-screen divider all the way to the left. The split-screen feature gives you the option to view just the map, just the Street View, or both.
John
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Brian Williams Friday 09 Feb 2018 10:06:03
Love the split screen; I've just been planning a long distance road cycling route; I always use Streetview to make an assessment of traffic volumes; and this makes it very easy to move quickly through the route.
One observation; not sure if its a glitch or by design; if you move the map and the little gold man is no longer visible he seems to revert to the end of the route rather than stay where you left him.
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plotaroute admin Saturday 10 Feb 2018 11:00:48
Hi Brian,
I'm glad you like the new Split Screen feature, we've had some very positive feedback about it.
I can't seem to reproduce the problem you mentioned though. The Street View pegman should move when you plot a point but not when you drag the map. If you're able to make it happen again, can you let me know how you did it please?
John
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Brian Williams Saturday 10 Feb 2018 18:49:32
Hi John
I use Firefox (58.0.2) on Mac OSX (10.13.3) so this may be mixed up in this somewhere.
If I open a route; zoom in part way along the route; click the Streetview split screen option; the Streetview image being displayed is the end of the route not where I am zoomed in. The previously available access to him on the left hand side has gone. This means to Streetview where I am, I now have to zoom out, grab the man, bring him back; which as you will apreciate is a bit of a pain.
His original placeholder does seem to reapear on the left hand side; and intermittently he does seem to go back; I cant repoduce that reliably.
You can keep working, keeping him close by; problem is if you click off the feature and then click back; he goes back to the end.
Ideally if you click the feature the Streeview image should be on the centre (or plotted route closest the centre) of the zoomed map image.
I hope that makes sense?
Kind regards
Brian Williams
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plotaroute admin Monday 12 Feb 2018 09:52:33
Thanks for this additional information Brian. Yes, when you activate the Split Screen feature, the Street View image is set by default the end of the route (unless there is no route plotted). However, there is no need to zoom out to see the Street View pegman if you want to change its position - you can just drag it from its docking position on the left of the map to and you'll be able to drop it in a new position. I can see that it would be more helpful though if it was automatically placed on a section of the map in view, so I'll get this changed. Thanks again for your feedback.
John
