The newly revised 360 cities website offers an improved way to view places through immersive panoramic photography. Frank Taylor is one of several bloggers to have given the site a mention.
For Geography teachers the site must surely rate highly in a best of 2008 list. 360 panoramas are nothing new, but the concept of a floating sphere as demonstrated by Digital Urban a while ago has been elevated to a new dimension of user friendliness. The 360 cities site itself is, to be honest, rather confusing at first glance. Once a panorama has been located and opened for viewing, the familiar Google Earth icon appears on the left of the image.
I’ve been teaching about inner city regeneration recently, using my old stomping grounds of Brick Lane and Dockands as examples. Old Truman Brewery on 360 cities
Panorama on 360 cities site
Clicking the icon transports the viewer inside Google Earth and the results are spectacular.
Panoramic sphere
Flying into the panorama
Inside the panorama
Try the following Google Earth links to get the idea:
There are thousands of high quality images to discover at 360 cities. Finally, virtual field trips start to make sense! Once an image has been opened in Google Earth it can easily be saved in the My Places panel - I’m already building a library of VR scenes this way.
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