Jack is your alter ego, walking around town. The panorama picture shows what Jack can currently see. The beam coming out from under Jack is an indication of what direction Jack is looking, and how wide he can see. You can drag the beam with your mouse pointer to make Jack turn.

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Google Streetview Car in Bonn
google streetview car in bonn, originally uploaded by .dan.

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...which included the huge collection for Disney World in 3D, included many other 3D Buildings for cities around the world.
There are hundreds of cities with at least a few 3D buildings in Google Earth. But, there are now dozens of cities with nearly complete 3D renderings of at least the major skyscrapers. [via gearthblog.com/]

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Street View in the API gives developers the power and control they need to embed this functionality in their own websites in whatever way they wish. The API allows you to embed one or multiple panoramas in any location on a site and move, remove, hide and unhide them as necessary.

one feature is the ability to control the embedded viewer using Javascript functions on the GStreetviewPanorama object. The panTo function changes the current point of view by performing a smooth animation between the current and target view.

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