I’ve had this exact same idea for some time. It could be integrated as part of Google maps, when possible, to show you a ‘virtual drive’.

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Google Street View Time Lapse, by joelaz

I noticed Google updated the images for Street View in San Francisco, so I spent a few minutes updating my time lapse of the Golden Gate Bridge.  It would be cool if there was a website that automatically generated time lapse videos of drives through cities using images from Google Street View.  This is just a rough example of what they might look like, which I recorded manually by just clicking through Google Maps for about 15 minutes and then speeding up the video footage.  A developer could automate the process using Google’s API.

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