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Now you can navigate faster and smarter on Google Street View. The new mode of navigation liberates you from the road arrows and gets you where you want to go in just a few clicks.The cursor (pancake) displays an oval area when your mouse is following a road and a rectangle when moving across the [...]Read more about Google, Tools Write Guest Article - Showcase your site to an active community of site owners, bloggers, tech experts.Original article: Faster Navigation in Google Street View Copyright 2009. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.

Moving around in Google Street View is not always intuitive. You always end up clicking aimlessly a few times before you can really figure out how to move about. Well, now navigating within Street View is easier thanks to the "pancake." Google is adding a useful tool called the "pancake" to Street View on Google Maps that lets you travel to a new point within a photo panorama by double clicking on the place or object you would like to see. Google says that it has been able to accomplish this by making a compact representation of the building facade and road geometry for all the Street View panoramas. As you move your mouse within Street View, you'll see the pancake, which you can move up and down a street and then click on a restaurant, road, building or object nearby. The pancake is shown as a circle on roads and a rectangle when following the facade of a building.