"embed an animated street view rotation"

Can anyone make this work in the latest beta of Firefox 3?

12 more cities + a national park: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/03/street-view-expanding-our-horizons.html

"We have expanded our coverage in 6 of our existing cities. "
WHICH ONES?

Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and the San Francisco Bay Area according to http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/03/new_open_source_libkml_new_street_v.html

They've certainly expanded on the SF Bay Area – my house is on there now although the resolution of the new footage seems much lower than the older stuff.

(Thanks, I added an update!)

There is no option to switch the "streetview little guy" icon. Hope that becomes available soon.

Because I want a race car or a UFO instead.

Neat, my house is now on Streetview too!

Though I agree the new footage is much lower-res. Could this be intentional? (Lower cost *and* less privacy concerns.)

YES! They added Spokane. Neighbor snooping it is.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=34.4934,-91.547012&spn=0.111205,0.237579&t=h&z=13&layer=c&cbll=34.5002,-91.55132

Stuttgart now with Streetview!

That's Stuttgart, Arkansas.

it was a joke, Ionut.

There is also St-Petersburg... not in Russia, but in Florida (not so cold)

Josue –

The street view guy icon is not hard-coded into the API at all. Check out this example:
http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/streetview/streetview_layer.html

All you need to do is create your own icon and replace the GIcon/setImage code in there. Have fun!

I am so waiting for Columbus because I have ABSOLUTELY no sense of direction (if you tell me to turn right, I will go left – sometimes) and that the GPS I have totally sucks. Having street view will help me a whole lot because having a visual image of where I am going is, well, better & safer. *sigh*