Google Maps Street View

Business Uses

Top 10 Street View Tips for businesses and organisations

1. Encourage tourists to visit your area or stay at your hotel. Help tourists plan itineraries by showing them famous landmarks and lesser known secrets.

2. Promote your business or store and make customers’ lives easier by embedding a Street View image on your website, to show customers your shopfront, office or closest outlet, and how to get there.

3. Publishers and journalists can embed Street View images on their websites to show the location of news events.

4. Scout for new locations for offices or commercial premises from the comfort of your office chair. Or help your new employees get to work by showing them your office location, where to park, or the nearest bus or train stop.

5. Check the location of customer and supplier offices before leaving the office.

6. Teachers can incorporate Street View into geography or history lessons, or conduct virtual fieldtrips.

7. Evaluate locations for marketing campaigns, film shoots, product launches or other public events.

8. If you’re an agent or property developer, use the Street View API to show prospective buyers or tenants available properties.

9. Architects and local councils can get a feel for the style of particular areas, to help with planning, design or preserving heritage.

10. Emergency services personnel – fire, police, ambulance – can view locations before arriving.