Use the Street View feature to see a property or location at street level without leaving Landchecker. You drag the Street View pin from the map toolbar and drop it anywhere on the map, and Street View opens at that exact spot in a split view alongside your chosen map view.
What Street View Shows on Landchecker
Street View is street-level photography captured from the road so that you can see a property's frontage, a building's condition, the streetscape around it, and the surrounding neighbourhood. It sits inside the Landchecker map, so you can check what a site actually looks like in the same place you're checking its planning, title and sales data.
Street View on Landchecker opens in a split view. The Street View imagery appears in one pane and the high-resolution aerial imagery appears in the other, and the two panes move together. As you look around in Street View, the aerial pane follows the same direction, so you always know where you're standing and which way you're facing.
How to Open Street View on the Map
To open Street View at a specific spot:
Find the location you want to view on the map, either by searching for an address in the search bar or by panning and zooming the map.
Click and hold the Street View pin in the toolbar on the right side of the map. The pin is the orange person icon.
Drag the pin onto the map. Streets with Street View imagery available are highlighted in blue while you drag, and a target circle shows where the pin will land.
Release the pin on the spot you want to view.
Move Around and Look Around in Street View
Once Street View is open:
Click and drag inside the Street View pane to turn and look around. The aerial pane rotates with you so both panes stay in sync.
Click the arrows on the road to move along the street to the next position.
Use the zoom controls to move closer to or further from what you're looking at.
Check the Image Capture Date
Street View imagery isn't captured everywhere at the same time, and in some areas it can be several years old. The capture date of the imagery you're looking at is shown in the top right corner of the Street View pane, for example **Image capture: Nov 2022**.
NOTE: Check this date before you rely on what you're seeing. A property may have been demolished, rebuilt, extended or landscaped since the imagery was captured. If the date is older than you'd like, compare it with the aerial imagery, which has its own capture date shown on the timeline at the bottom of the map, so you can see which is more current.
What Happens When No Street View Is Available
Street View coverage comes from imagery captured along public roads, so it isn't available everywhere. Water, private land, rural areas far from a road, and some newly built streets often have no coverage.
If you drop the pin somewhere with no imagery nearby, Street View doesn't open, and a message appears confirming that no Street View is available near that location. Nothing else changes on the map, and you can drag the pin again straight away.
How to Exit Street View
To close the split view and return to the full map, click the close icon in the top right corner of the Street View pane. To view Street View on its own without the aerial pane, click the expand icon next to it.
How Street View Supports Your Work
Seeing a property at street level answers questions that maps and data alone can't. Here's how Street View supports common ways different professionals use Landchecker.
Real Estate Agents
Check the frontage, presentation and streetscape of a property before an appraisal or a listing, and check what sits either side of it, so you arrive already knowing what to expect.
Property Developers
Assess a potential site and its neighbours without a site visit. Look at the built form along the street, the condition of adjoining dwellings and the access points, then check the capture date so you know how current that picture is.
Valuers
Support your inspection notes and comparable sales analysis with a street-level view of both the subject property and the comparables. Where imagery is dated, note the capture date alongside your evidence.
Legal Professionals and Conveyancers
Get visual context on a property early in a matter, including driveways, fences and boundary treatments that appear in the imagery. Use it alongside the title and plan, not in place of them, and check the capture date before relying on what you see.
Architects and Town Planners
Review the existing streetscape, neighbouring building heights and setbacks before you design. The split view lets you compare the street-level character with the aerial layout of the site at the same time.
Common Questions
Where is the Street View pin on Landchecker?
The Street View pin is the orange person icon in the toolbar on the right side of the map. Click and hold it, then drag it onto the map to open Street View.
Can I open Street View anywhere on the map?
You can drop the pin anywhere, but Street View only opens where imagery exists. While you drag the pin, streets with imagery available are highlighted in blue. If you drop it somewhere with no imagery nearby, a message tells you no Street View is available near that location.
Why is the Street View imagery out of date?
Street View imagery is captured periodically, and the interval between captures varies by location. The capture date of the imagery you're viewing is shown in the top right corner of the Street View pane so you can judge how current it is.
Does the aerial imagery in the split view show the same date as Street View?
No. The two are separate sources with separate capture dates. Street View shows its capture date in the top right corner of its pane, and the aerial imagery date is shown on the timeline at the bottom of the map.
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