How to do window shopping in a city using Google Earth via street view? (contd..)

6. As mentioned in step 5, the navigation control at the top (with circle and N for North)  facilitates the movement of 360 degree rotation (left, right, up, down) and it helps us to see the surrounding area of a place or location with ease. Click and hold a few seconds to test the movement of the direction by pointing your mouse to the 'arrow' up, bottom, left and right.

The most important bit to get use of the street view is to take notice of the yellow line marked on the street. Use the navigation control at the bottom (without the circle N) to go Forward direction, Backward Direction, Left and right. With that,you can 'experience' the place/location on the left and right side of the street.

Once you are familiar with the navigation control, you are ready to go either in the forward, backward, left or right direction. 

7. Align your navigation to the center of the yellow line. Make sure the images of the surrounding area on your left and right of the street are not skewed. Then, click the arrow forward using the navigation control at the bottom and hold your mouse (left click). Once you do that, you are travelling in a forward direction. You can do back tracking.

Maintain your position by following the yellow line. If you want to see the shops (window shopping) on your left or right hand side of the street, pls go ahead. Make sure you use the TOP navigation control (left and right). In fact, you can go near to the shops windows by controlling both navigation controls (Circle with N and Circle without N).

8. Again, maintain your position with the yellow line and click and hold the forward direction.

That's how you do the window shopping via street view.  Note that, the technique can be used to other places on earth that has street view  facility (with Pegman icon) as well as blue line markers (lines). In other places, you might not find the blue markers (lines), however there are 3D images (buildings).