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Adding and using Street View plugin

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Adding and using Street View plugin

Plugins for QGIS are written in Python. Python is an advanced programming language that is built into QGIS and is used to customize and develop QGIS plugins. The Street View plugin enables you click anywhere in the map, and automatically open a browser window to see that Google Street View at that location you just clicked. Let's add that plugin now. Under Plugins, we'll pick "Manage and Install Plugins" and we'll get a list of all the available plugins that we have. If we click on "Not Installed," we can see which ones aren't installed, or in the ones that are. So you can see, there's only a small subset of all the plugins that are available that are currently installed right now. So let's go back to "All," I'll type "street view". And you'll see there are two Street View plugins. There's a "go2streetview" and "Street View". We're going to install just the Street View one. The reason we're going to use that one is…

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