Street View

Street View gives you a ground-level view of the place an issue was recorded, which is often the quickest way to understand a site you have not visited.

Opening it

With an issue selected, open Street View from the pin's popup on the map or from the issue panel. It opens in a panel below the map, positioned at the issue's coordinates. The map stays where it is above, so you keep your bearings.

The panel is interactive: pan, look up and down, zoom, and move along the road using the on-screen links, the same as Street View elsewhere. You can drag the panel taller or shorter, and the size is remembered. Close it when you are done.

Limitations

Street View is useful context, not evidence. Keep these in mind:

The imagery is historical. Every panorama was captured on some date in the past, often years ago. Anything built, damaged, removed or repaired since then will not appear. Never use Street View to conclude that a defect does not exist — use it to understand the setting.

Coverage is incomplete. WEXWatch looks for outdoor coverage close to the pin. If there is none nearby, the panel says so. This is common on rural roads, service lanes, behind barriers, on new alignments, and anywhere off the public road network. The issue itself is unaffected.

The nearest panorama may not be the pin. Coverage follows the road, so the view you get is from the closest point on the road, looking from there. For an issue set back from the carriageway, the subject may be at an angle, partly obscured, or out of shot.

It is a road-level view. Detail that matters for a civil inspection — a hairline crack, the state of a sump, a displacement of a few centimetres — is generally not resolvable. That is what the uploaded photograph is for.

If Street View shows an authorisation message instead of imagery, that is a configuration problem with the deployment's Google credentials rather than a problem with the issue. See Troubleshooting.