And while you're carefully dragging the "man" over to the street you're interested in (an interesting multi-hand challenge with most trackpads), Maps starts wildly gyrating and sliding the map around in an infinite scroll because you didn't center the "man" within one second or whatever.

I hate that UI. Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?

>I hate that UI. Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?

You can, actually. When you click it, all of the roads that have street view are highlighted with blue color. In this mode you can just click on the roads to go to street view.

> Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?

That's exactly how it works.

Click the man, roads with street view data are highlighted, click a road.

For years now I have dragged the man to the place, because there was no indication to me that just clicking the man and then the place would work. But it does! Thanks for sharing that.

Win win for Google :-]

You have just solved one of the biggest struggles and mysteries of my life.

If you're by area 51 the "man" is a little UFO when you drag it. There's a few of these Easter eggs.

Buckingham Palace used to have a little Queen, but that is no longer the case.