I've been doing the
Camino Frances on Streetview for the last couple of weeks. I started in SJPdP and took the low road to Roncesvalles, then clicking through to where I am now, just past Asturgas as I type this.
It is compelling. It makes a great distraction from work, I just click to the internet and I can click through some more countryside while I drink coffee or whatever. I'm probably doing it for at least an hour each day.
Obviously not the whole route can be shown, hence avoiding the Napoleon route over the Pyrennees, so when you can see the route coming to an end because it gets too narrow for the Google car, I just switch to satellite view to trace the path until it turns blue again and I can land Pegman where I left off.
As well as following the yellow arrows I have the
Brierley guide to help me, and I am always encouraged by spotting pilgrims frozen forever in time walking their camino in whatever year the camera drove past them. I think that's rather lovely, I wonder if anyone has found themself on Streetview this way.
Very occasionally the streetview image is a bit old and the route has changed due to a new road being built or whatever, but that just adds to the fun, I can travel 4th-dimensionally as well, spotting different sections of route depending on the year.
Where the route splits, I can do one route, then fly back and do the other when I meet the rejoining point. There's a long section just after Leon like this - both look interesting, I wonder which I'll choose when I do it in real life.
I do get lost sometimes, but its easy to fly back to the last place I knew I was on track and click a bit more slowly to make sure I spot all the arrows.
When I finish I'm going to start again in Le Puy, Lisbon, etc.