street-view

Best (or any) way to programmatically screen grab a Google Street View panorama

As the question implies, I'm looking for a way to programmatically screen grab a given panorama, I.E set a longitude and latitude and POV (pitch, yaw and zoom) and save the grab to the server. So far the most promise has been shown by Using .net to control the google earth com api (http://earth.google.com/comapi/index.html), however I...

Google street view URL question:

Hi I have the address of a property and my application can launch a browser to go to http://maps.google.com?q=searchStringHere. If a good match is found it will take it directly there. Is there any thing I can append to the url to make it switch to streetview without having the exact coordinates? I dont't want to code any javascript or f...

How do Google Maps do their panoramas?

How do Google Maps do their panoramas in Street View? Yeah, I know its Flash, but how do they skew bitmaps with Correct Texture Mapping? Are they doing it on the pixel-level like most Flash 3D engines?, or just applying some tricky transformation to the Bitmaps in the Movieclips? ...

Getting lat/lng/zoom/yaw/pitch from Google Street View

I have a Google map and street view based on provided lat/lng coordinates, zoom, yaw and pitch. I need to invoke a javascript to update a hidden field for each of these values whenever any of the details change from their default or when a button is clicked. So whenever the map/street view is zoomed in, panned, tilted etc it outputs the...

recreating streetview effect in my own iPhone App

Hi all, My app allows you too "look" around a room in avery similar manner to how you can "look" around a street when you are in streetview in the Maps application. Does anyone know of a simple way to recreate this effect? I do have an image (like the streetview image) that I would like users to look around in. Some ideas I have: 1)...

[Web] Strange Google StreetView Internet Explorer warning.

Hi all, I have a small problem with a SWT.Browser widget who throws a quite puzzling alert. I tried to test the Google StreetView API in a browser so I made this page (actually I did not make anything, juste pasted it from Google's snippet.) and I get the following message : (Puzzling, ain't it ?)My code is very simple (here it is) p...

How does Google do Maps' Street View Cursor "Following"

In Google Maps Street View your cursor turns into a rectangular/oval shape as you mouse over different parts of the scene. For example: http://maps.google.com/?q=loc:+Maryland+Ave+at+e.+26th+st+Baltimore+MD+US&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=39.319313,-76.618426&panoid=6W2XgkHoGuf6_SKv0LIL9Q&cbp=12,307.06,,...

How do I extract surface normals (facade) at each pixel from google maps street view api?

In this google lat-long blog post ( http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-smart-navigation-in-street.html ) they describe how they estimate the surface normal or facade orientation using 3D point clouds. Is there a way to extract/retrieve the surface normal at each pixel using the google street view api? ...

street light and shadow in opengl ?

To make a scene street illuminated, i tried, point source light, used glMaterial and used ambient light...... I get a scene fully illuminated, not exactly the way like street light, can anyone share resources or explain how exactly i can achieve this?? I went through many light resources in net, could not properly understand.... ...

Is it possible to use Bings street view with ASP.NET or Silverlight?

Hi I wont write web application, which will use street view of Bing(or Googles one if it can be used by ASP.NET or Silverlight). I found SDK for Bing map: http://www.microsoft.com/maps/isdk/silverlight/ But I need streets 3D view. Is it possible? Thanks. ...

Adding street View in Google Maps -Android and iPhone

Hello , I'm trying to develop an application that show the traffic congestion in country like saudi Arabia , I did some search and found that street view is not available for Saudi Arabia , if this is true ! how can I implement or add street view to google maps in order to use it I have a street view from a shape file .. and I want it to...

How to use Streetside of Bing map with silverlight?

Hi I am tring to use Bings Streetside. I have searched a lot in Google but nothing. In all post says, that I need to download Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.ExtendedModes.dll but all links are invalid. I can't download it. These inks are incorrect too. What can I do? Thanks. ...

Can ScrollWheel be disabled in a custom street view?

I am building a site and I have a page which takes an address and uses it to generate a 2D roadmap style google-map and then next to it, the street view for that address. My problem is that these two maps span almost the entire width of the site and the user is likely to have their mouse go over it when scrolling down the page and get ...

street view in arc scene

Hi, I am changing a script that is used in ArcMap to create a UIControltool, which allows you that an available StreetView at a given coordinate in your Map pop-ups, to the ArcScene environment. I have the following problem: google opens but not at the right coordinates. I think there is an error in my definition of the spatial reference...

Regenerate Google Earth View from Street View link?

Google Earth stores the points with a nice feature: you can double-click on a marker and will get placed directly behind the street view bubble. Another double click takes you to the street view. I have a database of street view links. A kml file is generated from the Street View links. I would like to add the "camera"/"look at" tags to...

Is there a way to get the right camera orientation of a google Street View Panorama with just the address?

You know, if you give the address to the Google geolocation service it returns the latitude and longitud, so you can mark the place in the map or go there in the street view thing. Anyway, even when the place showed in street view is kinda precise, it doesn't show the orientation properly. I mean, it's not "looking at" the house what ma...

Can I use the Google Streeview API with my own images?

Title pretty much says it all. I want to use streeview for an area not on google maps, so could I add my own roads and then add my own panoramic images for streetview? It's also for personal use, obviously I'm not asking to modify googles actual map. I'd be happy to use an alternative to streeview too, as long as it does the same thin...

Get rid of sidebar when linking to Google Maps Streetview

I'm using the v3 maps JS API google.maps.getPanoramaByLocation to create a link to streetview with lat/lng which looks like: http://maps.google.com/?cbll=52.099659,0.140299&cbp=12,0,,,&layer=c, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to get rid of the large left-hand sidebar that appears in street view by default? I've checked map...

Google StreetView wmode/z-index issue in Google Chrome (Windows)

Hi, I'm trying to add the user's Google StreetView as the background in a php page after he is authenticated, but in Chrome(Windows) it is not considering the z-index of the div (it is in), and also the value of wmode parameter is being "" (empty), I'm trying to update the wmode parameter value to "transparent" then sometimes it works f...

How do I use the full navigation zoom control in embedded street view iframes?

I'm trying to embed an iframe containing the google street view panorama object. Embedding works by passing a url to the iframe using the following options: <iframe width="562" height="314" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.de/?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=i&amp;amp;layer=c&amp;amp;cbll=LALTITU...