Can I access Street view images

[CantD]

Hello,

I am currently involved in an academic project where we want to use the images from Google Street view. The project is an exercise game where the user walks/jogs and their digital avatar moves through a real world map. For the map we were hoping we could pull images from Google Street View and update the them as the user walks.Really I suppose we are hoping to get a URL to an image or set of tiles which we can then draw in the game, but we don't want to use Google Maps to draw this as we already have the game side of things done, so we are looking for the data from the API.  

Can we do that with this API? If not is there any other API we could use? 

Thanks for any help.

[en4ce]

you can do something like:<img src='http://cbk0.google.com/cbk?
output=thumbnail&w=150&h=150&ll="+lat+","+lng+"&thumb=0'>

this works for me

[Rossko]

> you can do something like:<img src='http://cbk0.google.com/cbk?
> output=thumbnail&w=150&h=150&ll="+lat+","+lng+"&thumb=0'>
>
> this works for me

Only until you are found out. Check the terms of use for Google's
content
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html
10.1.1. General Restrictions.
(a) No Access to Maps API(s) except through the Service. You must not
access or use the Maps API(s) or any Content through any technology or
means other than those provided in the Service ...
...
you must not access map tiles or imagery through interfaces or
channels (including undocumented Google interfaces) other than the
Maps API(s).

I know of no licence-free streetview imagery available, like e.g.
OpenStreetMap for map tiles.

[CantD]

Thanks for that, I wasn't sure on what the copyright would be on not using the API. Do you know then if the Google Maps API has the ability to give me access to the images? 

[Luke Mahé]

Sorry but the API currently does not supply a way to access the images directly - you could load the API with streetview and then programmatically 'walk' along the path.

-- Luke

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM, CantD <Dale.C...@itcarlow.ie> wrote:

Thanks for that, I wasn't sure on what the copyright would be on not using the API. Do you know then if the Google Maps API has the ability to give me access to the images? 

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