Street View custom supertiles problem

[Mike Solovev]

Hi!

Problem description:

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There are special low-resolution images in original Google Streetview called supertiles. It looks like that:

These images are used as background while high-resolution tiles are loading:

There are no supertiles in custom Google Streetview, so we can see there some problems with background. Here is Firefox:

And Chrome:

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Does it possible to use custom supertiles in Google Street View?

Thanks,

Mike

[Marc Ridey]

Hi Mike,

Can you supply a test link?

Regarding the tiles, have you created all the levels for your custom tiles as explained in http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/services.html#CustomStreetView? The tile at level 0 should be a single image providing the entire panorama (what you call the supertile). Then level 1 should be 2*2 tiles, level 2 should be 4*4 tiles and so on.

Read a bit more here: http://blog.mridey.com/2010/05/how-to-create-and-display-custom.html

Once you have all your ties and you supply a panoProvider (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#StreetViewPanoramaOptions), your panorama should work just the same as the Google supplied Streetview panoramas.

Marc

[Jan Martin]

Hi,

I run the site in question:
http://www.diy-streetview.com

Test-link:
http://www.diy-streetview.com/googleapi

The "super tile" is available:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/0-0-0.jpg

In Firefox, there is a right click Menu "View page Info".
On "Media" tab I see these tiles loaded:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-5-1.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-5-2.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-4-1.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-4-2.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-5-0.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-4-0.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-3-1.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-3-0.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-3-2.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-2-1.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-2-0.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/diy-20110418-googleformat2/000260/3-2-2.jpg

Is this the expected behavior?

Jan

[Marc Ridey]

This all looks normal. This test page (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/streetview-map.html) displays the same behavior on my Mac Chrome/Safari/Firefox which all use the HTML mode. I suspect the use of lower resolution tiles during load and zoom is specific to the WebGL mode.

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