Thanks Barry. Interesting idea, but I couldn't find anything about the streetview KML interface in the Earth API docs and I guess it would be subject to change without notice.
Does this group have 'suggested improvements to the API' thread? I'd like to propose my suggested function to discover how much imagery exists in a given polygon. George On Jul 30, 1:54 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > You *could* use the KML interface that is used by Google Earth to plot > streetview imagery - but as there is no API as such its of slightly > dubious legality. > > 2009/7/30 georgio <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > I plan to add Street View imagery to a list of directions in a routing > > system. But many of the routes will be in places without Street View > > imagery. AFAIK the only way to find that out whether the imagery > > exists is to make a lot of separate > > GStreetviewClient.getNearestPanorama() calls, one for each section of > > the route. > > > Or is there another way? > > > If not, it seems there is a good case for a new function to ask 'is > > there any Street View imagery in this polygon'. That would save a lot > > of redundant server calls. > > -- > Barry > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
