The hybrid map is just the satellite map with a street layer overlay. On Sep 7, 3:53 pm, mepnosis <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to generate a binary mask for streets from static maps. > In case this helps, here is what I am ultimately trying to do. I have > some aerial video which I am registering to a satellite image from > google static maps. After registering the video to the map, I would > like to overlay any street signs/labels to the map+registered aerial > video. > > My first attempt at doing this was to get a satellite image > (maptype=satellite) and then a hybrid image (maptype=hybrid) of the > same location. In theory, pixel wise subtraction of these two images > and then thresholding should produce a usable mask. However, the > hybrid and satellite images seem to be off by one or two pixels > (despite using the same latitude/longitude for the map center), so > this simple method does not work. > > Is there something in the API that could be used for this?
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