oh, BTW, duedil does it too http://www.duedil.com/
they appear to be linking to that url (well, a http one, not an https one). On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Nic Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex > > (nice location - I used to live about 10 mins from there on Westferry Rd) > > Anywhoooo.... > > I think your options are: > > 1. Put a MKMapView in, load it up with the lat/lon (parse it out of > the URL), and... well, it doesn't do street view, so you are kind of > stuck there. > > 2. Try this: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6329934/does-mkmapview-support-the-little-man-street-view > - which basically uses a UIWebView to show it, but via the JS api. No > idea if it'll work, but it is marked as "correct" on SO :) > > 3. Try to see what the google stuff is doing on the desktop - use > fiddler or charles as a proxy in the middle? - and do that in your iOS > code. Hacky, and a bit fragile, but it might work (or, put it on your > server so you can change it without redeploying the app!) > > Last time I checked, streetview uses flash on the PC, so thats out on > iOS. The Maps app (well, in iOS5 or less anyway! iOS[REDACTED] doesn't > have streetview at all) does it manually - again, you might be able to > sniff the traffic and get an image out of that? > > Maps doesn't work in the simulator, tho - so you'd need to be trying > this on the device. > > So, you are just trying to display the result, right? With a quick > play with Charles, I managed to get this out: > > https://cbks0.google.com/cbk?output=tile&zoom=4&x=0&y=3&cb_client=maps_sv&fover=2&onerr=3&renderer=spherical&v=4&panoid=3D9abaUQzvMsfpKqtyEd2g > > (its just down the road from there, I had to move to get something not > in the cache) > > Now, I have no idea what the params are tho!! I think it's based on > the panoid.... > > Cheers > > Nic > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Alex White <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> a small bit of history, I have an existing application that currently runs >> on MS windows it is database of points of interest, the application has a >> lot of users, each of these users uses google with the street view option to >> find these places of interest then using the link button on the page they >> copy and paste the actual street view links into their databases, this in >> most cases is the proper image of the point of interest not a map view. >> >> for example >> >> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=East+Ferry+Road,+Poplar&hl=en&ll=51.491084,-0.030985&spn=0.000053,0.058622&sll=51.491843,-0.007523&sspn=0.007642,0.029311&vpsrc=0&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.491166,-0.014654&panoid=RH906-yvUj2Wv3WzjuXNWw&cbp=12,183.75,,1,1.82 >> >> these databases contain up to 20,000 links like the one above so moving over >> to another system really is not an option considering that most of the work >> is still carried out on the PC's and these links are moved onto the >> iPhone/iPad for review later. >> >> I am not getting this to work properly in the UIWebview it is converting it >> into some sort of mapping app, this is not what I want it to do, I just want >> the UIWebview to display the URL I am passing and provide the results. >> >> I don't mind if I have to shell out to safari but that does not seem to work >> either. >> >> UIWebView >> >> NSUrl nsurl = new NSUrl(_address); >> NSUrlRequest req = new NSUrlRequest(nsurl); >> HtmlViewer.LoadRequest(req); >> >> openURL >> >> UIApplication.SharedApplication.OpenUrl (new NSUrl (url)); >> >> I have tried both on the simulator and physical device, I know that Apple >> are moving away from google maps but this should still work as it is not >> really using the API as it it is web driven. >> >> Any ideas. >> >> thanks >> >> Alex >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MonoTouch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >> > > > > -- > Nic Wise > t. +44 7788 592 806 | @fastchicken | http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicwise > b. http://www.fastchicken.co.nz/ > > Earnest: Self-employed? 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