The maps app does support street view in iOS 5 - click on a pin then use the person icon
Sent from my iPad On Jun 27, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Nic Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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