Google Maps Street View: How to extract 360°?

david57

Here's a batch file for Sky.exe to make HDRI's. Just click on the batch file and HDRI is created automaticaly and your editor is open automaticaly also. Your editor can be PhotoShop or just a viewer that can read PFM files.

Named of batch file i use: Preetham Sky.bat
The text for this batch file is:
Sky [INPUT.PFM] OUTPUT.PFM /K /H=1000 /W=2000 /A=7 /B:=3 /C=12 /D=7 /E=3 /F=32.3 /G=-106.917 /S=2.6179938 /T=2.84
OUTPUT.PFM

This are your options:

Sky [INPUT.PFM] OUTPUT.PFM

OPTIONS:
/I CIE Standard Overcast Sky
/J CIE Clear Sky
/Z CIE Partially Cloudy
/K Preetham Sky
/L:[float=0.109] Red Color Sky (not for Preetham Sky)
/M:[float=0.349] Green Color Sky (not for Preetham Sky)
/N:[float=0.680] Blue Color Sky (not for Preetham Sky)
/H:[int=256] Height
/W:[int=512] Width
/A:[int=6] Month
/B:[int=17] Day
/C:[int =10] Hour
/D:[int =12] Minute
/E:[int =5] Second
/F:[float=10.9625] Longitude
/G:[float=45.3545] Latitude
/S:[float=0.261] Standard Meridian
/T:[float=1.0] Turbidity (only for Preetham sky model)

Jackson

What is "Sky.exe"?

david57

This one here. http://www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/plugins.html

Just click on sky on the left.

david57

I asked my youngest brother, about this and he sent me this sites.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/office-voyeurism/the-google-maps-street-view-camera-264972.php
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/06/17/google-street-view-c.html

kwistenbiebel

Hi there,

I found this interesting page on the Google Maps API.
apparently it is possible to extract the whole panorama:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html

Unfortunately, I am not a coder...

This makes me think: would it be possible to setup a 'plugin' that makes a 360° panorama (LatLong) using the code above and map the obtained panorama on a cilinder or sphere to be used in Sketchup?

That would be awesome.

For each new project, you just run the plugin and your backdrop of the real environment is in your Sketchup file......
Possible? ....

remus

Which bit do you think it is that lets you make panoramas? I can only see the GStreetviewPanorama object, which is just an API for the normal streetview as far as i can tell.

kwistenbiebel

@remus said:

Which bit do you think it is that lets you make panoramas? I can only see the GStreetviewPanorama object, which is just an API for the normal streetview as far as i can tell.

The procedure to do it manually is described here by Swilsonmc:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swilsonmc/2543157901/

Basically, all we need is an automated script to get the 21 images that make the whole panorama.
From there, we can use a photostitcher (e.g Autopano) for assembly and map the panorama to a sphere/cilinder in Sketchup...

Gaieus

There is this new function in SU 7.1 "Get Photo Texture", which lets you grab (at least "some" of) the street view panorama (for texturing purposes, not for grabbing the whole panorama, by default).

Now if I am not mistaken, this new feature (thank Scott Lininger) is driven by a ruby script "webtextures_loader.rb" in the Tools folder\WebTextures. Now if someone could look more deeply into that plugin and see what can be done...

hebelup

Hi all i am looking for hdr images using with V-ray viewing like this image where can i find this. It's really necessary. Thanks.

360 Kungsparken Small.jpg

Frederik

@hebelup said:

Hi all i am looking for hdr images using with V-ray viewing like this image where can i find this. It's really necessary. Thanks.

Have you tried to use Google...

swilsonmc

Hi, folks.

I found your discussion while looking for links back to my Flickr pages. I don't personally use Sketchup but have spent time looking into Google's Street View panoramas. After glancing over the other posts I thought I would offer a few ideas.

I recently posted some additional instructions on how to obtain the 21 images that make up each panorama, including a way to automatically grab them for each stop along driving directions.

If you read the comments under the related images you'll see where I try to clarify to another user that the 21 images make up an already-stitched panorama. This means that Google has already rendered the equirectangular panorama and therefore no need to stitch the 21 images. Instead, just arrange them like a puzzle.

I hope this helps.
-swilsonmc

d12dozr

Here is another easy way to get the image tiles from Street View: http://jamiethompson.co.uk/web/2010/05/15/google-streetview-static-api/

It looks like it only works in UK though as it needs a Postcode, although I may be too dense to see how its done elsewhere.