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    Google Maps Street View: How to extract 360°?

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    • J Offline
      Jackson
      last edited by

      What is "Sky.exe"? 😕

      Jackson

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      • david57D Offline
        david57
        last edited by

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

        Just click on sky on the left.

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        • david57D Offline
          david57
          last edited by

          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

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            kwistenbiebel
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            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? ....

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              remus
              last edited by

              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.

              http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                kwistenbiebel
                last edited by

                @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:

                Flickr

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                Flickr (www.flickr.com)

                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...

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                • GaieusG Offline
                  Gaieus
                  last edited by

                  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... 😒

                  Gai...

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                    hebelup
                    last edited by

                    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

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                      Frederik
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                      @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... 😕

                      Cheers
                      Kim Frederik

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                        swilsonmc
                        last edited by

                        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

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                          d12dozr
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                          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.

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