Link to Google Streetview using Lat/Long

Question

I'm trying to make an app that links to Google streetview using latitude/longitude coordinates, and shows a streetview of the nearest road. This is coming from a fairly small and well covered area, so there isn't going to be any coordinates in the middle of the ocean.

Is there a published API showing the get parameters you need to link directly to streetview?

Answer 1

You may be interested in checking out the following reference, which describes all the known parameters that can be passed to maps.google.com, including Street View parameters:

• asnsblues: Google Map Parameters

While this is not an official API, I think it is fair to say that these should be quite reliable, since they are the same parameters used for the permanent links in Google Maps.

With this, you should be able to construct something like the following:

http://maps.google.com/?cbll=40.714103,-74.006206&cbp=12,20.09,,0,5&layer=c