streetlevel 0.4.0

Download panoramas and metadata from Street View and others

streetlevel

streetlevel is a module for downloading panoramas and metadata from street-level imagery services including Google Street View and Apple Look Around.

Since it relies on calls to internal APIs, it may break unexpectedly.

Installation

pip install streetlevel

Example

Downloading the closest Street View panorama to a specific location:

from streetlevel import streetview

pano = streetview.find_panorama(46.8839586, 12.169002)
streetview.download_panorama(pano, f"{pano.id}.jpg")

Documentation

Documentation is available at streetlevel.readthedocs.io.

Functionality overview

✔ implemented / available; 🟡 partially implemented / available; ❌ not implemented; ⚫ not available / not applicable

	Street View	Look Around	Streetside	Mapy.cz Panorama
Finding panoramas How panoramas can be retrieved through the API.
Find panoramas around a point	✔ (returns closest only)	⚫	✔	✔ (returns closest only)
Find panoramas by slippy map tile or bounding box	✔ (tile, z=17)	✔ (tile, z=17)	✔ (bounding box)	⚫
Get specific panorama by ID	✔	⚫	✔	⚫
Imagery The type of imagery returned by the service.
Download panoramas	✔	✔ (unstitched)	✔	✔
Download depth information	✔ (simplified)	❌	⚫	⚫ (?)
Image projection	Equirectangular	???	Cubemap	Equirectangular
Image format	JPEG	HEIC	JPEG	JPEG
Available metadata Metadata returned by the API of the service alongside ID and location.
Capture date	✔ (month and year only for official coverage; full date for inofficial coverage)	✔	✔	✔
Heading, pitch, roll	✔	🟡 (only heading is implemented; inaccurate in some locations)	✔	✔
Elevation	⚫	❌	✔	✔
Nearby / linked panoramas	✔	⚫	✔ (previous and next image in sequence)	✔
Historical panoramas	✔	⚫	⚫	✔
Address	✔	⚫	⚫	⚫
Creator	✔	⚫	⚫	✔