Streetscape

Streetscape helps to retrieve google street views in a city. This package uses Google's official streetview API only. So finding the locations of GSV is less efficient than utilizing unofficial/undocumented API such as http://cbk0.google.com/cbk.

Set up

Install streetscape

Prerequistes:

• aiohttp
• geopandas

pip install streetscape

Set environment variable GSV_API_KEY

linux and macosx

export GSV_API_KEY=YOUR_GOOGLE_STREET_VIEW_API_KEY

windows

set GSV_API_KEY=YOUR_GOOGLE_STREET_VIEW_API_KEY

Use

Steps:

• get street lines (osmnx, tiger)
• create 1D grid points along with street lines
• check whether gsv exists on each observation points and get panoID
• retrieve gsv images from each observation point

See the notebooke in the sample directory: https://github.com/yonghah/streetscape/blob/master/sample/example.ipynb