Directly Accessing Street View Data

This example displays a map, alongside a window that shows the Street View at the current marker's location on the map. The user can click the map to place a new marker and move the Street View location.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

/*
 * Click the map to set a new location for the Street View camera.
 */

let map: google.maps.Map;

let panorama: google.maps.StreetViewPanorama;

function initMap(): void {
  const berkeley = { lat: 37.869085, lng: -122.254775 };
  const sv = new google.maps.StreetViewService();

  panorama = new google.maps.StreetViewPanorama(
    document.getElementById("pano") as HTMLElement
  );

  // Set up the map.
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement, {
    center: berkeley,
    zoom: 16,
    streetViewControl: false,
  });

  // Set the initial Street View camera to the center of the map
  sv.getPanorama({ location: berkeley, radius: 50 }).then(processSVData);

  // Look for a nearby Street View panorama when the map is clicked.
  // getPanorama will return the nearest pano when the given
  // radius is 50 meters or less.
  map.addListener("click", (event) => {
    sv.getPanorama({ location: event.latLng, radius: 50 })
      .then(processSVData)
      .catch((e) =>
        console.error("Street View data not found for this location.")
      );
  });
}

function processSVData({ data }: google.maps.StreetViewResponse) {
  const location = data.location!;

  const marker = new google.maps.Marker({
    position: location.latLng,
    map,
    title: location.description,
  });

  panorama.setPano(location.pano as string);
  panorama.setPov({
    heading: 270,
    pitch: 0,
  });
  panorama.setVisible(true);

  marker.addListener("click", () => {
    const markerPanoID = location.pano;

    // Set the Pano to use the passed panoID.
    panorama.setPano(markerPanoID as string);
    panorama.setPov({
      heading: 270,
      pitch: 0,
    });
    panorama.setVisible(true);
  });
}

declare global {
  interface Window {
    initMap: () => void;
  }
}
window.initMap = initMap;
index.ts

JavaScript

/*
 * Click the map to set a new location for the Street View camera.
 */
let map;
let panorama;

function initMap() {
  const berkeley = { lat: 37.869085, lng: -122.254775 };
  const sv = new google.maps.StreetViewService();

  panorama = new google.maps.StreetViewPanorama(
    document.getElementById("pano"),
  );
  // Set up the map.
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    center: berkeley,
    zoom: 16,
    streetViewControl: false,
  });
  // Set the initial Street View camera to the center of the map
  sv.getPanorama({ location: berkeley, radius: 50 }).then(processSVData);
  // Look for a nearby Street View panorama when the map is clicked.
  // getPanorama will return the nearest pano when the given
  // radius is 50 meters or less.
  map.addListener("click", (event) => {
    sv.getPanorama({ location: event.latLng, radius: 50 })
      .then(processSVData)
      .catch((e) =>
        console.error("Street View data not found for this location."),
      );
  });
}

function processSVData({ data }) {
  const location = data.location;
  const marker = new google.maps.Marker({
    position: location.latLng,
    map,
    title: location.description,
  });

  panorama.setPano(location.pano);
  panorama.setPov({
    heading: 270,
    pitch: 0,
  });
  panorama.setVisible(true);
  marker.addListener("click", () => {
    const markerPanoID = location.pano;

    // Set the Pano to use the passed panoID.
    panorama.setPano(markerPanoID);
    panorama.setPov({
      heading: 270,
      pitch: 0,
    });
    panorama.setVisible(true);
  });
}

window.initMap = initMap;
index.js

CSS

/* 
 * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element
 * that contains the map. 
 */
#map {
  height: 100%;
}

/* 
 * Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. 
 */
html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Directly Accessing Street View Data</title>
    <script src="https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=default"></script>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map" style="width: 45%; height: 100%; float: left"></div>
    <div id="pano" style="width: 45%; height: 100%; float: left"></div>

    <!-- 
      The `defer` attribute causes the callback to execute after the full HTML
      document has been parsed. For non-blocking uses, avoiding race conditions,
      and consistent behavior across browsers, consider loading using Promises.
      See https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/load-maps-js-api
      for more information.
      -->
    <script
      src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg&callback=initMap&v=weekly"
      defer
    ></script>
  </body>
</html>
index.html

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Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application. 

  git clone -b sample-streetview-service https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples.git
  cd js-samples
  npm i
  npm start

Other samples can be tried by switching to any branch beginning with sample-SAMPLE_NAME. 

  git checkout sample-SAMPLE_NAME
  npm i
  npm start