Street View Publish API

  • Publishes 360-degree photos to Google Maps, including position, orientation, and connectivity data.

  • Enables app integration for positioning, connecting, and uploading user-generated Street View imagery.

  • Offers REST resources for managing photos, photo sequences, and their metadata, such as creation, deletion, retrieval, and updates.

  • Provides methods for batch operations on photos, including batch deletion, retrieval, and updates.

  • Allows listing all photos and photo sequences associated with a user.

Publishes 360 photos to Google Maps, along with position, orientation, and connectivity metadata. Apps can offer an interface for positioning, connecting, and uploading user-generated Street View images.

Service: streetviewpublish.googleapis.com

To call this service, we recommend that you use the Google-provided client libraries. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this service, use the following information when you make the API requests.

Discovery document

A Discovery Document is a machine-readable specification for describing and consuming REST APIs. It is used to build client libraries, IDE plugins, and other tools that interact with Google APIs. One service may provide multiple discovery documents. This service provides the following discovery document:

Service endpoint

A service endpoint is a base URL that specifies the network address of an API service. One service might have multiple service endpoints. This service has the following service endpoint and all URIs below are relative to this service endpoint:

  • https://streetviewpublish.googleapis.com

REST Resource: v1.photo

Methods
create POST /v1/photo
After the client finishes uploading the photo with the returned UploadRef, CreatePhoto publishes the uploaded Photo to Street View on Google Maps.
delete DELETE /v1/photo/{photoId}
Deletes a Photo and its metadata.
get GET /v1/photo/{photoId}
Gets the metadata of the specified Photo.
startUpload POST /v1/photo:startUpload
Creates an upload session to start uploading photo bytes.
update PUT /v1/photo/{photo.photoId.id}
Updates the metadata of a Photo, such as pose, place association, connections, etc.

REST Resource: v1.photoSequence

Methods
create POST /v1/photoSequence
After the client finishes uploading the PhotoSequence with the returned UploadRef, CreatePhotoSequence extracts a sequence of 360 photos from a video or Extensible Device Metadata (XDM, http://www.xdm.org/) to be published to Street View on Google Maps.
delete DELETE /v1/photoSequence/{sequenceId}
Deletes a PhotoSequence and its metadata.
get GET /v1/photoSequence/{sequenceId}
Gets the metadata of the specified PhotoSequence via the Operation interface.
startUpload POST /v1/photoSequence:startUpload
Creates an upload session to start uploading photo sequence data.

REST Resource: v1.photoSequences

Methods
list GET /v1/photoSequences
Lists all the PhotoSequences that belong to the user, in descending CreatePhotoSequence timestamp order.

REST Resource: v1.photos

Methods
batchDelete POST /v1/photos:batchDelete
Deletes a list of Photos and their metadata.
batchGet GET /v1/photos:batchGet
Gets the metadata of the specified Photo batch.
batchUpdate POST /v1/photos:batchUpdate
Updates the metadata of Photos, such as pose, place association, connections, etc.
list GET /v1/photos
Lists all the Photos that belong to the user.