Jamie Thompson has put together a handy little webservice that mashes up postcode geodata with the Street View Images API. In short, it allows you to get access to the unwarped Street View panorama and the underlying tiles.
We have put together a short movie to show the service in action:
The format of the request looks like this:
http://geo.jamiethompson.co.uk/streetview/[POSTCODE]_[WIDTH]x[HEIGHT].jpg
You can try it out here – just type in your own postcode.
Thanks go to Dr Chris Speed for picking this up, you can follow Chris on twitter.
Awesome work…Is it consistent with Google Maps licensing?
It’s 100% unofficial and most likely breaks the terms of the licensing agreement. It’s more of a proof of concept than anything else.
it works only for the UK? What about other countries?
yes, what about postcodes from another EU country, i tried, but failed. 🙁