Custom Street View Panoramas

This example displays a custom panorama of the Google Sydney office. Note that this example doesn't use a map or default Street View imagery.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

function initPano() {
  // Set up Street View and initially set it visible. Register the
  // custom panorama provider function. Set the StreetView to display
  // the custom panorama 'reception' which we check for below.
  const panorama = new google.maps.StreetViewPanorama(
    document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement,
    { pano: "reception", visible: true }
  );

  panorama.registerPanoProvider(getCustomPanorama);
}

// Return a pano image given the panoID.
function getCustomPanoramaTileUrl(
  pano: string,
  zoom: number,
  tileX: number,
  tileY: number
): string {
  return (
    "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/full/images/" +
    "panoReception1024-" +
    zoom +
    "-" +
    tileX +
    "-" +
    tileY +
    ".jpg"
  );
}

// Construct the appropriate StreetViewPanoramaData given
// the passed pano IDs.
function getCustomPanorama(pano: string): google.maps.StreetViewPanoramaData {
  if (pano === "reception") {
    return {
      location: {
        pano: "reception",
        description: "Google Sydney - Reception",
      },
      links: [],
      // The text for the copyright control.
      copyright: "Imagery (c) 2010 Google",
      // The definition of the tiles for this panorama.
      tiles: {
        tileSize: new google.maps.Size(1024, 512),
        worldSize: new google.maps.Size(2048, 1024),
        // The heading in degrees at the origin of the panorama
        // tile set.
        centerHeading: 105,
        getTileUrl: getCustomPanoramaTileUrl,
      },
    };
  }
  // @ts-ignore TODO fix typings
  return null;
}

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

JavaScript

function initPano() {
  // Set up Street View and initially set it visible. Register the
  // custom panorama provider function. Set the StreetView to display
  // the custom panorama 'reception' which we check for below.
  const panorama = new google.maps.StreetViewPanorama(
    document.getElementById("map"),
    { pano: "reception", visible: true },
  );

  panorama.registerPanoProvider(getCustomPanorama);
}

// Return a pano image given the panoID.
function getCustomPanoramaTileUrl(pano, zoom, tileX, tileY) {
  return (
    "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/full/images/" +
    "panoReception1024-" +
    zoom +
    "-" +
    tileX +
    "-" +
    tileY +
    ".jpg"
  );
}

// Construct the appropriate StreetViewPanoramaData given
// the passed pano IDs.
function getCustomPanorama(pano) {
  if (pano === "reception") {
    return {
      location: {
        pano: "reception",
        description: "Google Sydney - Reception",
      },
      links: [],
      // The text for the copyright control.
      copyright: "Imagery (c) 2010 Google",
      // The definition of the tiles for this panorama.
      tiles: {
        tileSize: new google.maps.Size(1024, 512),
        worldSize: new google.maps.Size(2048, 1024),
        // The heading in degrees at the origin of the panorama
        // tile set.
        centerHeading: 105,
        getTileUrl: getCustomPanoramaTileUrl,
      },
    };
  }
  // @ts-ignore TODO fix typings
  return null;
}

window.initPano = initPano;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>Custom Street View Panoramas</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <!-- 
      The `defer` attribute causes the script 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=initPano&v=weekly"
      defer
    ></script>
  </body>
</html>index.html

Try Sample

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Clone Sample

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-custom-simple 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