Custom Street View Panorama Tiles

This example displays a Street View outside of the Google Sydney office. It adds another arrow to the image, in addition to the default Street View navigation arrows, that points into Google Sydney and links to a custom panorama.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

let panorama: google.maps.StreetViewPanorama;

// StreetViewPanoramaData of a panorama just outside the Google Sydney office.
let outsideGoogle: google.maps.StreetViewPanoramaData;

// StreetViewPanoramaData for a custom panorama: the Google Sydney reception.
function getReceptionPanoramaData(): google.maps.StreetViewPanoramaData {
  return {
    location: {
      pano: "reception", // The ID for this custom panorama.
      description: "Google Sydney - Reception",
      latLng: new google.maps.LatLng(-33.86684, 151.19583),
    },
    links: [
      {
        heading: 195,
        description: "Exit",
        pano: (outsideGoogle.location as google.maps.StreetViewLocation).pano,
      },
    ],
    copyright: "Imagery (c) 2010 Google",
    tiles: {
      tileSize: new google.maps.Size(1024, 512),
      worldSize: new google.maps.Size(2048, 1024),
      centerHeading: 105,
      getTileUrl: function (
        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"
        );
      },
    },
  };
}

function initPanorama() {
  panorama = new google.maps.StreetViewPanorama(
    document.getElementById("street-view") as HTMLElement,
    { pano: (outsideGoogle.location as google.maps.StreetViewLocation).pano }
  );
  // Register a provider for the custom panorama.
  panorama.registerPanoProvider(
    (pano: string): google.maps.StreetViewPanoramaData => {
      if (pano === "reception") {
        return getReceptionPanoramaData();
      }
      // @ts-ignore TODO fix typings
      return null;
    }
  );

  // Add a link to our custom panorama from outside the Google Sydney office.
  panorama.addListener("links_changed", () => {
    if (
      panorama.getPano() ===
      (outsideGoogle.location as google.maps.StreetViewLocation).pano
    ) {
      panorama.getLinks().push({
        description: "Google Sydney",
        heading: 25,
        pano: "reception",
      });
    }
  });
}

function initMap(): void {
  // Use the Street View service to find a pano ID on Pirrama Rd, outside the
  // Google office.
  new google.maps.StreetViewService()
    .getPanorama({ location: { lat: -33.867386, lng: 151.195767 } })
    .then(({ data }: google.maps.StreetViewResponse) => {
      outsideGoogle = data;
      initPanorama();
    });
}

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

Note: Read the guide on using TypeScript and Google Maps.

JavaScript

let panorama;
// StreetViewPanoramaData of a panorama just outside the Google Sydney office.
let outsideGoogle;

// StreetViewPanoramaData for a custom panorama: the Google Sydney reception.
function getReceptionPanoramaData() {
  return {
    location: {
      pano: "reception",
      description: "Google Sydney - Reception",
      latLng: new google.maps.LatLng(-33.86684, 151.19583),
    },
    links: [
      {
        heading: 195,
        description: "Exit",
        pano: outsideGoogle.location.pano,
      },
    ],
    copyright: "Imagery (c) 2010 Google",
    tiles: {
      tileSize: new google.maps.Size(1024, 512),
      worldSize: new google.maps.Size(2048, 1024),
      centerHeading: 105,
      getTileUrl: function (pano, zoom, tileX, tileY) {
        return (
          "https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/full/images/" +
          "panoReception1024-" +
          zoom +
          "-" +
          tileX +
          "-" +
          tileY +
          ".jpg"
        );
      },
    },
  };
}

function initPanorama() {
  panorama = new google.maps.StreetViewPanorama(
    document.getElementById("street-view"),
    { pano: outsideGoogle.location.pano }
  );
  // Register a provider for the custom panorama.
  panorama.registerPanoProvider((pano) => {
    if (pano === "reception") {
      return getReceptionPanoramaData();
    }
    // @ts-ignore TODO fix typings
    return null;
  });
  // Add a link to our custom panorama from outside the Google Sydney office.
  panorama.addListener("links_changed", () => {
    if (panorama.getPano() === outsideGoogle.location.pano) {
      panorama.getLinks().push({
        description: "Google Sydney",
        heading: 25,
        pano: "reception",
      });
    }
  });
}

function initMap() {
  // Use the Street View service to find a pano ID on Pirrama Rd, outside the
  // Google office.
  new google.maps.StreetViewService()
    .getPanorama({ location: { lat: -33.867386, lng: 151.195767 } })
    .then(({ data }) => {
      outsideGoogle = data;
      initPanorama();
    });
}

window.initMap = initMap;
index.js

Note: The JavaScript is compiled from the TypeScript snippet.

CSS

html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

#street-view {
  height: 100%;
}
style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Custom Street View Panorama Tiles</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="street-view"></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-custom-tiles 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